[731] Francisco de Castro, Regimento do Santo Officio da Inquisição dos Reynos de Portugal, Liv. I, Tit. i, § 1; Tit. iii, §§ 13, 14; Tit. v, § 6; Liv. II, Tit. ii, § 13 (Lisboa, 1640).—Sousa Aphor. Inq. Lib. I, Cap. i, n. 14.
[732] De Castro, Regimento, Liv. II, Tit. xxiii.
[733] Georgii Buchanani Vita ab ipso scripta.—Lopez de Mendonça, Damião de Goes e a Inquisição de Portugal, p. 21 (Lisboa, 1859).
The poem on the Franciscans was written at the request of James V of Scotland. It forced Buchanan to leave the country and, before venturing to Portugal, he made his excuses for it to King João. A brief extract will show its temper:—
At nunc posteritas, vera pietate relicta,
Degenerem quæstum sordesque secuta, caducas
Cogit opes, ficta et sub relligione pudendos
Occultat mores et, fama innixa parentum,
Seducit stolidum pietatis imagine vulgus.
[734] Mendonça, Damião de Goes e a Inquisição de Portugal.
[735] Corpo Diplomatico, X, 537, 569.
[736] Llorente, Hist. crít. Cap. XIX, Art. iii, n. 6.
[737] Corpo Diplomatico, XII, 23. As Cardinal Albrecht was only 25 years of age a special derogation of the minimum rule was necessary in his case. More remarkable is the fact that his commission granted him jurisdiction over bishops.
When Albrecht left Portugal, the commission of his successor, Antonio Bishop of Elvas July 12, 1596, contained no such provision; it enlarged his jurisdiction however from simple heresy to sorcery and divination and the censorship of the press.—Ibidem, p. 70.