[738] Historia dos principaes Actos, pp. 258-61, 294-7, 312-15. The numbers in the respective tribunals are—
| Relaxed | |||
| In person. | In effigy. | Penanced. | |
| Lisbon | 29 | 6 | 559 |
| Evora | 98 | 16 | 1384 |
| Coimbra | 35 | 37 | 1036 |
| 162 | 59 | 2979 | |
[739] Corpo Diplomatico, XII, 14.
[740] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 449.
[741] MSS. of Library of Univ. of Halle, Yc, 20, T. I.
[742] Páramo, p. 304.
[743] Cabrera, Relaciones, pp. 135, 141, 152, 227, 229.—Historia dos principaes Actos, p. 261.
The wealth of the Portuguese New Christians rendered such a payment an easy matter. In the memorial praying for pardon they admitted themselves to be worth eighty millions of ducats and, when Juan Nuñez Correa made an assessment among them, it was on the basis of seventy five millions.—Verdades Catholicas contra Ficciones Judaicas § 9 (MSS. of Bodleian Library, Arch Seld A, Subt. 17).
This is a memorial by Luys de Melo, dean of the Chapter of Braga, written in 1652, when he was a refugee in the Spanish court. He had probably been involved in the conspiracy against the Braganza dynasty, for which the Archbishop of Braga, Sebastian de Noronha, was executed in 1641. His paper is bitter against the New Christians but, as we shall have occasion to see, it contains much that throws light on the subject.
[744] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 926, fol. 119.—Corpo Diplomatico Portugues, XII, 121.