[780] Relação exactissima, p. 93 (Veneza, 1750).
[781] Historia dos principaes Actos, pp. 270-5, 300-3, 320-5. For the years 1651-1673 the statistics are:—
| Relaxed | |||
| In person. | In effigy. | Penanced. | |
| Lisbon | 68 | 18 | 868 |
| Evora | 54 | 41 | 2201 |
| Coimbra | 62 | — | 1724 |
| 184 | 59 | 4793 | |
[782] Padre Vieira, Discurso demonstrativo, p 121 (Veneza, 1750).
[783] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds latin, 12930, fol. 108.
[784] Ibidem, fonds italien, 1241, fol. 76.
[785] J. Mendes dos Remedios, Os Judeus em Portugal, I, 347-52 (Coimbra, 1895).
[786] In the Lisbon auto of May 10, 1682, the acquittals were read of eight victims who were pronounced innocent, after perishing in prison (Bodleian Library, Arch Seld. A, Subt. 16). In one at Coimbra, February 4, 1685, there were fifteen effigies burnt of prisoners who had died during trial.—Historia dos principaes Actos, p. 327.
[787] I see no reason to doubt that the “Noticias reconditas y posthumas del Procedimiento de las Inquisiciones de España y Portugal con sus presos. En Villafranca, 1722” is an elaborate statement drawn up by Vieira for Innocent XI. It appeared again under the title of “Relação exactissima.... do Procedimento das Inquisiçois de Portugal. Presentada a o Papa Ignocencio XI pello P. Antonio Vieira, Da Companhia de Jesus. En Veneza con Licença do Santo Officio MDCCL.” It is no more bitter than his other writings on the subject, and its somewhat florid style is natural to so popular a preacher.
The author of the “Authentic Memoirs concerning the Portuguese Inquisition” (London, 1761 and 1769) gives on p. 47 a translation of a passage of this work which he says he made from a well-attested MS. in Portugal. There were, he adds, several copies in the handwriting of Vieira, and also in that of a secretary of the Inquisition who fled to Venice.