[1152] For these details I am indebted to Dr. Schäfer (op. cit., I, 251-88, 296-307; III, 796-803), whose careful analysis of the trials of Doña María de Guevara, Pedro de Cazalla and Francisco de Vivero has thrown new light upon the brief episode of Protestantism in Valladolid.
[1153] Illescas, Historia pontifical. Paulo IV, § IV.
[1154] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. VI, pp. 411-12.—He adds that heresy might be expected to spread among the peasantry on account of the oppression, tithes and first-fruits exacted by the Church, but that the nobles are vigilant in defence of the faith by reason of the large provision of benefices which they enjoy.
[1155] Páramo, op. cit., p. 300.
[1156] Gachard, Retraite et Mort de Charles-quint, II, 354.
[1157] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Sala 40, Lib. IV, fol. 228.
This letter also asks that one of the Seville Protestants, Diego or Mateo de la Cruz, who had been burnt in effigy and subsequently captured in Flanders, should be promptly transmitted. He had contributed to Julian Hernández thirty ducats towards books to be smuggled by the latter. What was his fate does not appear. Cf. Schäfer, I, 335; II, 358, 407.
[1158] Gachard, II, 417, 418; I, 288.
[1159] Gachard, I, 293, 294, 295, 297.
[1160] Ibidem, I, 301, 302.