[1161] Gachard, I, 302, 304, 306, 309; II, 401, 412, 416, 420-4, 435, 441, 443, 448, 456, 461.
[1162] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Sala 40, Lib. IV, fol. 230. This letter throws so much light on a turning-point in the history of the Inquisition that I give it in the Appendix, although Schäfer (III, 103) has printed a German translation.
[1163] Although called forth rather by the accession of Queen Elizabeth and her assertion of supremacy over the Anglican Church than by the Spanish Protestants, the bull Cum ex apostolatus, of February 15, 1559, is worth alluding to as illustrating the spirit of the age. Issued after mature deliberation with the Sacred College, it confirms and renews all the laws, decrees and statutes against heresy, at any time issued, and orders their strict enforcement. As the vicar of God on earth and clothed with supreme power, Paul IV decrees in perpetuity that all guilty of heresy or schism or fautorship—clerics from the lowest up to cardinals and laymen up to kings and emperors—shall be subject to these laws against heresy, shall be deprived of their dignities and possessions, which may be seized by any one obedient to the Holy See; shall be held as relapsed, as though they had previously abjured, and shall be handed over to the secular arm for the legal punishment, unless they manifest true repentance with its fruits, in which case, through the benignity and clemency of the Holy See, they may, if it thinks fit, be thrust into some monastery to perform perpetual penance on the bread of sorrow and water of affliction.—Bullar. Roman., I, 840.—Septimi Decretal., Lib. V, Tit. iii, cap. 9.
The Spanish Inquisition kept this bull in its archives (Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. III, fol. 55) but never seems to have had occasion to use it. As the most solemn utterance of the Holy See it is presumably still in force.
[1164] Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 153, fol. 95.—The impression produced by this auto is manifested by the number of relations of it. Schäfer prints translations of three (I, 442; III, 1,15) and refers to five others. There is still another, drawn up apparently about 1570 and by no means accurate, in Bib. nat., S, 151.
[1165] Schäfer, I, 328: III, 808.
[1166] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 1034, fol. 221.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., R, 29, fol. 299.
See Schäfer, III, 78, for a German translation of this and I, 325-7, for his defence of its genuineness against those who persist in regarding Cazalla as a martyr.
There is another recension of this report, differing in many details, and ascribed to Fray Pedro de Mendoza. It is contained in the Miscelanea de Zapata (Mem. hist. español, XI, 201).
[1167] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib, XII, fol. 20-9.