[213] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Leg. 1465, fol. 16.—MSS. of Bibl. nacional de Lima, Protocolo 223, Expte 5270.
[214] Rod. a Cunha, Q. XIV, XV.—Ant. de Sousa, Tit. I, cap. 19.—Matteucci Cautela Confessarii, Lib. I, cap. 5, n. 3 (Venetiis, 1710).—Cozza, Dub. XVII.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, cap. XX.
[215] Ant. de Sousa, Tract. I, cap. XV.
[216] There were many probabilist authorities who held that the fact that such acts as kissing, pressing the hands, handling the breasts, etc., were committed in the confessional did not change them from venial to mortal sins. See Del Bene de Officio S. Inquis. P. II, Dub. 237, Sect. 3, n. 3 (Lugduni, 1666). Cf. Cozza, Dub. III, n. 18.
In 1743 a lively controversy arose between the rigorists and the Jesuits over the Tatti mammillari caused by a proposition of Father Benzi S. J. that stroking the cheeks of nuns and handling their breasts were venial, when unaccompanied with depraved intentions.—Concina, Explicazione di quattro Paradossi, cap. 1 § 1 (Lucca, 1746).
[217] Cozza, Dub. III, IV, V.—Fran. Bordoni Sacrum Tribunal Judicum, cap. XXIII, n. 53-61 (Romæ, 1648); Ejusd. Manuale Consultorum, Sect, XXV, n. 91 (Romæ, 1693).
[218] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 365, n. 46, fol. 26.
[219] Rod. a Cunha, Q. XVII.—Ant. de Sousa, Tract. I, cap. xiv.—Jo. Sánchez, Disputationes Selectæ, Disp. XI, n. 43, 44 (Ludguni, 1636).
[220] Rod. a Cunha, Q. XIV.—Ant. de Sousa, Tract. I, cap. xi.—Cozza, Dub. XXXVII.—Trimarchi, p. 160.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., B, fol. 160.
[221] Trimarchi, p. 145.—Cozza, Dub. XXXVIII.