[302] These statistics are compiled from various registers, covering respectively portions of the period. There are some minor breaks, which would increase the aggregate somewhat, but not materially. See Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 233, n. 108; Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 66.—Archivo de Simancas, Libros 1002, 1003, 1004.
There is perhaps some interest in recording the respective responsibilities of the various classes and orders of the clergy for these delinquents, as follows:
| Secular priests, canons etc | 981 |
| Franciscans, Conventual and Barefooted | 552 |
| Observantines | 506 |
| Capuchins | 183 |
| Recollects | 56 |
| Carmelites | 355 |
| Dominicans | 288 |
| Augustinians | 156 |
| Trinitarians | 144 |
| Mercenarians | 131 |
| Jesuits | 92 |
| Minims | 69 |
| Benedictines | 35 |
| Geronimites | 30 |
| San Pedro de Alcántara | 29 |
| Clérigos Menores | 20 |
| Congr. of San Filippo Neri | 20 |
| Bernardines (Cistercians) | 20 |
| Escuelas Pias | 16 |
| Basilians | 16 |
| S. Francisco de Asis | 5 |
| N. Señora de la Vitoria | 5 |
| Order of Santiago | 4 |
| Order of Calatrava | 3 |
| Theatins | 3 |
| Servites | 3 |
| Misioneros | 2 |
| Agonizantes | 2 |
| Hermits of St. Paul | 2 |
| San Juan | 2 |
| Premonstratensians | 2 |
| Ex-Jesuits | 2 |
| Carthusians | 1 |
| St. Ursula | 1 |
| San Diego | 1 |
| Not specified | 38 |
The comparatively small number of Jesuits, who devoted themselves so greatly to the confessional, is partly explicable by the expulsion of the Society in 1767.
[303] Puigblanch, La Inquisicion sin Mascara, pp. 422-5 (Cádiz, 1811).
[304] Instruct. S. Inquis. Roman. 20 Feb. 1867 (Collect. Concil. Lacens. III, 353).—Berardi, op. cit.
[305] A priest, who could speak from experience, concisely described, in 1820, the conditions produced by the system “En donde la doctrina infernal de la delacion tenia en una habitual consternacion á las familias y á los individuos que se correspondian con la mutua desconfianza que inspiraba el continuo recelo de encontrar en amigo, en el padre, en el hijo, en la esposa, un verdugo que armado con el puñal del fanatismo religioso contribuyese á los asesinatos naturales que solo Dios conosce y a los civiles que no son tan desconocidos.”—P Antonio Bernabeu, España venturosa, p. xvi (Madrid, 1820).
[306] Theologians had a storehouse of epithets with which to characterize the various classes of propositions. A few of the more usual, with their significance, are given by Alberghini (Man. Qualificator. cap. xii, n. 1-18) as follows:—
Heretical—one which is contrary to Catholic truth.
Erroneous—that which does not directly contradict the faith, but some conclusion evidently deducible from the faith.