Cabrera, Historia de Felipe II, T. II, pp. 448, 540; T. III, pp. 529 sqq (Ed. 1876-77).
Lanuza, Historias eclesiasticas y seculares de Aragon, T. II, Lib. II, III. (Zaragoza, 1622).
The principal modern authorities are—
Llorente, Historia crítica, cap. XXXV, XXXVI.
Mignet, Antonio Pérez et Philippe II, Paris, 1854.
Pidal, Historia de las Alteraciones de Aragon en el Reinado de Felipe II, 3 vols, Madrid, 1862-3.
Muro, Vida de la Princesa de Eboli, Madrid, 1877.
Philippson (Ein Ministerium unter Philipp II, Berlin, 1895) and Major Hume (Españoles é Ingleses, Madrid, 1903) give interesting details as to the earlier events.
[553] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 485.
The assertion of the co-operation of the Inquisition and the Royal Council, which were habitually antagonistic, shows how little the envoy knew of the inner working of Spanish administration.