A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[638] Archivo municipal de Sevilla, Seccion especial, Siglo XVIII, Letra A, Tomo 4, n. 55.

[639] In this celebrated case I have relied chiefly on Ferrer del Rio, Hist. del Reinado de Carlos III, Lib. IV, cap. i, and on Menéndez y Pelayo, Heterodoxos, III, 205 sqq. See also Llorente, Hist. crít., cap. XXVI, art. iii, n. 13, 35, and Puigblanch, La Inquisicion sin Máscara, p. 295.

Frequent reference was made to Olavide in the debates of the Córtes of Cádiz on the suppression of the Inquisition. Señor Mexia stated that he had visited him at Baeza; that the Triunfo was merely a translation of the Abbé Lamourettes Délices de la Religion (Paris, 1788) somewhat enlarged, with the addition of a politico-economical portion, derived from the Ami des Hommes of the Marquis of Mirabeau,—Discusion del Proyecto sobre la Inquisicion, pp. 254-5. (Cádiz, 1813).

In 1831 De Custine says that there was little remaining of the prosperous colony founded by Olavide (L’Espagne sous Ferdinand VII, II, 98-107), but La Carolina, the principal town, had, in 1877, 6474 inhabitants. The district has historical interest as the scene of the victory of Las Navas de Tolosa, in 1212, and of the surrender of Bailen in 1808.

[640] Llorente, Hist. crít., cap. XXVI, art. iii, n. 42.

[641] Ibidem, n. 10.

[642] Ibidem, cap. XXV, art. i, n. 112.—Menéndez y Pelayo, III, 255.

[643] Llorente, cap. XXV, art. i, n. 89.—Art. de vérifier les Dates depuis l’année 1770, III, 355.—Modesto Lafuente, Hist. Gen. XXII, 127.—Cf. Rodrigo, Hist. verdadera, III, 365.—Discusion del Proyecto, p. 464 (Cadiz, 1813).

[644] Vélez, Apología, I, 40.—Cf. Menéndez y Pelayo, III, 227.

[645] Cartas escritas por el Conde de Cabarrús, pp. 81, 83, 87-9 (Vitoria, 1808).