[704] Ibidem.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, cap. 1.

[705] Elucidationes S. Officii, § 37 (Archivo de Alcalá, ubi sup).

[706] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Leg. 552, fol. 3, 13.

[707] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 1.

[708] Reportorium Inquisit. S.V. Degradatio, § an clericus.

[709] Simancæ de Cath. Instt., Tit. XL, n. 8-13; Ejusd. Enchirid., Tit. XII, n. 1-3.—Arnaldi Albertin. Repetitionem novam, Q. xiii, n. 47 (Ed. 1534, col. 331).

It is perhaps worth noting that the Repertorium of 1494 has no allusion to the subject under the titles Castitas, Clericus, and Matrimonium. At that time it was evidently considered to be outside of the sphere of the Inquisition.

[710] Arnaldi Albertini de agnoscendis Assertionibus, Q. XXIII, n. 41. In Germany, many Catholic priests took wives. By the Interim of Charles V, in 1548, they were allowed to remain undisturbed until the Council of Trent should decide the question.—Interim, cap. XXVI, § 17.

[711] C. Trident. Sess. XXIV, De Sacr. Matrimonii, can. ix. Yet the council recognized the papal power of dispensation.

[712] Catálogo de las causas seguidas ante el tribunal de Toledo, pp. 306, 307.