A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[801] Fueros y Actos de Corte, p. 10 (Zaragoza, 1647).

[802] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 2, n. 16, fol. 270.

[803] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 927, fol. 414.

[804] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80; Leg. 61.—Elucidationes S. Officii, § 55 (Archivo de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 544², Lib. 4).—Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, cap. xxiv, § 1.

[805] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, cap. xxiv, § 6.

[806] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 2, n. 16, fol. 259.—Parets, Sucesos de Cataluña (Mem. hist. español, XXIV, 297).

[807] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 6, n. 2, fol. 52; Leg. 8, n. 2, fol. 497.

[808] Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, cap. xxiv, § 2.

The Inquisition was more humane than the Castilian courts. Jan. 27, 1637, two culprits were burnt in Madrid. Oct. 14, 1639, two more were burnt and a third was brought out to share the same fate, when the episcopal vicar claimed him, as he had been decoyed from the asylum of a church. Nine more were in prison at the time. Oct. 10, 1640, a man and a boy were burnt.—Cartas de Jesuitas (Mem. hist, español, XIV, 26; XV, 343).—Pellicer, Avisos históricos (Semanário erúdito, XXXI, 87, 228).

In Mexico there was a special quemadero for such cases, distinct from that of the Inquisition.—Obregon, Mexico viejo, II, 391.