[819] Repertor. Inquisit. s. v. Hæreticus, § Pertinax.
Although simony was the universally corroding vice of the Church, and although it was reckoned as a heresy, it was too profitable to the hierarchy ever to be subjected to the Inquisition. In a project of instructions for the Spanish delegates to the Lateran Council in 1512, simoniacal heresy is denounced as the universal destruction of the Church, owing to the openness with which it is practised in Rome and throughout Christendom, and they are told to labor to have it prosecuted as heresy by the Inquisition—(Döllinger, Beiträge zur politischen kirchlichen und Cultur-Geschichte, III, 204).
[820] Fueros de Aragon, fol. 110. For earlier legislation of similar import see fol. 49 (Zaragoza, 1624).
[821] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 109. The general council here alluded to was that of Lyons, in 1273. See cap. 1, 2, in Sexto, Lib. V, Tit. v. This refers back to Concil. Lateranens. III, ann. 1179, cap. XXV.
[822] Pragmaticas y altres Drets de Cathalunya, Lib. I, Tit. viii, cap. 1, § 20.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq. de Barcelona, Córtes, Leg. 17, fol. 32.—Páramo, p. 185.
[823] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 933.
[824] Pragmaticas etc. de Cathalunya, Lib. I, Tit. viii, cap. 2, §§ 20, 35.
[825] Argensola, Añales de Aragon, Lib. I, cap. liv.
[826] Llorente, Añales, II, 298.
[827] Fueros de Aragon, fol. 110.