[897] Apología de la Inquisicion, pp. 16-18 (Cadiz, 1811).—Riesco, in a speech before the Córtes, said that the functions of the Suprema were suspended on the pretext that its members had not been “purified” (Discusion del Proyecto, p. 148). All officials who had in any way been concerned with the French were required to be purified—that is, to give proofs of patriotism. This so-called purification came repeatedly in play in the kaleidoscopic changes of Spanish politics.
[898] Vélez, Apología, I, 214, 384-5, 399-418.
[899] Vélez, Apología, I, 134-52, 217, 219.—Toreno, III, 105-10.
[900] Discusion del Proyecto, pp. 40-1, 398.
[901] Discusion, pp. 38-40.—The law of the Partidas thus revived was P. VII, Tit. xxvi, ley 2, which says that heretics can be accused by any one before a bishop or his vicar, who shall examine them on the articles of faith and sacraments. If error is found he must labor to convert them by reason and persuasion when, if willing to be converted, they are to be reconciled and pardoned. If persistent they are to be handed over to the secular judge for punishment by fire or otherwise. The revival of the law was only as regards the functions of the bishops.
[902] Ibidem, pp. 42-7.
[903] Cartas del Filósofo Rancio, II, 453.—Menéndez y Pelayo, III, 473.—Discusion, pp 215, 229, 397.
[904] Discusion del Proyecto, pp. 59, 325, 495, 564, 630-9, 683, 687.—Coleccion de Decretos, III, 215, 220.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 100.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 890.
The decree concerning property continued the salaries of all officials. A subsequent decree of September 13th, regulating the national debt, applied the property of the extinguida inquisicion to that incurred in the war with France.—Coleccion, IV, 257.
[905] Carnicero, La Inquisicion justamente restablecida, II, 115.