A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[1138] Roda, Dictamen á una Consulta (MS. penes me).

[1139] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 69, fol. 2, 8.

[1140] Corpo Diplomatico Portugues, III, 247.

[1141] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. II, p. 40; T. III, p. 252; T. V, pp. 22, 83, 144, 288, 392, 485; T. VI, pp. 367, 412.

[1142] Erasmi Epistolæ, Auctarium, p. 114 (Londoni, 1642).

[1143] Mariana, Hist. de España, Lib. XXIV, cap. xvii.

[1144] Archivo de Simancas, Inq. de Barcelona, Córtes, Leg. 17, fol. 74.

[1145] Historia verdadera, III, 509.

[1146] Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien, Bd. III, Abt II, p. 74.—Cf. Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, pp. 327 sqq.

Father Gams exposes his ignorance when he tells us that he excludes the burnings for other crimes than heresy, as if there were such, except the rare cases of unnatural crime in Aragon. He even implies that the Inquisition burnt for usury and smuggling.