[1169] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 1020.
[1170] Royal Library of Berlin, Qt. 9548.
To illustrate the discrepancy between the facts as stated above and the reckless computations of Llorente, which have been so largely accepted, it may not be amiss to compare the facts with the corresponding figures resulting from his system of calculation, for the tribunals and periods named:
| Records. | Llorente. | ||||
| Toledo, | 1483-1501. | Relaxed in person | 297 | 666 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 600 | 433 | |||
| Imprisoned, about | 200 | }6,200 | |||
| Reconciled under edicts | 5200 | ||||
| Do. | 1575-1610. | Relaxed in person | 11 | 252 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 15 | 120 | |||
| Penanced | 904 | 1,396 | |||
| Do. | 1648-1794. | Relaxed in person | 8 | 297 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 63 | 129 | |||
| Penanced | 1094 | 1,188 | up to 1746. | ||
| Saragossa, | 1485-1502. | Relaxed in person | 124 | 584 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 32 | 392 | |||
| Penanced | 458 | 7,004 | |||
| Barcelona, | 1488-98. | Relaxed in person | 23 | 432 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 430 | 316 | |||
| Imprisoned | 116 | }5,122 | |||
| Reconciled under edicts | 304 | ||||
| Valencia, | 1485-1592. | Relaxed in person | 643 | 1,538 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 479 | 869 | |||
| Tried | 3104 | 16,677 | penanced. | ||
| Valladolid, | 1485-92. | Relaxed in person | 50 | 424 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 6 | 312 | |||
| Penanced | ? | 3,884 | |||
| Majorca, | 1488-1691. | Relaxed in person | 139 | 1,778 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 482 | 978 | |||
| Penanced | 975 | 17,861 | |||
| All tribunals, | 1721-27. | Relaxed in person | 77 | 238 | |
| Relaxed in effigy | 74 | 119 | |||
| Penanced | 811 | 1,428 |
It will thus be seen how entirely fallacious was the guess-work on which Llorente based his system.
An even more conclusive comparison is furnished by the little tribunal of the Canaries. After 1524, Llorente includes it among the tribunals by which he multiplies the number of yearly victims assigned to each. He thus makes it responsible, from first to last, for 1118 relaxations in person and 574 in effigy. Millares (Historia de la Inquisicion en las Islas Canaries, III, 164-8) has printed the official list of the quemados during the whole career of the tribunal, and they amount in all to eleven burnt in person and a hundred and seven in effigy. The number of the latter is accounted for by the fact that, to render its autos interesting, it was often in the habit of prosecuting in absentia Moorish and negro slaves who escaped to Africa after baptism and who thus were constructively relapsed.
Dr. Schäfer (Beiträge, I, 157), after an exhaustive examination of the accessible records, has collected references to 2100 persons tried for Protestantism during the second half of the sixteenth century. Protestants were punished with special severity, but in these cases the total of relaxations in person was about 220 and in effigy about 120, and all these, as we have seen, were largely foreigners.
[1171] Bernáldez, Hist. de los Reyes Católicos, cap. xliv.
[1172] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 979, fol. 40.
[1173] Garau, La Fee triunfante, pp. 86, 91.