[1493] Partidas, P. VII. Tit. xxx. l. 1.
[1494] Ordenamiento de Alcalà, Tit. xxviii. l. 1.
[1495] Simancas, however, states that a single repetition of the torture was allowable.—De Cathol. Instit. Tit. LXV. No. 76.
[1496] De Cathol. Instit. Tit. LXV. No. 44-48. Cf. Novísima Recopilacion, Lib. VI. Tit, ii. leis 4 y 5 (Ed. 1775).
[1497] Villadiego, Gloss, ad Fuero Juzgo, Lib. VI. Tit. i. l. 2, Gloss. c, d, e, f, g.
[1498] Novísima Recopilacion, Lib. II. vii. leis 1 y 13.
[1499] Villadiego, op. cit. Lib. VI. Tit. i. 1. 5, Gloss. b, c.
[1500] Simancæ de Cathol. Instit. Tit. LXV. No. 8.
[1501] Novísima Recopilacion, Lib. II. Tit. vi. lei 6; Lib. VIII. Tit. i. lei 4. Aragon is said to have been an exception as regards the use of torture (Gomez Var. Resolut. T. III. c. 13—ap. Gerstlacher. de Quæst. per Torment. p. 68). In Navarre there is no trace of the use of torture prior to the fifteenth century.—G. B. de Lagrèze, La Navarre Française, II. 342.
[1502] Capit. Carol. Mag. II. ann. 805, § xxv. (Baluz.). No other interpretation can well be given of the direction “diligentissime examinatione constringantur si forte confiteantur malorum quæ gesserunt. Sed tali moderatione fiat eadem districtio ne vitam perdant.”