The inquisitors were empowered to call in the judges of the Royal Audiencia as consultors in the consulta de fe.—Ibidem.
[406] Medina, op. cit., p. 30.
[407] Llorente, Hist. crít., cap. xix, art. ii. n. 18.
[408] Medina, op. cit., p. 31.
[409] Medina, op. cit., pp. 36-43.—Obregon, op. cit., 2ª Serie, 84-90, 335-7.—Páramo de Orig. Officii S. Inquisit., p. 241. The “Cornelius the Irishman” of Miles Phillips’s narrative was not burnt until the auto of March 6, 1575. He was one of Hawkins’s men, who had married in Guatemala.—Medina, p. 51.
[410] Obregon, p. 391. In the great auto of December 8, 1596, the sentence to relaxation of Manuel Díaz states that he is to be taken on horseback to the market-place of San Ipolito where, in the place provided for it, he is to be garroted and burnt.—Proceso contra Manuel Díaz, fol. 154 (I owe to the kindness of General Riva Palacio several of the original trials connected with this auto).
[411] Medina, op. cit., pp. 49-55.
[412] Torquemada, Lib. XIX, cap. 30.—Obregon, pp. 338-52.—Medina, op. cit., pp. 91-115, 123-36.
[413] Páramo, pp. 241-2.—Proceso contra Manuel Díaz, fol. 71 (MS. penes me).—Obregon, p. 344. The fourth sister of Carvajal was burnt for relapse in the auto of 1601 and a fifth was reconciled (Medina, pp. 131-133).
An incident of Carvajal’s trial illustrates the dread excited by the pitiless Peralta, who richly earned his archbishopric. After prolonged torture and confession, Carvajal endeavored to commit suicide and then asked for Lobo Guerrero to be sent for, to whom he explained that he had begged that Peralta should not be present “because the mere sight of him made his flesh creep, such was the terror with which his rigor inspired him.”—Adler, Trial of Jorje de Almeida (Publications of Am. Jewish Hist. Soc., IV, 42).