[421] Recop. de las Indias, Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 26.
[422] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 40, fol. 24; Libro 926, fol. 169.
[423] Solorzani de Indiar. Gubern., Lib. III, cap. xxiv, n. 13.
[424] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 1157, fol. 66.
[425] Ibidem, Libro 40, fol. 31.
[426] Recop., Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 14. In 1626, however, Philip IV ordered them to be compelled to pay the alcavala or commutation of the tax of ten per cent. on all transactions like other subjects and, in the Concordia of 1633, the exemption from royal taxes and imposts was wholly withdrawn.—Ibidem, Lib. I, Tit. xix, leyes 15; 30, § 5.
[427] MSS. of Royal Library of Munich, Cod. Hispan. 79, Leg. 1, fol. 1.
[428] Recop., Lib. VI, Tit. xii, ley 42.
[429] Recop., Lib. I, Tit. xix, leyes 10, 11, 12.—Solorzani de Ind. Gubern., Lib. III, cap. xxiv, n. 11.
[430] Recop., Lib. I, Tit. xix, leyes 24, 25. In the earlier period of the colonial Inquisition, the inquisitors sometimes, as we have seen, held prebends in addition to their salaries, but this privilege was subsequently withdrawn, at the instance of the Council of Indies, on account of the poverty of the churches.—Solorzani, op. cit., Lib. III, cap. xxiv, n. 78.