| Solicitation in the confessional | 14 |
| Sorcery and divination | 112 |
| Consulting diviners | 13 |
| Judaism (besides 11 in Pernambuco) | 41 |
| Disregard of disabilities of descendants | 8 |
| Bigamy | 4 |
| Abuse of Inquisition by culprits | 2 |
| Remaining under excommunication for a year | 4 |
| Revealing confessions | 1 |
| Heretical blasphemy | 6 |
| Incest | 1 |
| Neglect of observances | 5 |
| Mental Prayer better than Oral | 1 |
| A little girl for breaking an arm of an image of Christ | 1 |
| A boy of 6, for making crosses on the ground, stamping on them and saying that he was a heretic | 1 |
| Priest saying 4 masses in one day | 1 |
| Personating official of Inquisition | 1 |
| Celebrating mass without ordination | 2 |
| Impeding the Inquisition | 7 |
| Insults to images | 6 |
| Concubinage better than marriage | 3 |
| Irregular fasting | 1 |
| Propositions | 12 |
| Various suspicious acts | 1 |
| Marriage better than Religious Life | 1 |
| Criticizing the Inquisition | 1 |
| Denying a debt due to the confiscated estate of a culprit | 1 |
| Marriage in Orders | 1 |
| For being the grandson of a man relaxed in Portugal | 1 |
| (MSS. of David Fergusson Esqr.). | |
Nearly all the accusations of sorcery are of Indians, negroes or mulattos. A note states that the testifications against Indians are not indexed because the Inquisition has not jurisdiction over them.
[457] The plant named Peyote had intoxicating and narcotic properties causing pipe-dreams and visions. It was largely used by diviners and was strictly prohibited by the Inquisition.
[458] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 812; Cuenca, fol. 2.
[459] MSS. of David Fergusson Esqr.
[460] MSS. of David Fergusson Esqr.
[461] Carta de 27 Nov. 1643 (MSS. of David Fergusson Esqr.). These prisoners were all reconciled in the subsequent autos except three who died in prison and were relaxed in effigy.
For the individual offences of these inquisitors and their subordinates in cruelty, rapacity, embezzlement and licentiousness, as reported by the visitador Medina Rico, see Medina, pp. 261-2.
[462] Medina, pp. 239.