[489] Medina, p. 315.

[490] Solorzano, loc. cit., n. 61.

[491] This prohibition was removed in the Concordia of 1633.

[492] Recop. de las Indias, Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 29.

The vexatious petty tyranny in which the tribunal indulged is illustrated by the case of a law-student, Diego de Porras Villerías, about 1600, who was fined in 100 pesos and banished for a year because he refused to honor a requisition for two cartloads of lime for the prison which it was constructing.—Medina, p. 137.

[493] Solorzani op. cit., Lib. III, cap. xxiv, n. 60.—MSS. of Royal Library of Munich, Cod. Hispan. 79.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 60, fol. 1, 60, 66 sqq.

[494] Solorzano, loc. cit., n. 63-73.

[495] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 17, fol. 1.

[496] Munich, MSS., Cod. Hispan. 79.

[497] Recop., Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 30.