[531] Obregon, op. cit., 2ª Serie, p. 393.
[532] Note to Recop., Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 1. Cf. Lib. III, Tit. i, ley 2.
[533] See in Appendix the Edict of January 26, 1811. Also Obregon, 2ª Serie, p. 393.
[534] Proceso contra Dr. Pedro Mendizabal, fol. 13 (MS. penes me).
[535] I owe the following details to a transcript of his trial, made from the original in 1865 by Don José María Lafragua and kindly communicated to me by David Fergusson Esqr.
[536] The learned Dominican Jacques Augustin Serry’s Historia Congregationum de Auxiliis, issued also under the pseudonym of Augustin Leblanc, appeared in 1700 and was promptly condemned in Spain in 1701 (Index of 1707, I, 776), but is not on the Roman Index. His Exercitationes de Christo ejusque V. Matre are in both Indexes. For a Jesuit opinion of the former work see Father Colonia’s Bibliothèque Janseniste, p. 186 (Ed. 1735).
María de Agreda was a Spanish mystic of the seventeenth century whom Spain has repeatedly, up to modern times, endeavored to get canonized.
[537] These comprehensive excommunications led to a result not particularly creditable to the Church. A writer in 1822 calls attention to the fact that, while the leading insurgents who were captured were formally reconciled before they were shot, the mass of the people, who had never paid any attention to the censures, were freely received to the sacraments without having been absolved.—El Sol, México, Feb. 27, 1822, p. 107.
[538] See Appendix. One of the insurgent proclamations shows the savage character of the warfare. It sets forth the terms and conditions of the struggle of which the following may serve as a specimen—
4. The European who resists with arms will be put to the sword.