[715] Medina, Lima, I, 305, 307-10.
[716] Ibidem, I, 321-23.
[717] Medina, Lima, I, 337-9. It must be borne in mind in all these cases that “reconciliation” to the Church entailed confiscation and was usually accompanied with other penalties more or less severe according to the record of the culprit and the readiness with which he had confessed and recanted as indicative of the sincerity of his conversion. There might be prison and sanbenito for a term or for life, scourging or the galleys.
[718] Ibidem, p. 341, 347.
[719] Palma, Añales, p. 31.
[720] Medina, La Plata, 155-61.
[721] Ibidem, 164-66.
[722] Medina, Lima, II, 27-31.
[723] Pablo de Santa María was originally the Rabbi Selemoh Ha-Levi, one of the most learned of Jewish doctors. Converted in 1390, he rose to be regent of Spain in the minority of Juan II, papal legate a latere and bishop successively of Cartagena and Búrgos. His book was regarded as convincing and was repeatedly printed. Two editions appeared in Strassburg about 1471 and my copy is of Búrgos, 1591.
[724] Medina, La Plata, pp. 172-97; Lima, II, 146.—See also a paper by George Alexander Kohut in Publications of the Am. Jewish Historical Society, XI, 163 (1903).