[10] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 2, fol. 23, 24.
[11] Under the same date Obregon was ordered to pay salaries as follows:
| Doctor Johan Sgalambro, inquisitor | 6000 | sueldos | jaquenses. | |
| Martin de Vallejo, alguazil | 6000 | “ | “ | |
| Johan Crespo, portero | 500 | “ | “ | |
| A notario del secreto | To be appointed by the inquisitors | 2500 | “ | “ |
| A notario de los secuestros | To be appointed by the inquisitors | 2500 | “ | “ |
| A fiscal | To be appointed by the inquisitors | 2500 | “ | “ |
| Diego de Obregon, receiver | 6000 | “ | “ | |
| —Archivo de Simancas, ubi sup. | ||||
Although no salary is here provided for the Bishop of Cefalù, it does not follow that bishops were expected to serve gratuitously. When Pedro de Belorado was sent to Sicily as Archbishop of Messina and inquisitor, Obregon was ordered, Sept. 10, 1501, to pay him the same salary as that of Sgalambro whom he replaced.—Ibidem.
The sueldo was one-twentieth of the libra, which was nearly equivalent to the Castilian ducat.
[12] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 1.
[13] La Mantia, pp. 23, 25, 26, 28.
[14] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 1.
[15] Ibidem. Sgalambro managed to regain the royal favor, for a letter of Ferdinand, April 23, 1506, gratifies him with the Cistercian abbey of S. Maria di Terrana, burdened, however, with a pension of eighty ducats to the official chronicler, Luca de Marinis, better known as L. Marinæus Siculus.—Pirri Sicilia Sacra, I, 670.
[16] La Mantia, pp. 27, 28.