[70] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 41, fol. 258, 263. In his letter Páramo mentions that not long before two Calvinist missionaries had been sent from Geneva to Sicily; the Inquisition arrested them and their converts and one of the missionaries had been burnt alive, showing the steadfastness of his faith.
[71] Gervasii Siculæ Sanctiones, II, 329 (Panormi, 1751).
[72] La Mantia, pp. 69-70. There is a very vivid account of this affair in a letter to the Suprema from Páramo and his colleagues, written on the evening of August 9th, when they were expecting further ill treatment by the viceroy, whom they characterize in the most unflattering terms.—Bibl. Nacional de Madrid, MSS., Cc, 58, p. 35.
Páramo, in a document of March 8, 1600, had already described him as a declared enemy of the Inquisition.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 41, fol. 249.
[73] Portocarrero, op. cit., n. 1.—Solorzani de Indiarum Gubernatione, Lib. iii, cap. xxiv, n. 16.—A virtual duplicate of this letter was sent, September 10, 1670, by the Queen-regent Maria Anna of Austria, to the Prince de Ligne, then Viceroy of Sicily.—Mongitore, L’Atto pubblico di Fede de 1724, p. v. (Palermo, 1724).
[74] Biblioteca nacional de Madrid, MSS., D, 118, fol. 134, n. 47.
[75] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Legajo 1465, fol. 35.
[76] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 38, fol. 298.
[77] Consulta Magna de 1696 (Bibl. nacional de Madrid, MSS., Q, 4).
[78] Alberghini, Manuale Qualificatorum, p. 171 (Cæsaraugustæ, 1671).