That the punishment of perpetual imprisonment shall be abolished, because the prisoners die of hunger, and cannot serve God.
That the statutes recently established to prevent New Christians from being admitted into convents, shall be considered as null and void, because they are contrary to all laws, human and divine.
That where an individual is sentenced to imprisonment, an inventory shall be taken of his property, and they shall not be sequestrated or sold.
That he, and his wife, and children, shall possess his revenues during his detention, and shall be allowed to employ them to prepare his means of defence against the Inquisition.
That when a man is condemned, his children shall inherit his property.
That no donation shall be made on their property, until it has been definitively confiscated.
That the spirit and letter of the canons shall be complied with in all things, without regard to any particular custom previously in use.
That the king shall be supplicated to obtain a bull from the Pope to ratify these measures.
That until this bull is obtained, the king shall be requested to command the inquisitors to conform to these regulations, in the trials already commenced, and in those which may begin from this time.
This excellent code of laws was never put in execution, because the chancellor Selvagio, who framed it, died before its publication; and Cardinal Adrian so totally changed the ideas and inclinations of Charles V. that he became an ardent defender of the Inquisition.