[32]. At the Cortes of Madrigal in 1479, and in those of Toledo in 1480, Isabel and Ferdinand renewed all the old ferocious edicts against the use of silk and jewels by Jews in their garments, and ordered them strictly to confine their residence to the ghettoes, and two years later all toleration they enjoyed by papal decree was abolished.
[33]. Father Florez claims for Isabel and Torquemada alone what he considers the great honour of establishing the Inquisition.
[34]. In the first eight years of its existence, the Inquisition burnt in Seville alone 700 people, and sent to perpetual imprisonment in the dungeons 5000 more, confiscating all their goods.—Bernaldez.
[35]. Shortly after her death, the mayor of her own city of Medina del Campo declared that the soul of Isabel had gone to hell for her cruel oppression of her subjects, and that all the people around Valladolid and Medina, where she was best known, were of the same opinion.—Spanish State Papers, Supplement to vols. i. and ii.
[36]. Florez, ‘Reinas Catolicos.’
[37]. Pulgar. ‘Cronica de los Reyes Catolicos.’
[38]. The Moors justified the attack by the accusation that the famous Ponce de Leon, Marquis of Cadiz, had raided and plundered the town of Mercadillo, near Ronda.
[39]. When somewhat later the Queen urgently begged him to accept the bishopric of Salamanca, and he persistently refused, she reproached him for not obeying her once when she had obeyed him so many times. ‘I will not be the bishop,’ he replied, ‘of any place but Granada.’ He was in effect the first archbishop.
[40]. Pulgar, ‘Cronica de los Reyes Catolicos.’
[41]. Lagréze. See also Zurita’s ‘Anales de Aragon.’