[263] Paramo, “De Origine,” p. 159.
[264] “Historia Critica,” tom. ii. p. 77.
[265] Ibid. ii. p. 78.
[266] See “Copilacion de las Instrucciones,” under date.
[267] This is the figure given by Burchard, and is the most authoritative (“Diarium,” ii. 492). Llorente says “250,” and Sanuto (“Diario,” i. col. 1029) “zercha 300 marrani.”
[268] Llorente, “Anales,” tom. i. p. 238; Burchard, “Diarium,” ii. pp. 491-2. Sanuto the Venetian diarist reports the matter from letters received from Rome with a sarcasm entirely characteristic: “The Pontiff sent some 300 marranos in penitence to the Minerva, dressed in yellow, candle in hand: this was their public penance; the secret one would be of their money....” (“Diario,” i. col. 1029).
[269] Lumbreras, quoted by Llorente, “Anales,” tom. i. p. 238.
[270] “History of Ferdinand and Isabella,” vol. i. p. 286.
Llorente estimates the number of Torquemada’s victims at 8,800 burnt, 6,500 burnt in effigy, and 90,000 penanced in various degrees. These figures, however, are unreliable and undoubtedly exaggerated, although they are in themselves a correction of his earlier estimate, which fixes the number of burnt at upwards of 10,000—an estimate flagrantly preferred by Dr. Rule and other partisan writers on the subject.
[271] “Hist. Verdadera,” vol. ii, p. 113.