Chapter XXXIX: Appendix: I (6)

Llorente (Hist. Crít. cap. VI, art. 1) has given an abstract of the _Instruciones Antiguas_. Curiously enough, in none of the official collections are included the instructions issued by Torquemada in December, 1484, and January, 1485, except in a few extracts. As they have never been printed I give them in the Appendix, together with the 1500 Instructions of Seville, which are likewise for the most part inedited. What Llorente printed as Torquemada's additions (Añales, I, 388) are merely the extracts gathered from Arguello's compilation, where they are credited to _El prior en Sevilla_, 1485.

[506] See the oath taken, July 20, 1487, by the officials of Catalonia and Barcelona to the inquisitor Alonso de Spina in Carbonell's _De Gestis Hæreticorum_ (Coleccion de Documentos de la Corona de Aragon, XXVIII, 6).

The decretals in question were issued by Lucius III, Innocent III, Clement IV and Boniface VIII, and are embodied in the canon law as Cap. 9 and 13 Extra, Lib. V, Tit. vii and Cap. 11 and 18 in Sexto Lib. V, Tit. ii.

When, in 1510, the jurats of Palermo made difficulties in taking the canonical oath, Ferdinand indignantly wrote that he would take it himself if required.--Arch. de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. III, fol. 134.

[507] Instruciones de Sevilla, § 1 (Arguello, fol. 3).

[508] Páramo, p. 170.

[509] Carbonell de Gestis Hæreticorum (Coleccion de Documentos de la Corona de Aragon, XXVIII, 12-17, 29, 40-49, 54-61). In these latter cases there is no distinction recorded between the fugitive and the dead, which would modify somewhat the proportions.

[510] Manuel de Novells Ardits, vulgarment appelat Dietari del Antich Consell Barceloni, III, 58 (Barcelona, 1894).

[511] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 933.

[512] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 1. By a letter of February 22, 1501, Ferdinand and Isabella congratulate the inquisitors on their action in such cases; if other New Christians assert that they had been converted by force justice is to be executed on them.

In 1511 a ship belonging to Caspar de la Cavallería of Naples was seized in Barcelona. The master, Francisco de Santa Cruz, hurried to the court at Seville, where the inquisitor-general Enguera condemned the vessel and he gave security in its full value. Meanwhile the receiver of confiscations at Barcelona sold it without waiting for its condemnation, whereupon Ferdinand ordered the money returned and the vessel taken back.--Ibidem, Lib. III, fol. 139.

[513] Ibidem, Lib. I.

[514] Boletin, XV, 323.

[515] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 939, fol. 62, 146.

[516] Ibidem, Libro I.

[517] Ibidem, Lib. II, fol. 17.

[518] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. III, fol. 42. This letter is dated Dec. 22, 1509. It is duplicated January 19, 1510 (Ibid. fol. 48). Seven of the Duke's officials had been summoned to appear before the Suprema and had disregarded the order, which was repeated January 21st under pain of confiscation and punishment at the royal pleasure.--Ibid. fol. 57.

[519] Ibidem, Libro 73, fol. 115.

[520] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I.

[521] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. I.

[522] Ibidem, Lib. III, fol. 221.

[523] Ibidem, Lib. III, fol. 22.

[524] Ibidem, Lib. III, fol. 193, 214.

[525] Archivo de Simancas, l'atronato real; Inquisicion, Legajo único, fol. 37.

[526] Informe de Quesada (Biblioteca nacional, Section de MSS., T, 28).

[527] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I.

[528] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I.

The redistribution of offices may be reckoned among the influences which reconciled the Old Christians to the Inquisition. These had been largely in the hands of Conversos, causing so much jealousy that the prospect of acquiring them led numbers of aspirants to wish for the sharpest and speediest action. It was too slow for their eagerness and expectative grants were sought for and made in advance so as to profit by the next victim. The vacancies passed into the hands of the receivers and were distributed by the sovereigns as favor or policy might dictate. See Appendix for suggestive extracts from the register of the receiver of Valencia.

A significant case is that of Juan Cardona, public scrivener and notary of mortmains, who became disqualified by the condemnation of the memory of his father, Leonardo Cardona, whereupon Ferdinand treated his offices as confiscated and, by cédula of December 5, 1511, bestowed them on Juan Argent, notary of the tribunal which had rendered the sentence.--Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro III, fol. 33, 161.

[529] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I.

[530] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.--Juan Gomez Bravo, Catálogo de los Obispos de Córdova, I, 392.

In 1513 an attempt was made to review the trial of the parents and son, when Ferdinand summoned the Royal Council to sit with the Suprema in the case showing his determination that the sentence should not be set aside (Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Libro 9, fol. 146). The effort to obtain justice was unsuccessful for, in 1515, we happen to find Calcena in possession of a house renting at 9000 mrs. per annum which had formed part of the confiscation (Ibid., Libro 3, fol. 439).

[531] Epistt. Pet. Mart. Anglerii, Epist. 374.--Zurita, Hist. del Rey Hernando, Lib. VII, cap. xxix.--Rodrigo, Hist. verdadera, II, 238. Cf. Lorenzo de Padilla, Crónica de Felipe I (Coleccion de Documentos, VIII, 153).

[532] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.

[533] Epistt. Pet. Mart., Epist. 385.

[534] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon I, n. 300; Cajon J, n. 295, 296.

[535] Boletin, XVII, 447-51.

[536] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon I, n. 304.

[537] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.--Zurita, Hist. del Rey Hernando, Lib. VII, cap. xxix.

[538] Coleccion de Documentos, VIII, 336, 337.--Gachard, Voyages des Souverains, I, 519.

[539] Archivo de Simancas, Gracia y Justicia, Inquisicion, Leg. 621, fol. 198.--Biblioteca nacional, Seccion de MSS., D, 118, n. 11, fol. 24.--Llorente, Añales, I, 328.--Gachard, Voyages des Souverains, I, 548.

[540] Clemencin, Elogio de la Reina Isabel, pp. 144-5.--Pedraza, Hist. de Granada, P. IV, cap. xxxi (Granada, 1638).

[541] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon J, n. 297.

[542] Pet. Mart. Angler. Epist. 295.

[543] Llorente, Hist. crít. Append. n. 9.--Correspondence of Rojas (Boletin, XXVIII, 448).

[544] Dom Clemencin (Elogio, Illust. XVIII) prints a noble and touching letter of reproof from Talavera to Ferdinand. He had had the direction of royal consciences too long to feel awe of royal personages. Spiritually he felt himself the king's superior and his perfectly frank simplicity of character led him to manifest this without disguise.

[545] Correspondence of Rojas (Boletin, XVIII, 444, 448).--Gachard, Voyages des Souverains, I, 534, 540.

[546] Correspondence of Rojas (Boletin, XVIII, 452).

The story of Queen Juana la loca is one of the saddest in the annals of royalty and her treatment by her father, husband and son is a libel on human nature, but no one who has impartially examined all the evidence can doubt that she was incapable of governing.

[547] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon A, n. 5.

[548] Zurita, Hist. del Rey Hernando, Lib. VII, cap. vi.

[549] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon I, n. 302.

[550] Ibidem, n. 300.

[551] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.

[552] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon J, n. 295, 298.--Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.

[553] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon I, n. 301.

[554] Lorenzo de Padilla, Crónica de Felipe I (Coleccion de Documentos, VIII, 153).--Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 46.

[555] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon I, n. 301.--Archivo de Simancas, _loc. cit._

[556] Archivo de la Catedral de Córdova, Cajon A, n. 5; Cajon I, n. 304.

[557] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. III, fol. 320.--See Appendix.

[558] Pet. Mart. Epistt., 333, 334, 335.

[559] Pedraza, Hist. eccles. de Granada, P. IV, cap. 31-34.

[560] Pet. Mart. Epistt., 342, 344, 457.--Pedraza, _loc. cit._

The Inquisition which had hunted him to the death could never forgive him for his escape. When, in 1559, Inquisitor-general Valdés compiled the first Index of prohibited books, a long-forgotten controversial tract against the Jews, printed by Talavera in 1480, was resuscitated and condemned in order to cast a slur upon his memory and this was carefully preserved through the long series of Spanish Indexes down to the last one in 1790.--Reusch, Die Indices Libror. Prohib., p. 232.--Indice Ultimo, p. 262.

[561] Zurita, Hist. del Rey Hernando, Lib. VII, cap. xxix, xxxiv, xlii; Lib. VIII, cap. i, v.--Villa, La Reina Juana, pp. 462, 463.

Zurita, who, as an official of the Suprema, no doubt reflects the tradition of the Inquisition, says that many murmured at seeing Ferdinand, to win over Ximenes, sacrifice Deza, for the latter was a most notable prelate, a man of great learning and devoted to the king's service. He has claims too on our respect as the patron of Columbus, befriending and encouraging him when disheartened by the incredulity of the court.--Irving's Life and Voyages of Columbus, Book II, Chap. 3, 4;