Chapter VIII: New Granada

Settlement of New Granada 453

Commissioners appointed by Tribunal of Lima 454

Demand for an Independent Tribunal 455

Extent of District--Attempt to include Florida 457

Tribunal established in 1610 at Cartagena 460

Early Operations 461
Sorcery and Witchcraft--Blasphemy 462
Judaism 466

Inertia--Sack of Cartagena in 1697 467

Decadence 468

Censorship--The Copernican System 470

Quarrels with the Authorities 473
Arbitrary Control exercised by Inquisitor Mañozca 473
Incessant Broils--Inquisitor Vélez de Asas y Argos--Fiscal
Juan Ortiz 476

Visitation of Dr. Martin Real in 1643--Its Failure 480
Internal Dissensions and external Quarrels 483

Visitation of Pedro Medina Rico in 1648--Death of Inquisitor Pereira and Secretary Uriarte 485

Internal and external Quarrels continue 488

Degradation of the Tribunal 489

Quarrel with Bishop Benavides y Piedrola--Inquisitor Valera 491

Humiliation of Governor Ceballos 498

Decadence after the Sack of 1697 499

Finances--The Royal Subvention 500
Wealth accruing from Confiscations 501
Quarrels over the Subvention 502
Asserted Distress of the Tribunal 505

The Revolutionary Junta banishes the Tribunal in 1810 506

It takes Refuge in Santa Marta and Puertobelo 508

It returns to Cartagena in 1815 508

It is extinguished by the United States of Colombia in 1821 510

Influence of the Inquisition on the Spanish Colonies 511

APPENDIX OF DOCUMENTS 517

THE INQUISITION

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