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Item al scriva de la inquisicio doscentes lliures lany

CC llrs.

Item al alguacil et al sag cent e vint lliures

CXX llrs.

Item al porter que va citant vint lliures lany

XX llrs.

Item á Dominguez que reeb los actos de las confiscacions

XXV llrs.

Que sumen tots les dits quantitats sex cent vint lliures moneda reals de Valencia, los quals e no mas es nostra voluntat que en la forma dessus dita se paguen á les sobredits persones. Dada en la vila de Medina del Campo á XVII dias de febrer del any de la nativitat de nostro senyor MCCCCLXXXII. Yo el Rey. Domínus Rex mandavit mihi Petro Camanyas.”

[612] Printed by Llorente, Hist. crít. Append. 1.

[613] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 3, 4.

[614] Ibidem, fol. 1, 2, 4, 5.

[615] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 7, 8.

[616] Archivio Vaticano: Sisto IV, Regestro 674, T. XV, fol. 366.

As Llorente states (Hist. crít. Append, n. 2) that the contents of this bull are unknown and as ignorance of its purport has wholly misled him, I give it in the Appendix.

[617] Archivo Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 9.—It is significant that in the papal register there is a note appended to this bull “Duplicata sub eadem data et scripta per eundem scriptorem et taxata ad XXX” [grossos?], showing that an authentic copy was obtained and paid for at the time by some one, doubtless to provide against accident or fraud.

[618] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 7. See Appendix. Bergenroth (Calendar of Spanish State Papers, I, xliv) gives an incorrect extract from it.

[619] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 8, 9.

[620] Llorente, Hist. crít. Append. n. 2.—Fidel Fita (Boletin, XV, 467).

[621] Ripoll, III, 622.—When Innocent VIII, by letters of February 11, 1486, confirmed or reappointed Torquemada, the qualification of his appointees was modified by requiring them to be fitting ecclesiastics, learned and God-fearing, provided that they were masters in theology or doctors or licentiates of laws or canons of cathedrals or holding other church dignities.—Páramo, p. 137.

Ferdinand, July 9, 1485, had requested that the condition of holding grades in the church should not be insisted upon for there were few of such who were fitted for the work.—Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 59.

[622] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 34.—Boletin, XV, 472.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 43.

Zurita (Añales, XX, xlix) is evidently in error in stating that Ferdinand, May 20, 1483, asked Sixtus to remove Gualbes and Orts.

[623] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 11.

[624] Ripoll, III, 622.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 182.

When he had no further use for Gualbes Ferdinand also turned against him, for in March, 1486, on hearing that Gualbes proposed to visit a Dominican convent he wrote earnestly to the Governor and Inquisitor of Valencia to prevent it as it would be a scandal.—Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 90.

It is possible that there may have been some rancor on Ferdinand’s part against Gualbes who, as an eloquent preacher and fervid popular orator, had done much, in 1461, to stimulate the resistance of the Catalans to Juan II, after the death of the heir-apparent, Carlos Prince of Viana, which was attributed to poison administered by Queen Juana Henríquez to open for her son Ferdinand the path to the throne (Zurita, Añales, Lib. XVII, cap. xxvi, xlii; Lib. XVIII, cap. xxxii). It is true that Zurita is not certain whether there may not have been two Cristóbal Gualbes (Lib. XX, cap. xlix) but Bofarull y Broca (Hist. de Cataluña, VI, 312) has no such doubts.

[625] Zurita, Añales, Lib. XX, cap. lvi, lxv.

[626] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 11, 12.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. 1, fol. 51.

[627] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 19-22.

[628] Ibidem, Reg. 3684, fol. 25, 26.

[629] Zurita, Añales, Lib. XX, cap. lxv.—Páramo, p. 187.—Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 34.

[630] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 32, 34.

[631] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Libro I, fol. 31.

[632] Arch Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 61, 73, 86, 89, 90.

[633] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 688, fol. 504.

[634] Portocarrero, Sobre la Competencia de Jurisdicion, fol. 64 (Madrid, 1624).

[635] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 309, Notarios, fol. 1.

[636] Escolano, Hist. del Ciudad y Reyno de Valencia, II, 1442 (Valencia, 1611).

[637] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Legajos 98, 374.