Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original ManuscriptsWhite, Andrew Dickson
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Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts
White, Andrew Dickson
Inquisition -- Spain -- History -- Sources
That the friars and ecclesiastics devoured the people, and that the king
ought to take them into his service, by which means he would have
soldiers enow.
_This is scandalous, and insulting to the ecclesiastical and secular
state._
That the figures of the Saints were said to work miracles, and if this
were the fact, let one of them be thrown into the river to see if he
could save himself.
_Blasphemous and virtually heretical._
That it was a great pity for a man to be obliged to tell another,
meaning the Confessor, everything he did, and that it would be better to
speak into a hole and stop it up, for ‘what good did confession do?’
That he went to confession but once a year, signifying that but for
constraint he would not go at all.
_This is heretical, as it is a scorning of the Divine institution of
sacramental confession._
Speaking of the supplications which are made for rain, he asked, ‘What
use is there in running after these Saints, and what power have they to
make it rain? What is the use of carrying in procession these images?’
meaning several, and among others that of Nuestra Señora del Coll, ‘as
they are nothing but bits of wood or stone.’
_A heretical blasphemy._
Speaking of the Bull of the Santa Cruzada, he asserted that if he was
sovereign, he would hang every one who received the Bull.
_This is insulting, et sapiens hæresin._
Speaking of the chapels and hermitages in the village where he lived, he
asked ‘What do those images do there?’ meaning, ‘Why do not people
destroy them?’
_A heretical blasphemy._
Others saying to him ‘Let us go to mass,’ he answered by asking, ‘What
could they get by hearing mass?’ thus disturbing the devotions of the
hearers, and scorning this holy performance.
_Considered in connexion with the other assertions, this is scandalous,
and sapiens hæresin._
Speaking of Indulgences, he said with some contempt, that he should
value six dineros more than all the Indulgences together, and that they
were good for nothing.
_Scandalous and heretical._
Speaking of prodigies and miracles, he said that from the time of Christ
to the present day there had been no miracles, that he knew this well,
since he had conversed with a learned person. On another occasion,
discoursing on the same subject, he said, that God had never performed
a miracle, and he knew it, making at the same time the sign of the
cross upon his forehead.
_Heretical._
Speaking of tithes, he asserted that, were it not for compulsion, he
would not pay tithes, and that it would be better for people to enjoy
the fruit of their labors themselves, and not the ecclesiastics.
_Insulting and scandalous._
Speaking of burials and supplications for the dead, he asserted that
when he died he would as willingly be interred in common, as in
consecrated ground, and that but for compulsion he would not have a mass
said for his soul.
_Sapit hæresin._
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