This fanatic was denounced to the holy office, which paid no attention to it, being persuaded that Rodrigo was mad. But as he continued to preach in the streets in favour of Lutheranism, and as no part of his conduct showed that he was deranged, he was arrested, and would have been condemned to be delivered over to secular justice, if the inquisitors had not persisted in believing him to be mad, and if his disciple Egidius, whose opinions were not then known, had not undertaken his defence. Nevertheless, he was condemned in 1540 as an heretic and _false apostle_; he was admitted to reconciliation, deprived of his property, condemned to the _San-benito_, to perpetual imprisonment, and to assist on every Sunday at the grand mass of St. Saviour of Seville. Several times, when he heard the preacher advance propositions contrary to his own, he raised his voice, and reproached him for his doctrine: this boldness confirmed the inquisitors in the opinion that he was deprived of reason: he was shut up in a convent in the town of San Lucar de Barrameda, where he died at the age of fifty. Gonzales de Montes considers him as a man miraculously sent by God to preach the truth: he adds, that his _San-benito_ was suspended in the metropolitan church of Seville, where it excited great curiosity, as he was the first person condemned as a _false apostle_. Although, during the period of which I have related the history, there were fewer Judaic heretics than in former times, yet there were many more than might be supposed. Of this number was _Mary de Bourgogne_, who was born at Saragossa: her father-in-law was a native of Burgundy, of Jewish extraction. A _New Christian_ slave, (who had renounced the law of Moses, to obtain his liberty, and was afterwards burnt for having relapsed,) in 1552, denounced Mary de Bourgogne, who resided in the city of Murcia, and had attained her eighty-fifth year. This man deposed that, before his conversion, some person asked him if he was a Christian; he replied that he was a Jew, and that Mary then said to him, _You are right, for the Christians have neither faith nor law_. It will no doubt appear incredible, but the trial proves that in 1557 she was still in prison, waiting until sufficient proof was found to condemn her. After having waited in vain, the inquisitors commanded that Mary should be _tortured, though she was then ninety years old_, and the council had decreed that in such cases the criminal should only be intimidated by the preparations. The inquisitor Cano says, that the _moderate_ torture was applied; but such were the effects of this gentle application, that the unfortunate Mary ceased to live and suffer in a few days after.