_Valdés_ (Juan de), author of some works which are mentioned by Nicolas Antonio; one of them, the _Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians_, is prohibited in the Index. He was tried on account of this treatise and another, which was found among the papers of Carranza, and which was at first supposed to be his composition; this work is called _Thoughts on the Interpretations of the Holy Scriptures_. Valdés also composed another called _Acharo_; all these works were noted as being Lutheran, and the author was declared to be a _formal heretic_. Valdés left Spain, and thus escaped imprisonment. In 1559, Fray Louis de la Cruz, a prisoner in the Inquisition of Valladolid, declared that Valdés was living at Naples; that his _Thoughts_, &c. had been sent twenty years before to Carranza, in the form of a letter, but that it had its origin in the _Christian Institutions_ of Thaulero. Fray Dominic de Roxas (another prisoner in the Inquisition) spoke of this Valdés as if he was the secretary of Charles V.; if that was the case, he must be called _Juan Alonzo de Valdés_. Nicolas Antonio mentions him as a different person in his _Bibliothèque_. _Vergara_ (Juan de). See Chapter 14. _Vicente_ (Doctor Don Gregory de), priest and professor of philosophy at Valladolid. The tribunal of this city tried and imprisoned him in 1801, for some theses which had been maintained and printed in Spanish, on the manner of studying, examining, and defending true religion. He abjured _naturalism_ publicly in a lesser _auto-da-fé_, and several penances were imposed on him. His theses appear to be orthodox, if they are understood literally. The masters of scholastic theology declared against Vicente, because he had attacked the manner of teaching and studying religion practised in his time; he was also accused of having preached against the pious exercises of devotion. The sermon which was the origin of this accusation was severely examined, and it was found that he had said, that true devotion consists in the actual practice of virtue, and not in exterior ceremonies; his theses were publicly condemned, and he was detained in prison for eight years. He was nephew to an inquisitor of Santiago, which induced those of Valladolid to pronounce him to be insane, in order to save him; but when he returned home he gave such unequivocal proofs of being in his senses, that the inquisitors thought the honour of the tribunal would not allow the affair to be left in this state, and again arrested him. He had been in the prison more than a year when the _auto-da-fé_ was celebrated.