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5 - Barcelona: Inquisitors with short arms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2009

E. William Monter
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Los desta ciudad … de qualquier cosa quieren ser juezes y señores y toman la voz por qualquiera particular. Nosotros contemporizamos con ellos lo mas que es posible.

Barcelona to Suprema, 1570 (Inq., Libro 737, fol. 217v)

El daño que crehemos questa tierra tiene y tiendra sin se remedia … es por la mucha comunicacion que se tiene en Francia, y por los muchos franceses que an entrado y entran cada dia.

Barcelona to Suprema, 1571 (Inq., Libro 737, fols. 267–68v).

Las causas de fee que ay en esta Inq'on de ordinaria son muy pocas y de facil digestion, porque aqui no ay Judaismo ni Moreria, y de ordinaria no passan de cinco o seis presos en las secretas … De lo que aqui ay mucho que hazer es en causas civiles … y las civiles en esta tierra son inmortales.

Barcelona to Suprema, 1623 (Inq., Libro 744, fol. 146–46v).

After the great riots of March 1820, when Catalan mobs sacked the palace of the Barcelona Inquisition and threw its papers everywhere, an enterprising Yankee visitor named Andrew Thorndike managed to acquire a few of its trial records, which he later had translated into English and published at Boston in 1828. Three trials dated from the 1630s; the others came from the eighteenth and even the early nineteenth centuries. Two of the three defendants from the 1630s had been born in France, including one man accused of Protestantism by his Catalan wife.

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Frontiers of Heresy
The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily
 , pp. 105 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1990

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