A meeting of the Calificadores was held on the twelfth of April, and the proceedings examined.
Should the Holy Office again rear its head in Spain, perhaps the Fiscal and Calificadores might do the publisher and Translator of this work the honor to take some notice of their labors.
It reported to the Suprema that it was ignorant whether calificadores were entitled to the fuero and the Council replied, asking on what ground the privilege was claimed.
The calificadores voted that this was manifest Judaism and he was thrown into the secret prison of Valladolid, with sequestration.
The resource of calling in successive calificadores in obscure cases frequently led only to a hopeless divergence of opinion, bewildering rather than assisting the inquisitors.
This is incorrect for, in 1520, we find the Suprema ordering that calificadores shall not be appointed without its consent and on the simple petition of aspirants.
It obeyed and twice submitted the case to its calificadores and other learned men, who reported in favor of the accused, whereupon it voted for his discharge.
Mendoza procured the assent of the members to the appointment of special calificadores or censors to consider the charges and evidence.
Calificadores continued to be appointed, but they seem to have been rather ornamental than useful members of the official family, if we may judge from the variation in the number attached to the different tribunals.
An extract made, in 1645, from a book of instructions which was read annually in the tribunals, shows that this praiseworthy care for the welfare of the prisoners was the permanent policy of the Inquisition.
In an abstract of the more important testimony it is stated that the fourth witness had heard a man say that a certain Morisca was a great bitch, for she coupled with other dogs, meaning the said Luis de Guevara.
This was only part of the cost, for every act and every blank filled in, every piece of writing bore its separate charge.
Making allowance for rhetorical exaggeration we can imagine that this description was applicable to Cordova under Lucero.
There was in this no special injustice inflicted on him--it was merely the regular inquisitorial routine.
Not content with this, the rector of the university, Diego Sobanos, was prosecuted by the tribunal of Valladolid for the part he had taken in the matter; he was reprimanded, fined and absolved ad cautelam.
In place of accepting them the tribunal endeavored to compel him to take men of whom he knew nothing and who, in reality, were the calificadores who had already condemned his propositions.
Two of them were calificadores and one a notary of a commissioner, who were incapacitated for their functions.
The third case was that of Mosen Antonio Serra, whose doctrines the calificadores reported to be Molinistic.
As he had thus eluded the definitions of Benedict XIV, four calificadores out of six reported that he was not technically guilty of solicitation.
On December 11th the calificadores who examined his papers made an unexpectedly moderate report.
The calificadores held this to be implicit pact but, although both were arrested, both escaped with reprimands.
New calificadoreswere called in, who debated and opined and presented written conclusions on all three series of propositions.
This was transmitted to the Toledo tribunal, whose calificadores found in it four heretical propositions besides a citation from St. Paul amounting to heretical blasphemy.
Frechilla, one of the calificadores who had condemned the propositions, represented the episcopal Ordinary.
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