Note 129 — Chapter III · BISHOPS.

There is a somewhat mysterious case of a summons issued, in 1516, to the “Bishop of Daroca,” then in Burgos, to present himself to Ximenes, within fifteen days, under pain of loss of temporalities and citizenship. It was enclosed to the corregidor of Burgos with instructions to serve it in presence of a notary and, if the bishop did not obey, he was to be sent to the court under secure guard. Daroca is a town near Saragossa, which never was the seat of an episcopate, but the summons was signed by Cardinal Adrian, then Inquisitor-general of Aragon, and by Calcena in the name of the governors and was countersigned by the members of the Suprema.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. III, fol. 448.