Note 306 — Chapter V · APPEALS TO ROME.

Yet licence to return could doubtless often be had for a consideration. Compromises and commutations, as we shall see, were a recognized source of revenue and a document of this period contains an offer, from certain parties who had been absolved in Rome, of seven thousand ducats and some houses, for permission to reside in Spain and present themselves to the Inquisition for salutary penance.—Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisition, Leg. único, fol. 5.