Note 357 — Chapter V · APPEALS TO ROME.
Reading edition
Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 1, n. 4, fol. 23.
For much of the earlier history of this case I am indebted to a MS. “Relacion sumaria de la causa que a seguido en el santo oficio de la Inquisicion del Reyno de Toledo contra Don Gerónimo de Villanueva” in the Simancas archives, Lib. 53, fol. 250-98. It bears no date but seems to have been drawn up, in 1647, as an official justification of the sentence, and presents the subject from the standpoint of the prosecution. It will be referred to as “Relacion.”
The other side of the story of the convent of San Placido is given in the appeal of Doña Teresa for a reversal of her sentence. Several copies of this have been preserved. The one I have used is in the Bibl. nacional, MSS., S, 294, fol. 387. Fuller details of this curious conventual episode will be found in my “Chapters from the Religious History of Spain,” pp. 309-18.