Note 1730 — Chapter VI · CONFESSION.
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Elucidationes Sti Officii, § 17 (Archivo de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 5442, Lib. 4).—Bibl. nacional, MSS., Pp, 28; V, 377, cap. ii, § 7
This was not confined to the Spanish Inquisition, but was the current practice of the Church where it had power. See Farinacii de Hæres. Q. 187, n. 133.