Note 142 — Chapter VIII · THE TRIAL
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Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 552, fol. 23.
For the custom of appointing as curador the advocate or a subordinate official see Praxis procedendi cap. 9, n. 4 (Arch. hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia).—Arch. de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 5442 (Lib. 6).—Arch. hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 110, n. 31; Leg. 112, n. 64.—The object of the appointment of the curador is frankly admitted by Pablo García (Orden de Processar, fol. 14).
Yet it is of this travesty of justice that a recent apologist tells us that, if the accused was less than 25 years of age, the tribunal selected for him, from among the most eminent advocates of the city, one to assist him throughout the trial.—L’Abbé L.-A. Gaffre, Inquisition et Inquisitions p. 105 (Paris, 1905).