Note 539 — Chapter IV · THE STAKE.
Reading edition
Torreblanca, Epitome Delictorum, sive de Magia, Lib. III, cap. xxix, n. 15-17. “Et eo jure utimur quia potestates sæculares in tali casu sunt meri executores.” See also Vol. I, p. 603, in the proclamation of the civil power, on the arrival of an inquisitor, the clauses requiring secular officials to inflict “las debidas penas cada y quando por el dicho venerable inquisidor sera declarado.”