Note 636 — Chapter V · THE AUTO DE FE.

The cost of these meals was scrutinized. In 1571 the Suprema ordered Logroño not to spend more than twelve ducats on the breakfast. A carta acordada of January 25, 1574, refers to the heavy expenses for collation and breakfast given to inquisitors and officials, confessors and penitents. In future they are to be confined to confessors and penitents; if the inquisitors and officials want meals it must be at their own expense, and evidence of this must accompany the reports of the autos.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 82, fol. 9; Lib. 942, fol. 39.