Note 1256 — Chapter III · PROTESTANTISM. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 43, fol. 201; Lib. 25, fol. 121.—MSS. of Elkan N. Adler Esq.—Soler y Guardiola, Apuntes de Historia política y de los Tratados de Paz, pp. 163-4 (Madrid, 1895).
It is only fair to Spain to state that it was more liberal than Rome. The decrees of the Congregation of the Inquisition are numerous insisting that no heretic should be allowed in any Italian city, whether for trade or for residence, but Italian commercial instinct was too strong to permit the enforcement of these decrees in some of the states, notably Venice, and special privileges were granted even to some of the papal sea-ports, as Civita Vecchia and Ancona.—Decr. Sac. Congr. Sti Officii, pp. 6-8, 225 sqq, 233-4 (Bibl. del R. Archivio di Stato in Roma, Fondo Camerale, Congr. del S. Officio, Vol. 3).