Note 1291 — Chapter IV · CENSORSHIP.
Reading edition
MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 218b, pp. 214, 319.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 940, fol. 4.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 498.—Modo de Proceder, fol. 74 (Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 122).—See Appendix.
This was the ordinary process, but of course the Suprema could take the initiative, as it occasionally did, and order inquisitors to examine books and act on the result.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 940, fol. 3.