Note 544 — Chapter X · POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
Reading edition
Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 939, fol. 270.
At the same time there is no doubt that contemporary statesmen, disposed to regard with cynical incredulity the fervor of Philip’s fanaticism, were apt to look upon the Inquisition as an artful instrumentality to keep the people in subjection. See the remarks of Giovanni Soranzo in Vol. I, p. 442.