Note 774 — Chapter XVI · MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
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The best account of these and kindred forgeries is by José Godoy Alcántara, in his Historia critica de los falsos Cronicones (Madrid, 1868). The modern President of the Canons of Sacromonte has given the other side in his El Sacro Monte de Granada (Madrid, 1883).
The influence of the Inquisition at first was adverse to the plomos. See Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 20, fol. 127, 188, 236, 319. A whole volume of the archives (Lib. 441) is occupied with papers connected with the affair from 1604 to 1636.