Note 897 — Chapter I · DECADENCE AND EXTINCTION.

Apología de la Inquisicion, pp. 16-18 (Cadiz, 1811).—Riesco, in a speech before the Córtes, said that the functions of the Suprema were suspended on the pretext that its members had not been “purified” (Discusion del Proyecto, p. 148). All officials who had in any way been concerned with the French were required to be purified—that is, to give proofs of patriotism. This so-called purification came repeatedly in play in the kaleidoscopic changes of Spanish politics.