Note 1170 — Chapter II · RETROSPECT. (continued 2)
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To illustrate the discrepancy between the facts as stated above and the reckless computations of Llorente, which have been so largely accepted, it may not be amiss to compare the facts with the corresponding figures resulting from his system of calculation, for the tribunals and periods named:
Records.Llorente.
Toledo,1483-1501.Relaxed in person297666
Relaxed in effigy600433
Imprisoned, about200}6,200
Reconciled under edicts 5200
Do.1575-1610.Relaxed in person11252
Relaxed in effigy15120
Penanced9041,396
Do.1648-1794.Relaxed in person8297
Relaxed in effigy63129
Penanced10941,188up to 1746.
Saragossa,1485-1502.Relaxed in person124584
Relaxed in effigy32392
Penanced4587,004
Barcelona,1488-98.Relaxed in person23432
Relaxed in effigy430316
Imprisoned116}5,122
Reconciled under edicts304
Valencia,1485-1592.Relaxed in person6431,538
Relaxed in effigy479869
Tried310416,677penanced.
Valladolid,1485-92.Relaxed in person50424
Relaxed in effigy6312
Penanced?3,884
Majorca,1488-1691.Relaxed in person1391,778
Relaxed in effigy482978
Penanced97517,861
All tribunals,1721-27.Relaxed in person77238
Relaxed in effigy74119
Penanced8111,428
It will thus be seen how entirely fallacious was the guess-work on which Llorente based his system.
An even more conclusive comparison is furnished by the little tribunal of the Canaries. After 1524, Llorente includes it among the tribunals by which he multiplies the number of yearly victims assigned to each. He thus makes it responsible, from first to last, for 1118 relaxations in person and 574 in effigy. Millares (Historia de la Inquisicion en las Islas Canaries, III, 164-8) has printed the official list of the quemados during the whole career of the tribunal, and they amount in all to eleven burnt in person and a hundred and seven in effigy. The number of the latter is accounted for by the fact that, to render its autos interesting, it was often in the habit of prosecuting in absentia Moorish and negro slaves who escaped to Africa after baptism and who thus were constructively relapsed.
Dr. Schäfer (Beiträge, I, 157), after an exhaustive examination of the accessible records, has collected references to 2100 persons tried for Protestantism during the second half of the sixteenth century. Protestants were punished with special severity, but in these cases the total of relaxations in person was about 220 and in effigy about 120, and all these, as we have seen, were largely foreigners.