Note 1124 — Chapter II · RETROSPECT.
Reading edition
Santos, El no Importe, pp. 107-31.—For a similar description by Juan de Zabaleta see his “El dia de fiesta,” Obras, p. 166 (Madrid, 1728). The El no Importe was reprinted in 1787.
These profanities were not confined to Spain and were condemned by the Council of Tours in 1583 and by Archbishop Precipiano of Mechlin, in 1700.—Concil. Turonens., ann. 1583, Tit. xv (Harduin X, 1424).—(Collect. Synod. Mechlin., II, 436).