Note 74 — Chapter VII · THE REGENCIES OF FERDINAND

[To accomplish this she and the austere Ximenes must needs defy even the pope Alexander VI. The result was as Humee observes: “It is unquestionable that the worst abuses in the church of which the early reformers complained, had been purged from the Spanish church by Isabella, and that, at a time when the rest of the clergy of Europe were grossly licentious, the Spanish priests were generally virtuous and devout.”]