Note 192 — Chapter V · THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (continued 2)

[Thus in Spain, Pope Sixtus IV, in a special bull of November 1st, 1478, quoted by Llorente,k conferring on Ferdinand and Isabella the power to appoint inquisitors, insisted that they be “two or three bishops or archbishops, or other competent and honest men, secular or regular priests upwards of forty years of age, of good life and customs, masters or bachelors of theology, and doctors or licentiates in canon law, by virtue of a strict examination.”]