Note 40 — Chapter I · SICILY.
Reading edition
Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 9, fol. 39.—Franchina, op. cit., pp. 122, 127.
In 1630 Messina appealed to its fidelity on this occasion, when resisting a proposition to divide the island into two viceroyalties.—Razones apologéticas de la noble Ciudad de Mecina, fol. 48 (Madrid, 1630).