Note 456 — Chapter VI · MEXICO.
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Solicitation in the confessional14
Sorcery and divination112
Consulting diviners13
Judaism (besides 11 in Pernambuco)41
Disregard of disabilities of descendants8
Bigamy4
Abuse of Inquisition by culprits2
Remaining under excommunication for a year4
Revealing confessions1
Heretical blasphemy6
Incest1
Neglect of observances5
Mental Prayer better than Oral1
A little girl for breaking an arm of an image of Christ1
A boy of 6, for making crosses on the ground, stamping on them and saying that he was a heretic1
Priest saying 4 masses in one day1
Personating official of Inquisition1
Celebrating mass without ordination2
Impeding the Inquisition7
Insults to images6
Concubinage better than marriage3
Irregular fasting1
Propositions12
Various suspicious acts1
Marriage better than Religious Life1
Criticizing the Inquisition1
Denying a debt due to the confiscated estate of a culprit1
Marriage in Orders1
For being the grandson of a man relaxed in Portugal1
(MSS. of David Fergusson Esqr.).
Nearly all the accusations of sorcery are of Indians, negroes or mulattos. A note states that the testifications against Indians are not indexed because the Inquisition has not jurisdiction over them.