Note 270 — Chapter XXVII · THE LAST “INSTRUCTIONS” OF TORQUEMADA
Reading edition
“History of Ferdinand and Isabella,” vol. i. p. 286.
Llorente estimates the number of Torquemada’s victims at 8,800 burnt, 6,500 burnt in effigy, and 90,000 penanced in various degrees. These figures, however, are unreliable and undoubtedly exaggerated, although they are in themselves a correction of his earlier estimate, which fixes the number of burnt at upwards of 10,000—an estimate flagrantly preferred by Dr. Rule and other partisan writers on the subject.