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A History of the Inquisition of Spain
Volume 3
Henry Charles Lea
Document 5
 
CASES OF HERESY TRIED BY THE TRIBUNAL OF VALENCIA BETWEEN 1455 AND 1592.
(Archivo historico nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Legajo 98).
(See p. 345).

 
Year. Cases. Year. Cases. [562] Year. Cases.
1455 3 1514 63 1549 4
1461 7 1515 34 1558 2
1482 11 1516 41 1560 15
1485 19 1517 25 1563 62
1486 14 1518 21 1564 38
1487 15 1519 22 1565 66
1488 18 1520 36 1566 41
1489 20 1521 31 1567 54
1490 28 1522 40 1568 68
1491 51 1523 37 1570 16
1492 6 1524 40 1571 55
1493 4 1526 47 1572 32
1494 10 1528 42 1573 34
1495 10 1529 44 1574 16
1496 15 1530 20 1575 20
1497 24 1531 58 1576 16
1499 15 1532 1 1577 13
1500 35 1533 61 1578 15
1501 36 1534 25 1579 24
1502 9 1535 2 1580 37
1503 11 1536 39 1581 22
1505 31 1537 69 1583 8
1506 20 1538 112 1584 29
1507 7 1539 79 1586 64
1508 14 1540 53 1587 35
1509 26 1544 79 1588 21
1510 10 1545 37 1589 94
1511 12 1546 49 1590 49
1512 32 1547  12 1591 270
1513 41 1548 15 1592 117
Amounting in all to 3125 cases.
 

In Legajo 300 of the same archives there is a list of relaxations in Valencia from 1486 to 1593. As customary in these registers it is arranged alphabetically under the baptismal names and is unfortunately incomplete, ending with the letter N. From other similar lists it appears that the letters A-N comprise substantially four-fifths of the whole and therefore if twenty-five per cent, be added to these figures it will probably give a close approximation to the whole number. Arranged chronologically it presents the following results.
 
 
 
Year Relaxed in Person Ineffigy  

Absent. Dead.

 Year.
Relaxed in person.
 In effigy.  

Absent. Dead.
1486 10 1524 13
1487 10 1526 15
1489 8 1528 23
1490 18 1529 24
1492 12 1530 1
1493 18 1531 37
1496 1 1533 8
1497 4 79 1536 12
1498 1 28 1537 1
1499 63 1538 11
1500 3 1539 4
1501 15 1540 4
1502 13 1544 3
1503 4 1545 3
1505 13 51 1553 1
1506 4 22 1554 15
1508 48 1563 6
1509 12 3 1564 3 1 1
1510 9 4 10 1566 3
1511 32 1567 4
1512 1 8 1568 2
1513 12 1 1571 1
1514 52 8 1572 5
1517 4 6 1573 3
1520 27 1574 7
1521 8 3 1575 2 1
1522 6 1576 1 1 1
1523 8 1577 5
[563]
 
Year. Relaxed in person. In effigy.  

Absent. Dead.

 Year. Relaxed in person. In effigy.  

Absent. Dead.
1578 3 1 1586 3 2
1579 1 1590 1 2 1
1581 1 1 1592 6 4
1583 4 1 1593 5
1584 2

 

The aggregate of this list is 515 relaxed in person and 383 in effigy, of whom 189 were fugitives and 194 were dead.
 

If to these figures we add twenty-five per cent, for the missing portion of the record we shall have 644 relaxations in person and 479 in effigy as the result of a hundred and eight years of the most active period of the tribunal of Valencia.