Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Therefore—because such devilish doings af¬ fected the welfare of the whole kingdom—a formal report of all that had happened was sub¬ mitted to the Cortes; and the Cortes, after pondering the report seriously, perceived that the matter was ecclesiastical and referred it to the Consejo of the Inquisition; and the mem¬ bers of the Consejo, in due course, ordered that all the facts should be digested and regularized and an opinion passed upon them by their Fiscal. Being a very painstaking person, the Fiscal went at his work with so great an earnestness that for more than a year he was engaged upon it. First he read all that he could find to read about bells in all the Spanish law books, from the Siete Partidas of Alonzo the Wise downward; then he read all that he could find about bells in such law books of foreign countries as were accessible to him; then, in the light of the in¬ formation so obtained, he digested and reg¬ ularized the facts of the case presented for his consideration and applied himself to writing his opinion upon them; and then, at last, he came before the Consejo and read to that body his opinion from beginning to end. Through [79]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
