The Life and Works of Christobal Suarez de Figueroa Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...from Philip III to the Archduke Albert, dated 1606, which told of his many services to the King.2 1 Appendix, p. 134. 2 Ibid., p. 136. 3 Ibid., p. 136. 4 Ibid., p. 136. 1 Appendix, p. 149. 2 Ibid., pp. 149 and 99. 3 Ibid., p. 150. We do not know what penalty was imposed upon Figueroa, but the case was not yet definitely settled. In spite of the unfavourable verdict, the Duke of Alcala still hoped to defeat the plans of the Inquisition, and on November 5, 1630, he asked the Duke of Monteleon if there was someone in his service who might speak a good word for the prisoner.3 On November 18, the Viceroy ordered his agent at Rome to lend all possible aid to the cause of Figueroa,4 and on December 17, he made a similar request to the Count of Monterey, because he felt that the royal jurisdiction was involved in the affair/-The case was taken to Rome for final settlement, and on January 13, 1631, the Duke asked D. Alvaro de Toledo to give all possible assistance to Figueroa, who was to be placed on trial at Rome.6 Five days later, he sent Dr. Tomas Imperato to Rome to support Figueroa's cause, and allowed him two hundred ducats for secret expenses.7 However, in spite of these efforts of the Viceroy, Figueroa's condition was not much improved. On March 30, he reminded the Duke that he had not yet received fifty ducats which had been promised to him months before, and that he was suffering extreme want. The Viceroy ordered that this sum be paid to him at once.8 We learn from a letter of the Duke of Monterey, the new Viceroy, to his cousin, Cardinal Borja, soliciting aid in behalf of Figueroa, that the latter was still detained in the prison of the Papal Nuncio.1 He said that the first thing to which he had turned his attention on assuming his...