case against Bartolome de Carranza, the Archbishop of Toledo, has earned him an unenviable repute.[51] Under the presidency of Gonzalez, who might be trusted to keep the weaker brethren, if there were any, up to the mark, the local Inquisition on March 15 resolved to recommend the arrest of Luis de Leon.  Apparently the gravity of this step was recognized.  Another sitting was held on March 19, and a vote was taken with the result that the previous decision was confirmed by four votes to two.  It should not, however, be assumed that the vote of the two implied any marked personal sympathy with Luis de Leon.  On the contrary:  the difference between the majority and the minority was concerned solely with a question of procedure.  The minority suggested that it would cause less fuss and less scandal to seize Luis de Leon, Grajal, and Martinez de Cantalapiedra, to place each of them in solitary confinement for a short while in a Valladolid monastery, and thence to remove them, without trial, to the secret prison of the Inquisition.[52] It is difficult to detect the humanitarian motive of this alternative proposal.

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[Footnote 1:  Revista Agustiniana (Madrid, 1882), vol.  III, p. 127.  ’Lope Alvarez Ponce de Leon, Regidor de Segovia... caso dos veces:  la primera con Dona Leonor Sanchez de Olivares, hija de Diez Sanchez de Olivares y hermana de aquel valiente caballero Don Pedro de Olivares, comendador del Olmo, del orden de Calatrava en tiempo del Maestro D. Rodrigo Tellez Giron.  De este matrimonio tuvieron tres hijos.  En segundas nupcias caso con Dona Leonor de Villanueva, y tuvieron dos hijos; pero no declaran quienes fueron del primer matrimonio, y quienes del segundo.  Solo de D. Gomez consta que es del primer matrimonio.’]

[Footnote 2:  Proceso original que la Inquisicion de Valladolid hizo al maestro Fr. Luis de Leon, religioso del orden de S. Agustin. This proceso, edited by D. Miguel Salva and D. Pedro Sainz de Baranda, occupies the tenth volume and pp. 5-358 of the eleventh volume of the Coleccion de Documentos ineditos para la historia de Espana (Madrid, 1847).]

[Footnote 3:  Ex. gr. Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, pp. 96-97, 184-185, 255-256; vol.  XI, pp. 38, 131, 350.]

[Footnote 4:  It is established beyond doubt, however, that some members of the family used the name Ponce.  The works of Luis de Leon’s eminent nephew, Basilio, an Augustinian like himself, bear on their title-pages the words ’Basilius Pontius Legionensis’.]

[Footnote 5:  This assertion is made emphatically by Diego de Haedo, the prosecuting counsel on behalf of the Inquisition; he calls Luis de Leon a ‘descendiente de generacion de judios’ (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 206).  An echo of the charge is faintly audible in Luis de Leon’s own testimony.  It is repeated with violence by Leon de Castro:  ’...enojado de la porfia el dicho fray Luis, despues le dijo a este declarante que le habia de hacer quemar un libro que imprimia sobre Exsahias, y este declarante le respondio que con la gracia de Dios que ni el, ni su libro no prenderia fuego, ni podia; que primero prenderia en sus orejas y linaje; y queste declarante no queria ir mas a las juntas’ (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 12).]