These reasons, other important considerations, the necessity of preparing for all events, and of protecting our people from being surprised, have induced us to draw up, in the name of his majesty, and in our own, an act of recusation in form, of which I intended to send you a copy; but as this piece is very long, and the courier is setting out for France, it could not be done, and I will send it by the courier going by sea, who will soon set out.
"The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII."
Juan Antonio Llorente