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The Pursuit of Spanish Heretics in the Low Countries: the activities of Alonso del Canto, 1561–1564

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

R. W. Truman  and
A. Gordon Kinder
R. W. Truman
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Student of Christ Church, Oxford
A. Gordon Kinder
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Sale, Cheshire
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The later 1550s in Sprain are remembered as the time of the discovery of ‘Lutheran’ groups in Valladolid and Seville and the ensuing reaction of the authorities: the autos de fe, as the Fernando de Valdés's Index librorum prohibitorum, the edict ordering all Spaniards (with few exceptions) studying or teaching abroad to return to Spain within four months. ‘Heresy’ was to be eradicated at home and Spain was to be preserved from contagion from beyond her frontiers. There was, however, a further subordinate aim: to capture and bring back to Spain those Spaniards who for reasons of religion had taken refuge in Northern Europe. When a dozen Hieronymite monks from San Isidro at Seville fled their monastery and their country in the late summer of 1557, one finds the Inquisitor General, in November of that year, sending a list of their names to the king in the Netherlands. Further lists of wanted heretics continued to be forwarded there when Philip had returned to Spain. Cardinal Granvelle, in a letter to the king of 18 October 1561, refers to ‘aquella escriptura que V. M. me embió venida de los inquisidores de Sevilla’. At the start of that year he had similarly referred to ‘un escripto venido de los inquisidores de Sevilla’ which the king had recently sent. In April 1562 the Margrave of Antwerp was replying to inquiries from Granvelle concerning persons named in the trials of Julian Hernandez (caught when in Seville, distributing Protestant literature, in 1557) and Fray Domingo de Guzmán.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 65 - 93
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47 AGS, Estado, 523–52 (=letter to Eraso of 14 July 1563) and Estado, 526-97 (=undated ‘Memoria para la serenissima S2 Madama Margarita de Austria dada por frai Lorenço de Villavicencio’).

48 AGS, Estado, 526–97, 523–52.

49 CMP, iii, 1 53.

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53 AGS, Estado, 525–146 (=letter of 31 July 1564).

54 AGS, Estado, 526–115.

55 BNM, MS. 781 (fol. 35r-v).

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57 We owe this information to the valuable study byDr. Lagomarsino, P. D., ‘Court Factions and the Formulation of Spanish Policy towards the Netherlands (1559-67)’ (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1973), 48, II. 25Google Scholar.

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60 AGS, Estado, 816–137 (=letter of 23 April).

61 ACS, Estado, 523–53 (=letterof 26 July 1563).

62 The restriction may have been de facto rather than de jure. Villavicencio writes: ‘Hablamos con el ultimo y por no tener el senor contador favor no se prendieron’. He adds: ‘Suplico a v. m. [Eraso] que a estas cosas se dé favor porque se hace notable serviçio a dios y a su Magestad …’. His repeated complaint is that Del Canto has not received the ‘asistencia’ and ‘favor’ from Spain, and from Eraso in particular, that he has needed.

63 AGS, Consejo yJuntas de Hacienda, 37/55–175.

64 AGS, Estado, 523–52, 53.

65 ‘Éstos se havian de haver imbiado a Hespaña si Viglios huviera consentido y si su Magestad huviera provehido lo que allá se desea’.

66 AGS, Estado, 141/2–146.

67 Del Canto records in his accounts that ‘gastó otros ochenta escudos de 40 placas desde 31 de agosto que salió de Bruselas a Bruxas para enbiar al dicho fraire a España como lo avia acordado con su Alteza de Madamal;] para lo qual [ella] avía mandado escrevir una carta al presidente [Viglius] para los de Bruxas que le entregasen a la persona que el dicho Alonso del Canto nonbraset;] el qual la havia mandado enbiar primero que él fueset[,] y quando llegó[,] halló que por virtud de la dicha carta le avian soltado para que se fuese donde quisiese’ (fol. 41. )

68 AGS, Estado, 526–97 (‘Memoria …’).

69 AGS, Estado, 526–96.

70 CMP, iii, 152.

71 Here the situation described by Villavicencio four months earlier is presented from the other side.

72 Ibid., 153.

73 Ibid., 155–4.

74 Ibid., 152, 154

75 Ibid., 154–5: (‘Par où je ne puis délaisser de supplier Vostre Majesté qu'elle considère s'il ne vauldroit pas mieulx hoster ceste entreprise audict Alonso del Canto et de l'employer en quelque aultre chose’).

76 Ibid., 218: (‘… je luy faiz présentement escripre que de cy en avant il ne face chose quelconcque en cest endroit sans le vous communicquier premièrement en et avoir vostre expresse ordonnance, m'asseurant bien que vous ne fauldrez d'y avoir le regard tel que la matiére requérera, et comm'il importe à mon plus grand service’ [=letter of 20 January 1564 to the regent]).

77 An account of this episode is given in, Goris, Colonies marchandes méridionales à Anvers, 579–81Google Scholar.

78 CP, ii, 501–2.

79 CP, ii, 501–2,505.

80 His escape must have taken place some time before October, whe n the Seville Inquisition acknowledged the reply of the Council of th e Inquisition at Toledo to its original report. The Seville officials now wrote: ‘Sobre la fuga de Agustin Boacio se an fecho las diligencias que Vuestra Senoria manda y todas las otras que an parescido convenir, y s e procede y procederá contra los culpados y se hará justicia; y con el primero navío que aya para Nueva España se enbiará la carta de su Reverendísima y escrevirá al arçobispo de México’ (Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid, Inquisición, 4442-47 [=letter of 17 October 1560]). Boazio had been in Mexico; now he went to Antwerp.

81 CMP, iii, 297–9 (=lette r of 29 March 1564); PCG, vii, 369 (=letter of 25 February 1564).

82 CMP, iii, 310–11. In this letter the king admits that the case of Boazio had mattered to him a great deal.

83 AGS, Estado, 523–84 (=letter of 15 September 1563).

84 AGS, Estado, 586–125. The dating of this letter, where he speaks of the occasion, poses a problem. The date given at the end is ‘12 May 1564’; however, in the course of it, the contador speaks of having been called before Viglius ‘ayer viernes 9 de junio’. According to his accounts, on this latter date he was still away in Antwerp, where he records spending fifteen days from 28 May to 11 June. A solution is suggested by his reference in the letter to the arrival at Brussels ‘about a month ago’ (awa un mes) of the new Spanish ambassador to England on his way to take up his post. Since Guzman de Silva did not get as far as Paris until 25 April and then had official engagements there, it seems clear that the letter itself must date from June and not from May. This conclusion is supported by the fact that 9 June was, as Del Canto says, a Friday, whereas 9 May was a Tuesday.

85 AGS, Estado, 526–115. The Council's report is dated 20 May 1564.

86 AGS, Estado, 526–97 (‘Memoria…’).

87 We owe this information to the kindness of Dr. G. D. Ramsay, of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

88 Some search has failed to uncover records of a further trial.

89 Del Canto on 1 July 1564 (AGS, Estado, 526–96), and Armenteros on 31 July (Estado, 585-146).

90 It seems clear that the Boazio episode, and the king's reaction to it, was still very much in her mind. As late as April 1565 she was assuring Philip that she had gone on thinking ‘quel que si potesse fare per che Vra Mta venisse servita di quanto desidera in questo particulare’; if any new opportunity offered itself for arresting che Genoese, the king could rely on her not to let it slip (AGS, Estado, 527-56, 57) (=letter of 11 April 1565).

91 ‘Todo esto causa el presidente Viglios que no quiere que se les haga nenguna molestia, de tal manera que todo lo que su Alteza manda que se haga, él lo deshaze y manda a todas las justicias de los pueblos que hagan al contrario, y lo mismo haze en todos los consejos, por manera que este públicamente tiene usurpado i tiraniçado el govierno i la justicia, que no se haze más de lo que él quiere. … Yo jamás me he engañado por que tengo entendida su mala intención y el fabor que haze a los ereges, y si no, véase por el firaile de Brujas español que mandó soltar, y por los otros ereges, que no basta con él que se sentencien, y él fue causa que se soltase en Anvers el Agustín Boasio’ (AGS, Estado, 526-96).

92 See Durme, M. van, El cardenal Granvela (1517-1586). Imperioy revolución bajo Carlos V y Felipe II, Barcelona 1957, 259.Google Scholar

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97 AGS, Estado, 526–97.

98 AGS, Estado, 531–87. (This document bears a note in the regent's hand indicating that Del Canto and Villavicencio are its authors. )

99 Velsius had been expelled from Frankfurt in 1560. After stays at Heidelberg, Basel, Zurich and Marburg, he arrived in London at the start of 1563, where his teaching soon got him imprisoned once again. He seems to have left London in April 1563 or shortly afterwards. In 1566 he was said to be at Groningen. SeeDenis, Philippe, ‘L'Envoyé de l'Esprit et les hommes d‘Église: Justus Velsius à Francfort et à Londres (1556-1563)’, Bulletin de la Société de I'Histoire du Protestantisme français, cxxi (1975), 184, 190Google Scholar.

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106 AGS, Estado, 525–156(bis) (=letter of 8 October 1564).

107 This report of 1563 is referred to by Villavicencio in his letter of 25 June 1564. It could perhaps be the ‘Relacion para la Mag’ del Rey nuestro Sefior de las personas que tienen cargo de justicia y por favorescer a los hereges no la administran' (undated but in Villavicencio‘s hand): AGS, Estado, 526-131).

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109 El cardenal Granvela, 227. Baelde (De collaterals Raden, 335) remarks that ‘les membres des Conseils centraux sont plutot des co-régnants et des co-régents que de simples fonctionnaires’.

110 The references are in the king's letter of 6 October 1564 to the regent, and in hers to him of 8 October and 29 November (AGS, Estado, 585-53, 531-82, 525-120(bis)). The regent's letter of 8 October is summarised in CP, i, 318-19.

111 AGS, Estado, 525–53.

112 ZAGS, Estado, 531–84, 525–156(bis).

113 AGS, Estado, 527–56, 57 (=letter of 11 April 1565). Summary in CP, i, 349-51.

114 AGS, Estado, 528–18, 7, 6 (=letters of 17 March, 26 April and 24 May 1565). Already i n October 1564 Granvelle had written to the king of Viglius's eagerness to retire from public life (AGS, Estado, 526-21, 24 (=letters of 8 and 12 October)). In the latter, addressed to Gonzalo Perez, he writes: ‘avisanme que ny au n el pobre presidente osa dezir palabra en contrario desto, sino que escrive lo que le mandan, y … representando el lo que se devria escrivir po r la verdad, le dizen que no es bien indignar a S. M. contra los estados, que seria hazerles mala obra’ {PCG, viii, 410). This gives a very different picture of Viglius from what Del Canto and Villavicencio had been writing of him only a few months before. They saw Viglius as prominent among those deliberately misleading the Regent by assuring her that the religious position in the Low Countries was satisfactory when it was not (see Villavicencio's letter of 25 June, and Del Canto's letters of 12 Jun e and 1 July 1564: AGS, Estado, 526-95, 125, 96). Granvelle's presentation of the case perhaps helps to explain the view that has commonly been taken of Viglius.

115 Vita Viglii…., 45.

116 See, for example, Villavicencio's letter of 26 November 1564 to Eraso (AGS, Estado, 526-100) and his ‘Relación’ mentioned in note 107 above.

117 Poullet, Edmond, Correspondence du Cardinal de Granvelle, 1565-1586, Brussels 1877–1881, i, 215–16.Google Scholar

118 Ibid., 262–3.

119 Ibid., 382.

120 Ibid., 356, 382,392.

121 Ibid., 446; CMP, iii, 433.