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References
- ↑ Nicole Reinhardt, Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- ↑ Appendix 2 to Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain
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