March, 1730.
[Sidenote: No. 3
Ana Vila y Campas. Prison of La Cruz. Maintenanace, two sueldos and the
bread of the Contractor.]
Ana Vila y Campas, a native and inhabitant of this city, aged thirtyfive
years, and a widow, confined in the secret prison of this Holy Office,
with her goods in sequestration, for witchcraft and superstitious
impostures. With relation to this prisoner, your Highness was informed
in the month of January, that the depositions were collecting against
her. The audience has since been held, and after the holidays, the cause
will be carried on.
April, 1730.
On the seventh and twentyfirst of this month, the audience for
publication was held, in which state the case remains at present.
May, 1730.
The prisoner communicated with her counsel, answered to the charges, and
was sentenced. The sentence was referred to your Highness.
June, 1730.
On the thirteenth day of this month, the order of your Highness
confirming the sentence, was received, in consequence of which an _auto_
was given in the church of Sta Agueda, where the prisoner was present,
in penitential garments, with the proper insignia of her offences. Her
sentence was read, she made an abjuration _de levi_, and was absolved
_ad cautelam_. On the nineteenth, she was scourged, and on the
twentieth, was reprehended, admonished, and severely threatened, after
which the audience was held for binding her to secrecy, and making
inquiry respecting the prison. On the night of the same day, she was
carried to the _casa de la Galera_, where she is to be confined for ten
years, at the expiration of which term, she is to be banished
perpetually from this city and Madrid, for the distance of eight
leagues. She remains at present in the charge of a learned person, who
will instruct her in the Catholic Faith.
February, 1736.
[Sidenote: Joseph Fernandez in the secret prison of this tribunal, for
having written and spoken divers heresies, blasphemies, and insults
against our Holy Faith.
Distitute.
Maintenance, two sueldos, and the bread of the Contractor.