The Licentiate,
DON SANTO DE BASARRATE.
D. D. JUAN DE CALVA Y MARTI, _Sec’y._
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In the city of Mataro, bishopric of Barcelona, on the twentyeighth day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, before Father
Pedro Martir de San Vicente, Presbyter and Commissary, specially
appointed in virtue of a commission to this effect, and before me, P.
Bernardino de Barcelona, Presbyter Notary, having sworn to preserve
secrecy and perform faithfully our duties, appeared voluntarily and made
oath in the name of God our Lord, with the sign of the cross, to declare
the truth and preserve secrecy, with respect to everything demanded of
him which he knew, a person calling himself Francisco de Asis Plana,
carpenter, aged fiftyseven years.
Questioned, if he knew or conjectured the cause of his being summoned to
appear by the Holy Office.
Answered, Yes.
Questioned, if he had written, or caused to be written at any time, a
letter to the Tribunal of the Inquisition, giving an account of some
crime within his knowledge, and who was the person to whom he referred.
Answered, that he had written a letter against Juan Bautista Viada,
mason. The letter was then exhibited and the first clause of it read,
when the deponent declared it to be his, and that its contents were
true.
Questioned, if he had anything to add or alter in the said letter.
Answered, that if it were not for the apprehension of falling into an
error, he should alter, ‘I am confident,’ to ‘I am certain.’
Questioned, if there were other persons present when Juan Bautista Viada
made the assertions in question.
Answered, No.
Questioned, if he knew that any other person had said or done anything
which came under the cognizance of the Holy Office.
Answered, No.
Questioned, what was the age, appearance, and habitation of the person
denounced.
Answered, that he was about fiftysix years old, and lived in the Calle
de Argentona, in Mataro.
The above having been read to the deponent was declared by him to be
correctly recorded. He stated further that he had nothing to add or
alter respecting it; and that he did not make the declarations therein
contained, out of malice, but solely from conscientious motives. Secrecy
was enjoined upon him, which he promised, and added his signature.