[Footnote 37:  Francisco Sanchez, possibly El Brocense, testified to Castro’s saying:  ’isti judaei et judaizantes me han echado a perder, y por eso no se vende mi libro’.  Sanchez bluntly told the Inquisitors that he did not believe this, and attributed the book’s failure to its size and price (Documentos ineditos, vol.  XI, pp. 299-300).  It is suggested by Vicente de la Fuente (op. cit., vol.  II, p. 289, note 3) that there was some basis for Castro’s opinion.  Luis de Leon implicitly denied the charge, which he manifestly thought beneath contempt:  ’Y si yo hubiera tratado como Leon cree de que la Inquisicion vedara su libro, yo hiciera que se advirtiera.  Y aunque el doctor Valbas en Alcala a quien fue cometido por el Consejo Real, al principio le quito grandes pedazos adonde trataba a San Hieronimo como me trata a mi agora, no le pudo quitar esto que yo digo, por que era quitalle todo el libro,...’ (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 352).  Luis de Leon tried in a friendly way to convince Castro about the errors in his book before it was published and as soon as the printing began (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 351).  This intervention would nettle Castro, who seems to have had Jewry on the brain; he mentioned, apparently, that Vatable, St. Jerome, and St. John Chrysostom were all Jews or Judaizers (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 294).  What probably nettled Castro still more was that Luis de Leon found fault with his knowledge of Latin and Greek:  ’lo cual el sentia mucho porque tocaba en propio de su profesion.’  Luis de Leon proposed to call five witnesses on this point (Documentos ineditos, vol.  XI, pp. 256-257), but this was ruled out as irrelevant (impertinente) by the Inquisitionary Tribunal.]

[Footnote 38:  The Chairman of this Committee was Francisco Sancho, Dean of the Theological Faculty of Salamanca.  The other members—­at any rate those who signed Sancho’s copy of Vatable (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, pp. 521-522)—­were Juan de Almeida, Don Carlos, Garcia del Castillo, Diego Gonzalez, Grajal, Juan de Guevara, Martinez de Cantalapiedra, Bartolome de Medina, Muniz, and Juan Vique.  As the names of Luis de Leon and Juan Gallo are omitted, the list cannot be thought exhaustive.  So, also, are the names of Bravo and Munon absent from the list.  These last two omissions are readily explained.  Bravo and Munon had both died before December 26, 1571 (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 10).]

[Footnote 39:  Castro’s statement was:  ’Porfio de tal manera [fray Luis de Leon] que no era el sentido este deste lugar, y despues de visto que era ansi, porfio... que tambien podia ser verdadero el sentido de los judios...; dijo este testigo que aunque viniesen todos los letrados del mundo, no podrian hacer que aquel sentido de los judios pudiese venir ni cuadrar con la letra griega, ni hebrea ni latina,... y enojado de la porfia el dicho fray Luis, despues