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be lost in getting him to subdelegate
Archbishop Thomas wrote, April 12, 1547, to Prince Philip that, since the bishop had gone, the Moriscos had daily become bolder in performing their Moorish ceremonies, as there was no one to restrain them; the bishop had left no one to represent him, and no time should be lost in getting him to subdelegate some one who could come at once.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea


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