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 PORTUGAL. 23^ and there were no inquisitors in the kingdom. The nominee was to receive an annual salary of two hundred gold florins assessed upon all the dioceses in the proportion of their contributions to the apostolic chamber. Under this authority Agapito appointed the first Portuguese inquisitor, Martino Yasquez. From what we have seen elsewhere we may reasonably doubt his success in col- lectmg his stipend ; but, small as his receipts may have been, they were the equivalent of his service, for no trace of any labors per- formed by him remains."^ The Great Schism commenced in 1378, and as Portugal ac- knowledged Urban YL while Spain adhered to the antipope Clem- ent YII., the Dominican province of Spain divided itself the Portuguese choosing a vicar -general, and finally a provincial Gongalo, in 1418, when Martin Y. legalized the separation This perhaps explains why Martino Yasquez was succeeded by another Franciscan. In 1394 Eodrigo de Cintra, calling himself Inquisitor ot Portugal and Algarve, applied to Boniface IX. for confirma. tion, which was graciously accorded to him. Apparently the revenues of the oflice were nil, for the privilege was granted to him of residing with one associate at will in any Franciscan con- vent, which was bound to minister to his necessities, the same as to any other master of theology. Kodrigo was preacher to Kin^ Joao I., who requested this favor of Boniface, and his career hke that of his predecessor, is a blank. He was followed by a Do niimcan, Yicente de Lisboa, who had been Provincial of Spain at the time of the disruption, when he returned to Portugal and be came confessor of Dom Joao. The king, in 1399, requested of ±;onitace his appointment as inquisitor, which was duly o-ranted • and, as we have seen, in 1401, the pope endeavored to extend his jurisdiction over Castile and Leon, ^o trace of his inquisitorial activity exists. After his death, in 1401, there appears to have been an interval. The office apparently was regarded as a per- quisite of the royal chapel for those who would condescend to ac- cept it. The next appointment of which we hear is that of another confessor of Dom Joao, in 1413, this time a Franciscan, Affonso de Alprao, of whose doings no record has been preserved. When, ^ Herculano, I. 40.--Monteiro, P. i. Liv. ii. c 34— PpIav^ tt. ^ Espanoles, I. 782-3. ^4.-Pelayo, Heterodoxos