Freemasonry and Inquisition in Cuenca at the end of the XVIIIth and beginning of the XIXth. Ayguibelle’s processes and Merino

Abstract

It has been the Freemasonry, one of the cases of the inquisitorial literature. This work puts us in precedents of the importance of this procedural inquisitorial instrument for the confection and knowledge of the structures and names of the persons who were shaping the Freemasonry in Spain. In relation to the material location of our object of study, it is necessary to specify that, inside the inquisitorial studies of procedural character, there does not consist at present a monograph that approaches the examination of the Freemasonry in Cuenca concerning the XIXth century on the part of the Inquisition, contemplating it from a historical - juridical point of view. For the study of this work, we have studied diverse manuscripts of the National Library, Historical National File and Diocesan File of Cuenca. And with regard to the procedural practice of the inquisitorial courts and of the Advice of the Inquisition, in the Historical National File. Later they confronted with the funds of the court of the Inquisition of Cuenca, guarded in the Diocesan File of Cuenca.