He was anxious at this juncture to make things pleasant, and he saw no reason why men should be unnecessarily startled.

If the inquisition could be practised, and the heretics burned, he was in favor of its being done comfortably.
The word "inquisitor" was unpopular, almost indecent.

It was better to suppress the term and retain the thing.

"People are afraid to speak of the new bishoprics," he wrote to Perez, "on account of the clause providing that of nine canons one shall be inquisitor.

Hence people fear the Spanish inquisition."-- He, therefore, had written to the King to suggest instead, that the canons or graduates should be obliged to assist the Bishop, according as he might command.