On fast days the mistress sat at the table and pretended to eat. The maid watched her and counted the mouthfuls she never took.

The order to arrest Quiteria Martí was a printed form. Someone filled in her name and street by hand. Below it, instructions to charge her for her food.

In June 1687 the silversmiths ran bulls in their street for Saint Eligius. Onofre Cortés asked Francisca Forteza two or three times to come and watch.

Francisca Martí was cooking on Friday night. Asked when it was for, she answered: for Saturday, «so as not to eat anything cooked» that day.

Quiteria Martí had to declare her family tree before the tribunal. She went all the way down to her cousins' grandchildren: «they are very small, the eldest is five».

The vote that sentenced Moixina to death has an exact address: the Secret Chamber, book of Final Votes, folio 264 verso. At the foot of the page, the copyist's errata list.

On the eve of every inspection by the inquisitors, the warden warned the prisoners to hide their inkwell, pens, paper and books under their clothes.

On a street where half the neighbors were called Cortés, Martí or Tarongí, the nickname was the real name. The files preserve dozens of them.

«Don't be alarmed, this law will pass», Moixina said. Apollo's had lasted eighteen hundred years, and the Christian one had not yet reached seventeen hundred.

Gabriel wanted to marry Margarita Martí. His father refused: she was «of the lesser flock». They argued, and the father laid hands on him.