Francisco de León Jaramillo

• General Notes
  • He is the only repeat offender in recorded in the autos of 1646-49.
    
    “su causa se principio por ocultacion de bienes que ayudo a hacer al dicho su padre, enterrando ciertas barras de plata por temor de sus prisiones." p. 186.  Yet another scene of hiding silver bars--liquid wealth.  He was taught Jewish rites to partake in rituals held in his father’s house and storehouse.  They had gatherings of Jews where the fabled Messiah was to already born in that city and was going to liberate them.  Circumcized.  his mother and father were both imprisoned as judaizers:  Isabel Núñez and Duarte de León Jaramillo.  His father circumcized him in the presence of his mother and grandmother, Justa Mendez.
    
    Second proceso, 1648.:   His judgement was written under a different heading:  "For having concealed in his first case, which originated from his reconciliation in the auto of 1647".  parents--León Jaramillo of Casteloblanco, repenter de vehementi, and Isabel Núñez.  Many reconciled judaizers on mother's side.  His father, mother, brothers and sisters were all imprisoned.  He tried to communicate with his mother in prison over what they should say in their trial.  He gave one of the "esclavos negros que sirven en las cárceles secretas" a package of peach preserves, saying that it came from the sick man in the cell with him, to give it to his mother,  The slave instead sold it to a "cajonero de espicerías."  The cajonero then found, along with his wife, a bundle of letters.  They thought originally they were nuns' letters.  Then they realized that the had something to do with the Inquisition and turned them in.