13.As the King's confessor, the Chancellor had the responsibility of guiding the King's conscience and would, if he thought it appropriate, transmit the request to the King for judgment in his council.
14.One day, when I accused myself to my confessor of having cursed my life, he pointed to the skies, where grew, he said, the promised palm for the " Beati qui lugent" of the Saviour.
有一天,当我向我控诉自己诅咒了我生命时,他指着天空,他说,那长出了应许给救世主“Beati qui lugent”棕榈树。机翻
15.After 1529, the Chancellor no longer served as confessor to the sovereign and was not an ecclesiastic but examined the petitions addressed to him as a real judge and observed a written procedure inspired by Canon law.
16.So the confessors in Seville probably didn't see themselves as actual heretics— instead, they were hedging their bets by reporting themselves when the consequences were low, rather than risking imprisonment or torture if someone else accused them later on.