Doctor Hernán Bravo de Zayas, best known for his role as a visitor or inspector of the Inquisition in the Canary Islands during the 1570s. Cf. Henry Charles Lea, The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies: Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada (New York: Macmillan, 1908), pp. 148–149 and 161. See also Andrés Costa González, “«La inquisición canaria entre 1574 y 1576. La decisiva visita de inspección del Dr. Bravo de Zayas», Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos, 38 (1992), 17-71, and A. Millares Torres, Historia General de las Islas Canarias (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria–Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1975), III, 205–206. The Archivo Histórico Nacional (Inq., leg. 2363, s. n.) preserves a document titled «Relación de las cosas que ynforma el doctor Brauo de Çayas […] al ilustrísimo señor Inquisidor General», Las Palmas, 8 March 1574, cited by Werner Thomas in Los protestantes y la Inquisición en España en tiempos de Reforma y Contrarreforma For BAM’s connections with the Church in the Canary Islands, see letter 1581 10 24 and Paradinas, «Dos cartas atribuidas a Arias Montano», p. 82, which discusses a letter attributed to BAM addressed to Licentiate Pedro Spino, according to a copy preserved at the University of Leiden Library, Ms. Vulc. 160II.
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