Crossword-Solution: REYAL 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Although it lacked the institution of the Justicia, it had a somewhat imperfect substitute in the Banch Reyal, or King's Bench, which was used in the appeals _por via de fuerza_ from the spiritual courts.

Disregarding the inviolable secrecy of the Inquisition, the Diputados, with the veguer, forced their way into the palace, penetrated to the audience-chamber where the inquisitors were trying a case, and inventoried and sequestrated everything, even to the private property of the Inquisitor Padilla in his apartments--apparently a seizure of temporalities under an order of the Banch Reyal.

There was a contest in 1608 in which the Banch Reyal uttered a sentence of banishment against the inquisitors; a vessel was made ready for their deportation but, when the day came, they barred their door and hung over it a portière of black velvet to which was attached a crucifix.

This made no substantial change in the jurisdiction of the Inquisition but was directed chiefly to restraining the misuse of excommunication on the one side and the recourse to the Banch Reyal on the other, by providing that all disputed cases should be settled by competencias conducted according to the received form of procedure, under penalty for a first offence of five hundred ducats on the tribunal refusing, and suspension from office for a second.

This left untouched the roots of trouble and accomplished little, in consequence, it is said, of the delays and evasions of the inquisitors, and frequent recourse continued to the Banch Reyal, especially by creditors.[1143] [Sidenote: _CATALONIA_] The Córtes of 1626 had not been dissolved and they met again in 1632 to conclude their unfinished business.