{415} An actual count up to the year 1540, that is, before Protestantism became a serious factor, shows that 20,226 were burned in person and 10,913 in effigy, and these figures are incomplete.

It must be remembered that for every one who paid the extreme penalty there were a large number of others punished in other ways, or imprisoned and tortured while on trial.

When Adrian of Utrecht, afterwards the pope, was Inquisitor General 1516-22, 1,620 persons were burned alive, 560 in effigy and 21,845 were sentenced to penance or other lighter punishments.
Roughly, for one person sentenced to death ten suffered milder penalties.
[Sidenote: Crimes punished] Heresy was not the only crime punished by the Inquisition; it also took charge of blasphemy, bigamy and some forms of vice.

In its early years it was chiefly directed against the Jews who, having been forced to the baptismal font, had relapsed.

Later the Moriscos or christened Moors supplied the largest number of victims.