 The dispute became especially bitter under Torquemada's successor as provincial Juan López, a peninsular, with respect to whom Torquemada expressed deep-seated hostility, accusing him in private correspondence (two letters written in October 1620 to a former "confrère" of his, then resident in Spain) of being a liar and an "hombre sin Dios" (a man without God), and asserting that Hell held no man worse or more false ("este mal hombre de fray Juan López ..digo que otro peor no lo tiene el infierno ni más falso").