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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN. In four volumes, octavo.(Now Complete.)
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES. In threevolumes, octavo.
A HISTORY OF AURICULAR CONFESSION AND INDULGENCES IN THE LATINCHURCH. In three volumes, octavo.
HISTORY OF SACERDOTAL CELIBACY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Thirdedition. In two volumes, octavo. (Now Ready.)
A FORMULARY OF THE PAPAL PENITENTIARY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.One volume, octavo. (Out of print.)
SUPERSTITION AND FORCE. Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager ofBattle, The Ordeal, Torture. Fourth edition, revised. In onevolume, 12mo.
STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY. The Rise of the Temporal Power,Benefit of Clergy, Excommunication, The Early Church and Slavery.Second edition. In one volume, 12mo.
CHAPTERS FROM THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF SPAIN, CONNECTED WITH THEINQUISITION. Censorship of the Press, Mystics and Illuminati,Endemoniadas, El Santo Niño de la Guardia, Brianda de Bardaxí. Inone volume, 12mo.
THE MORISCOS OF SPAIN, THEIR CONVERSION AND EXPULSION. In onevolume, 12mo.
THE
INQUISITION
IN THE
Spanish Dependencies
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SICILY—NAPLES—SARDINIA—MILAN—THE CANARIES—MEXICO—PERU—NEW
GRANADA
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BY
HENRY CHARLES LEA, LL.D., S.T.D.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1908
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1908
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1908
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PREFACE.
The scope of my History of the Spanish Inquisition precluded a detailedinvestigation into the careers of individual tribunals. Such aninvestigation, however, is not without interest, especially with respectto the outlying ones, which were subjected to varying influences andreacted in varying ways on the peoples among whom they were established.Moreover, in some cases, this affords us an inside view of inquisitoriallife, of the characters of those to whom were confided the awfulirresponsible powers of the Holy Office and of the abuse of those powersby officials whom distance removed from the immediate supervision of thecentral authority, suggesting a capacity for evil even greater than