Parliament was beginning to understand its duty as Defender of the Faith as the Holy Inquisition has always understood it--namely, by the death of the luckless assailant.
In his seminary he's a fox, but in the inquisition a lion rampant.
He deals with a man as the Spanish Inquisition does with heretics, clothes him in a coat painted with hellish shapes of fiends, and so shows him to the rabble to render him the more odious.
His travel is seldom farther than the next market town, and his inquisition is about the price of corn.
Take him thus and he is in the inquisition of the purse an authentic gypsy, that nips your bong with a canting ordinance; not a murdered fortune in all the country but bleeds at the touch of this malefactor.
So merciless was the Tribunal of the Inquisition that under its vigilant eye 3327 processes were disposed of in little more than a year.
And now in the name of Christ the Inquisition was established and one of its chief offices founded; in His name the Jews were driven out, Christian oaths and covenants broken, and the peaceful Moorish inhabitants hounded from their hearths.
If after having been so often admonished by me, as well as by my other very dear brothers, the vicar of the Inquisition and other learned prelates, you should, alack!
Just because the method has often been successfully put in practice by the Inquisition it is sure to succeed again!
The inquisition took place in a spacious apartment.
At a subsequent period, by a provision of the Oxford parliament in 1258, every county elected four knights to inquire into grievances, and deliver their inquisition into parliament.
The acts of the inquisition of Toulouse, published by Limborch, from an ancient manuscript, contain many additional proofs that the Albigenses held the Manichean doctrine.
Meanwhile he had been intriguing with the Queen of Scots; he had been encouraging Ireland in rebellion; he had been persecuting English merchants and seamen, starving them to death in the Inquisition dungeons, or burning them at the stake.
Any vessel in which an heretical book was found was confiscated, and her crew carried to the Inquisition prisons.
In 1561 an English merchant writes from the Canaries: 'I was taken by those of the Inquisition twenty months past, put into a little dark house two paces long, loaded with irons, without sight of sun or moon all that time.
They probably found means of communicating with him, and as long as there was no Inquisition in Mexico, he may have learnt that there was no immediate occasion for action.
They were, of course, Inquisition prisoners; for other offenders would have been dealt with on the spot.
But the Inquisition was inexorable, and the men were treated with such peculiar brutality that after nine months ninety only of the two hundred and forty were alive.
Not long since the Spanish Inquisition executed sixty persons of St. Malo, notwithstanding entreaty to the King of Spain to spare them.
As yet, as I said in the last lecture, there was no Inquisition in Mexico.
Inquisitors might have been suspicious, but the Inquisition had not yet been established beyond the Atlantic.
The object of the Inquisition was partly political: it was meant to embarrass trade and make the people impatient of changes which produced so much inconvenience.
English sailors would be released from the Inquisition and the galleys.
The third in the line of inquisitors-general extended the Inquisitionto America.
On the 16th of March, the Spanish constitution was settled by the Cortes, which Cortes abolished the Inquisition in Spain, on the 20th of June.
What an inquisition of the few bad by which to torment the many good!
Now and then, however, the most holy ruffians of the Inquisition met their match, as the following anecdote serves to show.
Lima was the principal seat of the Inquisition upon the west coast of South America, and in severity the tribunal was but little surpassed by that of Madrid itself.
At the appointed hour, he repaired to the Inquisition at the head of his body-guard and of a company of infantry, with two pieces of artillery, which he caused to be pointed at the building.
My next, that in flying from this evil they fall not into the opposite error, which they will surely do if they think that the inquisition of nature is in any part interdicted or forbidden.
There is not, properly speaking, a tribunal of the Inquisitionat Manila, but only a commissary of the Holy Office, appointed to this place by the tribunal of Mexico.
There were the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in respect of English sailors.
I cannot give you a much better account of your mother, for, though still living, she is a prisoner in the Inquisition at Toledo, because she would not let the dead rest in their graves.
By my troth, Don Pablo, had I heard him, I would have put him in mind that the Inquisition had laid the St. Andrew's cross upon his back.
The sun never set on the dominions of the Spanish crown, but the life of the people was crushed out of them by the weight of the Inquisition and despotism.
She must have been very old, for in the inquisitiontaken after her death her son Robert was said to be sixty-eight years of age.
His inquisition was taken the following year, when his son, Sir Edward Fitton, Knight, then aged 30, was found to be his heir.
The inquisition taken after his death is interesting as showing the extent of the family possessions at that time.
In witness whereof the aforesaid jurors have set their seals to this inquisition at Lynn the day and year abovesaid.
Because we have learnt by an inquisition which we lately caused to be made by our beloved and trusty Robert de Glamorgan and John de la Lee, that Pelegrin de Castello, our merchant of Bayonne, wished to take the 24l.
Inquisition made by command of the lord the King by the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol, if it would be to the nuisance of the town of Bristol if there were a market on Monday at the manor of Hawksbury which E.
Inquisition made at Bishop's Lynn before the escheator of the lord the King on 30 March in the 12th year of the reign of King Edward, son of King Edward, by Robert de Causton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inquisition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
