The Inquisitors and monks endeavoured to prevent their entrance.
The two inquisitors opened the door of this chamber, and found a small box hidden in the window-sill; they opened the box, and found in it a golden figure bearing a crucifix.
Then the two inquisitors went to the house of the pious man, before whom the paralytic had been unable to rise.
So in 1500 he despatched inquisitors to Moravia with orders to burn all heretical books, and especially those of Peter of Chelc̆ic.
In the first place,” says this author, “the Inquisitors were royal officers.
Whoever harbored a Priest suffered death, and they who knew his hiding-place and did not reveal it to the Inquisitors had both their ears cut off.
One of the first inquisitorsappointed by him in A.
The bishop confined his attention to the European immigrants, and the inquisitors applied themselves mainly to secure the destruction of the Thomas-Christians settled there.
The Lords Inquisitorshad much business on hand, and many more important cases than his to attend to; he must await their leisure and their pleasure.
Then came the Inquisitors themselves, in their splendid official dresses.
But I was about to say, the Inquisitors were prevailed upon, by those who interceded for him, to regard him as insane.
For it was the business of the Inquisitors first to convict; retractations were an after consideration.
But he was answered in the set terms the Inquisitors taught their officials, that the book he ought now to study was the book of his own heart, which he should examine diligently, in order to the confession and repentance of his sins.
A lady of rank, one of his chief friends, was amongst the prisoners; and the Inquisitors sent an Alguazil to her house to demand possession of her jewels.
Some of the Inquisitors were keen observers and good students of character.
He shuddered to think of his present suffering, whilst he feared the worst for the future, supposing that the Inquisitors would take care to lodge in their own especial fortress those whom they esteemed the most heinous transgressors.
The Inquisitors were at that time extremely anxious to procure evidence upon which to condemn Fray Constantino, who up to this point had steadily resisted every effort they had made to induce him to criminate himself.
Their religion would have rendered them the firmest and most cordial allies of the Portuguese; but the inquisitors soon discerned in the Christians of St. Thomas the unpardonable guilt of heresy and schism.
By these inquisitors the trial was prepared and directed; but they could only pronounce the sentence of the majority of judges, who with some truth, and more prejudice, have been compared to the English juries.
If those infernal inquisitors should discover all, and thereby demonstrate Titmouse's illegitimacy, how perfectly frightful would be the position of Mr. Gammon!
The narrative of their emergence from the studies of the humanists must form the prelude to a future work treating of Farnesi and Caraffas, Inquisitors and Jesuits.
To the interrogatories of the inquisitors Valla replied that 'he believed as Mother Church believed: it was quite true that she knew nothing: yet he believed as she believed.
The evening before the execution the Inquisitors brought the King a small fagot tied with ribbons.
Some of theInquisitors had an exalted idea of their office.
We do not deny that the zeal of the Inquisitors was at times excessive, especially in the use of torture.
It was also the practice of the Inquisitors across the Rhine.
We may learn something of the brutality of the Inquisitors from the remorse felt by one of them.
The Inquisitors themselves habitually speak of their ministrations in this sense.
But in decreeing the death of these sinners, the Inquisitors at once did away with the possibility of their conversion.
In fact the Inquisitorswere always most anxious to set it aside.
When after the first interrogatory the prisoner denied what the Inquisitors believed to be very probable or certain, he was thrown into prison.
The Inquisitors were so fully persuaded of this truth that they prosecuted heretics whose heresy was not discovered until ten or twenty years after their death, when surely they were no longer able to cause any injury to society.
But we must, at least, in justice admit that the Popes did their utmost to protect the tribunals of the Inquisition from the arbitrary action of individual judges, by requiring the Inquisitors to consult both the boni viri and the Bishops.
Seeing the great door open as I was passing, I ventured to enter the central court of the Inquisition, from which the halls of the different tribunals and the chambers of the inquisitors and officials were entered and lighted.
From this time onward, it is said thatInquisitors were never known to hold court with a Virey.
Inquisitors resumed their fires, yet it was with such comparative moderation as not to interfere seriously with the progress of that prosperity to which Carlos III.
Another weapon of tremendous efficacy was the power of arrest, possessed at will by inquisitors during the greater portion of the career of the Inquisition.
About 1750 we are informed that its inquisitors were drawn from other tribunals who continued them on their pay-rolls, their places being taken by appointees who served without salary until a vacancy occurred.
Before he could be arrested and prosecuted, however, special authorization from the Holy See was requisite, for, by a decree of Boniface VIII, inquisitors had no direct jurisdiction over bishops.
Probably this quieted the matter, but before long the irrepressible inquisitors started another disturbance.
Leave it all to me, I will speak to the State Inquisitors about it.
This gentleman had a great esteem for me, but my affair with the State Inquisitors prevented him from receiving me.
At the beginning of Lent the State Inquisitors sent him to Trieste.
Morosini replied coldly that as theInquisitors had not told him for what crime I was condemned, he did not feel himself bound to share their judgment.
Querini, "of getting into trouble with the State Inquisitors for recommending M.
The inquisitors who hold office multiply, with extraordinary persistence and minuteness, proscriptions and vigorous measures for the forcible conversion of the nation.
Less infested with vicious adventurers, less fruitful in disordered intellects, the provinces supply a corps of inquisitors and terrorists with greater difficulty.
But the supreme power of the nobility had passed to a committee, from the committee to a Council of Ten, from the Ten to three Inquisitors of State; and in this intensely centralised form it became, about the year 1600, a frightful despotism.
He rejects, as forgeries, a whole batch of unpublished confessions, and he points out that a bull disliked by inquisitors is not reproduced entire in the Bullarium Dominicanum.
Sicilian inquisitors produce an imperial privilege of December 1224, which shows the tribunal in full action under Honorius III.
There is so little else to remember with pleasure from the days of the Viceroys and the Inquisitors that these relics of expiring artistic skill may be valued all the more.
The state-inquisitors of Venice have contributed to his celebrity by their mistaken strictness.
Imprisoned by the Inquisitors of State in the Piombi at Venice, he made, in 1755, the most famous escape in history.
The Inquisitors sprang into their boat, and rowed for their lives.
The Inquisitors attempted to treat schism as heresy and arrest Englishmen in their ports.
Inquisitors might have been suspicious, but the Inquisition had not yet been established beyond the Atlantic.
Since which time Spanish Inquisitors have never meddled with those of St. Malo.
Or that a Commission be granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other bishops word for word for foreign Papists as the Inquisitors have in Spain for the Protestants.
This piece of dynamical evidence satisfied the inquisitors that Shelley's baffled assassin was an imaginary caitiff.
To the same inquisitors it must have seemed remarkable that the assassin preluded this second essay at murder, by thrusting his arm through the glass, and thereby smashing the window.
So many Christian priests were also followers of the witch-religion that the Inquisitors of the sixteenth century were greatly exercised in their minds as to how to deal with the offenders.
The other rites—the feasts and dances—show that it was a joyous religion; and as such it must have been quite incomprehensible to the gloomyInquisitors and Reformers who suppressed it.
On the other hand, the inquisitors were clamorous in abuse of the languor and the cowardice of the secular authorities.
It would be superfluous to discuss the point at the present day, whether the directions to the inquisitorsand the publication of the edicts conflicted with the "joyous entrance.
Not satisfied with these representations to the Regent, the inquisitors had also made a direct appeal to the King.
The edicts were republished and the inquisitors encouraged.
She urged Philip to cause the instructions for the inquisitors to be revised.
Many of the chief Inquisitors went in fear of their lives through the hatred which they aroused in the people.
As soon as the discovery was made that Lutheran literature was entering Spain, the inquisitors diligently sought for those who had copies of the proscribed tracts.
The inquisitors burned his books; at which, my informant said, the old man wept.
The inquisitors instituted a process against him, which was earned on, like so many others, in the secret of the cloister.
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