Growing dissatisfaction prevailed, and in 1696, the king, Charles II, summoned a conference or Grand Junta to enquire into the complaints that poured in from all quarters against the Inquisition.
The Junta strongly recommended that these restrictions should be rigidly enforced, and that no one should be thrown into the prisons of the Inquisition, save on charges of an heretical nature.
So great was the discontent, so many tumults arose, that the Junta would have all such unrighteous privileges curtailed, and would authorise the civil courts to keep the encroachments of the Holy Office in check.
Columbus argued his point, but was overwhelmed with Biblical texts, with quotations from the great divines, with theological objections, and in a short time the junta was adjourned.
Some of the junta entertained the popular notion that he was an adventurer, or at best a visionary; and others had that morbid impatience which any innovation upon established doctrine is apt to produce in systematic minds.
Here she was, setting people to run down her own father, if the suspicions of the other members of the junta were to be credited.
You found him over the junta meeting-place in a loft?
How long Guerrero had been there he did not know, for while members of the junta had been coming and going all day in the office below none had gone up into the locked loft.
The junta has just announced that the money is missing.
Indeed, some of the junta who do not frequent the house of the senora have remarked it.
Miss Guerrero told me that he might possibly be found in an obscure boarding-house in the Bronx where several members of the junta live.
The first thing to do is to find him--before the detectives of the junta do so.
Where does thejunta keep its arms stored--not in the meeting-place on South Street does it?
A local and military junta had been invested with authority to conduct the defence.
Only when he was busy with capturing the Junta had he lost for a time the keen pain of his hurt.
Your Junta has pledged itself to the assistance of this colony, the incalculable benefits of which will, I verily believe, be the very salvation of Mexico as a nation.
Evidently the Junta felt safe in their hidden little room, for no guard had been left in the yard.
Just as a common precaution, they would guard the doors if the Junta met there, or they would have men stationed on the stairs; that he would not be able to get up without giving the alarm he knew as well as though he had tried and failed.
They created a liquidating junta or commission, as they called it, which should change all immovable ecclesiastical properties that were not already confiscated into national rent.
The revolutionary junta was well informed of what had been decided on at Rome, and immediately prepared to oppose the re-establishment of social order in the town.
With an invader on their soil, the members of the junta reasoned, all Mexicans would flock to the standard of their country, and the war with the United States would be fought out by a united Mexico.
You were purchasing the goods in the interest of a junta which proposed to arm such outlaws and rag-a-muffins as could be assembled, and to send them across the Rio Grande on a hostile mission in the guise of Mexican soldiers.
In El Salvador, we have supported the efforts of the Junta to change the fundamental basis of an inequitable system and to give a stake in a new nation to those millions of people, who for so long, lived without hope or dignity.
It is said that Senor Felipe has offered his ship to the Junta," said Rafael, bowing courteously to the baronet; "and the Junta have decided to accept that grand offer with a thousand thanks.
In view of the message from Xuarez, the Junta had been hastily convened, and now the great hall of the palace was crowded with deputies waiting to hear the words of the Padre.
He had to go to a meeting of the Junta in order to confer about the fleet which had remained away from Tlatonac a long time.
From this point of view the outlook was certainly not encouraging, but the Juntadid its best by every possible means to guard against possible contingencies.
A message to the Junta from rebels, Reverend Father?
It is true that the people of the United States had been outspoken in their sympathy long before; that a Cuban junta had found a refuge in New York, whence it sent relief and planned expeditions for the benefit of the insurgents.
On the other hand, the Junta discredits the reports sent out by the Spaniards.
There were formerly Dominican and Franciscan monasteries in the town.
The junta and a number of great men received him at the door, and the Cardinal Portocarrero, who was there, threw himself on his knees, and wished to kiss the King's hand.
After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule and interference in subsequent governments was followed by a military junta that took power in 1976.
The president was ousted by a military junta in May 1999.
More than once his sister had joined him there, and had seen fighting and carried back despatches to the Junta in Havana.
The members of the national junta were now convoked to Bayonne from all parts of the kingdom, and anew constitution was formed, after which Joseph set out for his kingdom in Spain.
A summons from the Supreme Junta called the inhabitants to arms, and the commencement of the preparations for defence was begun with unanimous vigour.
My idea was to get into communication with the Junta as soon as we reach the other side, and learn from them what spot would be the most suitable at which to make the attempt to land our consignment.
The Junta directed a Spanish general to convey a negative answer to the summons of the French.
The junta superior de real hacienda did much toward relieving the audiencia of its advisory functions as in matters of finance and commerce.
The audiencia also heard judicially certain cases of appeal involving the royal treasury, but magistrates who had participated in the junta mentioned above were not allowed to hear again the cases in which their previous vote had been given.
The Junta de Guerra, was the committee of the Council of the Indies with jurisdiction over military and naval affairs.
The junta de guerra de Indias received all appeals from the military officials of the colonies and solved all questions of a judicial or administrative character that were carried to it.
A tribunal of appeals above the junta ordinaria was created later, and in its activities, also, the magistrates of the audiencia participated.
This junta is to be distinguished from the real contaduria, which was composed of the oficiales reales.
The matter was then referred to the junta and the sentence was approved by that tribunal.
The Council referred the case to the Junta de Guerra, [190] and that tribunal reversed the decision of the audiencia, declaring that Ramos was a faithful servant of His Majesty, and still a poor man.
The captain-general, on appeal, affirmed the sentence, and the junta de guerra approved the proceedings when the case was appealed a second time.
Triumvirates followed the junta into power; supreme directors alternated with triumvirates; and constituent assemblies came and went.
Under circumstances like these, when the junta and its successor, the council of regency, refused to make substantial concessions to the colonies, both parties were inevitably drifting toward independence.
A temporary government also, in the form of a junta presided over by the viceroy, was to be created; and provision was made for the organization of an "Army of the Three Guarantees.
The party opposing this junta talk loudly of independence, and wish at least one-half of the members of the provisional government to be native Brazilians.
These papers were received by the junta of Provisional Government, at whose head was the Bishop.
October, the provisional junta of Pernambuco had addressed that of the patriots of Goyana, offering peace, saying, that as their avowed object was the dismissal of L.
The junta occupied itself seriously on the business of the constitution, and began by publishing some edicts highly favourable to the people, and, among others, one insuring the liberty of the press.
The magistrate assured him that he had laid his communication before the provisional government, and that the punishment directed by law should be inflicted, and the greatest sorrow was expressed by the juntafor the accident.
Following Talavera, the smallness of our numbers and the utter failure of the Spanish Junta to help with supplies and material caused Sir Arthur Wellesley to retire over the Tagus into Portugal once more, where he went into winter quarters.
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