Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

_A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES._ In three
volumes, octavo.

_A HISTORY OF AURICULAR CONFESSION AND INDULGENCES IN THE LATIN
CHURCH._ In three volumes, octavo.

_AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SACERDOTAL CELIBACY IN THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH._ Third edition. (_In preparation._)

_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 of
Battle, The Ordeal, Torture. Fourth edition, revised. In one
volume, 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 THE
INQUISITION._ Censorship of the Press, Mystics and Illuminati,
Endemoniadas, El Santo Niño de la Guardia, Brianda de Bardaxi. In
one volume, 12mo.

_THE MORISCOS OF SPAIN. THEIR CONVERSION AND EXPULSION._ In one
volume, 12mo.

A HISTORY

OF THE

INQUISITION OF SPAIN

BY

HENRY CHARLES LEA, LL.D.

IN FOUR VOLUMES

VOLUME II.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1922

_All rights reserved_

Printed in the United States of America.

COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1906

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

BOOK III--JURISDICTION.

CHAPTER I--HERESY.
PAGE
Importance attached to Unity of Belief 1
Popular Abhorrence of Heresy 2
Limitations of Inquisitorial Jurisdiction 3
Classification of Heresy--Heresy both a sin and a crime 4
Original Episcopal Jurisdiction 5
The Inquisition obtains exclusive Jurisdiction 6
Episcopal Concurrence--It is merely formal 11
Jurisdiction over the Forum of Conscience 10
The Question of Papal Indulgences 24
Extension of Exclusive Jurisdiction 26

CHAPTER II--THE REGULAR ORDERS.

The Regular Clergy claim exemption from the Inquisition 29
Fluctuations of the Struggle--the Inquisition triumphs 31
Resistance of the Jesuits--their Defeat 33
Jurisdiction assumed in Quarrels between the Orders 37