Chapter I: Confiscation

Necessity of Confiscation to support the Inquisition 315
Confiscation borrowed from the imperial Jurisprudence 316
Responsibility for it 317
Claims of the Church in Cases of Clerics 318
Division made with feudal Lords 319
Enforced on all reconciled or condemned Heretics 320
Methods to prevent Evasion 321
Commissions paid to Informers 323
Rapacious Practice of the Old Inquisition 325
The Question of Alienations and Creditors 326
The Question of Dowries 332
The Question of Conquests 334
Thoroughness of Confiscation--Provision for Children 335
Alienations subsequent to Commission of Heresy 339
Slaves of Confiscated Estates 339
Rigorous Collection of Debts 340
Routine of Business--Responsibility of Receivers 341
Hardships inflicted by Confiscation 349
Exclusive Jurisdiction of the Inquisition 349
Compositions for Confiscation 352
Losses and Dilapidation 363
Productiveness 367
Becomes Obsolete in the Eighteenth Century 370
Disposition made of the Proceeds 371
Lavish Grants to Favorites 372
Ferdinand's Kindliness 378
Reckless Grants by Charles V 380
Influence of Confiscation 386

CHAPTER II--FINES AND PENANCES.

Pecuniary Penance 389
Distinguished from Confiscation 391
Sometimes substituted for Confiscation 394
Its Productiveness 396
Fines as Punishment 389

CHAPTER III--DISPENSATIONS.

Rehabilitation from Disabilities 401
Struggle between the Crown, the Inquisition and the Papacy 403
Sale of Commutation of Punishments 408

CHAPTER IV--BENEFICES.

Officials provided with Benefices 415
Quinquennial Dispensations from Residence 416
Patronage granted to the Sovereigns 416
Opposition of Cathedral Chapters 417
Doctoral and Magistral Canonries 421
Grant of a Canonry in each Church, in 1559 423
Fruitless Resistance of the Churches 428
Productiveness 431

CHAPTER V--FINANCES.

Failure to provide permanent Funds 433
Improvidence--Complaints of Poverty 435
Power of Recuperation 439
Deficiency of Revenue in the Eighteenth Century 441
Financial Organization--The Receiver 445
Detailed Accounts required--Neglect to render them 447
The Coffer with three Keys--Its Ineffectiveness 450
The _Junta de Hacienda_ 453
Defalcations 454

BOOK VI--PRACTICE.

CHAPTER I--THE EDICT OF GRACE.

Nature of the Edict of Grace 457
Confession under the Edict 459
Its Utility to the Inquisition 460
Revived in 1815 463

CHAPTER II--THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS.

The Inquisitorial Process in secular Procedure 465
Laxity in the Spiritual Courts 469
Rigid Secrecy in the Inquisition 470
Its Importance 476
The Fiscal as Party to the Case 478
The Inquisitorial Ideal 482

CHAPTER III--ARREST AND SEQUESTRATION.

Duty of Denunciation 485
Preliminaries to Arrest 486
Their Disregard 491
Segregation of the Prisoner 493
Immediate Sequestration of Property 495
Provision for Families 499
The Secrestador 501
Embargo 503