Chapter X: Political Activity

Assertion that the Inquisition was a political Instrument 248

No Trace of its Agency in the Development of Absolutism 249

Rarely called upon for extraneous Service 251

Case of Antonio Pérez 253

Assassination of Juan de Escobedo 254

Pérez replaced by Granvelle--is imprisoned--escapes to Saragossa--is condemned in Madrid 255

Futile Attempts to prosecute him before the Justicia of Aragon 258

The Inquisition called in and prosecutes him for Blasphemy 258

He is surrendered to the Tribunal--the City rises and rescues him 259

Philip's Army occupies Saragossa--Pérez escapes to France--Execution of the Justicia Lanuza 263

Prosecutions by the Inquisition in opposition to the policy of Philip II--Auto de fe of October 20, 1592 267

Córtes of Tarazona in 1592 curtail the Liberties of Aragon 269

Death of Pérez in 1611--his memory absolved in 1615 272

Sporadic Cases of Intervention by the Inquisition 273

It is used in the War of Succession 275

Gradually becomes subservient under the Bourbons 276

Is a political Instrument under the Restoration 277

Sometimes used to enforce secular Law--The Export of Horses 278

CHAPTER XI--JANSENISM.

Indefinable Character of Jansenism, except as opposed to Ultramontanism 284

Struggle in Spanish Flanders 286

Quarrel with Rome over the Condemnation of Cardinal Noris in the Index of 1747 288

Opposition to Ultramontanism and Jesuitism persecuted as Jansenism 292

Expulsion of the Jesuits--Reaction under Godoy 294

CHAPTER XII--FREE-MASONRY.

Development of Masonry--Condemned by the Holy See 298

Persecuted by the Inquisition and the Crown 300

It becomes revolutionary in Character 303

Persecution under the Restoration 304

Its pernicious Activity in the Constitutional Period 306

CHAPTER XIII--PHILOSOPHISM.

Growth of Incredulity towards the End of the Eighteenth Century 307

Olavide selected as a Victim 308

Impression produced by his Trial 311

Struggle between Conservatism and Progress 312

CHAPTER XIV--BIGAMY.

Assumption of Jurisdiction over Bigamy 316

Based on inferential Heresy 318

The Civil and Spiritual Courts strive to preserve their Jurisdiction 319

Penalties 321

Contest over Jurisdiction revived--Carlos III subdivides it into three 323

The Inquisition reasserts it under the Restoration 326

Number of Cases 327

CHAPTER XV--BLASPHEMY.

Distinction between heretical and non-heretical Blasphemy 328

Contests over Jurisdiction with the spiritual and secular Courts 329

Attempts at Definition of heretical Blasphemy 330

Cumulative Jurisdiction 333

Moderation of Penalties 334

Number of Cases 335