Chapter I: Sicily

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The Old Inquisition in Sicily 1

The Spanish Inquisition introduced in 1487 2

Expulsion of Jews in 1492 3

Tardy Organization of the Tribunal 5

It gradually becomes efficient 7

Financial Mismanagement 9

Popular Disaffection 10

Increasing Activity 12

Complaints of Sicilian Parliament 13

Death of King Ferdinand--Tumult of 1516 14

Re-establishment in 1519 17

Efforts to reform Abuses 18

Renewed Complaints of the Parliament 21

Charles V suspends the Temporal Jurisdiction in 1535 22

Dread of Protestantism--Jurisdiction restored in 1546 24

Official-Immunity--Case of the Duke of Terranova 25

Renewed Activity--Popular Hostility 26

Enormous Increase in Number of Familiars 27

Abuse of official Immunity 28

Attempt at Reform in the Concordia of 1595 31

Increased Aggressiveness of the Tribunal 33

Collisions with the Secular Authority 34

Quarrels with the Bishops 35

Continued Strife--Concordia of 1635 37

Activity during the Seventeenth Century 38

The Inquisition under Austrian Rule--Auto de Fe of 1724--Pragmatic Sanction of 1732 40

Reconquest of Sicily by Spain in 1734--The Inquisition placed under the Holy See--Its Exuberance repressed by Carlos III 42

Suppressed by Ferdinando III in 1782 43

MALTA.

A Dependency of the Sicilian Tribunal 44

Charles V in 1530 grants the Island to the Knights of St. John 45

Episcopal Inquisition under Bishop Cubelles 45

The Tribunal passes under Papal Control 46