Produced by Chuck Greif, Broward County Library and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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 Bardaxí. 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 I. 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 January, 1906. PREFACE. In the following pages I have sought to trace, from the original sources as far as possible, the character and career of an institution which exercised no small influence on the fate of Spain and even, one may say, indirectly on the civilized world. The material for this is preserved so superabundantly in the immense Spanish archives that no one writer can pretend to exhaust the subject. There can be no finality in a history resting on so vast a mass of inedited documents and I do not flatter myself that I have accomplished such a result, but I am not without hope that what I have drawn from them and from the labors of previous scholars has enabled me to present a fairly accurate survey of one of the most remarkable organizations recorded in human annals.