Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) 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 III. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1907 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published January. 1907 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. BOOK VI--PRACTICE (CONTINUED). CHAPTER VII--TORTURE. PAGE General Use of Torture in Secular Courts 1 The Inquisition not exceptionally cruel 2 More moderate than the Roman Holy Office 3 Formal Preliminaries to prevent its Abuse 4 The Threat of Torture 6 Conditions justifying torture 7 Torture of Witnesses--Torture _in caput alienum_ 11 No exemptions admitted 13 Limitations of Torture 14 The Administration of Torture 16