E-text prepared by Josep Cols Canals, Eleni Christofaki, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/dealingswithinqu00achi Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. DEALINGS WITH THE INQUISITION: Or, Papal Rome, Her Priests, and Her Jesuits. With Important Disclosures. by the REV. GIACINTO ACHILLI, D.D. Late Prior and Visitor of the Dominican Order, Head Professor of Theology, and Vicar of the Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace, etc. etc. "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped."--_Ps._ cxxiv. 7. "It is time for thee, LORD, to work; for they have made void thy law."--_Ps._ cxix. 126. Second Edition, Enlarged. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 25, Paternoster Row. 1851. London: R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill. PREFACE. THE first edition of the ensuing pages having been disposed of very shortly after the publication of it, the Author has availed himself of the opportunity afforded him by a second being called for, to make several important additions, which will be found in the Appendix; and to subject the whole to a minute and careful revision: nor can he send forth his work again before the Public, without expressing the heartfelt gratification it has given him to find the simple narrative, which has been written "for conscience sake," so generally appreciated in the very light in which he was most anxious for it to be viewed; viz. as the humble instrument of use in the cause of religious freedom and gospel truth; a cause sacred in itself, and indissolubly connected with the moral and political prosperity and happiness of the whole family of the human race. DEALINGS WITH THE INQUISITION. CHAPTER I. MY REASONS FOR GIVING THE HISTORY OF MY IMPRISONMENT TO THE WORLD.