Appointment of the Inquisitors in Spain—their extensive privileges—they pretend to have jurisdiction over the subjects of other states—imprisonment of Thomas Maynard—dignity and splendour of the Inquisitors—other officers belonging to the Inquisition—procedure of the tribunal of the "Holy Office"—eagerness of the Inquisitors to preserve secrecy in all their transactions—their manner of receiving and interrogating informers—their rigorous proceedings towards any of their servants who may dare to violate in the least their unjust orders—citing of the witnesses—apprehension of the person accused—his imprisonment—prisons of the Inquisition—examination of a culprit—artifice and injustice practised by the judges to induce a person to criminate himself—striking example of their duplicity and barbarity, 56 CHAPTER IV. Examination of the accused by torture—its different degrees—Puigblanch's description of this inhuman practice—it is sometimes inflicted on those who are condemned to death—sufferings of William Lithgow—innocence no protection against Inquisitorial cruelty—barbarous usage of Johanna Bohorques—different punishments inflicted by the Inquisition—description of an auto-da-fé—procession which accompanies the celebration of that ceremony—burning of heretics—account of the splendid auto-da-fé which took place at Madrid in 1680—penitential habits which are worn by the criminals—hypocritical manner in which the Inquisitors deliver over a culprit to the civil power, 79 CHAPTER V. Auto-da-fé celebrated at Seville in 1560—the Inquisitor-general Valdes publishes a new code of laws for the government of the holy office—proceedings of the Inquisition during the reigns of Philip III. Philip IV. and Charles II.—state of the nation at the accession of Philip V.—M. Legal, the French commander, levies a contribution on the Dominicans in Saragossa—their stratagem to elude payment—the Inquisitors excommunicate M. Legal—he throws open the doors of the Inquisition and liberates the prisoners—the freemasons become the objects of persecution by the holy office—state of the Inquisition during the reigns of Ferdinand VI. Charles III. and Charles IV.—the Inquisitors prohibit the reading of French works at the period of the revolution in that kingdom—the Inquisition suppressed by Bonaparte and completely abolished by the Cortes-General—it is re-established by Ferdinand VII.—persecuting spirit of the modern Inquisition—sufferings of Van Halen—sentence of death by the pendulum passed by the Inquisitors in 1820, 102 CHAPTER VI.