CHAP. XXXIII.--Continuation of the Trial, until the Archbishop went to Rome 442 CHAP. XXXIV.--End of the Trial of Carranza--His Death 459 CHAP. XXXV.--Trial of Antonio Perez, Minister and First Secretary of State to Philip II. 472 CHAP. XXXVI.--Of several Trials occasioned by that of Antonio Perez. 488 CHAP. XXXVII.--Of the principal Events in the Inquisition during the Reign of Philip III. 500 CHAP. XXXVIII.--Of the Trials and Autos-da-fé during the Reign of Philip IV. 502 CHAP. XXXIX.--The Inquisition during the Reign of Charles II. 512 CHAP. XL.--Of the Inquisition in the Reign of Philip V. 518 CHAP. XLI.--Of the Inquisition during the Reign of Ferdinand VI. 524 CHAP. XLII.--Of the Inquisition under Charles III. 539 CHAP. XLIII.--Of the Spanish Inquisition under Charles IV. 546 CHAP. XLIV.--Of the Inquisition during the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 565 ADVERTISEMENT. The Compiler of the following pages has only attempted to give a condensed translation of a complex and voluminous history, with the hope that it might prove of more utility in its present form than in the original works. Those portions which are not calculated to interest or instruct the general reader, and afford no illustrations of the subject, have been passed over. Those trials have been selected which serve as examples of the various laws of the Inquisition, and of its state at different epochs, and which include the persecutions of the most eminent men. The curious will be amply gratified by the perusal of the history of the secret tribunal; the man of leisure cannot fail in finding occupation and amusement in the pages of Llorente; and the philosopher will discover in them ample scope for reflection on the aberrations of human reason, and on the capability of our nature, when under the influence of fanaticism, to inflict, with systematic indifference, death, torture, misery, anxiety, and infamy, on the guilty and the innocent. All the records of the fantastic cruelties of the heathen world do not afford so appalling a picture of human weakness and depravity as the authentic and genuine documents of the laws and proceeding of this Holy Office, which professed to act under the influence of the doctrines of the Redeemer of the World! I offer, with humility, this abridgement of the work to the public, and while I hope that it will be kindly and favourably received, I believe that it may prove interesting and useful to every class of readers. _June, 1826._ PREFACE.