Every attempt has been made to replicate the original book as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected. A list follows the text. No attempt has been made to correct or normalize Spanish words or accents marks. (etext transcriber’s note) WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN._ In four volumes, octavo. (_Now Complete._) _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. _HISTORY OF SACERDOTAL CELIBACY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH._ Third edition. In two volumes, octavo. (_Now Ready._) _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. THE INQUISITION IN THE SPANISH DEPENDENCIES SICILY--NAPLES--SARDINIA--MILAN--THE CANARIES--MEXICO--PERU--NEW GRANADA BY HENRY CHARLES LEA, LL.D., S.T.D. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1908 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1908 PREFACE. The scope of my History of the Spanish Inquisition precluded a detailed investigation into the careers of individual tribunals. Such an investigation, however, is not without interest, especially with respect to the outlying ones, which were subjected to varying influences and reacted in varying ways on the peoples among whom they were established. Moreover, in some cases, this affords us an inside view of inquisitorial life, of the characters of those to whom were confided the awful irresponsible powers of the Holy Office and of the abuse of those powers by officials whom distance removed from the immediate supervision of the central authority, suggesting a capacity for evil even greater than that manifested in the Peninsula.