3. COUNSELLORS.--These were skilful lawyers, appointed to advise and assist the inquisitors, who were generally ignorant of legal forms. They were sworn to secrecy. 4. PROMOTER-FISCAL.--This officer also is a lawyer, whose business is to examine the depositions of witnesses, to give information against criminals, to demand their imprisonment, and to frame their indictment against them. He was a kind of counsellor for the Holy Office. 5. NOTARIES.--These officers were short-hand writers, whose duty was to attend the examinations of the prisoners, to note down everything they said, their behaviour, and even change of countenance, while questioned by the inquisitors. They are required to be skilful in different languages; as the prisoners may be French, German, or Italian, before a Spanish Inquisition. 6. TREASURER.--This officer is called, in Spain, the _receiver-general_ of the effects and property of the prisoners: in Rome he is called, _treasurer of the Holy Office_. He takes charge of all the effects of the prisoners, letting or selling their lands and houses; so that immense property falls into his hands. 7. EXECUTOR.--This officer is the head of the police attached to the Inquisition; and he directs the mode of the apprehension of accused persons. 8. OFFICIALS.--These are assistants to the executor, or police officers, who pursue and apprehend the persons accused before the inquisitors. 9. FAMILIARS.--These are armed police officers, or soldiers of the Inquisition. They are called _familiars_, or belonging to the inquisitor’s family. 10. CROSS-BEARERS.--These also are soldiers, a kind of militia, trained and armed for the defence of the Inquisition, and for the vigorous pursuit of offenders. They are favoured with many privileges, including a “plenary remission of all their sins,” to encourage them in the service of the Inquisition. Soldiers having, however, become less needful, these officers have generally been transformed into an order of monks of St. Dominic, with constitutions confirmed by the Pope. 11. VISITORS.--These were magistrates appointed to inspect all the provinces of the inquisitors, and to report the state of the institutions to the inquisitor-general. They are commonly commissioned as occasions seem to require investigation.