OF THE INQUISITION, FROM ITS ESTABLISHMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS PROCEDURE, AND NARRATIVES OF ITS VICTIMS. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. PREFACE. THE necessity for the publication of a work, of moderate extent, on the History of the Inquisition, has for some years been so evident, that a justification of the issue of this volume will scarcely be required. It may, however, be stated, that the works of the greatest authority on the subject have for a long time been out of print; that the most important information has been accessible to the student only in a very scattered form; and that the cost of the various works necessary to enable him to become fairly acquainted with the History of the Inquisition has proved, in too many instances, an almost insurmountable difficulty in his way. It may be added that much recent information has been of necessity wanting in the histories previously published. In this volume it is hoped that all these diffi |