Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts

BOSTON: SAMUEL G. GOODRICH, 141 WASHINGTON STREET. MDCCCXXVIII.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit : District Clerk’s Office.
Be it remembered, That on the twentysixth day of May, A. D. 1828, in the fiftysecond year of the Independence of the United States Of America, Samuel G. Goodrich , of the said district, has deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit ;
‘Records of the Spanish Inquisition, translated from the Original Manuscripts.’
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled ‘An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned;’ and also to an act entitled ‘An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.’
JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts .
EXAMINER PRESS. Hiram Tupper, Printer—Bromfield Lane.

THE manner in which the originals of the following work came into the hands of the translator may be described in a few words. These papers are a part of the Records of the Inquisition of Barcelona, and were obtained during the revolution which broke out at Cadiz in 1819.
The province of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, was one of the most forward and zealous to embrace the cause of freedom. Its inhabitants have, in all times, been distinguished for their daring and determined spirit, and their ardent love of liberty. The revolution moved with rapid strides from the Isle of Leon to the Ebro. On the twentyeighth of February, 1820, the governor of Tarragona received a summons to repair immediately to Madrid, and in a few days the insurrection burst out in the former place. On the fourteenth of March, two days after this, it exploded at Barcelona.