A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[532] Nic. Remigii Demonolatreiæ Libri Tres. Colon. Agrip. 1596.

[533] G. Plitt Henke in Realencyclopädie, VI, 97.

[534] Pierre de Lancre, Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais Anges, pp. 114, 119 (Paris, 1613).

De Lancre was a learned conseiller of the Parlement of Bordeaux and his colleague on the commission was the President d’ Espaignet. It is instructive to observe that while he was drawing up his terrific relation of the manner in which they had intensified the witchcraft craze, until the churches at night would be filled with children brought there by their mothers to prevent their being carried off to the aquellares (p. 193), Inquisitor Salazar, on the other side of the Pyrenees, was extinguishing it by simple rational treatment.

[535] Rogers, Scotland, Social and Domestic, p. 302. (London, 1869).

[536] Commentaries, IV, 60 (Oxford, 1775).

[537] Lettres à un Gentilhomme Russe, Let. I.—“L’Inquisition est un instrument purement royal; it est tout entier en la main du roi, et jamais il ne peut nuire que par la faute des ministres du prince.”

[538] “Sie ist kein kirchliches, sondern ein Staats institut, theilweise mit kirchlichen Formen.” (Gams, Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien, Buch XIII, Kap. 1, § 3.) “Das neue Herrscherpaar ... gestaltete die Inquisition zu einem wichtigen Staatsinstitut.” (Hergenrother, Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte, II, 765. Freiburg, 1885).

[539] Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, XVIII, p. 265 (Tübingen, 1851).

The most recent apologist, who assures us that the Church never used other than moral force, displays his accuracy by telling us that, in 1521, Leo X excommunicated Torquemada on account of his cruelty, against the protests of Charles V, and also that in England Henry VIII executed 70,000 victims and Queen Elizabeth 43,000.—G. Romain, L’Inquisition, son rôle religieux, politique et social, pp. 10, 11, 2^e Edition, Paris, 1900.