78. The Inquisitors shall not permit any person to enter the prisons on the day before the auto-da-fé, except the confessors and the familiars of the Holy Office, when their employments make it necessary. The familiars shall receive the prisoner, and be responsible for him after the notary has taken evidence if it in writing, and shall be required to take him back to the prisons after the ceremony of the auto-da-fé, if he is not given over to the secular judge; they shall not allow any person to speak to him on the road, or inform him of any thing that is passing.
79. On the day after the auto-da-fé, the Inquisitors shall cause all the reconciled persons to be brought before them; explain to each the sentence which had been read the day before, and tell him to what punishment he would have been condemned if he had not confessed his crime. They shall examine them all, particularly on what passes in the prisons, and give them into the custody of the jailer of the perpetual prisons, who shall be commissioned to observe that they accomplish their penances, and to inform them when they fail, &c.
80. The Inquisitor shall visit the perpetual prisons, from time to time, to observe the conduct of the prisoners, and if they are well treated.
81. The sanbenitos of all those persons who have been condemned to death shall be exposed in their respective parishes, after they have been burnt in person or in effigy; but the same shall be done with the sanbenitos of the reconciled persons, after they have left them off. The inscription of the sanbenito shall consist of the names of the condemned persons, a notice of the heresies for which they were punished, and of the time when they suffered their penance, in order to perpetuate the disgrace of heretics and their descendants.
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- Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. One unpaired double quotation mark could not be corrected with confidence.
- Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
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- p. 133: other two changed to two other (... gives us two other examples....)
- p. 135: other changed to another (... for another five years....)