Ecclesiastical court system under the control of the kings of Spain (1478-1834)

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A distressed young woman protests her innocence and prays before the judge and the counsel of the Spanish inquisition. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet, 1839, after S.J.E. Jones.

An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.

The torture of William Lithgow in the dungeons of the Inquisition in Malaga in 1620. Line engraving with etching by W. Raddon after Craig.

Further obseruations of the English Spanish pilgrime, concerning Spaine : being a second part of his former booke, and containing these particulars: the description of a famous monastery, or house of the King of Spaines, called the Escuriall, not the like in the Christian world: a briefe relation of certaine dæmonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times, and now liuing in England. A relation of the founding of a military order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, and heretofore pentioner to the King of Spaine.

Brujos y astrólogos de la Inquisición de Galicia y el famoso Libro de San Cipriano / Prólogo de M. Curros Enríquez y Carlos Alonso de Real.

Indice ultimo de los libros prohibidos y mandados expurgar : para todos los reynos y señorios del catolico rey de las Españas, el señor Don Carlos IV. Contiene en resumen todos los libros puestos en el Indice expurgatorio del año 1747, y en los edictos posteriores, asta fin de diciembre de 1789 / Formado y arreglado con toda claridad y diligencia, por mandato del excmo. sr. D. Agustin Rubin de Cevallos, inquisidor general, y señores del Supremo consejo de la Santa general inquisicion: impreso de su orden, con arreglo al exemplar visto y aprobado por dicho Supremo consejo.

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