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RECORDS
OF THE
SPANISH INQUISITION,
TRANSLATED FROM THE
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.
BOSTON:
SAMUEL G. GOODRICH, 141 WASHINGTON STREET.
MDCCCXXVIII.
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE INQUISITION.
TRIAL OF PEDRO GINESTA, NATIVE OF THE VILLAGE OF ST QUINTI, IN THE DIOCESE OF ST FLOR, FOR EATING BACON ON A PROHIBITED DAY.
TRIAL OF JUAN DURAN FOR BLASPHEMY AND WITCHCRAFT.
TRIAL OF LEONARDO PHELIPE FOR LUTHERANISM.
TRIAL OF DON ANTONIO ADORNO FOR NECROMANTICAL PRACTICES.
EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF THE PRISONS.
MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS.
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 OfAmerica, Samuel G. Goodrich, of the said district, has depositedin this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims asproprietor, in the words following, to wit;
‘Records of the Spanish Inquisition, translated from the OriginalManuscripts.’
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States,entitled ‘An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing thecopies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietorsof such copies, during the time therein mentioned;’ and also to anact entitled ‘An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act forthe encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copiesduring the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefitsthereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historicaland other prints.’
JNO. W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
EXAMINER PRESS.
Hiram Tupper, Printer—Bromfield Lane.
PREFACE.
THE manner in which the originals of the following work came into thehands of the translator may be described in a few words. These papersare a part of the Records of the Inquisition of Barcelona, and wereobtained during the revolution which broke out at Cadiz in 1819.
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