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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX—The INQUISITORIAL PROCESS | |
| Page | |
| Inquisitor both Judge and Confessor | 399 |
| Difficulty of Proving Heresy | 400 |
| The Inquisitorial Process universally Employed | 401 |
| Age of Responsibility—Proceedings in Absentia. The Dead | 402 |
| All Safeguards Withdrawn.—Secrecy of Procedure | 405 |
| Confession not Requisite for Conviction | 407 |
| Importance Attached to Confession | 408 |
| lnterrogatory of the Accused | 410 |
| Resourees for Extractiug Confession.—Deceit | 411 |
| Irregular Tortures, Mental and Physical.—Delays | 417 |
| Formal Torture | 421 |
| Retricted by Clement V. | 424 |
| Rules for its Employment | 426 |
| Retraction of Confessions. | 438 |
CHAPTER X.-EVIDENCE. | |
| Comparative Unimportance of Witnesses | 430 |
| Flimsiness of Evidence Admitted | 431 |
| The Crime Known as "Suspicion of Heresy" | 433 |
| Number of Witnesses.—No Restrictions as to Character or Age | 434 |
| Mortal Enmity the only Disability | 436 |
| Secrecy of Confessional Disregarded | 437 |
| Suppression of Names of Witnesses | 437 |
| Evidence sometimes Withheld | 439 |
| Frequency of False-witness.—Its Penalty | 440 |
CHAPTER XI.-The DEFENCE | |
| Opportanity of Defenee Reduced to Minimum | 443 |
| Denial of Counsel | 444 |
| Malice of Witnesses the only Defence | 446 |
| Prosecution of the Dead | 448 |
| Defence practically Impossible.—Appeals | 449 |
| Condemmation virtually Inevitable | 453 |
| Suspicion of Heresy,— Light, Vehement, and Violent. | 454 |
| Purgation by Conjurators | 455 |
| Abjuration | 457 |
