The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18

telligent Judgment on That NUMBER
Others, besides Moriscues. Marraiios
and heretics were amenable before
the courts Of the Inqnlsition. Llorente
himself, whom Draper calls 1.-THE HIS.
torian OF the Inqalsitlon," tells us
that the lnquisition took cognizanca
OF maiy other crimes: sins AGAINST
nature, blasphemy. tlsury. sacrileglolls
theft, sorcery, NC. We have already
seen that Philip II. pronounce'! Vt 9
heresy to sell to France horses nr
other war contraband tsee Ranke's
quotationl. Both Ferdinand and ISL
bella IN thelr Pragmatic Sanction Or
e,lict Of August 9. 1893. made 1t a
crime punishable by death. to he
found bearer Of patent letters or cer.
tifcates from the Pope, testifylng that
the person, having appealed to the
Holy See, was innocent Of the guilt 10:
which the Inqulsition had sentenc.
him.
| We should therefore be careful In
passing Judgment on the quality OF the
victims of the Inqulsltlon. Llorente
lis certainly In bad faith when he quail.
ffles his $1,000 victims as ''lnfor!u-
mates who perhaps had committed no
other crime than that Of better unde:-
standing the Bible than their judges"
tot.-Protestant Victims.
Let liz therefore begin with tho
; Protestant victims OF the lnquIslti9n.
: although we are thus going against
; the chronological order. The Inqulsi-
! tion d Spain started In HIS: Torque-
NADIA died 20 years later in 1895:
Luther began his reformation In 49,.
nearly 70 years afterwards: this year
1911. Is also the year Of the death nf
Cardinal Xlmenes. During all that
period Of 80 years. there could be no
Protestant among the victims Of the
Inquisitien. -.
1t was only towards 1886 that Mar.
guerite de Navarro. the sister Of Frau.
els l.. Of France. began to Introduce
Professionalism III her little kingdom
on the northern side Of the Pyrenees.
She WAS n great admirer Of John Cal.
yin who. on that very, year, 1885. pub.
lished his famous institutes at
Basel. Charles V. WIS then king OF
Spain and German Emperor. Between
that year, j SIS. and the abd!catlon Of
Charles. VIZ. for 20 years. It Is not I'M
likely that some efforts were made by
Professionals to penetrate the Penins,l'
Ia. We have no established facts to
prove that they made any headway.
the most legitimate Prescriptions arr
against It. Spain WIS not Ike France
in favor Of the open door policy. She
kept her doors tightly closed and tie
dreaded InQulslt!on acted as watch
dog at all the ryrenean passes. All
We can see on record during the reiun
Of Charles V. Is that Professionals In.
trodnce;l Into Spain their prohibited
writings In casks OF champagne ane
Burgundy wine, with so much art as
to deceive the custom house officials
thus wrote the Spanish ambassador 1t
Paris. Spain had no special love Cor
the "hew doctrine" She certainly
had bloodshed enough to get rid OF t,1e
Moors and, knowing what was then s..
Ing on north OF the PyTenees, she WIS
reluctant to Introduce into her bosom
another element OF discorl. | am not
trying 10 excuse or less to approve
anything. AM merely stating facts
and giving their natural explanation.
There could have been hardly any
Protestant Victim Of the Inquis!tton
u,t n TIM au,i ~ t1,a vnia, - e.,,,,, .,