Spanish Prisons The Inquisition at Home and Abroad, Prisons Past and Present

The presidio or convict prison--Stations at home and in Northern Africa--Convict labour--Cruelties inflicted on the presidiarios employed in road making--Severity of the régime...

Increased persecution of the Jews--Accusations made against them--Ferdinand introduces the modern Inquisition into the Kingdom of Aragon in 1484--Fray Gaspar Juglar and Pedro Ar...

Dangerous weapons manufactured within the prison walls--Frequent quarrels--Murderous assaults on warders of constant occurrence--Disorders and lack of discipline owing to the em...

Prisons, usually, a part of the building occupied by court--Better than civil prisons--Torture inflicted--No new methods invented--Description of various kinds--Two Lutheran con...

Slow development of Prison Reform in Spain--Description of the old Saladero--George Borrow's account of his arrest and imprisonment there--Balseiro's escape and subsequent escap...

Wonderful results achieved by Colonel Montesinos in the presidio at Valencia--Montesinos repairs and reconstructs the prison with convict labour--His system of treatment--Period...

Disordered state of Spain at the accession of Isabella--Brigandage raised into an organised system by lawless nobility and rebels--The revival of the Santa Hermandad or Holy Bro...

Beginning and growth of religious persecution--Temporal power of the Papacy--Pope Innocent III creates the first "Inquisitors"--Domingo de Guzman founder of the Inquisition--Fou...

Fresh field for the Inquisition in Spanish America--Operations begun by Ximenes and more firmly established by Charles V--Spanish Viceroys' complaints--Zeal of the Inquisitors c...

The Inquisition in Spain abolished by Napoleon's invasion--Its revival--Persecution of the Freemasons--The "Tribunal of Faith" established--Inquisition in Portugal--The case of...