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 * 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 * All Safeguards Withdrawn.—Secrecy of Procedure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
 * 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
 * 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
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 * Suppression of Names of Witnesses
 * 437
 * Evidence sometimes Withheld
 * 439
 * Frequency of False-witness.—Its Penalty
 * 440
 * 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
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 * 449
 * Condemmation virtually Inevitable
 * 453
 * Suspicion of Heresy,— Light, Vehement, and Violent.
 * 454
 * Purgation by Conjurators
 * 455
 * Abjuration
 * 457
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 * Abjuration
 * 457
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