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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, Vol. 2 of 2: Compiled Chiefly From His Correspondence Preserved in Her Majesty's State-Paper Office; Including Notices of Many of His Contemporaries
N ext, - and this was by far the most formidable of the evils with which Flanders was threatened, came the projected introduction of the Inquisition into that country. This odious project exasperated all classes, and aroused, as might be expected, the indignation of the populace to the last degree. They made up their minds that their enemy, the cardinal, was at the root of this grievance also; that he had proposed the measure to King Philip and that it was a scheme for making himself Inquisitor-general, while the twelve bishops were to become lnquisitors, each over his respective diocese. The ostensible motive for the intro duction of this system, was the same which had been assigned for the formation of the new bi shoprics, - namely, the security of the established Roman Catholic religion: but whereas the latter measure, however unpopular at first, proved in a short space so far palatable, that at the Council of Trent it encountered but little opposition, the affair-of the Inquisition was soon found to be altogether intolerable. It admitted of no compro mise, and became eventually the grand pretext for rebellion, and the immediate occasion of all the horrors of the civil War which ensued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
