Addressed to Cardinal Wiseman, this history traces the Inquisition from its medieval origins through the persecution of Wycliffites and Hussites to its work in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, quoting trial records and earlier historians. It is a frankly anti-Catholic polemic of its time, reading the papacy through biblical prophecy as Antichrist.
A document of mid-Victorian Protestant controversy, useful to readers studying how the Inquisition was remembered. Download the free EPUB.