Note 540 — Chapter IV · THE STAKE.
Reading edition
Fontana, Documenta Vaticana, pp. 137, 145 (Rome, 1892). The Roman Inquisition made no pretence that its judgements were not final; it assumed that it sentenced to mutilation and death, and in this it claimed that those concerned were immune from the canonical irregularity.—Collectio Decretor S. Congr. Sti Officii, p 219 (MS. penes me).