Note 567 — Chapter IV · THE STAKE.
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Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 153, fol. 95. This was the rule also in the Roman Inquisition. Del Bene tells us that strictly according to law the convicted heretic is to be burnt alive, but that “among Christians this is not followed, unless he is pertinacious, in which case there is no reason why he should not be burnt alive.”—De Officio S. Inquisitionis, II, 113 (Romæ, 1666).