Note (Back to Main Text) — Chapter III · RECONCILIATION WITH ROME.

The introduction of the Register was the Inquisition under another name. There was no limit, except in the humanity or the prudence of the bishops, to the tyranny which they would be enabled to exercise. The cardinal professed to desire that, before heretics were punished with death, mild means should first be tried with them;[439] the meaning which he attached to the words was illustrated in an instant example.