as it has subsisted in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Venice, Sicily, Sardinia, Milan, Poland, Flanders, &c. &c. : with a particular description of its secret prisons, modes of torture, style of accusation, trial, &c. &c.
abridged from the elaborate work of Philip Limborch ; introduced by an historical survey of the Christian church and illustrated by extracts from various writers and original manuscript, interesting particulars of persons who have suffered the terrors of that dark and sanguinary tribunal and political reflections on its revival in Spain ; by the decree of Ferdinand VII.