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  • At Venice Ignatius was again accused of heresy, and it was said that he had escaped from the Inquisition in Spain and had been burnt in effigy at Paris.
  • Fred had taken care of the early morning chores as Dean poured himself his first cup of coffee, dreading the inquisition he knew would be forthcoming from the old man.
  • On the 1st of July 1416 Chicheley directed a halfyearly inquisition by archdeacons to hunt out heretics.
  • Peter had already determined to institute a most searching inquisition in order to get at the bottom of the mystery of the flight.
  • It was believed that its object was the introduction of the dreaded form of the Inquisition established in Spain, and in any case more systematic and stringent measures for the stamping out of heresy.
 
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