Of the Mode of Inquisition over the Believers

"As regards the deceitful course," says the translator, "which the aforementioned inquisitors were accustomed to take in carrying out their office, we would have no knowledge, except what some believers who escaped the Spanish Inquisition could have told us about it. But it was not the will of God that these tricks of theirs should remain hidden, or that we should obtain no copies of them, written by themselves. Behold, then, the cunning devices of the inquisitors, which served them as rules and instructions for conducting the proceedings against the Waldenses.