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Time of Grace.—Its Efficiency 371 Buildings and Prisons 373 Personnel of the Tribunal 374 The Records.—Their Completeness and Importance 379 Familiars.—Question of Bearing Arms 381 Resources of the State at Command of Inquisitors 385 Episcopal Concurrence in Sentence 387 The Assembly of Experts 388 The Sermo or Auto de fé 391 Co-operation of Tribunals 394 Occasional Inquisitors-general 397   CHAPTER IX.—The Inquisitorial Process. Inquisitor both Judge and Confessor 399 Difficulty of Proving Heresy 400 The Inquisitorial Process universally Employed 401 Age of Responsibility.—Proceedings in Absentia.—The Dead 402 All Safeguards Withdrawn.—Secrecy of Procedure 405 Confession not Requisite for Conviction 407 Importance Attached to Confession 408 Interrogatory of the Accused 410 Resources for Extracting Confession.—Deceit 414 Irregular Tortures, Mental and Physical.—Delays 417 Formal Torture 421 Restricted by Clement V. 424 Rules for its Employment 426 Retraction of Confessions 428   CHAPTER X.—Evidence. Comparative Unimportance of Witnesses 430 Flimsiness of Evidence Admitted 431 The Crime Known as “Suspicion of Heresy” 433 Number of Witnesses.—No Restrictions as to Character or Age public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@39451@[email protected]#page_434" class="pginternal"