But it ruled in Sicily and Sardinia.] [Footnote 97: McCrie, p.

186.] [Footnote 98: Mutinelli, _Storia Arcana_, vol.i.p.

79.] It was sufficiently severe, however.

'At Rome,' writes a resident in 1568, 'some are daily burned, hanged, or beheaded; the prisons and places of confinement are filled, and they are obliged to build new ones.'[99] This general statement may be checked by extracts from the despatches of Venetian ambassadors in Rome, which, though they are not continuous, and cannot be supposed to give an exhaustive list of the victims of the Inquisition, enable us to judge with some degree of accuracy what the frequency of executions may have been.[100] [Footnote 99: McCrie, p.

272.] [Footnote 100: Mutinelli's _Storia Arcana_, etc.