perhaps another 25,000 were sacrificed.

Motley (_Rise of the Dutch Republic_, vol.ii.p.

155) tells how in February 1568 a sentence of the Holy Office, confirmed by royal proclamation, condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands, some three millions of souls, with a few specially excepted persons, to death.

It was customary to burn the men and bury the women alive.

In considering this institution as a whole, we must bear in mind that it was extended to Mexico, Lima, Carthagena, the Indies, Sicily, Sardinia, Oran, Malta.