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The Newport Gazette
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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Letters from Turin dated October 21 report that the King of Sardinia has introduced regulations to curb abuses in the Inquisition, requiring royal oversight for imprisonments, thorough investigations before handing over prisoners, banning deaths in Inquisition prisons, and restricting friars from temporal matters, leading to nearly empty dungeons and public satisfaction.
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No Person can now be imprisoned by Order of the Inquisition, until the Matter is made known to his Majesty, upon which one or more of the Privy-Counsellors are commissioned to examine the Prisoners in Person: which done, they make their Report to the King, and the Prisoner is never given up to the Mercy of the Holy Office, until the Matter has been thoroughly sifted to the Bottom.
No Man, for the future, must suffer Death in the Prisons of the Inquisition. Thus, since the Power of the holy Friars has been so considerably abridged by the King, that they have been forbidden to meddle, in any Degree, with temporal Matters, their Dungeons are almost uninhabited.
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Turin
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October 21
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regulations abridge inquisition's power: no imprisonments without royal oversight, no deaths in prisons, friars forbidden from temporal matters; dungeons nearly uninhabited; greatest satisfaction to the people.
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The King of Sardinia has made regulations addressing abuses in the Inquisition. No person can be imprisoned without the matter being known to his Majesty, followed by examination by Privy-Counsellors and report to the King before handover to the Holy Office. No future deaths in Inquisition prisons. Holy Friars' power abridged, forbidden to meddle in temporal matters.