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Title: The Last Look
A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21395]

Language: English

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The Last Look, A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the
Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the
Catholic Church, of those who would not agree to its tenets, is getting
under way.

An Archbishop calls at the house of a former friend of his, a woman who
had refused him in love. The woman is the widow of a great nobleman.
The Archbishop is chatting to his former friend's daughter, and is
thinking how like the child is to what she had been. Unfortunately the
child artlessly gives away the fact that the family had now adopted
Protestantism, due perhaps to her father having met Luther while on
visits to Germany.

Some years later the child is now grown up, and has two suitors, one of
whom is a rich Catholic, and the other is a much poorer man but a
Protestant. She and others are meeting at the house of a woman who
often has such clandestine all-Protestant meetings, when they hear that
a person they all know has gone mad and has run around telling everyone
about these Protestant meetings. The Inquisition of course, with spies
everywhere, hears all about it. From then onward the story takes many
of them to the jails of the Inquisition, and some are burnt at the
auto-da-fe, a ritualised torture ceremony ending in death at the stake.

The book is short, only three hours to read, but very tensely written by
this great author. Audiobook recommended.

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THE LAST LOOK, A TALE OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.

The beauty of Seville is proverbial. "Who has not seen Seville, has not
seen a wonder