A Voyage to 



Order, and making it flourifli, feveral Courts of Ecciefi- 

 aftical Jurifdi&ion have been ere&ed in it. 



The firft is the Archbifhop's Court, compofed of the 

 Chapter of the Cathedral, and the Officiality ; its Officers 

 are, a Fifcal, or Attorney, a Solicitor, a Sergeant, and No- 

 taries. 



The fecond, and moft dreadful of all Courts, is that of 

 the Inquifition, whofe Name alone gives a Terror every 

 where, becaufe, i/?, The Informer is reckon'd as a Wit- 

 iiefs : idly y The Accufed have no Knowledge given them 

 of their Accufers : $dly y There is no Confronting of Wit- 

 neffes ; fo that innocent Perfons are daily taken up, whofe 

 only Crime is, that there are Perfons, whofe Intereft it is 

 to ruin them. However, they fay at Lima, that there is 

 no Caufe to complain of the Inquifition, perhaps becaufe 

 the Viceroy and the Archbilhops are at the Head of that 

 Body. 



The Inquifition was fettled at Lima in the Year i^tfp, 

 with all the Minifters, Counfellors,Qualificators,Ftf//////tfw, 

 Secretaries, and chief Sergeants^as it is in Spain. It has three 

 fuperiour Judges, who have each 3000 Pieces of Eight Sa- 

 lary : Their Jurisdiction extends throughout all the Spanijh 

 South America. 



The third Spiritual Court is that of the Croifade, which 

 is in fome Manner a Part of the Royal Court, becaufe 

 there belongs to it an Oidor, or Judge of the Court of Ju- 

 ftice. It was erected at Lima, in the Year 1603, under 

 the Direftion of a Commilfary-General, who keeps his 

 Court in his own Houfe, where he judges, with the Aflli- 

 ftanceof a Judge Confervator, a Secretary, a Comptroller, 

 a Treafurer, and other Officers, requifite for the Diftribu- 

 tion of the Bulls, and Examination of the Jubilee and In- 

 dulgences. His Salary is only 1 000 Pieces of Eight, which 

 is too much for fo ufelefs an Employment. 



Laftly, There is a fourth Court for the laft Wills and 

 Teftaments of the Dead, which calls to account Executors 



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