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found by the office, and Ins rncnjlrans de droit, which relies 
on the fafts as found ; but alfo he may (for the moft 
part) traverfe or deny the matter of faff itfelf, and put it 
in a courfe of trial by the common-law procefs of the 
court of chancery; yet (till, in fome Ipecial cafes, he hath 
no.remedy left but a mere petition of right. Finch, L. 324. 
Thel’e traverfes, as well as the monjirans de droit, were 
greatly-enlarged and regulated for the benefit of the lub- 
jeft, by the ltatutes before-mentioned, -p.nd others. And, 
in the traverfes thus given by ftatute, which came in the 
place of the old petition of right, the party travelling is 
confidered as the plaintiff - ; Law of Nifi Prius 201,- 2 ; and 
muff therefore make out hi,* own title, as well as impeach 
that of the crown, and then fhall have judgment quod ma- 
nus domini regis amoveantur, L 3 c. 3 Comm. 258, 260. 
Some of thefe inquifitions are in themfelves conviftions, 
and cannot afterwards be traverfed or denied; and there¬ 
fore the inquelt, or jury, ought to hear all that can be 
alleged on both Tides. Of this nature are all inquifitions 
of felo de fe\ of flight in perfons accufed .of felonyof 
deodands, and the like; and prefentments of petty offences 
in the (heritfs tourn or court-leet, whereupon the prefid- 
ing officer may fet a fine. Other inquifitions may be af¬ 
terwards traverfed and examined ; as particularly the co¬ 
roner’s inquifition of the death of a man, when it finds 
any one guilty of homicide ; for in fuch cafes the offen¬ 
der fo prelented muff be arraigned upon this inquifition, 
and may difpute the truth of it, which brings it to a kind 
of indictment j the molt ufual and effeftual means of profe- 
cution. 4 Comm. 301. See Indictment. 
INQUI'ETUDE, /. [Fr. from inquietude, Lat.] Dif- 
turbed ffate ; want of quiet; attack on the quiet.—Iron, 
that has flood long in a window, being thence taken, and 
by a cork balanced in water, where it may have a free 
mobility, will bewray a kind of inquietude and difeontent- 
ment ’till it attain the former pofition. V/otton. 
The youthful hero, with returning light, 
Kofe anxious from th’ inquietudes of night. Pope. 
INQUI'NA-NT, adj. Soiling the fingers when rubbed 
between them ; leaving coloured marks when rubbed 
again It other fubftances. A term in natural hiftory. 
‘To IN'QUINATE, v. a. [inquino , Lat.] To pollute; 
to corrupt.—An old opinion it was, that the ibis feeding 
upon ferpents, that vehemous food fo inquinated their oval 
conceptions, that they fometimes came forth in ferpentine 
Ihapes. Brown. 
INQUINA'TION, /. Corruption ; pollution.—The 
middle aftion, which produceth fuch imperfeft bodies, is 
fitly called by fome of the ancients inquination, or incon- 
coftion, which is a kind of putrefaction. Bacon. 
INQUI'RABLE, adj. [from inquire .] That of which 
inquifition or inqueft may be made. 
‘To INQUI'RE, v. n. [inquire, Lat.] To alk queftions; 
to make fearch ; to exert curiofity on any occalion : with 
f before the perlon alked.—It is a fubjeft of a very no¬ 
ble inquiry, to inquire of the more fubtle perceptions; for 
it is another key to open nature, as well as the houfe. 
Bacon. 
You have oft inquir'd 
After the fliepherd that complain’d of love. Shake/pcare. 
It is ufed with into when fomething is already imperfeftly 
known.—It may delerve our belt Ikill to inquire into thole 
rules, by which we may guide our judgment. South. 
The ftep-dame poifon for the fon prepares; 
The fon inquires into his father’s years. Dryden. 
Sometimes with of: 
Under their grateful fnade aSEneas fat; 
The left young Pallas kept, fix’d to his fide, 
And oft of winds inquir'd,' and e/fthe tide. Dryden. 
With after when fomething is loft or miffing; in which 
cafe for is likewife ufed.— Inquire for one Saul of Tarfus. 
jLih ix, ix.—They are more in danger to go out of the 
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way, who are marching under a guide that will miflead 
them, than he that is likelier to be prevailed on to inquire 
after the right way. Locke. —With about, when fuller in¬ 
telligence is defired.—To thole who inquired about me, my 
lover would anfwer, that I was an old dependent upon 
his family. Swift. —To make examination : 
Awful Rhadamanthus rules the ftate : 
He hears and judges each committed crime. 
Inquires into the manner, place, and time. Dryden. 
7 b INQUI'RE, v. a. To alk about; to feek out: as. 
He inquired the way.—To call; to name. Obfolcte : 
Canute had Iris portion from the reft, 
The which he call’d Canutium, for his hire. 
Now Cantium, which Kent we commonly.zhyzffrf. Spenfer. 
INQUI'RER, f. Searcher; examiner; one curious and 
inquifitive.—What fatisfaftion may be obtained from thofe 
violent difputes and eager inquirers into what day of the 
month the world began ? Brown. 
Late inquirers by their glaffes find, 
That ev’ry infeft of each different kind, 
In its own egg, chear’d by the folar rays. 
Organs involv’d and latent life difplays. Blackmore ,' 
One who interrogates; one who queftions. 
INQUIRING, f. The aft of alking after any things 
the aft of examining. 
INQUI'RY, f. Interrogation; fearch by queftion.— 
The men which were fent from Cornelius had made in¬ 
quiry for Simon’s houfe, and flood before the gate. Ads. —- 
Examination ; fearch.—Exaftnefs is abfolutely neceffary 
in inquiries after philofophical knowledge, and in contro- 
verfies about truth. Locke. 
Writ of Inquiry. See Writ. 
INQUISITION, f. [Fr. inquijitio, Lat.] Judicial inqui¬ 
ry.—Though it may be impolfible to recolleft every fail¬ 
ing, yet you are fo far to exercife an inquifition upon your- 
felf, as, by obferving Idler particulars, you may the bet¬ 
ter difeover what the corruption of your nature fways on 
to. Taylor. 
By your good leave, 
Thefe men will be your judges : we mull Hand 
The inquifition of their raillery 
On our condition. Southerne: 
Examination ; difeuffion.—We were willing to make a 
pattern or precedent of an exaft inquifition. Bacon. 
Inquisition, in law. See Inquest in law, p. 105. 
Inquisition, in the church of Rome, a tribunal in fe- 
veral Roman-catholic countries, erefted by the popes for 
the examination and puniffiment of heretics. The rife of 
this tribunal is traced by Dr. Molheim as follows : Dur¬ 
ing the whole courfe of the 13th century, the Roman pon¬ 
tiffs carried on the moft barbarous and inhuman perfecu- 
tion againft thofe whom they branded with the denomi¬ 
nation of heretics ; i. e. againft all thofe who called their 
pretended authority and jurifdiftion in queftion, or taught 
doftrines different from thofe which were adopted and 
propagated by the church of Rome. For the fefts of the 
Catharifts, Waldenfes, Petrobruffians, &c. gathered ftrength 
from day to day, fpread imperceptibly thoughout all Eu¬ 
rope, affembled numerous congregations in Italy, France, 
Spain, and Germany, and formed by degrees fuch a pow¬ 
erful party as rendered them formidable to the Roman 
pontiffs, and menaced the papal jurifdiftion with a fatal 
revolution. To the ancient fefts new faftions are added, 
which, though they differed from each other in various 
refpefts, yet were all unanimonfly agreed in this one 
point, viz. “That the public and eftabliflied religion was 
a motley fyftem of errors and fuperftition ; and that the 
dominion which the popes had ufurped over Chriitians, 
as alfo the authority they exercifed in religious matters, 
were unlawful and tyrannical.” Such were the notions 
propagated by the feftaries, who refuted the fuperftitions 
and impoftujes of. the times by arguments drawn from. 
