Inquisition at Goa, India – London, 1812

Dellon's Account of the Inquisition at Goa. Translated from the French. With an Appendix containing an Account of the Escape of Archibald Bower (one of the Inquisitors) from the Inquisition at Macerata, in Italy. London, 1812. English. A translation into English of Charles Dellon's book "Relation De L'inquisition De Goa" [the inquisition at Goa], in which he describes his arrest and investigation by the rising inquisition in Goa (India). Appendix –Archibald Bower's escape story from the inquisition in Italy. The Inquisition in Goa acted as an investigation office of the Portuguese inquisition in Goa and was in charge of other regions of the Portuguese Empire in Asia. The inquisition started its operation in 1560 and ceased in 1812. The inquisition persecuted those who converted into Catholicism. There was a suspicion that those who converted continued secretly to observe their original religion. Hundreds of Jews were murdered under the inquisition in Goa. Synagogues were destroyed or were converted into churches, tombstones were shattered and thousands were converted by force to Christianity. VIII, 187 pp, 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, several detached leaves, damages to binding. Ex library copy. Handwritten inscription from 1841 (of Backhouse family).