the Provost of Paris.--Jurisdiction of Parliament, its Duties and its
Responsibilities.--The Bailiwicks.--Struggles between Parliament and the
Châtelet.--Codification of the Customs and Usages.--Official
Cupidity.--Comparison between the Parliament and the Châtelet.


Secret Tribunals


The Old Man of the Mountain and his Followers in Syria.--The Castle of
Alamond, Paradise of Assassins.--Charlemagne the Founder of Secret
Tribunals amongst the Saxons.--The Holy Vehme.--Organization of the
Tribunal of the _Terre Rouge_, and Modes adopted in its
Procedures.--Condemnations and Execution of Sentences.--The Truth
respecting the Free Judges of Westphalia.--Duration and Fall of the
Vehmie Tribunal.--Council of Ten, in Venice; its Code and Secret
Decisions.--End of the Council of Ten.


Punishments


Refinements of Penal Cruelty.--Tortures for different Purposes.--Water,
Screw-boards, and the Rack.--The Executioner.--Female
Executioners.--Tortures.--Amende Honorable.--Torture of Fire, Real and
Feigned.--Auto-da-fé.--Red-hot Brazier or
Basin.--Beheading.--Quartering.--The Wheel.--Garotting.--Hanging.--The
Whip.--The Pillory.--The
Arquebuse.--Tickling.--Flaying.--Drowning.--Imprisonment.--Regulations
of Prisons.--The Iron Cage.--"The Leads" of Venice.