Quote#Kindness
Upon this I sent to the Register who brought me the [twenty-four]…
Quote byWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley · 1520–1598
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Whitgift, criticising the Court of High Commission which was persecuting nonconformists (1 July, 1584)..
English (original)
Upon this I sent to the Register who brought me the [twenty-four] articles, which I have read and find so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstance, as I think the Inquisitors of Spain use not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their prey. … this kind of proceeding is too much savouring of the Roman inquisition, and is rather a device to seek for offenders than to reform any.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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