Part three

In spite of efforts to impart uniformity to the courts, the distinctive character of the several courts has proved unconquerable. The character of the courts man built with his own personalities depending on the environment in which he lived.

Throughout Italy, the court of Rome adapted the policy of keeping divided as much as possible, the several internal states from each other that it might hold them all more easily in subjection; punishing those they chose by confiscation and finings.

While the Spaniard, being hot and vengeful, casted those they punished into dens, burned them, destroyed their dwellings and blotted out their names.

The Portugese courts, could not become even more savage in punishment. But it did become more brutal by its preference of human anguish in several degrees of pain and horror.

But the most interesting of all was the court of Inquisition in Mexico. They had an interesting punishment for heretics which they seemed to indulge in more than any other of the various courts. Where the other courts kept pretty much to burning their victims, Mexico liked to "wall" them up; make them part of the foundations and so give added strength to the buildings.