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Professor Moses Tyler showes tersely and effectively the unmerical, intellectual, and social weight and legal justification of the Loyalists of our Revolution, by way of deprecating the treament to which they have hitherto been subjected. Mr. Henry C. Lea Contributes an inedited bull of Sixtus IV, from the Vatican archives for its bearing on the alleged hesitancy of that Pope to permit Ferdinand and Isabella to found the Spanish Inquisition...
...Europe, reaches back to the time of Nicholas V., who, in 1447, transferred the manuscripts in the Lateran, the church of highest dignity in the Roman Communion, to his own palace. In all he collected about 9,000 manuscripts, part of which were destroyed by his successor. Pope Sixtus V., however, showed great zeal in builking up the papal library. In 1588, he erected the beginning of the present structure. The celebrity of the Library dates from the sixteenth century, when important additions were made. In 1600, the institution contained 10,660 manuscripts-a large collection for that...