heresy-courts

Updated: May 24, 2025

There was the Dominican in the centre one of that Order which has had charge of heresy-courts since the beginning a large-faced, kindly featured, rosy man, with a crown of white hair, leaning back now with closed eyes, listening, and obviously alert; on his right, farther from the spectator, sat the Canon-Theologian of Westminster, a small, brown-faced man with black eyes, looking considerably younger than his years; and on this side the third judge, pale and bald and colourless a priest who held the degree of Doctor in Physical Science as well as in Theology he at this instant was drumming gently with a large white hand on the edge of his desk.

Robert Hugh Benson - Dawn of All