Part three of the entire work follows, which concerns the methods of exterminating them or at least punishing them through due justice in the ecclesiastical and civil court. it will have thirty-five questions, with a general introductory one added…
Question one: the method of initiating the proceedings
Question two: the number of witnesses
Question three
Question four: the status of the witnesses
Question five: whether mortal enemies are allowed to give testimony
Part two: how the proceedings | are to be continued (question six), and how the witnesses are to be examined in the presence of four other persons, and the two ways in which the denounced woman is to be questioned
List of questions for the witnesses
List of general questions concerning a sorceress or sorcerer (Step One)
List of specific questions concerning these same people
Question seven, in which various doubts are explained about the previous lists of questions and negative answers, whether the denounced woman should be imprisoned, and when she should be considered to be manifestly caught in the heresy of sorceresses…
Question eight (which is related to the preceding one): whether she should be imprisoned and the method of arrest (and the judge’s third step)
Question nine: what should be done after the arrest, and whether the names of those giving depositions should be made known to her (step four)
Question ten: how lines of defense are to be granted along with the assignment of an advocate (step five)
Question eleven: what the advocate will do when the names of the witnesses are not revealed to him (step six)
Question twelve follows on the same topic, further explaining how mortal enmity is to be investigated (step seven)
Question fourteen, concerning the things that the judge has to consider before setting out the list of questions in the prison and torture chamber (step nine)
Question fifteen: the method of sentencing the denounced woman to questioning under torture, how she is to be questioned in this way on the first day, and whether the judge can promise to spare her life (step ten)
Question fifteen, concerning the continuation of the torture and the stratagems and signs by which the judge can recognize a sorceress, and how he ought to forearm himself against their acts of sorcery, and how they should be shaved, and the…
Question sixteen: the time and method two of questioning (step twelve), concerning the final stratagems to be observed by the judge
Question seventeen: the vulgar form of purgation, and especially the examination by glowing iron, to which sorceresses appeal
Question eighteen: the definitive sentence as such, and how it should be passed
Question nineteen: how many methods create a suspicion that results in the passing of sentence
Question twenty: method one of passing sentence
Question twenty-one: method two of passing sentence on a denounced woman who merely has a bad reputation
Question twenty-two: method three of passing sentence on a woman with a bad reputation who is to be exposed to questioning under torture
Question twenty-three: method four of passing sentence on a denounced woman who is lightly suspected
Question twenty-four: method five of sentencing a woman vehemently suspected
Question twenty-five: method six of passing sentence on a denounced woman who is violently suspected
Question twenty-six: the method of passing sentence on a denounced woman who is suspected and has a bad reputation
Question twenty-seven: the method of passing sentence on a woman who has confessed heresy but is penitent
Question twenty-eight: the method of passing sentence on a woman who has confessed heresy but is relapsed, though repentant
Question twenty-nine: the method of passing sentence on a woman who has confessed heresy but is impenitent and yet not relapsed
Question thirty: the woman who has confessed heresy and relapsed and is impenitent
Question thirty-one: the person who is convicted and caught, but denies everything
Question thirty-two: the person who is convicted but who is a fugitive or contumaciously absents himself
Question thirty-three: how to pass sentence on a person denounced by another sorceress who has been or is to be burned to ashes
Question thirty-four: the method of passing sentence on a sorceress who breaks acts of sorcery, and on sorceress midwives and sorcerer archers
Question thirty-five of this last part: the methods of sentencing any sorcerers who lodge frivolous or unjust appeals