>Dear George: the French assuredly took the inquisitorial archives to
>Paris, but who actually destroyed them and when? John
Dear John,
apparently (according to the fount of knowledge, the *Times Higher*), they were
destroyed between 1815 and 1817 by order of Monsignor Marino Marini, who had been
sent from Rome to recover them.
Why, if on a mission from Rome, he would destroy them, I do not know; does anyone
out there?
George
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