perquisition

Perquisition en cours dans un immeuble.

Perquisition en cours dans un immeuble.

We have had only two excitements here; the one the perquisition—indeed, by the way it was conducted, I may call it inquisition—for loot; the other, the constant plunder by those arrant thieves, the Gallas.

The Archbishop of Trèves made a perquisition through his city, and found three schools of heretics in full activity.

A number of Waldenses were already in the episcopal prison, and they made diligent perquisition after the rest.