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“I had the curiosity to enquire, in a particular manner, by what method great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honor and prodigious estates.” What answers did the author get out of his enquiries? How do they reveal a scene of infamy?
The author had a curiosity to enquire, in a particular manner, by what method great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honor and prodigious estates. The answers he got were infamous and shocking, perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, panderism, and the like infirmities were among the most common methods used. Some confessed they owed their greatness and wealth to vice, sodomy, or incest; others to the prostituting of their own wives and daughters; others to the betraying of their country or their prince, some to poisoning, more to the perverting of justice in order to destroy the innocent. All these revelations filled the heart of the author with shame and disgust at the corruption of the nobility.