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A60256	The slaughter-house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition, in a method never before used in which is laid open the tyranny, insolence, perfidiousness, and barbarous cruelty of that tribunal, detected by several examples and observations / gathered together by the pains and study of James Salgado, a converted Spanish priest ...	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing S381A; ESTC R22786	24,890	72

Neighbour or Brother and the rather as one whom their care hath recovered from great sin and advanced to a new hope of glory Now let us see whether these things be found in this Office the Inquisition and so 1. First They are so so far from expressing love to their Prisoner that they pursue him with extream hatred keep him a Prisoner for ten or twelve years in some dark place where he may neither see the Sun nor speak with any other than the Goaler 2. So far from praying for him that they curse him and openly in the very Court use him like a Dog devising new crimes against him that they may destroy him for 't is the way of their dealing never to let go a Captive 3. Instead of punishing they reword false witnesses and bestow Salleries upon them 4. They never deal with a Prisoner with any respect to his temper and nature or candidly offer him his pardon nay as if the Prisoner were a Beast to be starved they with-hold his food from him 5. They conceal the Names and Persons of Accusers or deny them if they be guessed at by the Prisoner 6. They are so far from restoring goods that they spoil Wife and Children of the Goods which of right pertained unto them 7. So far from preserving your good name that they divulge the faults in the Theatre expose them to the disgrace of a Sambenito whip them openly condemn them to the Gallies until at last they have spoiled them of life honour and Estates on the whole matter we might enquire of these Judges and appeal to all that live in the Learned World whether the love faith prayers christianity tenderness for their honour the truth justice mercy of this Court may be found whether ought of these are in this Office where barbarous cruelty and Tyranny are the whole of its constitution so apparently none can deny it The third Title is Inquisition that is a scrutiny or search into secrets that they may be manifested for truths sake and this method as a part of the holy Government God did prescribe when by Moses he commanded Deut. 13.1 That the Prophet who endeavoured to draw away the people to strange Gods should be punished with death because he had spoken to turn them from the Lord their God Such a kind of Inquisition Christ commends to us in that Caution Take heed to your selves and beware of those that come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves Here the very Essence of the search lieth in an impartial enquiry for the Truth in a matter that was hidden Now let us enquire whether this Tribunal may in this sense be said to be an Inquisition which in very deed wants both name and thing according to this notion of an Inquisition They enquire not diligently after Crimes to amend the Criminal but earnestly hunt after Temporal Estates to seize them Of Old the Estates of Anathematized ones were not adjudged to the Exchequer but to the Fires now the Goods of such are adjudged neither to the Exchequer nor to the Fires but to Robbing Inquisitors Instead of producing the truth before men this Tribunal brings Lies openly to open view and by false Witness and Cheats condemns Innocents they transubstantiate falshoods and then proclaim them truths they contrive greatest injustices with greatest secresie they condemn Innocents by wiles and smother their righteous Cause which they never suffer to be pleaded this their Inquisition it suppresseth truth and murthers Innocents and enquires what gain from the Execution never what righteousness in the Judgment By all this it appears the Tribunal is neither Holy nor an Office nor an Inquisition Now let 's enquire whether it proceed by any Moral Doctrines of Vertue whether Justice or Fortitude or Temperance or Prudence steer their proceedings they are by what is written already convicted to act no whit like Christians let us now see whether they act like Moral Heathen Philosophers And here I shall begin first with Justice a Vertue which teacheth a man to lay his own and another mans Cause in an equal Balance and makes the Judge to remember that he who now judgeth another mans Cause must have his own judged e're long that he must not wrest judgment in favour of persons nor subvert judgment that it concerns him most to exercise judgment perfectly neither by too much lenity acquit nor with a cruel mind and thirsty of revenge torment the guilty He must not look to any reward nor do what may be condemn'd and punisht by his Superiour who made him Judge Justice will make a Judge diligent in examining Causes and weighing them again and again and consulting with wise and skilful men e're Sentence be passed When the justness of a Cause appears a Judge should have such a brave resolution and fortitude that none should be able to fright him into an unjust or from a just Sentence he should without Cowardise protect and acquit the Innocent and without Cowardise punish the guilty Offenders He should dare to pass an impartial Sentence upon a mature enquiry into the Cause of every one that is brought before him into judgment Farther the Judge should be of a very temperate and of a well-composed frame able with patience to hear all Parties and Causes and without prejudices toward the Cause with passions subdued to Reason Justice and Equity toward the persons to distinguish and determine the right from the wrong the good from the bad which no man in the uproar of passions can ever be able to do Now on view it will appear how naked and destitute of these Vertues this Court is how little the Inquisition is rul'd by these qualities What Justice is there where all Parties concern'd are not openly produced and where the Plea and Judgment is made secretly partially and designing to take the Prey What greater injustice then first to devise Crimes and charge them on Innocents to the taking away their life and next to seize their Estates and rob the Possessor and his Heirs If Murthers and Robberies may commend the Justice of a Pretended Court here 's Justice enough their Prudence hath no more of that Vertue than hellish perfidious and perjurious contrivances have of it and very often their imprudence proclaims it self and their Intrigues are brought to light to the reproach and just condemnation of their proceedings In a word they are not prudent enough to act justly nor prudent enough to conceal their injustice their courage to own an Innocent to save his life restore him to liberty and preserve his Estate out of the hands of their bloody Crew hath not one instance that I do know of if one or two in an age could be found that would willingly favour a righteous Cause and right a rich wealthy person accus'd such dare not thwart the covetous griping and spoiling designs of their Partners afraid they are of one another and of their cheating Instruments they use every way

this infamous Theatre Dominicus de Montesines Franciscus de Cacetes Francisous Vasquez Lewis de Valencia Emmanuel Gonzales each bearing a Green Wax Candle in their hand and fined each of ehem four thousand Crowns and if you would know the cause it was meerly through suspition forasmuch as they were of a Jewish Race for this they were forced under this dishonour to pay the debts they never owed Should we enquire we could not find a Law temper'd with any sound reason that adjudgeth men to torments on such slight suspition God himself Supreme Judge in the case of that Theft by Achan committed at Jericho directs Joshua to sind out and determine the person by lot when God Omniscient could have told who was the Offender But by such ordinary course in sight of all the people God will have the businefs decided to remove all suspition In the same year and City aforesaid Antonius de Vega was brought forth his case is ridiculous enough and as will appear deserves not our pity because of his own folly in it But let 's tell the injustice of the Inquisition This foolish man when at liberty went on his own accord accused himself that he once was of the Opinion that a man might be saved by the Law of Moses and that for some time he had observed it but through the Grace of God enlightned he acknowledged his errour was come to confess his sins at the footstool of their Tribunal and to sue for Absolution by the Judges of the Holy Inquisition Now though this action was voluntary and deserved forgiveness yet as in the English Proverb 't is confess and be hang'd So was Fernandes first cast into secret Prison and after three years detainure in Prison to bewail his sin the Judgment past against him to the Confiscation of all his Goods the attiring him with the Sambenito putting the Green Candle into his hand and so to be brought into the Theatre unutterable inhumanity What words can express this Tyranny Exclamations are too little to raise our wonder and indignation In the City Lerino there were two Women the Mother Major de Luna the Daughter Antonia who after they had confessed whether truly or falsly is uncertain forced thereto by the torments those Executioners put them to were drawn into the Theatre with Green Candles as condemned in their hands their Goods Consiscated the Daughter whipt with one hundred stripes the Mother with two hundred through the Streets This was done after they had been kept six years in Prison now 1652 both after these extreme rigours condemned to a perpetual imprisonment In the year 1639. in the Town Alcazar de Consuegra among other rich Families one there was whose Chief Head above the rest was a certain man by name de Villa Escusa a Jew by descent from those which had escap't the cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition Now so it happen'd that near to the Palace of the said de Villa Escusa lived a certain Maid an Orphan by the death of both her Parents with three Brethren the Eldest of which was not full six years old this Maid was of Christian Patents and over-much desired Marriage with that Noble Rich Man Lord of the place but he refus'd to Marry her that was Poor neither would he burthen himself with her three Brothers and answer'd those that courted him to the Match that had she not three Brothers he would have Married her When the Virgin perceived her self refused and disappointed of a great Match because she had Brothers she mad with Love resolved to kill the Children and to throw them into the Well out of which the Family of de Villa Escusa drew water for their houshold uses This devillish resolution she did put into practice one night and cut off the Heads of her own three Brethren and threw them into that Well After a while the Neighbours missing the Children with great out-cry resolved to search for them through the whole Town and Neighbourhood While this was doing a Smith who lived over-right de Villa Escusa's House with three Rogues more entered discourse among themselves and confidently affirm'd the Children kill'd by the Jews for Sacrifices such are the reasonings of the ignorant Vulgar forthwith they go to the Justicer of the place who took their Information but perceiving it proceeded of malice would meddle no more in it The Accusers perceiving this addressed themselves to the Inquisition and declared their most wicked thoughts and affirmed on Oath that De Villa Escusa had murthered the Children was also a Jew that at twelve at Night they heard the Children crying in De Villa Escusa's house but the Cry was in the house of the Sister of the Children They swear also that the Boys were seen to go into Villa Escusa's house late at Night but none ever saw them come out As for proof that Villa Escusa was a Jew they knew it they said because they had seen him put on his shirt on Saturday a mad proof but sufficient for the madder and more unreasonable Spanish Inquisition which could take this that had the least suspicion possible and make it the Ground of tormenting the Innocent like the Wolf that quartelled with the Lamb for fouling the water The innocent De Villa Escusa is seized his Well searched where at last they found the murthered Children He is put to the Wrack where not able to bear the pain he confessed all true of which he was accused that he had murthered the Children that he was a Jew a Mahumetan a Lutheran or whatever they would have him to be after this Confession his Goods are confiscated and attired with the Sambenito he is carried and delivered to the Secular Power which took care that he should that very day be hanged and quartered At the Gallows this poor man protested that being unable to bear the pains of the Wrack he had owned as done by him what he never had done and this he avowed upon his Death The Inhabitants of the Place do now jovially feast and rejoyce at the death of this poor man and load his Kindred with greatest disgrace but after two years the Sister Murtheress disappointed of her hoped Match went to Toledo to Confession and there confessed the Fact from which the Confessor would not absolve her till she had underwent great penance which when she had endured for one whole moneth one Morning cloathed with Sackcloth and her Head covered with Ashes and girded about with many Cords she comes abroad and publickly with a loud voice before the people cries out that she had killed her Brother to the end she might marry that Noble Personage That De Villa Escusa was inocent and suffered wrongfully that she declared this to appease and quiet her Conscience Now a certain Kinsman of the Dead Villa Escusa was present who brought her before the Judg of that Place by whom after she had confessed the Fact she was adjudged to be hanged and the four Witnesses being well