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A01857	A full, ample and punctuall discouery of the barbarous, bloudy, and inhumane practises of the Spanish Inquisition, against Protestants with the originall thereof. Manifested in their proceedings against sundry particular persons, aswell English as others, upon whom they have executed their diabolicall tyrannie. A worke fit for these times, serving to withdraw the affections of all good Christians from that religion, which cannot be maintayned without those props of Hell. First written in Latin by Reginaldus Gonsaluius Montanus, and after translated into English.; Sanctae Inquisitionis Hispanicae artes aliquot detectae, ac palam traductae. English	González de Montes, R. (Raimundo), 16th cent.; Skinner, Vincent, d. 1616.	1625 (1625)	STC 11999; ESTC S117395	161,007	238

he chance to confesse nothing at all they will him to depart pretending that they know not without better information whether hee bee the same party whom they commanded to come before them or no. Whilst the party is thus in examination prouision is made that the promoter who gaue information against him is secretly hidden behind some tapistry where hee cannot be seen yet so as he may see the parties face and know if it be the same man or no if haply the Inquisitors know him not Then licence they him to depart being assured that it is he which shall minister matter for this tragedy and perhaps call him not before them of 2. or 3. moneths after specially if he be there inhabitant for if he be a forreiner they lightly giue him not so great respit The next time when their pleasure is to send for him they exhort him againe that if he know or haue heard any thing that concerneth their holy Court to disclose it vnto them For we know right well say they that you haue dealt with certain persons suspected in religion which if you will confesse of your own accord assure your selfe you shall receiue no harme therefore we charge you take heed and looke well to your selfe Our opinion is of you that like a good Christian man you will call to your remembrance such things as are by-past for indeed a mans memory is weak we wot well and may fail him and therfore it may be you haue forgotten and faine would tell all you know if you could call it to mind By these and such like subtilties they abuse many silly soules or els dismisse them for that time yet so as they shall not think themselues cleerly discharged but to keep them continually occupied and vnquieted in their minds and to make them stand in daily fear awe of them tell them it may be they shall haue further matter against them and occasion to call them againe Yet sometime it hapneth that they beare with some person and winke at him many dayes and with some whole yeares ere they cause him to be apprehended alwayes prouided that he shall haue one or other of these iolly mates to keepe him company wheresoeuer he go and waite vpon him at an inch to creepe into his bosome and grope his conscience who vnder the colour of friendship and familiarity very craftily and subtilly whilst he good man thinkes no harme shall daily come and visite him and haue an eye to all his doings mark with whom he conferreth where hee vseth to resort what he doth there and as nigh as may be whereabouts he goeth and what he intendeth in so much that without the speciall ayde of Gods holy prouidence it is not possible for a man to escape their snares Now if any of the Inquisitors chance to meet any such persons so dismissed they salute him very courteously and shew him a good countenance promising to stand his good friend All which courteous kind of entertainement tendeth to none other end but to make the man more carelesse of his estate and so to vndoe him ere he be aware But what good I pray you can they getby get by these detestable and abominable sleights except perhaps they vse them for their recreation and take like pleasure in them as doth the fouler in his pastime when hee playeth and dallieth with his game or the fisher who after he hath stricken the fish suffreth her to play with the line and to sport her selfe for a time that will scarfely last the turning of her taile or as the catte that playeth with the mouse after she hath giuen him some priuy pinch leaving him at large and hunting him afresh and by and by teareth him with her teeth and eateth vp euery morsell Wherein it may be that some secret mystery lies hid which all the world perceiues not nor altogether without gain to these holy Officers Howbeit this kind of dallying with their prey they vse not with euery body alike in such sort as is before declared For they haue very great respect of persons and causes in this behalf Which is a plain token that they deal not in this sort either with such strangers or town-dwellers as they thinke are like to escape from them by this liberty neither yet with such as are charged with great matters whom they thinke needfull to be seen vnto betimes specially if there be any hope that by their confession they shall haue intelligence of any other But first when they are determined to apprehend any person that is accused they vse to send for the Bishops deputy of that diocesse or Ordinary as they call him and making him priuy to the depositions of the witnesses against the party accused which they call an Information after a little consultation had with him of the matter they all subscribe to a writing which is a warrant directed from them to attach him which kind of dealing seemeth to haue a shew of good equity Forsooth they wil not bee thought to touch any of another mans flocke without th' aduise consent of his own Pastor who being full ignorant vnskilfull God knows in the duty of a Pastor as commonly all of that coat vnder Papacy are is brought to giue his consent that the sheep ouer whom he hath a speciall charge shall first be fleeced afterward miserably slain bereft of goods life For as yet there hath neuer any breach bin heard of about these matters betwixt the Inquisitors and the Ordinary for defending any of his flocke that hath been by them sent to execution Yet may a man see oftētimes yea daily almost great numbers dy in prison some hunger-steru'd some extreamly racked and dismembred in euery ioynt of their bodies some euen in the midst of their torments yeelding vp the Ghost betwixt the tormentors hands as I will not faile hereafter to declare when I shall be occasioned to treate therof more conueniently insomuch that the Inquisitors wil say of some of them that they were as harmlesse men and as innocent and put to death as wrongfully as any men could be Wherby it is euident that this sending for the Ordinary to confer withall about the apprehending of some vnder his cure is a very vaine thing and rather a foolish ceremony than a matter serious or done of any iustice And to tell the plaine truth their manner is to bid the Ordinary to a banquet to quaffe his part of the blood of his owne sheepe that the wolues may continue the faster friends Our Lord Christ the great shepheard of the sheepe come when hee seeth his time and render to each of them according to their owne deserts Yet sometimes it hapneth that they call not the Ordinary to counsell before the party be both accused and apprehended For being well assured that hee will not gainsay them nor controule any of their doings they thinke it enough when the party is fast forthcomming

points concerning saluation by their only questionings collections illations brought either in forme or out of forme haue departed thence very well instructed wherof this rude fellow of the countrey of whom I last made mention may bee a sufficient testimony Moreouer if he party chance to confesse ought they vse to haue another hooke ready bayted sharpe and perilous enough I warrant you to wit they enquire of him whatsoeuer it be of whom he learned or heard it or if he haue haply read it in some booke or if hee haue had any conference with any other about the same matter or he himselfe haue been an instructer to others or by any meanes haue mentioned it in the presence of any in what place he did so and who they were that stood by For whosoeuer was present whether they liked his talk or no yea though it were his owne father or nigher him if nigher could be they are sure to buy it full dearly the Inquisitors will haue a f●irt at them because they came not foorth with made complaint thereof vnto them All which things it behooues a man greatly to be cunning in that if it be Gods will that he fall into their hands he may learne before hand out of his holy word and will how to preuent them and prouide an answer to such demands lest he vndoe both himselfe and others through his owne folly and negligence At the last when his accusation is read if the party be an infant as we tearme one within age they prouide him a Patron whom they call a Tutor A very godly way no doubt if such a man were appointed to that place as would play his part stoutly and as it becometh him in respect of his office Howbeit he is no such manner of man as the infant would and should haue for the better bringing of his matters about but one of their own choce which either is a very wolfe to ioyn with them against the simple lambe or at the most to stand like a cipher in Arithmetick and doe nothing but fill vp a place and for fashion sake and order stand in stead of a Tutor to performe the ceremonies and circumstances of the law For most commonly the Porter of their holy house serueth that turne or in his absence some other of the Porters lodge and indeede but onely that he beareth the bare name and title of a Tutor dealing in nothing that appertaines to the office my Lords Muleter may easily be Tutor in such sort to the whole company of the prisoners all at once By reason whereof the Porter cannot alwayes bee ready to answer euery body that knocketh at the gate And on this sort do these holy Fathers fulfill the commandements of God and the laws of man touching poore infants and orphanes who as well by the law of God as of nature are commended so specially to the consideration and regard of all men but most chiefly to Iudges Neither rest they here contenting themselues to mocke the law in this point alone but in another of more importance wheras the law prouideth that euery defendant shall haue his Aduocate some man expert in the law to pleade his cause and order it discreetly according to law and conscience and to defend their right if any they haue or at the least to temper the rigor of the law lest it be construed and ministred with extremity in this so waighty a matter and the onely succour that these silly soules haue to helpe themselues withall they deale with them in like sort as they do in the former for appointing them a Tutor and so shift it off with a meere shadow and a bare ceremony onely because it is a very waighty matter therefore they would seeme full of curtesie and humanitie and would faine cloke their wicked contempt of lawes with some goodly pretence For they name vnto the party 3. or 4. of the most famous men toward the lawes to chuse out of them some one to pleade his cause and besides all this their gentlenesse of fatherly affection I dare say they aduise him to take such a man who in their iudgements is the best learned And what would a man desire more Yet whosoeuer is chosen to be his Aduocate will bee sure that he tell not his Clyent any point of law that may doe him ease any way For he knoweth right well that if the Inquisitors haue intelligence thereof he shall not scape scotfree seeing their meaning is nothing lesse then to prouide him an Aduocate to defend his cause but onely to bleare the common peoples eyes withal and make them beleeue that they proceede by order of law like good conscionable Fathers where in very deede they compasse their matters both against Gods lawe and mans For the Aduocate and his Clyent may not so much as haue a word together secretly of any matter but in presence and hearing of the Inquisitours or of some Notary And what doth the Aduocate then would a man thinke Marry he receiueth his Clyents answer to the accusation rude and rough hewn as it were and that doth he smooth and set together in forme of lawe yet ilfauouredly framed full oft God wot and all this while taketh vpon him the name of an Aduocate onely to delude the lawe withall But forward to our purpose Within 2. or 3. dayes after the party hath had the copy of his accusation he is called into the court where his aduocate standeth like one that would stoutly defend his Clyentes cause and saue all such matters as should seeme to make against him Then the Inquisitour as though hee had done the party an high pleasure discharged his conscience wholly for that part of the lawe pointeth out the Clyent his Aduocate with his finger and straightway falleth into his old note exhorting him to vtter the truth and take heede to his conscience and if hee haue any more to say to say it at once All which time the Aduocate sitteth or standeth mute and if he haue ought to say yet dare hee not let it come out before hee haue made the Inquisitours of his counsell For the Aduocate all the while that hee is telling his tale so eyeth the Inquisitours that one of their eyes is neuer off from the other the Inquisitour is so much afraid lest the prating Aduocate vtter something rashly vnawares wherin the Clyent might espy somwhat for his aduantage in lawe and so auoyd the danger of their secret and hidden snares The Aduocate on the other side is as much afraid and quaketh euery part of him lest any word chance to slip him suddenly that the Inquisitours happly shall not well like of and therefore dare say nothing for his Clyent but onely giue him a few wordes of comfort and bid him bee of good cheer and tell the truth in any case saying that that is the onely way to preuaile in this Court and as for me saith he I will be

their places they begin with him againe and exhort him afresh to speake the truth freely and voluntarily otherwise at his owne perill be it For if either his arme or his legge or any other ioint be broken in the Rack as it happeneth to diuers so that hee chance to dye thereof for more gently than so they mean not to deal with him let him blame no man but himselfe For they think that after they haue giuen him this faire warning they are now discharged in conscience both before God and man and therefore are guiltlesse what harm soeuer come vnto him by meanes of the Rack yea though he dye thereon as innocent as the child newly borne After this with sharp rebukes and menacing words they command that the party bee stripped starke naked be it hee or shee yea though it were one wel knowne to be the most honest and chaste mayden or matron in all the city as they bee neuer lightly without sundry such in this their shambles whose grief I dare wel say is not halfe so great in respect of any torments that presently they endure as it is to be seen naked in such a presence and of such maner of persons For these wicked Villaines without any regard of humanity or honesty which mee thinkes they should somwhat respect if it were but onely for their long beardes and side-gownes with the name countenance of grauity and holines which they pretend seeing that neither for Gods sake nor for the honesty of the good and godly matrons and sober maydens they wil not forbear one iote of that barbarous impudency cause them first to be stripped into their shirts and smockes and then out of them also welnigh sauing your reuerence vp to their priuities drawing on a close linnen breech after that make bare their arms also to their shoulders as tho the Wrench and Rack wherewith they are about to torment them were not able to pearce their linne or as tho their linnen breeches would more manerly couer those partes which they may bee ashamed to discouer then could their side-shirts or smockes And here those ranke R●mmes declare how they will not lose that diuellish pleasure which they take in that shameful and vnseemly sight though the poore wretches that suffer this buy it both with paine and shame enough full dearely The which thing surely is a good occasion why that after this shamefull and impudent dealing of these Fathers of the faith bee once noysed and bruted abroad they whose wiues or daughters eyther haue already or may hereafter fall or presently are in this the holy Fathers foule handling suffering this shamefull villany should be vtterly abhorred and shunned of all the people wheresoeuer they goe aswell of Papists as of other because they ought to esteeme the honesty and chastity of their daughters and wiues aboue all other treasures But to returne to our purpose When the parties are thus stripped out of all their clothes be it he or shee into their linnen breeches they signifie unto the Tormenter by some token in what sort they would haue the party ordered For this is one other peece of their art to talke by signes and watch-words like to pedlers french wherein from the highest to the lowest all the pack of them in that cursed Court as well Iacke layler as my Lord Iudge can vnderstand one another very readily As for the torments by the which these holy Fathers vse to bring men to their beliefe as they be many in number so in sorts they are sundry yea moe by a great many than any poore soule is able to endure or can come to the knowledge of But the most vsuall be the Ieobit and Pullie with water cordes and fire whereof I meane to speake seuerally And yet haue they one other cast at him first ere he goe to his punishmēt perswading him afresh to vtter whatsoeuer he knoweth either by himselfe or by others of his acquaintance In the mean space while they are thus communing with him one commeth behind him and bindeth his hands with a cord 8. or 10. times about and because nothing should be thought to be done without authority and order of law the Inquisitour calleth vpon him to straine each harder than other Being thus bound to the Racke they begin yet once againe to perswade with him and besides the binding together of his hands they also cause his thumbes to be bound with some smaller line drawne very straite and so fasten both the lines that tye both his hands and thumbes to a certaine Pullie which hangeth on the Ieobit Then knocke they great and heauy bolts vpon his heeles if the party haue none already or else hang betwixt both his feete vpon those bolts which he hath certaine waights of Iron at the first time but of fiue pound and so hoyse him vp from the ground Whiles the poore wretch hangeth in this plight they fall to their perswasions once againe commanding the hangman to hoyse him vp on high to the very beame till his head touch the Pullie Then cryeth the Inquisitor and the Clerk vpon him to confesse somewhat promising to let him downe out of hand if so be that he will be ruled otherwise they tell him that he is like to tarry there till hee would be glad to declare whatsoeuer they would haue him After he hath hung thus a good space and will grant nothing they command him to be let downe and twice so much Iron more to bee layde on his heeles and so hoysed vp againe one inch higher if it may be threatning him that he shall dye none other death except he declare vnto them the truth in such matters as they demand of him therefore charge the hangman to let him vp and downe that the waight of the Iron hanging at his heeles may rent euery ioynt in his body from other At which intolerable paines piercing all the parts of his body if the party shrike or cry out as he hath good cause to doe they are as loude on the other side roaring and yelling vpon him to declare the truth then or else they tell him hee shall come downe with a vengeance Neither will they onely say so but the party shall find it so For if hee continue in the same mind they goe on forward as fast in their mad moodes and bid the hang man to slip the ropes suddenly that he may fall downe with a sway and in the halfe way to stop giue him the Strappado which being done with a trice all his whole body is out of frame both armes shoulders back legs and all the rest of his ioynts by reason of the exceeding great waight hanging at his heeles and the sudden sway tearing each part from other And yet here is no ho with them neither For renuing their exhortation and threats if he will not yield vnto them they cause more Iron to bee added the third time so that the poore wretch being