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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

accusation and all that is deposed against them which by order and common course of law should haue beene the first act that should haue beene done against them and all is to this onely end to make the party vtter somewhat of himselfe rashly and vnawares that they as yet know not of They aduise him moreouer to let it come from himselfe promising that if hee will acknowledge his faults voluntarily he shall be foorthwith sent home againe to his owne house and bee dispatched with all expedition and dealt withall as gently as may be But if for all these vaine and flattering promises he hold them hard and stand mute as indeede it is best for him they charge him earnestly to disburden his owne conscience and when he hath bethought himselfe and is disposed to confesse any thing that then he should sue to come to his answer saying that in the meane time they will consider of his case and so they remand him to prison Then after 6. or 8. dayes or mo as they thinke good they call for him againe and aske him if as yet he be determined to confesse ought The prisoner answereth either that he hath nothing to say but that he is innocent or perhaps confesseth somewhat But whatsoeuer his answer be they are sure still harping on their old string vrging him to discharge his conscience and perswading him that they goe about no other thing but to doe him good and to procure his safety of very loue and meere compassion which they take vpon him Which gentlenesse of theirs and well meaning towards him if he refuse now and set light by he shall finde them sharpe Iusticers hencefoorth if the Fiscall informe against him and so send him againe to prison The Fiscall is an officer which taketh all such accusations as the Promoters bring vnto him and by office is the onely pleader during the whole time that the causes be hanging as it were the Kings Atturney hauing his name no doubt à Fisco that is to say the Eschecquer for whose aduantage he is altogether and from whence hee is answered his fee. At the third day of audience the party is called for againe and demanded if yet hee be resolued what to doe with earnest request after their accustomed maner to confesse a troth of his owne accord if not they threaten to vse extremity towards him and what they can do by law And here they vnderstand by this word law extreme tormenting and mangling of men yea such as their owne owne lawes doe prooue very Innocents saying hee may well assure himselfe that no man shall sustaine any iniury within their holy Office and that their fashion is not to trouble any man but vpon good and sufficient information against him with such like talke Howbeit if the party happen to disclose any thing nay say they yet are we not satisfied we haue not all you can say we suspect you keepe something in of purpose and so send him to prison putting him to further paine and calling him coram day by day as they perceiue that by these means they wring more more out of him though it be but by little little But if he stand stoutely in the matter giuing them direct answer that he hath nought to say in that place by a shift of descant as it were they try him another way exacting an oth of him to the intent to proue his zeal they hold him an Idol representing the crucifixe couered with a blacke lawn certain other Idols I wot not what They do also lay before him a Masse book or a Missall and sometime the bare image of the crosse For such deuices and foolish toyes as these be they haue alwaies in a readines to vse as occasion serueth as they think most requisit respecting the party whom they are to deal withall Here is the Christian man driuen into a narrow streight so that he must needs vtter himself and plainly shew what he is in conscience and in belief For if he be a faithfull man indeed and one that from the bottom of his heart abhorres Idolatry hauing before his eies the fear of God most mighty iealous which in his most holy law hath reserued this glory to himself that we should swear by him alone he will beware that in no wise he giue part therof to such vile Idols of wood or mettall which being made to resemble the highest in shape are so much the more abominable in the sight of God and of his congregation Therefore a godly man will take heed of such a wicked and vngodly oath yea though he were to be torne in pieces presently seeing they be very Idols and not God to whom alone that honour belongeth as the Inquisitours themselues cannot say to the contrary After they haue thus put him to his oath they begin to examine him vpon these interrogat●rie● What countrey man hee is and vnder whose allegeance Of what Prouince or Diocesse In what city town or village he dwelleth Who were his ancestors what their names were What brethren or sisters he hath What his father and mother were and what were their names how they liued and by what trade and occupation If he or any of his kindred at any time haue beene conuented before the Inquisitours and vpon what occasions Moreouer many other things they inquire of him as of his age and trade of life where and with what manner of men he hath been most conuersant and thus is he sorced to giue a straight account of his whole life where he hath passed his time yearly and made his most abode answering to euery point by it selfe seuerally For out of each of these questions they fetch no small arguments wherewith they charge the poore soule afterward too too pittifully When he hath answered to all these by-questions then fal they afresh to their old exhortation sometime by faire meanes and sometime by foule aduising him to tell the truth frankely assuring him that they neuer cause any to bee arrested without iust cause why or without sufficient witnesses so that whether he confesse or no away he goeth to prison againe And in these three first times of hearing a great sort are either allured with their faire speeches and promises that they shall bee sent home to ther owne houses as soone as they will confesse that that is demanded of them or else of very awe and feare of their euill and menacing words vtter many things whereof the Inquisitors knew not one iot before because none had informed them thereof but themselues onely suspected lest they had been accused by some with whom they had dealt heretofore in such affaires Thus betraying themselues like fooles they bring other men into as euill case as themselues which perhaps neither feared any such matter at all nor the Inquisitors had euer heard any thing of them before But most of all when they perceiue that these most holy Fathers who hunt after nothing

liberality gracious goodnesse vseth to grant vnto diuerse such money as should bee leuied for pardon of the Sambenite and other punishment towards the redeeming of their brethren and allies being taken prisoners by the Turkes or Moores And yet whosoeuer sueth vnto the King for anie such pardon must first in any case make the Inquisitours and the Clerks or other Officers of that Court his friends otherwise both the Kings owne charter and the payment made by the partie besides notwithstanding they will auoide him by hooke or by crooke and tell him plainly be it the King or the Pope himselfe that granted the pardon he must bee better enformed how the case standeth ere he may depart so lightly Then if the matter be brought to that passe it is an easie thing for them to imagine that the partie is not so cleared but that there was good cause a while to make a stay But when anie hath iudgement of Imprisonment during the chiefe Inquisitours pleasure who for certaine secret occasions to him knowne will not bee entreated and yet cannot well with honestie repulse the suters albeit hee doe them manifest iniurie to detaine them so long hee will conuey the matter full cunningly saying that he is content to referre it to the Inquisitours by whom the iudgement was giuen And when the partie resorteth to them then straight-way is he posted ouer from them backe againe to the high Inquisitor alledging that the determination hereof belongeth vnto him and so by meanes that one of them vnderstandeth the others meaning they dally and prolong the poor mans imprisonment driuing him off from day to day so long as it pleaseth them In like maner the punishment is limited by the inferiour Inquisitours For when they are loth to be entreated they pass it to the high Inquisitor and so one of them serueth another and therefore except the partie goe cunningly to worke and bribe eyther the Clerke or some other Officer of the holy House that with no small gubbe and there begin the ground of his sute all his labour and cost bestowed vpon the redeeming of his imprisonment is quite lost But if any of the Inquisitors or any chiefe Officer of the Court doe make intercession for the partie then straight-way the other vnderstand that it is done vpon some such speciall occasions as they know whereupon the suter is moued to pittie the state of the poor prisoner specially if he vse the ordinary words known and vsed among themselues in cases of petition Which is on this sort My very good Lordes my humble sute to your good Lordships is that such a prisoners cause may bee fauourably considered of whose good life and conuersation but specially of his patience in the time of his imprisonment I haue beene sufficiently and substantially enformed Here are intermedled two or three good words in his commendation but moderately lest it should be thought that hee were too carefull ouer him The conclusion then is that it would please their Lordships to determine whether the partie shall bee released yea or no. And of such as escape thus hardly through the bryars it costeth some the one halfe of their goods some all and some a peece as it pleaseth the Inquisitours to deale with them For they are perswaded this to be the nighest way to bring them home again that are any thing gone astray or become aliens from the faith Or perhaps the holy House thinketh it to be against Gods Lawes that an hereticke should haue whereupon to liue Or else belike they haue found out an Aphorisme for their purpose that as a surfetter must vse a temperate and a thin diet so must an heretick also be kept low lest he swell and grow vp therein and therefore take it for a soueraigne medicine to keepe him so hungrie that he must be faine to begge his bread Moreouer of these as is abouesaid some haue iudgement besides the wearing of the habite and suffring imprisonment to be also whipped Some both to be whipped afterward set to the Gally But these sharper kinds of punishments they commonly vse to strangers be they neuer so small offenders to bee euen with them this way because they make so light of wearing the Sambenite for most of them make but a iest of it And all these proceed from the Inquisitours owne mercie The last and least penaltie is appointed for such as in their iudgements haue committed but a light offence that is to bee brought vpon the scaffold bare-headed and without anie cloake hauing in his hand a waxe taper whereof some are commanded to make Abiuration ex vehementi Some ex levi Abiuration de vehementi they call when it appeared not in the hearing and debating of anie mans cause what is certainely to bee determined for want of sufficient proofe and because the partie himselfe confessed nothing that deserued anie maner of punishment Therefore vpon such a fellow whom they may neyther by iustice condemne for an hereticke nor of their consciences can absolue and set at libertie specially hauing some apparant tokens of scarce good beliefe they giue sentence vpon him as vpon one vehemently suspected and so according to their suspicion they cause him to abiure And such a man being afterward found guilty be it in the least tittle of papistrie they take for a relapse and condemne to the fire Abiuration de levi is much after the same maner but that it is enioined vpon smaller offences in their iudgements whether the matter hath been apparant or no. Howbeit no such person though he be taken with the same maner againe shall be reputed for a relapse or haue iudgement of death therefore albeit the qualifying of the second offence that is to say the iudgement and estimation thereof bee referred to the Inquisitours And this kinde of abiuration is for the most part vsed in other matters then concerning Luthers doctrine as for example fornication forsooth betwixt single persons as though it were no sin therefore it is accustomably punished but as a trifling toy by carrying of a waxe candle and by abiuration deleui Yet at some times they punish this sin with the whip and that verie extreamly but if the party offend a thousand times after so that he put himselfe vpon the Inquisitours mercie he is sure neuer to dye therefore Loe these be the goodly means wherby these good fathers bring into the right way the weaklings as Paul tearmeth them And thus much concerning their deuices practised in the Inquisition till the time come that we may see the fall of that arke of Iniquitie with the hidden secrets and mysteries thereof further disclosed and all those things fulfilled and accomplished which in time no doubt must be reuealed and come to passe vpon this holy Inquisition these good Fathers and their holy House finally vpon the whole man of sin which God threatneth by his Prophet shall fall vpon all such wicked hypocrites which to the ouerthrowing of

danger if a man would haue these secrecies come to light that haue beene kept close so long to the great decay and hinderance of the Common wealth Wherefore if small credite shall be giuen to vs in this Treatise or none at all because wee be as it were a partie and therefore justly to be suspected seeing for our owne parts wee desire no credite but referre the matter wholly to diligent and orderly triall there is no cause why any should thinke better or worse of it for vs but judge of it indifferently by it selfe as it is Moreouer it is as greatly pertinent to our purpose to shew how we came to the knowledge hereof Wherein albeit we take God to record and our conscience that all this is true yet notwithstanding wee craue no such credite to be aided thereby neither shall any have just cause to lay that to our charge that we haue gone from the triall of the matter and vsed this as a shift But to passe the Kings treasuris and the enriching of other priuate persons howsoeuer they came by their wealth because wee would not bee thought to enuie their prosperitie of many other and so great commodities as wee haue before rehearsed whereof the fauourers and maintainers of the Inquisition do commonly make their bragges that there is nothing that maketh for them but rather for the contrary part it is easie for any man to perceiue that will consider with us but thus much that of so many thousands of people either Turkes or Iewes or true Christians or heretikes as they terme them and reuolters from the Romish faith as haue come within the Inquisitours iurisdiction from the very first beginning of the Inquisition till this day there are to bee seene many thousands of Sambenites as mounments of some that were burned some whom besides the perpetuall and vnrecouerable infamie that hath red●unded thereby both to themselues and to their whole posteritie they haue bin depriued of all their substance To be short that so many spoiles of poor soules doe remaine to be seene as haue suffred at their hands for very trifles but of any whom they haue instructed and amended or withdrawn from their errors not so much as one example ●or any one memoriall Now as concerning the originall of the Inquisition the continuance and the glorious title that bleareth and bl 〈…〉 deth mens eyes now adayes for what man is he that would bow downe and worship these sacred names and titles The holy Inquisition The fathers of the faith The Inquisitors of leud heresies and apostacie I will speak somewhat to the intent men may vnderstand by what right they claime and hold the same After the warres were ended wherin Ferdinando and Isabella of famous memory expelled the Turkes out of the territory and Citie of Granata and other places in Spaine which had vsurped there by the space of 778. yeares from the time of Roderico the last king of Spain that was of the race and line of the Goths hauing restored their country into the ancient estate that it was in before and gotten to themselues perpetuall fame and renowne they fell from those continuall troubles and tumults of warre to reforming and purging of religion The occasion whereof came as well by the Mores that being conquered had liberty to remaine in Spaine and enjoy all their goods with condition that they should receiue the christian faith as by the Iewes that were in number as many as the other who were permitted to continue still vnder the same condition that the Mores did commandement being giuen to all that were not content to admit this condition that they should immediately depart Spaine passing ouer the straites of Marrocke and retyre into their owne countrey For the Iewes as their most ancient Chronicles doe report did inhabite Spaine from the time that Titus Emperor of Rome destroyed Ierulalem Who caused them to bee transported thither there to remaine in miserie and thraldome being notwithstanding in good case for one thing in that they were not compelled by any to alter their religion till the time of Ferdinando Whereupon the kings of Spaine considering that those people were but only Christians by name and for fashion sake submitting themselues for feare and awe and for safegard of their riches rather then any loue or zeal which they bare to christianitie deuised to make prouision and to take some order for their better instruction A godly purpose surely and meet for christian Princes if euill counsellers had not maliciously peruerted their good intents For there were alwayes about the king certaine Friers of the order of Saint Dommicke to whom diuers well disposed Princes gaue very great care and credit especially in matters of religion and conscience which being a proud and ambitious sect that tooke vpon them great skill and outwardlly professed much holinesse most arrogantly and impudently by meanes thereof had more free acc●sse to Princes privie chambers and thereupon growing to be of their priuie counsell and obtaining such credit that kings were content to bee ordered and directed by them in these and such like good purposes whereas they should haue prouided godly instructors pastors and teachers to win and allure the counterfait christians as it becommed them by charitie and gentlenesse labouring with all diligence to withdraw them from their errors to embrace true christianitie sincerely and without dissimulation they erected a new kinde of Consistorie of an Inquisition wherein the poore wretches in steade of better instructions wherewith there was some hope to win them should be robbed and spoiled of all their goods and possessions and either put to most cruell death or suffer most intolerable torments by whippe or otherwise leading the rest of their life in perpetuall obloquie and ignominie and sustaining extream pottertie by losse of lands and goods Neither was this executed onely vpon such as had most shamefully blasph●med Christ but the least and most tri 〈…〉 g ceremonie of the Iewish or Morish law or the smallest error in christian religion whereof they did neuer teach them so much as their articles had beene matter sufficient to condemne them To the furtherance of this new deuice Sixtus the fourth of that name Pope of Rome put his helping hand by adding his confirmation so that at the length it became of such force being ratified and established by the kings authoritie and the Popes that were it not for that the hugenesse thereof is such that is not able to sustaine it selfe being a thing so burdenous to the world and so importable a man might very well thinke it to bee impregnable See I pray you how well these godly pastours prouided for the new increase of Christ's flocke whom they ought to haue had greater regard to feed than their owne bellies and should not in milking them haue drawne the very bloud to deuoure it nor besides the hauing of their fleece flame them also most cruelly to couer themselues with the skinnes neither ought

were a faire conditioned man very well learned and better seene in his faculty then a great sort of practifers bee yet would hee not graunt vnto him his good will for hauing his daughter to wife till hee were for a while become scholler to Doctor Aegidio and learned of him some godly and vertuous instructions A very hard condition surely for a learned man and one that thought himselfe sufficiently cathechised to submit himselfe to another mans instruction but specially to D. Aegidio that was commonly suspected in religion at that time Howbeit at the length he condescended thereunto whether for vertues sake as desirous of better instruction or for his wiues I knowe not But howsoeuer it were or in what respect so euer hee did it at the first he applied it so earnestly that notwithstanding he lost his maister ere he could well haue spared him yet after his maisters death he declared how much he had profited vnder him in so much that aswell for his singular learning and skill in Scripture as for his vertuous and godly conuersation he was thought the happiest and worthiest person to bee Superintendent ouer the whole congregation which was great in number though here and there dispersed in corners As indeede he tooke it vpon him and did very wel discharge the office of a preacher among them so far as hee might in such aduersity Afterwards by meanes of those bookes of Iuliano paruo hee was apprehended by the Inquisitours being a thing almost impossible that such a faithfull pastour should hide himselfe when his flocke was dispersed before whom hee made a plaine protestation of his faith for the which hee endured first hard and sharp imprisonment with most cruell torments and the open infamie of their solemne shew and lastly was committed to the fire Where he standing at the stake disputed very notably of true religion against those importunate hypocrites who vpon a false perswasion that they had to conuert him gaue him the liberty of his tongue to the intent he might haue answered their expectation And whereas they of policy fell out of their Spanish into Latine because the common people should not vnderstand them Losada also not greatly marking their meaning herein began to talk in Latin so copiously and eloquently that it was a strange thing to heare a man almost dead to this world to haue his wits so fresh and his tongue so ready as euer they were at any time in all his life Christophoro Arelliano CHristophoro Arelliano a Monke of the cloyster of Saint Isidore in Siuill was by the confession of the Inquisitours themselues simply the best learned of all that came before them and was betraied by his owne friends such I meane as had receiued a great deale more commoditie and honour by him then euer they had done by any yet by their meanes was brought within the Inquisition The cause why he was so highly esteemed accompted of for learning was because of his great reading and study in the schoole-doctours as they tearme them That is to say Aquinas Scotus Lombardus and such like that whatsoeuer had escaped them in all their workes making for the maintenance of the truth with a very good iudgement and a passing memorie next after the scriptures and the sounder sort of the fathers and doctours of the Church hee did both readily vouch and applied them to his purpose very directly and so brought to passe that all his aduersaries with whom the authoritie of such trifling writers weigh more then the holy Scriptures of God were confounded with their owne doctours Notwithstanding all this hee was condemned to the fire For with these maine tyrants fire and fagots is aboue learning and truth and able to controll ouerrule them both But ere he came so far he was first brought solemnly set vpon the scaffold to haue sentence pronounced vpon him where there was a shamefull matter most impudently laied to his charge That hee should affirm that the blessed and pure virgin Mary the mother of Christ was no more a maid then hee himselfe was A seemly speach for these good Fathers to publish and proclaime in such an open audience if it had beene so that any were so beastly or so wicked to say it Yet such meanes they vse to bring them into hatred among the common people whom they know many men to haue good opinion and estimation of for their singular and approued vertue Howbeit when Arelliano heard that horrible blasphemie hauing the vse of his tongue as GOD would haue it he cried out in the hearing of all the people that it was a most impudent and slanderous lie saying that as well at this present as also at all other times heretofore hee did euer firmely hold and beleeue the contrary being thereunto perswaded by diuers and sundry places of Scripture which hee could presently alledge if neede were Also for a further vexation there stoode of purpose one of the Monkes of the same house that had beene his greatest enemy laughing and reioycing at his misery thinking it belike not sufficient to cause so godly a man so excellently well learned and a very innocent besides to be brought into so pitifull a case but to amend the matter withall seemed to triumph ouer him in this extremity The suddaine sight whereof did somewhat moue this good man howbeit like a good christian hee put it vp quietly and pacified himselfe giuing a good example of patience to all that beheld it Finally standing at the very stake he comforted and encouraged a certaine monke of the same house called Iohn Chrysostome that sometime had beene his scholler and now become his fellow and so partaker aswell of his death as his doctrine But forasmuch as I certainly know not the very true cause why this Monke was executed I haue therfore not annexed him here vnto the rest Yet thus much I can truely say of him A preacher he was both reasonably well learned and of good conuersation and liuing for any thing that euer was obiected to the contrary And therefore those hogs that minded nothing but their bellies did not greatly like of him Garsias Arias commonly called Seignior Blanco THe wonderfull prouidence of God toward his elect which contrary to common course doth mightily saue defend many that deepely were drowned and lay a long season soused in superstition and blindnesse fansying it of will and withstanding the known truth against their owne conscences which sin the holy Scriptures call the sin against the holy Ghost declaring vnto vs that the prayers of the congregation shall not auaile such persons as are spotted therewith this prouidence I say did most maruellously appear by this one mans example to be of such force that the deeper that men are drowned in desperation the higher it afterwards aduanceth them in honour This Arias whom they commonly called Seignior Blanco because of his white haires and faire skin had a very sharp wit and for his time was