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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

two plagues that haue alwaies infected the Church of Christ couetousnesse and ambition In so much that being offered a good Canonship in the Church of Toledo which many a man of his order would think himselfe in happy case if he might attaine vnto he was so farre from the greedy desire thereof that he contemned it rather not caring for it 〈…〉 t after his accustomed manner jeasted at it merily Fo●●mmediatly after the death of the Bishop of Vtica that was preacher in the Cathedrall Church the whole Chapiter with one consent offered him that place which they commonly call the Opposition and sent for him thither very honourably But he made them answer without any great deliberation that he had great cause to yeeld them many thankes for their good opinions conceaved of him in that they thought him worthy of so great a dignitie saying that hee would doe the best he could to requite their curtesies Howbeit forasmuch as his fathers and his grandfathers bones buried many yeares agoe were now in rest and quiet he would in no case doe any thing whereby the rest that they were in might be interrupted And this I suppose was the summe of his answer and the very words which hee spake For about that time there grew hot quarrells betwixt the Archbishop surnamed Siliceus a man of famous memorie forsooth and the chapiter of the same Church The Archbishop was hated of the chief men of the chapiter because he had openly in opprobrious maner reported them to be descended of the loine of the Iewes and they on the other side being men in good estate and not able to beare these reproaches thought to be euen with this foolish Bishop that came from cart plough and by good hap as a man may say without all respect of learning or honesty was preferred to the highest dignity in all Spain next vnder the king and because he was a troubler of common quiet they purposed to work him all the spight that might be by meanes wherof none were spared that had been buried by the space of a 100 yeares but that this good Archbishop vnder pretence of religion made inquiry of the Canons fathers grandfathers and great grandfathers driuing them to deriue their pedigree out of their graues The which foolish vngodly controuersies Constantino took occasion to quip them for at such time as he was sent for to supply that place In like 〈…〉 not long before he refused a Canonship in the Church o● ●uenca both rich to the purse worshipful besides for estimation situate in his own natiue foil Moreouer being the first man that brought the knowledge of true religion into Siuill he did so plainly set it forth and so sincerely so sharply rebuked those pedlers that sold all their packs of pardons and other fancies for pence laying such things so sore to their charge that notwithstanding they saw full well that he would proue a plague both to them and their whole generation yet could they not finde any iust cause to accuse him of but to their owne shame and yet ceased they not to hate him deadly Howbeit he took away their stings so cleane that they could neuer come conueniently to poison him neither did hee slacke for all that to set forth the truth notwithstanding that hee knew they lay in wait for him priuily And surely it was the singular prouidence of God which so blessed that Citie that there should be in that Church at once three such notable men and so excellently learned Constantino Aegidio Varquio which before times were Students together in Diuinitie and now furtherers of vertue and good religion with one consent and with like zeale For Varquio did read vpon the Gospell after Matthew in the Cathedrall Church and that being done did afterwards take in hand to expound the Psalter Aegidio preached dayly Constantino not so often as Aegidio but to as great fruit and edifying continuing all together each man in his roome till afterwards that God sent stormie tempestes to the end to try each mans building that Varquio in the middest of this hurly burly while hee and his aduersaries were bickering together died Constantino was sent for by the Emperour and his sonne Philip and forced to forsake Siuill So that Doct. Aegidio was left alone like a lambe among a sort of wolues to minister matter for a tragedy the which is already declared in this historie After whose death Constantino left the Emperours Court where hee had gotten both wisedome and learning and returned to Siuil againe to set forward the light of the Gospell that had beene stopped for a while The which thing he did with as much zeale as euer he did before time so that both he himselfe was very well esteemed and his sermons liked of all the people exceedingly It was also his chance by reason of a certaine order taken by the whole Chapiter to bee appointed the next lent after his comming to preach euery other day in the Cathedrall Church The which when he refused to take vpon him because of his late sicknes being scarcely well recouered he was compelled to do it perforce notwithstanding that he was so weak a creature that he was somtime carried thither for faintnes once or twise in a sermon compelled to drink a draught of wine to refresh himself withal and to make him able to hold out til the end of his howre The which doubtlesse was a very strange sight to behold and yet such fauour euery man bare towards him that hee was dispensed withall to vse that libertie Afterwards being restored to his health he deuised a ready way to set forward his purpose and such as none had troden in before him For by his meanes one Seignior Scobario a famous man in Siuill both in life and learning to whom the Senate of the Citie by common consent had committed the charge and ouersight of the Colledge of children commonly called the house of learning conferring with Constantino about the matter translated the reuenue that some drunken chaplen would haue deuoutly drunk for his soule into a yearely stipend towards the maintenance of a Diuinitie-lecture in the same Colledge whereof this Constantino was chosen reader Who both happily tooke in hand and effectually pursued that profitable exercise beginning first with Salomons Prouerbs the booke of the Preacher and Cantica Canticorum Which after hee had passed through very learnedly he proceeded into ●ob and expounded it more than halfe All which workes are extant at this day in written hand gathered very painefully by one of his auditors named Bab. Wherein it shall appeare hereafter as I can haue leasure to publish them how farre hee hath exceeded all that haue written vpon these books hitherto and how excellently wel learned he was But some euill spirit enuying the good successe of that Citie vnder the pretence of feruent zeale caused him to forsake that course wherein hee ranne before and afterward incombered him

Aurelius in Scyllas time that was neither of the one side nor the other but lamented the spoile and misery of his countrie when as he came into the market place and heard hi● name read among them that were proscribed to death cryed out O vnhappy man that I am my house at Alba is the cause of my death and by and by was openly slaine If euer there were time like to Scyllas it is now in our dayes in which hungry need and vnsatiable couetousnesse armed with crueltie will spare nothing The seruant will betray his master the friend his friend and acquaintance the brother shall murther his brother As in the same time L. Catilina he that after would haue set fire on the Citie slew his owne brother and after prayed Scylla that hee might bee proscribed The which being granted him he recompenced with killing another M. Marius one of the contrary faction and bringing his head the blood running along his armes presented it in the market place to Scylla and ranne to the holy water-pot of Apollos temple which was hard by to wash his hands a very fit vse of such holy water The which storie I the rather recite sparing an infinite sort of our times because yee may vnderstand by the way that Idols and holy water bee ancient things such as were before Christs comming and will be continued by his enemies till he come againe and that knowing the Papists religion to be no better then those heathenish peoples was their couetousnesse greater their need more their cruelty farre passing not onely all present example but also all written history you may daily looke for worse then Scillas time if they ouercome hauing on the other side no fierce or cruell Marius to withstand them nor to quarell with them for the gouernment but a poore flock of silly sheepe behinde their shepheard affraid of the wolues halfe yeelding halfe defending their liues and on their sides thousands of desperate Catilines that to repaire their decayed states will not spare neither to kill their owne brethren nor to fire their countrie and hauing at all times but specially now such a Scilla vnder whose banner they fight as the old Scilla may in respect of this be both forgiuen and forgetten Take heed we haue now to our holy Father a Frier no secular priest but a regular H●lhound who though he think it no robbery to be equall in pompe with his predecessours and in malice with the diuell his father yet hath he vouchsafed to take vpon him the shape of a man and goeth they say on foot and maketh his tenants the stewes keepe-in like good huswiues which is no small reformation and doth good deeds at home and worketh wonders forsooth whiles he vndoeth all abroad and openeth such a gap for the great Seigneur the Turke as neuer was yet made But what will not these fellowes do to reuenge their fall and what ought not we rather to endure then to admit these spirituall tyrants who would not rather be conquered of a mightie Prince and honourable in comparison then of a villaine bankrupt priest who hath for these eight or nine hundred yeares occupied the whole world of credite and now he should come to accompt killeth his creditours A miserable choice but yet a ready choice For the Turke contenteth himselfe with honour and tribute permitting religion The Pope no honour will satisfie him no riches suffice him no blood asswage him neither the death of the liuing nor the soules of the dead will content him Whose very name should not be spoken of without Surreuerence and great contempt for the basenesse and vilenesse of his counterfeit state were hee not so iustly to be hated and abhorred as the great abuser and very vndoubted Antichrist of the world and sworne enemy of God and man The cruell and tyrannicall outrages of whose Inquisitours founded and established by the Diuell and this Antichrist if we conferre with the milde proceedings and discipline of Commissioners appointed by God and his Anointed we shall thereby see euidently by the heauenly iudgement and sentence of wise Salomon to which mother the liue childe appertaineth To the Romish whore who in despite that she cannot possesse the poore infants that belong not to her to smother them sleeping with the huge and filthy body of her traditions and ceremonies seeketh by all meanes possible to diuide and mangle them or to the naturall and pitifull mother the true Church of the faithfull whose fathers and ministers knowing of whose spirit they are seeke with all gentlenesse to call home the lost ones and watchfully to nourish them Whose prince imitating the peaceable raigne of Salomon hath not so much as executed the false Prophets not killed the wolues not destroyed the foxes Onely they are tyed vp short which though it bee no such suretie for the little ones as worldly wisdome doth require and necessitie long since hath cried out for yet is it to them no small griefe to see the Lambes feed before their eyes and the poorest shepheards least whelpe baying at them whilest they in the middest of their gluttony and drunkennesse houle for hunger of their brethrens flesh and thirstinesse of their blood and pine for very enuie of the proceeding of Gods word If the poore ignorant people will but compare the imprisonmen●s of the persecuted Protestants with the restraints of the bridled Papists their famine with these mens fatnesse their tongues fettered with Iron torments with the libertie of railing that our men haue and vse seditiously against their Prince blasphemously against God their most miserable and strange kindes of deathes with our mens liuing and liking they shall easily know the tree the persons by the fruit Wherefore good Reader hauing so euident markes of their woluish and rauening natures and so good notice of their bloody conspiracie so waying the very true cause of all these troubles and wars that be in Christendome and thereto conferring the present executions slaughters euen in our neighbours house the fire whereof may soone imbrace our owne let vs be stirred vp to pray for their deliuerance and that it would please God to turne from vs the same iustly deserued plague for our vnthankfulnesse Let vs be strong in faith and couragious in deed to repell these common enemies from our countrie whensoeuer they shall offer that they haue so long determined And if in this translation there shall happen to be some faults pardon them till the next impression for the meaning of the translatour was onely to make thee speedily vnderstand of so great and so imminent a perill besides that thou mightest vse this booke as a taste in the meane space whiles the booke of Martyres be reprinted wherein there is a most plentifull and notable History of the like matter and argument The Preface of the Author IN so great a hurly-burly of ciuill dissensions wherein so many people and nations bend force against their owne companions and

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

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

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