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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36785	A narrative of unheard of popish cruelties towards Protestants beyond seas, or, A new account of the bloody Spanish inquisition published as a caveat to Protestants / by Mr. Dugdale.	Dugdale, Stephen, 1640?-1683.; Dugdale, Ric.,	1680 (1680)	Wing D2473; ESTC R763	26,721	32

to bestow in the Propagation and Maintenance of the Gospel and I beseech God daily upon my Knees for my Wife and Children that they may always continue in this quarrel even unto death and when he came to his Execution he patiently and comfortably slept in the Lord. At the same time there was also brought forth one John Gonsalvo formerly a Priest but by his diligent study of the Scripture it pleased God to reveal his truth to him so that he became a Zealous Preacher of it labouring in all his Sermons to beat into mens minds the truth and means of our Justification to consist in Christ alone and in stedfast Faith in him for which he was apprehended and cast into Prison where he endured all their cruelty with Christian Courage at last with two of his Sisters he was condemned his Mother also and one of his Brothers were imprisoned with him for the truth and executed shortly after when he with his Sisters went out at the Castle-Gate having his Tongue at liberty he began to sing the 106 Psalm before all the People who had often heard him make many godly Sermons he condemned all Hypocrites as the worst of People whereupon they stocked his tongue Upon the Stage he never changed Countenance nor was at all daunted when they all came to the Stake they had their Tongues loosed and were commanded to say their Creed which they did carefully when they came to those words the Holy Catholick Church they were commanded to add of Rome but that they all refused whereupon their Necks were broken in a trice and then 't was noised abroad that they added those words and died confessing the Church of Rome to be the true Catholick Church There was in Sivil a Private Congregation of Gods People most of which the Inquisitors consumed in the Fire as they could discover any of them amongst others that were apprehended they took four women famous above the rest for their Holy and Godly Conversation but especially the youngest of them who was not above one and twenty years old who by her diligent and frequent reading of the Scriptures and by conference with Godly and learned Men had attained to a very great measure of knowledge so that whilst she was in Prison she non-pluss'd and put to shame many of those Friers that came to seduce her Another of these Women was a Grave Matron whose House was a School of Virtue and a place where the Saints used to meet and serve God day and night But the time being come wherein they were ripe for God they together with other of their Neighbours were apprehended and cast into Prison where they were kept in dark Dungeons and forced to endure all the cruel and extream torments before mentioned at last they were condemned and brought forth to the Scaffold amongst other Prisoners The young Maid especially came with a merry and chearful Countenance as it were triumphing over the Inquisitors and having her tongue at liberty she began to sing Psalms to God whereupon the Inquisitors caused her tongue to be nipped by setting a Burnacle upon it after Sentence was read they were carried to the place of Execution where with much Constancy and Courage they ended their Lives yet the Inquisitors not satisfied herewith caused the House of the Matron where the Church used to meet to be pulled down and the ground to be laied wast and a Pillar to be erected upon it with an Inscription shewing the cause There was also apprehended another worthy Member of the same Congregation called Ferdinando he was of a Fervent Spirit and very zealous in doing good a young Man but for his integrity of Life very famous he had spent 8 years in educating of Youth and had endeavoured to sow the Seed of Piety in the hearts of his Scholars as much as lay in him to do in a time of so great Persecution and Tyranny being at last apprehended for a Lutheran he was cast into prison and terribly tormented upon the Gibbet and in the Trough whereby he was so shaken in every joint that when he was taken down he was not able to move any part of his Body yet did those cruel Tormentors drag him by the Heels into his prison as if he had been a dead Dog but notwithstanding all his torments he answered the Inquisitors very stoutly and would not yeild to them one jot During his Imprisonment God used him as an Instrument to recal and confirm a Monk who had been cast into Prison for confessing the Gospel openly But by means of the Inquisitors Flatteries and fair Promises he had somewhat relented Gods providence so ordering it that Ferdinando was cast into the same Prison and finding the Monk wavering he rebuked him sharply and afterwards having drawn him to a sight of and sorrow for his sin he at last strengthened him in the promise of Free Grace and Mercy Herereupon the Monk desired a day of hearing where before the Inquisitors he solemnly renounced his recantation desiring that his former Confession might stand whereupon a Sentence of Death passed upon them both after which the Inquisitors asked Ferdinando whether he would revolt from his former Heresies To which he answered that he had professed nothing but what was agreable to the pure and perfect word of God and ought to be professed of every Christian-Man and therefore he would stick to it to his death then they did clap a Barnacle upon his Tongue and so they were burned together There was also one Juliano called the little because he was of a small and weak Body who going into Germany was there conversant with divers learned and godly men by which means he attained to the knowledge of the truth and became a zealous Professor of it and earnestly longing after the salvation of his Country-Men he undertook a very dangerous work wihch was to convey two great dry Fat 's full of Bibles printed in Spanish into his own Country In the attempt he had much cause of fear the Inquisitors had so stopped every Port and kept such strict Watch to prevent the coming in of all such Commodities but through Gods mighty Protection he brought his burden safely thither and which was also miraculous he conveyed them safe into Sivil notwithstanding the busie Searchers and Catchpoles that watched in every corner these Bibles being dispersed were most joyfully and thankfully received and through Gods Blessing wrought wonderfully amongst Gods people to ripen them against the time of Harvest But at last the matter broke out by the means of a false Brother who going to the Inquisitors played the Judas and betrayed the whole Church to them so that there were taken at Sivil at one time eight hundred Christians whereof twenty of them were afterwards rosted at one fire Amongst these this Juliano was one of the first that was apprehended and sent