Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	hell_n	sin_n	6,037	5	4.6569	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02794	Strange and wonderfull things. Happened to Richard Hasleton, borne at Braintree in Essex, in his ten yeares trauailes in many forraine countries. Penned as he deliuered it from his ovvne mouth	Hasleton, Richard.; Barley, William, d. 1614.	1595 (1595)	STC 12925; ESTC S106122	19,287	32

ropes which were fastened to my armes and thighes Now the woman which was present being interpretor began to perswade me to yéelde and confesse the faith of the Church of Rome I answered if it were the will of God that I should end my life vnder their cruell hands I must be content but it it please him he is able to deliuer me if there were ten thousands against me Then the tormentor as he was commaunded began to wrest the ropes which he did by little and little to augment my paines and to haue them indure the longer but in the end he drew them with such violence as though he would haue plucked my foure quarters in sunder and the●e stayed a good space yet to declare their tyrannicall malice thinking my torment not sufficient he added more powring water thorow the Cane which was in my mouth by little and little which I was constrained either to let downe or to haue my breath stopped vntill they had tunned in such quantitie as was not tollerable to indure which pained me extreamely yet not satisfied they tooke and wet a linnen cloath and laid it ouer my mouth till I was almost strangled when my body being thus ouercharged with such aboundance of water after they had thus stopped my breath with the wet cloth suddenlie with the force of my breath and that my stomack was so much ouercharged the water gushed out and bare away the cloath as if it had béene the force of a condict spoute When the Inquisitor saw that all this would not make me yéeld he commanded the tormentor to winde the corde on my left arme more straig●t which put me to horrible paines and immediatly the roape burst in sunder Then said the Inquisitor yea is he so strong I wi●l make him yéeld and commaunded the tormentor to put too a new roape Then the woman againe bad me yéeld saying it were better to yéeld then to die so miserable a death but I besought Almightie God to ease me of my paines and to forgiue me my sinnes answering her that though they had power ouer my body yet there was no torment should compell me to yéeld to their idolatrie whereby I might bring my soule in danger of hell fire Then the Inquisitor asked her what I said she answered that I had said I would neuer submit my selfe to the Church of Rome then did he most vehemently charge me to yéeld and submit my selfe to the Romish Church otherwise he would pluck off one of my armes Whereupon I denying still the tormentor in most cruell maner wrested the r●pes as if he would haue ●ent my body in sunder I being now in vntolerable paines and looking for nothing but present death cryed out in the extremity o● my a●guish Now farewell wife and children and farewell England and so not able to vtter one word more lay euen sencelesse The Inquisitor asked the woman againe what I said she layd her hand vpon my head perceiuing that I was spéechlesse tolde him I was dead wherefore the Tormentor loosed the ropes vnbound my hands and féete and caried me vnto a chamber which they te●med S. Walters chamber Where I c●mming to my selfe and receiuing some sence and reason but could haue no féeling of any lim or io●nte Thus I lay in a most lamentable and pittifull manner for fiue dayes hauing a continuall issue of bloude and water forth of my mouth all that space and béeing so féeble and weake by reason of my torments that I could take no sustenance till the sixt day a little recouering my strength they gaue me a little quantity of bread and wine ●oo together and presently the very same day they caried me forth into t●e City and set me vpon an Asses backe and whipped me thorow out euery streete of the City of Maiorque giuing me to the number of fiue hundred lashes which made the bloud to runne downe my miserable carcase in such abundance that it dropped at the belly of the Asse to the ground Now there were caried with me about the Citty very many harlots and whores and other malefactors which had offended the law but none punished like me After this they caryed me to the chamber from whence I came where I lay without all worldly comforte Can any man which vnderstandeth the absurd blindnesse and wilfull ignorance of these Spani●● tyrants or Romish monsters thinke them to be of the true church which defend their faith with fire sworde and hellish torments without all remorse or pitty as you may perceiue by a manifest triall here set downe to the open viewe of the world for when these helhounds had tormented this miserable creature as you haue heard with a monsterous and most vnchristian kinde of torment which he indured for the space of thrée howe●s till being at the very poynt of death and ready to yeeld vp the ghost they not yet satisfied with these torments which he had suffered already reserued his life minding to increase his paines which they were nothing slacke to performe so l●ng as he remayned in their power Now the second night a●ter that they had whipped me about the city as aforesayd about midnight I recounting to my selfe in what m●sery I both did and h●d remained I thought to put in practise once againe to get my libertie crauing of the Lord with heartie prayer to assist me with his mighty hand And immediatly searching about I found an olde Iron stub with the which I brake an hole thorow the chamber wall and crept through 〈◊〉 an other chamber where I felt in the darke many péeces of plate which I little regarded after I found manie Towels and Table napkins Then séeking further I found a long Cane whereon there hung many puddings and Sauceges I plucked downe the Cane but had little minde on the victuall Then I found certaine kniues then I espied some light at a great window in a Garret or loft ouer me wherefore I tied a crooked knife to the Cane and thrust vp a long Towell and with the knife at the end of the Cane I drew the Towell about a barre of the window and drew it to me and with that towell I did climbe vp into the windowe but then I could not get forth betwéene the barres wherefore I digged forth one of the barres and tyed my towels and napkins together end to end and fastned one end to a barre of the windowe and then did slide downe by them till I came within thrée or foure fathom of the ground when the towels brake in sunder and I fell downe into a Well which was direct vnder me where I was almost drowned yet it pleased God to deliuer me And then being in the city without the castell w●lle● I knowing no other way to get out went againe to the towne ditch where I got thorow the water gate with lesse perrill then before by reason there was lesse water then was the other time Then went I with all spéede