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A60256	The slaughter-house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition, in a method never before used in which is laid open the tyranny, insolence, perfidiousness, and barbarous cruelty of that tribunal, detected by several examples and observations / gathered together by the pains and study of James Salgado, a converted Spanish priest ...	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing S381A; ESTC R22786	24,890	72

THE Slaughter-house Or a Brief DESCRIPTION OF THE Spanish Inquisition IN A Method never before used In which is laid open The Tyranny Insolence Perfidiousness and Barbarous Cruelty of that TRIBUNAL Detected by several Examples and Observations Gathered together by the Pains and Study of JAMES SALGADO a Converted Spanish Priest who beareth in his Body the Prints of their Inhuman rigors HEB. 11.33 Obturaverunt Or a Leonum LONDON Printed by T.B. for the Author To the most Serene and Mighty CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. May it please your most Excellent Majesty I Should condemn my self as an Offender if I carried this short Description of the most Unjust Court viz. the Spanish Inquisition to any other Sanctuary than your Sacred Feet What I have here drawn is the Portraict of those Inquisitors who denied me and others the Liberty of our Conscience and choice of our Religion and threatned my Life for being true to my Saviour my Conscience and the hopes of Heaven To you Great Sir I dedicate them who are the Defender of my Life and of the Liberty of my undissembled Conscience I have found what Multitudes have heard the Royal Clemency and Favour you bear towards afflicted Protestants France and other Nations are your Witnesses and I a Spaniard rescued first from the Errours of Popery next from the Cruelties of the Inquisition and flying to your Royal Clemency as to the Tutelar of Distressed Converts and Protestants implore your acceptance of this Piece a Witness of that Divine Zeal which you always express towards True Religion and the Professors of it among whom God hath mercifully made me one and your Sacred Majesty hath preserved me under your Government and Protection for which and for the many Royal Favours done to Protestants continual Prayers are and will be made for your Majesties Long Life Prosperous Reign and Eternal Happiness by all the Churches of God and more particularly as by duty more especially thereunto bound by Your Majesties most Devoted Suppliant James Salgado To the Reader Kind Reader I Judge it not very needful to stop thee with a long Preface which is but the first part of it's following Dsicourse what I have written here I have written with an upright heart I neither design an injury to the Inquisition nor a praise to my seuf Thou mayst peruse and imploy it to thine own profit and in thy Christian Candour think favourably towards Thine James Salgado THE Slaughter-house LEST any one should surmise I am writing this short Story out of any private respects I do in the entrance thereof solemnly protest before God before men That I will not say ought contrary to truth or sincerity No● hath my passion moved me to write in remembrance of the cruelties tho' great which I suffered in the Inquisition The sol● cause of this my purpose is to discover that devilish Policy that my Reader may more clearly know it and the more cautiously avoid it As for my Person I am a Spaniard by Birth and with my Mothers Milk I suck'p in the Romish Religion and at length was Ordained Priest Discerning at last the vanities and multitude of the Superstitions of the Roman Faction thro' the healing influence of the heavenly Illumination I was cured and came over to the Reformed The Account of my Conversion I have given in a small Book Entituled The Romish Priest Converted to the Reformed Religion I will not therefore cloy my Reader with this The Reformed need not my Arguments to confirm them and the Papists will not give them a reading to convert them moreover since mens Sentiments are various I will not much intermeddle with Doctrinals but rather leave each one his liberty I purpose now to draw in lively Colours the Slaughter-house of the Spanish Inquisition and so to hang it out that the well-meaning Reader may be gained by it For tho' all sho'd know that there is a Spanish Inquisition and that it is merciless yet these very persons may possibly not know the particulars which I have known from Authors most worthy of Credit and from my own experience these I will briefly expose to view The first occasion of my Conversion was the Disagreement I saw among so many and so great Divines of the Popish Party in a Point whose certainty is judged to be that on which the whole of our Faith doth depend Some do much doubt the Infallibility of a General Council for so much as they suppose it doth not rely on a Divine Revelation but as Occam reports it they proceed by a common influence assisting them Occam 9. Lib. 3. Tract 3. C. 8. and according to their own Sentiment s He farther doth peremptorily determine Idem Tract 2. p. 2. C. 10. That Pope and Cardinals are not the Rule of Faith but if they should presume to determine any thing against the Rule of Faith contained in the Scripture they must not be followed herein but ought to be reprehended for it by Catholicks Yet (a) Lib. 3. 24.9.5 Durandus (b) L. 1. dis 1.9.1 art 4. Gregory of Ariminum and some others say That our Faith is ultimately resolved into this That that the Church is governed They mean infallibly governed by the holy Ghost On the other side Valendensis prefers the Scriptures before the Catholick Doctors Doct. fid C. 2. Ar. 2. L. 37. Catholick Bishops the Church of Rome and a General Council it self and he affirms Our Faith rests on the Scriptures alone so while I turned over their Books I found them Combating each other and saw as Lucan words it The Roman Eagles equal match'd contend And stubborn Arms each other still offend This irreconciled War caused me to entertain the doubts of the truth of Papal Religion I saw the greatest part of them did resolve their Faith into human Opinion while the Learnedst whom I read did agree with the Reformed as I well perceived Thus as the more deep search into every truth ordinarily ariseth from some previous suspicion so my doubting was occasion of my Conversion To the utmost of my power then I studied suspending my assent from either Part and compared each Matter Cause and Argument with its Opposite untill at length by this means the part which the Reformed held appeared unto me more plain and clear This notwithstanding I was so possessed with the Praedetermination of the Church that I retained a secret doubt whether I who am much inferiour to many might lawfully search into these Controversies This Doubt stuck with me till I had certainly discovered the Schoolmen allowing to every Christian that judgment which they call a Judgment of certain Knowledg which can declare the Truth The Reformed call it a Judgment of Discerning when I had found this I came to a calm temper and the wavering of my mind ceased I did thereupon firmly resolve with my self since the

one what Spirit doth act the Spanish Inquisition which by Examples Historically we have reproved hitherto now set me demonstrate dogmatically their injustice Though the thing require a greater and more prudent judgment yet I will endeavour to demonstrate what I have undertaken There is not one Law in the World which ought not be built upon Reason which as it adorns the Law so allures men both to the study of it and to the Veneration of it for the Reason of the Law is as the Londstone an Attractive to our enquity our esteem and our observance so far the Judge the Court and Witnesses c. are sacred as the Law which directs them is rational so would the Tribunal of the Inquisition be what they call it were Reason the foundation of their Laws and proceedings which they manage by those Laws but all with them is far from this yet three things they pretend in the very Title they assume which is the Holy Office of Inquisition the first part is 't is Holy say these unholy Murtherers it is then Divine and their work must be Divine which whether it be or no let us now enquire what is Divine doth primarily consist in what is spiritual in things revealed which are great mysteries and which cannot be known Scientifically nor comprehended by Natural Reason Were this Tribunal thus Divine it would omit nothing of what it could do to inform men in the way of Salvation and to open to them the secret mysteries of Gods Grace and Mercy But all their business really is to discover mens secrets for ruining their Estates and disseising the owner that Ahab-like they may seize all Farther were this Tribunal holy it would approve chuse and promote holiness as God doth he communicateth holiness to the righteous he approves it in them and exerciseth them thereunto Now where is ought of this to be found either in the cruel disposition or injurious proceedings of this Court and its Officers Where you find the greatest inhumanity and most of the Devils malice there is nothing Divine or of God there holiness is condemned and the holy are burnt though sometimes they condemn a vile Offender yet they never absolve a known Saint a Lover of Christ and Truth and were it holy it would resemble the holyness of him in his Created State under the Law of Nature But here is nothing of that where all the Laws of natural equity and compassion are violated by Forgery against the innocent by forcing them to shorten their present torments by owning faults they never committed in short using all so as none of them would be used by other Here is nothing divine natural nor is 〈…〉 in this Tribunal any conformity to the honness which shines forth in Moses's Law which directed to the best methods of Government and best provided for safety of Innocents This Inquisition is the most pernicious to Innocents wearing out with long imprisonment those that retain their Innocency and burning those that forego it to please the Inquisitors Moses's Law was holy which commanded to love mercy do justice and walk humbly with God The Inquisitors for pride like Lucifer for injustice unparallelled and notorious abhorrers of mercy Say Reader whether their Tribunal can be holy and divine There is one more holy Tribunal which is that of Grace which to save life not to destroy it And well doth the Tribunal of Inquisition correspond to this doth it not which is set up to destroy life not to save it On Christ's Throne is written Life and Salvation but on the Inquisitor's Death and Destruction but yet it is a Judgment-seat and hath a great authority and therefore divine Indeed were it of God it were divine but it is of the Pope an Usurper a Tyrant a bloudy cruel one and these Inquisitors commissioned by him are to execute his bloudy designs on all innocent ones accused and brought within their snare God permits and abhors it now and as he hath punished many so he will punish all the rest of this bloudy Crew which prophane the venerable names of faith justice and holiness with their Robberies Murthers and Perjuries c. Now let us view how justly they claim to be an Office This is an authority exercised for directing protecting and encouraging without partiality every one in the duty he owes to others and to the publick in those things which fall under the Rule of that Office It superviseth the work of every one who owes any duty to it and it is founded in one of those three Laws we before mentioned and so is either natural political or spiritual The Natural is governed by that Maxim whatsoever thou wouldest not should be done to thee do not thou to others The Political is regulated by what is conductive to the tranquillity and safety of life The Spiritual employs it self in a care for welfare of immortal souls These Offices have been by Learned Men cleared and commended in their proper places of which I shall not now speak The Inquisitors pretend not that their Court and Rules of it are Mosaic possibly they may conjecture they are deputed to this Office by Law of Nature herein they are deceived for this Office is not every where nor do they as they would be done to nor is it spiritual or Evangelical for it takes not care of the salvation of souls and to acquaint them with the Doctrine of the Gospel For let it be considered 1. Who so is appointed to this Office ought to hear the Offender and to treat him according to the Talent entrusted to him in Spirituals and if the understanding be darkned he should as a spiritual Physician apply gentle Medicines that may gradually cure the mind and so heal the Soul The Judg should be an Instructer 2. If the Judg cannot by such means recover the faulty then should he pray for him beseeching the Author of Life to enligehen the mind that the man fall not under the rigors of the Law 3. Such Officers should see that Witnesses be examined and if any of them be found false Witness the Officers should punish them 4. They in duty ought to speak kindly to the Prisoner treat him though an Offender as a Son of the Church offer him mercy before he asks for it to let him know his fault and his Accusers what they are that he may clear himself by these gentle ways it is possible he may be induced and perswaded to repent publickly if need be and not stand upon his credit which were it lost by such act is abundantly recompensed by the salvation of the Soul 5. Such Office ought to leave the possession of the temporal Goods entire to the penitent for they are his right and without injury to his spiritual Lord may be retained 6. Lastly such office should take the penitent under its wing cover the fault as much as discretion will allow receive him into the Church again forgive love and honour him as a

Neighbour or Brother and the rather as one whom their care hath recovered from great sin and advanced to a new hope of glory Now let us see whether these things be found in this Office the Inquisition and so 1. First They are so so far from expressing love to their Prisoner that they pursue him with extream hatred keep him a Prisoner for ten or twelve years in some dark place where he may neither see the Sun nor speak with any other than the Goaler 2. So far from praying for him that they curse him and openly in the very Court use him like a Dog devising new crimes against him that they may destroy him for 't is the way of their dealing never to let go a Captive 3. Instead of punishing they reword false witnesses and bestow Salleries upon them 4. They never deal with a Prisoner with any respect to his temper and nature or candidly offer him his pardon nay as if the Prisoner were a Beast to be starved they with-hold his food from him 5. They conceal the Names and Persons of Accusers or deny them if they be guessed at by the Prisoner 6. They are so far from restoring goods that they spoil Wife and Children of the Goods which of right pertained unto them 7. So far from preserving your good name that they divulge the faults in the Theatre expose them to the disgrace of a Sambenito whip them openly condemn them to the Gallies until at last they have spoiled them of life honour and Estates on the whole matter we might enquire of these Judges and appeal to all that live in the Learned World whether the love faith prayers christianity tenderness for their honour the truth justice mercy of this Court may be found whether ought of these are in this Office where barbarous cruelty and Tyranny are the whole of its constitution so apparently none can deny it The third Title is Inquisition that is a scrutiny or search into secrets that they may be manifested for truths sake and this method as a part of the holy Government God did prescribe when by Moses he commanded Deut. 13.1 That the Prophet who endeavoured to draw away the people to strange Gods should be punished with death because he had spoken to turn them from the Lord their God Such a kind of Inquisition Christ commends to us in that Caution Take heed to your selves and beware of those that come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves Here the very Essence of the search lieth in an impartial enquiry for the Truth in a matter that was hidden Now let us enquire whether this Tribunal may in this sense be said to be an Inquisition which in very deed wants both name and thing according to this notion of an Inquisition They enquire not diligently after Crimes to amend the Criminal but earnestly hunt after Temporal Estates to seize them Of Old the Estates of Anathematized ones were not adjudged to the Exchequer but to the Fires now the Goods of such are adjudged neither to the Exchequer nor to the Fires but to Robbing Inquisitors Instead of producing the truth before men this Tribunal brings Lies openly to open view and by false Witness and Cheats condemns Innocents they transubstantiate falshoods and then proclaim them truths they contrive greatest injustices with greatest secresie they condemn Innocents by wiles and smother their righteous Cause which they never suffer to be pleaded this their Inquisition it suppresseth truth and murthers Innocents and enquires what gain from the Execution never what righteousness in the Judgment By all this it appears the Tribunal is neither Holy nor an Office nor an Inquisition Now let 's enquire whether it proceed by any Moral Doctrines of Vertue whether Justice or Fortitude or Temperance or Prudence steer their proceedings they are by what is written already convicted to act no whit like Christians let us now see whether they act like Moral Heathen Philosophers And here I shall begin first with Justice a Vertue which teacheth a man to lay his own and another mans Cause in an equal Balance and makes the Judge to remember that he who now judgeth another mans Cause must have his own judged e're long that he must not wrest judgment in favour of persons nor subvert judgment that it concerns him most to exercise judgment perfectly neither by too much lenity acquit nor with a cruel mind and thirsty of revenge torment the guilty He must not look to any reward nor do what may be condemn'd and punisht by his Superiour who made him Judge Justice will make a Judge diligent in examining Causes and weighing them again and again and consulting with wise and skilful men e're Sentence be passed When the justness of a Cause appears a Judge should have such a brave resolution and fortitude that none should be able to fright him into an unjust or from a just Sentence he should without Cowardise protect and acquit the Innocent and without Cowardise punish the guilty Offenders He should dare to pass an impartial Sentence upon a mature enquiry into the Cause of every one that is brought before him into judgment Farther the Judge should be of a very temperate and of a well-composed frame able with patience to hear all Parties and Causes and without prejudices toward the Cause with passions subdued to Reason Justice and Equity toward the persons to distinguish and determine the right from the wrong the good from the bad which no man in the uproar of passions can ever be able to do Now on view it will appear how naked and destitute of these Vertues this Court is how little the Inquisition is rul'd by these qualities What Justice is there where all Parties concern'd are not openly produced and where the Plea and Judgment is made secretly partially and designing to take the Prey What greater injustice then first to devise Crimes and charge them on Innocents to the taking away their life and next to seize their Estates and rob the Possessor and his Heirs If Murthers and Robberies may commend the Justice of a Pretended Court here 's Justice enough their Prudence hath no more of that Vertue than hellish perfidious and perjurious contrivances have of it and very often their imprudence proclaims it self and their Intrigues are brought to light to the reproach and just condemnation of their proceedings In a word they are not prudent enough to act justly nor prudent enough to conceal their injustice their courage to own an Innocent to save his life restore him to liberty and preserve his Estate out of the hands of their bloody Crew hath not one instance that I do know of if one or two in an age could be found that would willingly favour a righteous Cause and right a rich wealthy person accus'd such dare not thwart the covetous griping and spoiling designs of their Partners afraid they are of one another and of their cheating Instruments they use every way

Lord had enlightened my mind to take my Journey into France that there I might be more fully instructed in the Truth and that I might renounce the Papal superstition According to this resolution I proceeded and having left Spain I travelled directly to Paris and addressed my self to the Pastor of the Church at Charenton declared my purpose to him was very kindly entertained and in this Affair I found the Reverend Monsieur D'relincourt my singular Patron who advised me since Religion did there run some hazard I might be safer in Holland whither he did after I had for fear of the common people privately made my Recantation send me with Commendatory Letters So soon as I was come thither I went to the Hague Saluted the Reverend and Learned Dr. Maresius the Son of that Eminent Professour of Divinity Samuel Maresius who then was Minister in that Place and afforded to me as much kindness as could be expected from a private Person and with singular diligence endeavoured to set forward my Affairs but seeing they succeeded neither as He or I had hoped he advised my Return into France where I might teach the Spanish Tongue that which I would but could not do in Holland thro' want of skill in the Dutch Tongue my skill lay onely in the Spanish Latin Italian and French Tongues To Paris therefore I did betake my self once more lay private among the Reformed fearing to be taken notice of by either the Seculars or the Ecclesiasticks in the Queens Court where I was too well known to some of those many Spaniards whom the Queen Daughter of the House of Austria did entertain And what I feared long I felt too soon for some of the Queens Domesticks seized and kept me close and after a while sent me whether by the Queens command or by her consent I cannot affirm back into Spain where I was delivered over to the Inquisition in the Province of Estremadura in the City Lerina where after one whole years Imprisonment weary of it and earnestly desirous of liberty I attempted to get loose by flight but after I was gotten near one hundred Leagues from Lerina and had reached the City Origneleno the Officers of the Inquisition seized me again and sent me into the Inquisition at Murcia Here for a new Crime which was my Escape from the holy Inquisition I was five years imprisoned where I had neither Books nor any Light nor company of any man but the bloudy Inquisitors and their Slaughter-men At last in an Act as they speak of the Faith before the Inquisitors the whole multitude asembled of whom moer hereafter I was presented to the sight of men and to their scorn The Account of my Life and fault was read before all the People and I was condemned and sent away to the Gallies The Dress they put me in beside those Ornaments of it Flames and Pictures of Devils I shall anon describe Thus immediately was I sent to the Gallies where they placed me shaved both Head and Beard with one foot chained among the rest of the Rowers This how hard soever it proved was to be my Penance Nor do I think the Wit of Busiris or Rhadamanthus could find out a punishment more grievous than these Toils are to any man unaccustomed to them In the effect appeared the cruelty of their usage for it soon made me a Leper and unfit for labour I was extremely pined and consumed away and which I blush to speak so great a multitude of Lice swarmed about me that I might be excused if I thought I felt one of Egypts Plagues And though I was kept in greatest scarcity of meat and drink which ordinarily cause sweat yet a perpetual sweat fell from my whole Body which if it offend not your Ears turned into most stinking worms insomuch that oftentimes I began to think through Satan's suggestion That seeing the many miseries wherewith I was visited by the hand of God were in manner far different from other mens the Inquisitors had but dealt righteously with me But that buffeting Messenger soon withdrew and gave place to the divine Grace which forthwith brought me to my remembrance That Job a holy man had been tried with no less suffering and this settled me in the belief that these tryals were not penal but Paternal Chastisements so I committed my self and cause wholly to the Divine Providence knowing that God would work for me since that he hath said all things work together for good to them that love the Lord Rom. 8. who hath at length also blest me according to mine own desire For all the Rowers and others that were with me in the Gallies earnestly petitioned the Inquisitor-General that he would take me out of the Gallies were I was not onely very useless but very hurtful infecting others more than one way Hereupon the Inquisitor-General freed me from the Gallies and confined me to the House of Penance in the City Murcia where I was handled severely enough for ten months time nevertheles there at last I recovered and God giving me opportunity I once more betook my self to France and there with my Brethren in Christ I renewed my Joy yet that I might be more safe in praising God and declaring my conscience before men I passed over Sea into England This is the Summary of my Life the Calamities that befel me And now I will give you a brief Description of that Inquisition where I was so handled and expose it to the view of all This then is the Face of the Inquisition when it proceeds to a definitive Sentence which is past as they speak in the Act of Faith A Theatre is Erected in some large Market-place or some such like place where above other Seats the Tribunal of the Inquisitors is eminent and they attended with a Croud of Servants Next the Bishop of the Place and his Chapter Next the Magistrates encompassed with the Nobles after all the common People follow which flock together from all places within twenty or thirty Leagues to see this Solemn Act where some Priest takes the Pulpit set up for the purpose and in a Sermon extolls the holiness of the Inquisition with flatteries enough as did that Priest at the Act wherein I was This Priest that he might at once flatter the Inquisition and set forth his own Eloquence forged a multitude of absurdities and ventured to affirm That the first Act of the holy Inquisition was that God solemnly instituted for Adam our first Father thus making God the Inquisitor that according to the custom of these men under this pretence their Tyranny might be covered And he further prosecuted his Discourse giving to Adam and Eve the Name of Apostates and what in him lay making our first Parents Hereticks Impenitents and Deserters or Renegadoes as we usually call such of the Faith Now let us observe how this Declamation is worthy to be laught at This Priest ought to have considered That Adam and Eve