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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

there would be no Prisoners and without these no Inquisition Anno 1660. At Lisbone an English Protestant boldly went into the Temple and took the Hoast from the place where it was kept and departed forthwith for England the next day the Curate of the Church missing the Hoast published abroad the mishap the Inquisition bestirs it self and its Officers affirm that without doubt the Jews had taken it away therefore they diligently enquire who of the Jews were that Night absent from their own house at last they came to the house of a young man of six and twenty years of Age and Master of an hunderd thousand Crowns his Name Solis They examine the Servants whether their Master were at home at that Night who told the truth he was not for indeed that Night taken up with the criminal delights of his youth he spent with a certain Lady of good Quality that was Espoused at least betrothed to a Gentleman of no mean Rank When Solis heard their charge against him he confessed he was absent that Night from home but that he spent it with a Lady whose name he would not tell though he died for it yet under the Tortures of the Wrack he told the House where he was though not the person with whom he was Thither the Inquisitors haste but either could not or else would not stir farther in the Affair because the Lady was above the common size or because they had the man by whom they were sure to find what they hunted the hundred thousand Caowns They return therefore to the torturing of the young man who is forced to own he took away the Hoast and had eaten it This done his Goods are confiscated he is condemned to be burnt but first his hands must be cut off When the hour of Execution was come the Haugman desired him to put forth his right hand which he with an undaunted mind did saying I give up this for my Lord Christ Jesus who knows I never committed any such fault but forced by the severity of the Wrack and allured by the promises of the Inquisitors who said they would save my Life I did unwilling●y confess what I never did act Then they lout off his other hand and burned him in the sight of the people who made a great Feast in token that they approved what was none by those incarnate Devils After this was done the Englishman wrote into Portugal to them letting them know he had taken away their Breaden God on purpose to expose both it and the Papal Religion to that scorn they deserved But Solis fell by the most pious Inquisition Anno 1656 in the City Lerina a certain French Man that got his Living by selling up and down the Streets Knives Cissars Needles and Girdles c. like small Wares was seized by the Inquisition The occasion of which was this An Image of the Virgin Mary was one morning found torn in the Corner of a certain Street where 't was set that people might do it honour now on the over-night this Frenchman passing by at that place met some of his Acquaintance who were Castilians who saluted him and he them and so went on to his Lodging as they did to theirs next day the Magistrate seeing the Image broken made a diligent search and these Castilians Friends or rather Enemies of the French Man affirmed that he had broken the Image for they saw him the Night before near unto it This one of the Familiars as Setter for the Inquisitors heard of accused him before their Tribunal and swears to what he affirmed The poor French Man is clapt up into Prison pleads for himself that he went to his Friends house where he played at Cards all the while which appeared to be true upon enquiry yet was he detained for so much as his Acquaintance swore he was an Heretick which is the common name they give the Reformed And so cruelly handled that the pain he suffered forced him to say he was reformed and had given several blows to the Image and that for this he did beg pardon which was granted to him as he was Protestant but because he did offer an Indignity to the Image he is condemned to the fire and suffered the extremity of that Judgment Now about two moneths after a certain Fool who had lived at Lerina but was removed to an Habgation two miles distant was sound in the night thrusting down another Image which was newly set up in the room of the former him they examined whether he had broken the former and he owned it saying He intended to carry it to his Farm where he had built a small Chappel to this he added some other ●●tle m●d tricks by which the Inquisition was assured of the French-mans Innocency yet acquitted the Witnesses as if they had spoken the truill and as if the French man had died for his own Crime At Madril An. 1663. fell out an extraordinary Case which was as follows The Son of a certain Woman named Marquesa was Debtor to a certain new Christian as they call newly converted Jews in a considerable sum of Money which either he could not or would not pay Like a Fury of Holl he sets his malice on work and wiltes in great Letters this following sentence It is meet they should live who love according to the Law of Moses it is fit they should die who live after the Laws of Christ and affixeth it to the doors of a place called Quadralactura where a great concourse of people usually meet and to increase the number the next day he caused a great tumult which did justly offend the Court of Justice which issued out an Order for the Justice to make extraordinary search into the thing The Inquisition did their part yet for three Months the secret lay hid but then some found this Villain with such Scrowls both for their tenure and for the hand the very same and having seiz'd him he ●onfest that out of preconceiv'd hatred against the Jews he had done it to inflame the people against them to their ruine Now though he deserved to suffer what he would have brought on others yet this Just Inquisition adjudgeth him but to one hundred stripes the reason of which was he was a Papist against whom he had devised it whereas had the accused been of other Religion he who was Accuser right or wrong should have been Credited and the Accused should have died for it More Cases I shall forbear to recount because I would not be tedious yet let me add this passage of an Inquisitor in the City Quenca his name Ludovic de le Torre who was used to bespeak the Prisoners thus Friends you were as good corfess as not for if once you come into the hands of the Inquisition you shall never get out There are Tortures an Executioner and Graves for all that will not confess and there is Wood enough to burn all that do confess Hence 't is clear to every

did not totally lose the faith and knowledg of the Lord their Creatour nor did they sin directly against all the Commandments of God but in so much as they transgressed the Commandment of not eating the forbidden Fruit they did implicitly break all Moreover they were Elect in whom the Act of Faith whether general or special might be intermitted but the Habit could not be lost If Adam indeed had become wholly an Idolater if he had wholly departed from the Faith and Profession of the most high God This declaiming Priest might have had smoe colour for what he said But since Adam was not such the reasoning of the Priest ended in a falsehood and his Allegory could be nothing better than hellish whilest he condemns the Sin as Heresie and the Person as Apostate without any respect to the honour God in Creating had put upon him making him the King and Lord of the whole World Yet the Allegory is more ridiculous in which the Priest brings in God Supream Lord of all us as Inquisitor and so advanceth their Inquisitor to an absolute Supremacy whereas all know that the Inquisitor General is subject to the Pope Further Paradise is made the Theatre of Heresies on which God is supposed to have the information brought in by the Accusers and to pronounce Sentence when all Circumstances had been considered but here who shall be the Officers Good Angels were not made for this And such honour was too great for Devills who might indeed be the Executioners but not Assistants in the course of Judgment He might as well have added that our Protoplasts thus condemned were delivered over to that Angel who had the flaming Sword put into his hand that he might be Armed as well to Execute them as to keep the entrance into Paradise So one absurdity naturally ariseth out of another and who chooseth to utter one may canly isivent an hundred fond Conceits With such a store as this furnisht he did the best he could in finishing his Allegory and that he might neatly flatter the Fathers Commissioners of that Inquisition he tells them that God clothed our first Parents with the ignominious Vest the San-benita just like theirs which by their command the condemned Hereticks were clad with And in doing this the Priest was very pleasantly ridiculous He like an excellent Brother turns the skins with which God covered the nakedness of our first Parents into San-benita's An ungrounded and Insolent Allegory without any resemblance for the San-benita is an open exposing of the Person to shame the skins were to cover the shame of the persons that wore them So the skins lessened the shame and were given out of mercy the San-benita aggravated the shame and were imposed by severe revenge Certainly Adam and Eve owe little to this Priest who when he ought to treat them with all Veneration as became the Head and Foundation of Mankind when he should have owned a good hope of their Salvation in as much as they were the first fruits of both Church and State he recounts them Hereticks and as such treats them he brands them as final Apostates makes Paradise a Theatre for Renegado's and brings our first Fathers on it as spreaders of Heretical Infection clothes them with the Sanbenita pronounceth final Sentence against them and whether God will or no this bold Priest will make him Inquisitor General but in very deed we have cause to doubt whether this Priest were a Descendent from them in right Line or whether of the Brood of the Serpent that he durst spit out that venome against Paradise by this most unjust Allegory of which the Devil himself would nigh be ashamed But these and such like disagreeing Parallels and unshapen Similitudes are invented and published in the Kingdom of Spain which would be happy enough were it well rid of such venomous Beasts Yet in the abundance of this Priests Eloquence and vanity he declares that Kingdom Holy and proves it because it retains the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition and defends it as if indeed the Inquisition did with moderation manage the Government as if it gave freedom of defence and did no injury to the Innocent as if its rigor did not exceed what wholesome care did diect towards the accused when as quite contrary that Tribneal is most justly had in abomination by all people It calls it self Holy but is pure Tyranny and a very great scandal to Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths while they pretend to be the Pillar of the Faith they are the Wrack of the Faithful So that considering the Tyrannical Effects of it we may well wonder that it is continued to this day in that Kingdom I wish they would tell me what kind of Judgment-seat that is which admits not a Prisoner sometimes for ten or twelve years together to appear before them and to plead his Cause which mean time will not allow any person to converse with the Prisoner beside the Inquisitors and the Keeper of the Prison What Justice does that Tribunal minister which refuseth to let the Accused know the Names of those that witness against him What Righteousness in that Government where Christian Piety cast off they are deprived of all their Goods and Possessions the labour of many years who cannot be proved guilty of any fault but of errour of mind when by the divine allowance as Solomon witnesseth is Eccl. 3. That man should see the good of his labour all his days What Justice or honour does that Regimen retain which denies natural right to women and children that puts the shameful San-benita on those of most Noble Families and overthrows whole Families at once I will take leave to divert for proof of what I have said to the Inquisition of Portugal where with cruelties greater than which Antiochus and Dioclesian first used they condemn to death never acquainting the Condemned with either number or names of Witnesses Thus they manage it First they apprehend a man as a Jew or Mahumetan or Reformed thrust him into Prison without telling him who or how many accuse him Next he suffers the miseries of this Imprisonment six or eight or ten years if at last the man to get out of their hands confesseth all deposed against him to be true and implores what they never shew their mercy then the Inquisitors proceed to enquire whether he knew his Accusers The poor man as is truth answers he knows them not hereupon though he confess and sue for mercy yet he is burnt because he knows neither persons nor names of his Accusers Here oftentimes it happens that the man because cause he will not die unrevenged and without company accuseth a whole Village or Town that amongst them he may hit the Persons that accused O degenerate Age O barbarous Customs Can Christians find such Inquisitors when the Heathens never would allow such Where was such irregular cruelty ever acted elsewhere since God Created Adam in the Field of Mesopotamia Let us turn over

divine and human Histories we shall find none sorcruel Pharaoh ruled with rigour but 't was to finish his Buildings Ahasuerus promoted Haman for want of respect from a single person a cruel revenge was designed against the Life of all the Jews yet this Decree past openly not in private Balthazar prophanely abused the holy Vessels but did not cruelly murther the people of God Antiochus persecuted the Jews yet heard their Cause in a publick Assembly Sennacherib and other Tyrants vexed the people by Arms. Nero and other Roman Emperours appointed publick Prisons and invented divers kinds of death for Christians yet these all exercised their Tyranny with an open process in the sight of the world But no where is there found a Tribunal like to the Spanish Inquisition every wise man can't but condemn this as most directly destructive to human nature and to all equity which requires a fair and publick Tryal and where the Cause is punishable proportions the punishment to the Crime with some respect to the frailty of the Offenders punished Furthermore I would desire leave to ask What honour the Roman Profession gains by these Acts of Faith which are solemnized in Spain wherein is the righteousness of that Religion they call Catholick Do the Accused see or so much as know their Accusers Nay do they know their Crime which they should clear themselves of Have they leave to consult an Advocate in the Prison or to ask Counsel of any prudent men and zealous in faith who might on examination instruct them that erre and comfort them that are innocent May the Prisoner though for eight or ten years together enjoy the light of the Sun or ever knew how the Affairs of his Family are managed Nothing of all this so that 't is no injury to conclude against these unexemplified Tyrants That they break and violate all the Laws of kindness truth and humanity They do pretend an absolute power granted to them though this be against all Law divine and human Gen. 18.25 It is God onely hath right to such a Power He onely can exercise it without putting us into tormenting fear that any future injustice shall ever be done against us or any of the Creatures The Righteousness of this Government is owned in the Book of Job where you have an excellent Theological Discourse on the exact Righteousnes of the Creator and the narrow conceptions of the Creature Man In the bitterness of his Soul Job speaks when he saith to God Job 10.2 Donot contemn me shew me the reason why thou contendest with me As if with David he would say why doest thou enter into judgment with me what need God to justifie his way before man His ways are the absolute Idea of Justice He may work as he will we must reverence the Workman Thy Judgments O God are very just we must believe it and not pry into them They exceed man's reach and are cloathed with most deep Mysteries yet it is corrective not destructive of us This Absolute Authority impudent Inquisitors would usurp and relying on this erroneous Opinion Nimrod-like they hunt for the Goods Bodies and Lives of Men. Now that the absoluteness of their proceedings may more evidently appear kind Reader I will prove by divers instances that without ever looking into or debating of the Cause they have most tyrannically condemned the Person Though the thing itself prove this enough for the Inquisition-Court is subject to no direction of any other Laws but arbitrarily wracks Souls and murthers Bodies of which there are Clouds of Witnesses men Condemned because the Inquisition would be cruel Good God! that ever this Tribunal should pretend to a Divine Impulse where every Brick seems a Conjuring Spell and every Officer a tormenting Fiend for suppose we a Jew a Mahumetan or Christian in their Paws what do they pretend to do with such a one Would they chastise him what need they then so many Officers why such Methods extremely scandalous as a secret Chamber an unseen Tribunal invisible Witnesses a perfidious Secretary and merciless Servants Confiscation of Goods through fraud and guile Keepers as hard-hearted as the relentless Walls the Fiscal Mutes the shameful Sambenites a deaf Audient unrighteous Wracks a Theatre fill'd with horrour to astonish the Prisoner a sentence with Hypocrisie a disguized Executioner and finally a peremptory Judgment In all the times of Paganism no such Roman Tribunal was ever erected In their Amphitheaters men had not quite put off Humanity the guilty and condemned to die were exposed to wild Beasts to be torn in pieces they knew their Executioner but here the Condemned are tormented by disguiz'd ones Men they should be by their shape but Devils by their fierceness and cruelty These General Acts of the Faith are no where acted but in the greater Cities of the Kingdom and the ordering of them presents thee Reader with a sight of both the foolish madness and hellish fury of a barbarous Generation of men For observe First The Keepers of the Prison drag their Prisoners ignominiously attired with the Sambenito and a Mitre called Coroza by the Vulgar Next flock together besides the above-named the University men those they call Familiars or Serjeants of the Inquisition follow next then the Consultors Qualificators Notaries of the Inquisition the Secretaries and the Fiscals with the whole croud of common people come together as I said before from twenty or thirty Leagues about to these must be added a Legion compleatly armed with their Standard the Green Cross carried before them and there with a Canopy of an hundred Ells of Linnen to cast a shade over the Inquisitors and the Nobles in the midst of the Theatre an Altar is set up and about that all the Parish Priests the Officials and the Hangman I do scarce think that any of those four Monarchies the Assyrian the Persian Grecian and Roman which once rul'd the World ever appointed such great attendance of so many Officers to execute a Sentence on twenty or thirty poor men Who that knows this can restrain his wonder grief and pity to see this Calamity befallen the Age Tyranny holding the place of Justice Who would not sue to the Author of Life that he would shew that Mercy and Grace to the Age that the darkness being dispell'd this barbarous cruelty might cease which hitherto hath not been satisfied with depriving innocent men of their whole Estates with forcing them to own what they never did but hath proceeded to an infamous Execution applauded by that Scum of the people which follow it Oh inhumane Age old in Cruelty but very raw and ungrown in Vertue But I come as I promised to give you an Historical Relation of some Cases brought under the Examen of this Judgment-Seat by which you may see the Equity of that they call Most Holy which on a Moral probability condemn and execute nay on a meer suspition they 'l do it In the City of Toledo 1644. they dragg'd upon