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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

their places they begin with him againe and exhort him afresh to speake the truth freely and voluntarily otherwise at his owne perill be it For if either his arme or his legge or any other ioint be broken in the Rack as it happeneth to diuers so that hee chance to dye thereof for more gently than so they mean not to deal with him let him blame no man but himselfe For they think that after they haue giuen him this faire warning they are now discharged in conscience both before God and man and therefore are guiltlesse what harm soeuer come vnto him by meanes of the Rack yea though he dye thereon as innocent as the child newly borne After this with sharp rebukes and menacing words they command that the party bee stripped starke naked be it hee or shee yea though it were one wel knowne to be the most honest and chaste mayden or matron in all the city as they bee neuer lightly without sundry such in this their shambles whose grief I dare wel say is not halfe so great in respect of any torments that presently they endure as it is to be seen naked in such a presence and of such maner of persons For these wicked Villaines without any regard of humanity or honesty which mee thinkes they should somwhat respect if it were but onely for their long beardes and side-gownes with the name countenance of grauity and holines which they pretend seeing that neither for Gods sake nor for the honesty of the good and godly matrons and sober maydens they wil not forbear one iote of that barbarous impudency cause them first to be stripped into their shirts and smockes and then out of them also welnigh sauing your reuerence vp to their priuities drawing on a close linnen breech after that make bare their arms also to their shoulders as tho the Wrench and Rack wherewith they are about to torment them were not able to pearce their linne or as tho their linnen breeches would more manerly couer those partes which they may bee ashamed to discouer then could their side-shirts or smockes And here those ranke R●mmes declare how they will not lose that diuellish pleasure which they take in that shameful and vnseemly sight though the poore wretches that suffer this buy it both with paine and shame enough full dearely The which thing surely is a good occasion why that after this shamefull and impudent dealing of these Fathers of the faith bee once noysed and bruted abroad they whose wiues or daughters eyther haue already or may hereafter fall or presently are in this the holy Fathers foule handling suffering this shamefull villany should be vtterly abhorred and shunned of all the people wheresoeuer they goe aswell of Papists as of other because they ought to esteeme the honesty and chastity of their daughters and wiues aboue all other treasures But to returne to our purpose When the parties are thus stripped out of all their clothes be it he or shee into their linnen breeches they signifie unto the Tormenter by some token in what sort they would haue the party ordered For this is one other peece of their art to talke by signes and watch-words like to pedlers french wherein from the highest to the lowest all the pack of them in that cursed Court as well Iacke layler as my Lord Iudge can vnderstand one another very readily As for the torments by the which these holy Fathers vse to bring men to their beliefe as they be many in number so in sorts they are sundry yea moe by a great many than any poore soule is able to endure or can come to the knowledge of But the most vsuall be the Ieobit and Pullie with water cordes and fire whereof I meane to speake seuerally And yet haue they one other cast at him first ere he goe to his punishmēt perswading him afresh to vtter whatsoeuer he knoweth either by himselfe or by others of his acquaintance In the mean space while they are thus communing with him one commeth behind him and bindeth his hands with a cord 8. or 10. times about and because nothing should be thought to be done without authority and order of law the Inquisitour calleth vpon him to straine each harder than other Being thus bound to the Racke they begin yet once againe to perswade with him and besides the binding together of his hands they also cause his thumbes to be bound with some smaller line drawne very straite and so fasten both the lines that tye both his hands and thumbes to a certaine Pullie which hangeth on the Ieobit Then knocke they great and heauy bolts vpon his heeles if the party haue none already or else hang betwixt both his feete vpon those bolts which he hath certaine waights of Iron at the first time but of fiue pound and so hoyse him vp from the ground Whiles the poore wretch hangeth in this plight they fall to their perswasions once againe commanding the hangman to hoyse him vp on high to the very beame till his head touch the Pullie Then cryeth the Inquisitor and the Clerk vpon him to confesse somewhat promising to let him downe out of hand if so be that he will be ruled otherwise they tell him that he is like to tarry there till hee would be glad to declare whatsoeuer they would haue him After he hath hung thus a good space and will grant nothing they command him to be let downe and twice so much Iron more to bee layde on his heeles and so hoysed vp againe one inch higher if it may be threatning him that he shall dye none other death except he declare vnto them the truth in such matters as they demand of him therefore charge the hangman to let him vp and downe that the waight of the Iron hanging at his heeles may rent euery ioynt in his body from other At which intolerable paines piercing all the parts of his body if the party shrike or cry out as he hath good cause to doe they are as loude on the other side roaring and yelling vpon him to declare the truth then or else they tell him hee shall come downe with a vengeance Neither will they onely say so but the party shall find it so For if hee continue in the same mind they goe on forward as fast in their mad moodes and bid the hang man to slip the ropes suddenly that he may fall downe with a sway and in the halfe way to stop giue him the Strappado which being done with a trice all his whole body is out of frame both armes shoulders back legs and all the rest of his ioynts by reason of the exceeding great waight hanging at his heeles and the sudden sway tearing each part from other And yet here is no ho with them neither For renuing their exhortation and threats if he will not yield vnto them they cause more Iron to bee added the third time so that the poore wretch being

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

for their stoole of easement to stand in and by it a pitcher of of cold water to quench their thirst Neither in the day time is their light any more then may come in at a key-hole or at a little long rift no greater then a mans finger Howbeit there bee certaine prisons that bee somwhat larger but they are also more then somwhat costly and doo serue for such as are not greatly suspected for religion Againe other there bee lesse in compasse then the former and worse a great deale to lie in for that they are not a mans length in so much that they which enter into one of them lightly neuer go out till they be halfe rotten or die of a consumption All which places and prisons are bestowed according to the qualitie of the person and of his or their deserts and many times as it pleaseth the my Lords the Inquisitours and master Iayler to bestow them in according as they beare affection to the party either good or bad And thus much concerning the place of their imprisonment The order of their dyet is answerable to their lodging The rich pay very large fees to the holy House and euery prisoner is rated at the discretion of the Inquisitour Out of the which there is deducted an allowance for his daily charges 30 dipondia commonly called Maruedis whereof 17. make a dutch batte 8 and a half a french souse 10. a flemish stiuer which amounteth in our reckning after the English rate to 6. pence well nigh Howb 〈…〉 t if any of them be disposed to exceede haue any other dainties he may at his pleasure so that he pay for it on his owne purse And yet they deale not so fauourably with euery sort of prisoners but onely with such by whom they looke not to haue any bootie being laid in but for trifling matters For if they be such prisoners as they know by the information giuen in against them likely to lose all that euer they haue they will not suffer them to exceed in such sort but let thē feed only vpon a little brown-bread and a cruze of cold water not suffering them in any case to haue any speciall cates besides their ordinary be they neuer so rich because they make this accompt that the more is spent in that sort the lesse shall be their parts when it commeth to reckning and rifling Notwithstanding if any be so poore that they are not able to liue of their owne in prison the King alloweth them a certaine for their daily diet that is to say halfe a riall of Plate which is as much as a dutch batte and is worth two souse french that is 3. pence sterling Out of the which poore pittance is to be defrayed their Stewards and Laundres wages and whatsoeuer other necessary charges grow besides must bee thence also deducted Moreouer of this allowance giuen them by the King there commeth not the one halfe to their vse for whom it was specially limited appointed for it passeth through two or three mens hands that will be ready to finger some of it First thorow the office of Receipt for so I thinke they tearm the Treasury who is accountant for all the reuenew● that come into the Eschequer and disburseth for such and other like vses And this is the sweetest office in all the holy House and therfore not granted but to speciall men especially fauoured Next to him the Steward or Cater will haue another peece who will commonly for one penny bestowed demand two to be allowed then the Cooke that dresseth their meate and last of all the tythe which is the Iaylers fees which many times alloweth the same vnto the poore prisoners of his owne beneuolence This I haue described the more largely because all these Officers haue their certaine fees out of this small allowance of the king which passing thorow such limed fingers is so fleeced that it commeth not to the prisoners but euery of these Officers will take not onely Tole but Tythe ere it passe his hands For in this House both maister and man from head to foot are all couetous and giuen to the spoile Now if it happen at anie time by a speciall grace of God that any of these are touched with compassion to pitie the poore prisoners and of verie almes doe relieue them by any meanes that is counted such a 〈…〉 ainous offence in this their holy House that it will goe neare to cost him a scourging till the bloud follow that doth any way relieue them As it chanced within these few yeares a certaine man to bee appointed keeper of the Inquisitours prison in the Castle Triana at Siuill that was not verie euill disposed for as yet hee had not learned the trickes of that holy House nor well digested their couetous and cruell lawes being otherwise verie courteous and a man not far stricken in yeares his name was Petro à Herrera Who entreated the prisoners very well and shewed them such gentlenesse and fauour as he could yet closely and couertly because he knew the Inquisitours in that poynt well enough how much they were enclined to tyranny It happened in his time as oftentimes it doth when a number are apprehended at once that among other prisoners a certaine honest Matron was commited to his ward with two of her owne daughters which being put into seuerall prisons had a great longing to see one another and each to comfort the other in their distresses Whereupon they besought their keeper to suffer them to come together if it were but onely for a quarter of an howre or the space that each might but imbrace other The keeper being of a good nature was content they should so do and suffered them to be together by the space of halfe an houre after they had a little shewed their affections and done their duety each to other the daughters to their mother and shee to them again hee brought euery one to her owne prison where shee was before Within a few dayes after the keeper seeing the same persons in most terrible torments and fearing lest the very extremity thereof would driue them to confesse that little curtesie fauour which hee shewed them in suffering them to meete and talke together but onely for halfe an houres space went to the holy House confessed his fact and prayed pardon therefore supposing like a foole by his owne confession to haue escaped the penaltie thereof But the Inquisitors to whom it is incident to abhorre all kind of humanity deemed it so haynous an offence that they commanded him forthwith to be haled into prison wherein partly by meanes of the great extremitie that was shewed vnto him and partly of very thought and a certaine conceite that hee tooke thereupon being therewithall somwhat melancholike fell beside himselfe and yet his infirmity and madnes notwithstanding they released him no iote of his punishment But after that hee had beene kept a whole yeare