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So we went to my room, and she charged me again to be very obedient to all commands, for if I was not, I was sure to undergo the torment of the dry pan." Llorente, the Spanish historian and secretary-general of the Inquisition, relates the following incident: "A physician, Juan de Salas, was accused of having used a profane expression, twelve months before, in the heat of debate.
Thirty-six elaborate articles were furnished whereby everyone was instructed how to ensnare his neighbor. But what shall we say of a faith that could only hope to be kept alive in the world by the extinction of charity, honor, pity, and humanity? Llorente describes the immediate issue: "Such opportune measures for multiplying victims could not but produce the desired effect.
We know what he did do, and the record is sufficiently damning. There is no harm in our giving the Devil his due, or as Llorente wittily says, "Il ne faut pas calomnier meme l'Inquisition." Philip inherited all his father's bad qualities, without any of his good ones; and so it is much easier to judge him than his father.
These directions were written in a Manual, used by the Grand Inquisitor of Seville as late as A.D. 1820. An analysis is given by Dr. Then we hear, elsewhere, of torture by roasting the feet, by pulleys, by red-hot pincers in short, by every abominable instrument of cruelty which men, inspired by religion, could conceive. Let the student take Llorente and Dr.
By a Brand Saved from the Burning. Isabella; or, The Little Female Jesuit. By 'Hephzibah'. Elisha MacNab: a Tale of the French Huguenots. England and Rome. By the Rev. Ebenezer Catchpole of Emmanuel, Birmingham. Nuns and Nunneries. By 'Ruth', with a Preface by Miss Carran, lately rescued from a Canadian Convent. History of the Inquisition. By Llorente.
"These races," said Cardinal Ximenes, "are fit for nothing but labor." Fifth Memoir: Upon the Liberty of the Indians. Llorente, Tom. II. p. 11. Cimarron was Spanish, meaning wild: applied to animals, and subsequently to escaped slaves, who lived by hunting and stealing.
Full details of numbers are given in the "Histoire critique de l'Inquisition d'Espagne," Llorente, t. Total ................... 52,855 In A.D. 1485, no less than 950 persons were burned at Villa Real, now Ciudad Real. Spite of all this awful suffering, heretics and Jews remained antagonistic to the church, and in March, A.D. 1492, the edict of the expulsion of the Jews was signed.
Rule alone, and he will learn enough of the Inquisition horrors to make him shudder at the sight of a cross at the name of Christianity. Llorente gives the most revolting details of the torture of Jean de Salas, at Valladolid, A.D. 1527, and this one case may serve as a specimen of Inquisition work during these bloodstained centuries.
He states, that the Prince was tried and condemned by a commission or junta, consisting of Spinosa, Ruy Gomez, and the Licentiate Virviesca, but that he was carried off by an illness, the nature of which he does not describe. Llorente found nothing in the records of the Inquisition to prove that the Holy Office had ever condemned the Prince or instituted any process against him.
Meanwhile Llorente, the historian of the Inquisition, makes no mention of Vesalius having been brought before its tribunal, while he does mention Vesalius's residence at Madrid. Another story is, that he went abroad to escape the bad temper of his wife; another that he wanted to enrich himself.
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