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Written in French, by the Ingenious Monfieur

Dellon, who laboured five Years under
thofe Severities.

With an Account of his Deliyerance.

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 Advertisement*
T HE better to prepare the Reader for
the Perufal of the following Narra¬
tive, it may not be amifs to give him a fliort
Account of the Rife and Progrefs of the
Romijh Inquifition.
As long as the Chriftian Church was ei¬
ther perfecuted or difcountenanced by the
Civil Powers, no other Punifliment was or
could be inflifted upon Heretlcks, or inch
as maintained any Doctrines that were con¬
trary to the Chriftian Faith, but only
to exclude them from the Church’s Com¬
munion.
But when the Roman Empire became
Chriftian; great Difturbances among the
People being often raifed on Account of
Herefie, either real or pretended ; the Em¬
perors, in order to preferve the Peace of
the Empire, thought it proper to make
temporal Laws concerning this Matter,
by which Laws Hereticks were con¬
demned to Banifhment and Forfeiture of
their Eftates and Goods. But to put them
to death, and much lefs to burn them alive,
SM ' A 2 barely
 Advertisement.
barely for Herefte, was yet a Thing too
horrid to enter into the Minds of thofe
who profefled the meefc^ humble, and mer¬
ciful Religion of Jefus Ghrift.
About eight hundred Years after the
Coming of Chrift ; when the ufurped Pow¬
er of the Pope, or Bijbop of Rome began to
eftablilh and enlarge it lelf ; the Weftern Bi¬
lbo ps in Communion with him, began to
take upon themfelves a Power (by what
Law I know not, but mo ft certainly not by
the Law of God) of imprifoning Hereticks,
and inflicting Corporal Punifhments upon
them, by way of Difcipline, asdc was pre¬
tended. And this Method not being found
fiifficieot to fupprefs what in thofe Days
they were plea led to call He refie ; tempo¬
ral Magiftrates, who were bigotted to the
Church of Rome, in Pro cel's of Time, began
to makeLawsfqrthe pu milling of thofe with
Death, whom the Ecclefiaftical Tribunal
Ihould condemn as Hereticks. What a great
Number of P rot eft ants, in the fhort Reign
of Queen Mary, were deftroyed and burnt
by this Law, which then was in Force in
England, is well known to all who have
read the Hiftory of thofe Times : To fay
nothing of other Countries, where the like
 Advert ifement.
and greater Cruelties were ordinarily prac-
tifed without the lead Remorfe, and always
by the Encouragement, or with the Appro¬
bation of the Pope and his Partifans.
In the thirteenth Century, the Number
of thofe who oppofed the grofs Errors and
Corruptions of the Church of Rome, ap¬
peared to be very great ; and mors efpe-
cially in fome Parts of France, where their
Enemies gave them the diftinguifhing
Name of Alhigenfes ; to which other Ap¬
pellations were afterwards added. Thefe
Alhigenfes for whatever elfe they were cal¬
led ) profeffed to believe and live according
to the Rules of the Gofpel : Their only
Crime was, that they refufed to fubmit to
that Tyranny which the Pope and his Cler¬
gy had for fome time began to exercife o-
ver the Confciences of Men : At which the
Pope being enraged, not only raifed a fu¬
rious War againlt them, (whereby many
thoufands of them were barbaroufly de-
ftroyed) but alfo eredted a Court of Inqui-
fition at the City of Thouloufe for the put¬
ting them to Death in a judicial Way.
This Court of Inquifttion ('chiefly com¬
mitted to the Management of the Domini¬
can Friars) proceeded with fo much Cru-
eky,
 Advert ifement.
eity, that it was foon abolilhed ; and has
never fince been fullered to exercife ics Ju-
rifdiddon in any Part of France (alcho" the
other Methods of deftroying Hercticks,
have there been continued) but in Spain,
Italy, and Portugal, it was received, and
continues ftill eftablifhed.
The Manner of proceeding in this Court
of Inquifition, in the City of Goa in the
Eafi Indies, which is under the Dominion
of the King of Portugal, is fully fet forth
in the enfuing Narrative, which was writ¬
ten in French by a profefled Papift : And
by this we may form a Judgment of the
like Court, wherever eife it is eftablifhed.
For akho’ in feme Places the Rigour of it
may (for Political Reafons) be lefs than
in others ; yet by the fundamental Rules
which every where are to be obferved by
it, we may eafily fee that the Inftitution
it [elf is mod unjuft and cruel.
And by all this we may farther learn (if
we have not already done it) what Pro-
teflants are to expedt, if ever the Pope
inould get them under his Power, which
God in his Mercy forbid.

To
 1 o the Reader.
T He Reafon of offering this Pre¬
face to the Reader, is only to
fatisfie the World that theje Papers
came not abroad with any Vefign of
infinuating to the People a Probability
of the Inquisition being about to be
introduced into England. It is at
prefent in Vfe but in three Places in
the World, Italy, Spain, and Portu¬
gal, and the Countries fubjed to them.
The Gallican Church is fo far from
admitting it, that His prefent Ma-
jefiy thought fit to give a Licenfe for
the publijhing this Relation, and con-
fequently, by thus encouraging the
Publication of the Proceedings made
ufe of in the Inquilition, fhewed his
Averfion to them. In England there
is
 To the Reader.
is yet lefs Probability of its being ever
efiablifhed’ the Laws of the Land', by
which His Majefly hath fo often pro-
mifed to govern, being a fujficient
Guard againfl it ; and if we fhould
yet require any greater Ajfurances,His
Majeji/s repeated Declarations for Li¬
berty of Confcience, have already offer¬
ed them. All that remains therefore, is
to defire the Reader, that he would not
upon perufing thefe Papers, fuffer any
fuch Fears and Jealoufies to grow tipon
him, but barely to look, them over in
order to the fatisfying his Curiofity,
and the informing himfelf in the Na¬
ture and Conftitution of this Tribunal,
to whofe Cufioms and manner of Pro¬
ceedings he was before altogether a
Stranger.
The Tranflator to the Rea¬
der.
T His Tr{inflation was made from the
French Copy, Printed hy the Directi¬
on of the Author at Paris, hy Daniel Hor-
themels, 1688. OClavo, with the Permiffion
of the King. The Author had intermixed a
Defcription of feveral lflands and Towns in
the Eaft-Indies, and other Places of his Tra¬
vels ; which, lecaufe they contained nothing
curious or extraordinary in them, and did
not in the leafl relate to the Story of the In-
quifkion, I have wholly omitted ; which
might eafily he done without any Diforder of
the Hiflory, or Mutilation of the Senfe^Jince
the Author had comprifed all his Geographi¬
cal Digreffions in diflinCl Chapters, and
thereby given a fair Opportunity of omit¬
ting them. / have no more to acquaint the
Reader, hut only that the Author of this Re¬
lation was Monfieur Dell on, a Perfon well
known to the World hy his ingenious Wri¬
tings, particularly hy his Relation of his
Travels into the Eaft Indies, Printed at
Paris, z Volumes in O&avo.
To
 T O

Mademoiselle Du Cambout De Coflin.

I Madam,
Should be unjuft to complain of the
Rigours of the Inquifition, and the ill
Uiage which I received from her Officers,
fmce they have admimftred to me the fub-
jed Matter of this Work, and thereby af¬
forded me the Advantage of Dedicating it
to you. I Ihould defire, Madam, to make a
juft Ufe of fo favourable an Occafion, to
have an Eloquence proportionable to my
Zeal. I would employ it in fpeaking of fo
many excellent Qualities, wherewith Hea¬
ven hath fo liberally endued you, which
render you one of the moft amiable Per-
fons of the World, and caufe you fo be
already admired by all thofs who know
you. In truth there is obferved in you a
Goodnefs and Sweetnefs which Charm, a
Vivacity and Penetration of Spirit which
Surprize, a Prudence and Difcernment,
which are not ordinary to Perfons of your
Age. But this, Madam, deferves our Afto-
nilhment,
 DEDICATION.
nilhment, that you are fo accompliilied ;
that to create a juft Idea of you, and make
your Elogy in few Words, it doth not fuf-
fice to fay that you are the worthy Daugh¬
ter of two Perlons, no lefs Eminent and
Illuftrious for their Piety, than for their
Birth and Quality.
May Heaven grant, Madam, that your
Merit may be fellowed by an uninterrupted
Happinefs ; that your Profperity may fur-
pafs even the Meafure of your Defires ;
and that this Book, which I prefect to
you, may be fcattered into the moft rlmote
Provinces ; not fo much to inftrucft People
in what pafleth in the Tribunals of the
Holy Office, as to preferve the Memory
of your Illuftrious Name ; and ferve for
an Eternal Proot of that profound Refped:,
wherewith I am,
*

Madam,

Tour mojl Humlie, and

mofi Obedient Servant,

D * * *

THE
 THE

I ,
T is but too ordinary to find Books whofe pom¬
pous titles promife much, and which ^ deceiving
the Expectation of the Reader, contain nothing
lefs, than what is hoped to be found in them. In
this Book a quite oppofite Method is obferved -, and
thofe who floail give themfelves the ‘Trouble to read
it5 will grant that the Title doth but imperfectly
exprefs the Matter of the Book,
I have contented my felf to defcribe faithfully
what I obferved in the Inquifition, without inf ft-
ing to make large Reflections on it, and have choje
rather to leave to the Readers the Liberty of do¬
ing that. Thofe who have already any light Know¬
ledge of the Holy Office, will make no Difficulty
to believe all which is here related j the whole is
fo far from receiving any Exaggeration > and how
extraordinary ffiever the Proceedings and Fcrmali-
îies of the Inquifition may appear, the Reader may
be affiurecf that there is nothing here related, which
is not exaClly true. I do not in the leaf hereby
pretend to blame the Inquifition it felf : 1 am willing
to believe that the Inftitution of it is good *, and
it is certain that in thofe Places where it firft be-
gan,
 The PREFACE.
gan, it is not exercifed with fo great Severity, as
in Spain, Portugal, and the Countries which de¬
fend upon thefe two Crowns, where it is received %
but as all human Inftitutions, how excellent foever
they be, are fubjebl to Relaxation and Abufe, it is
not to be admired, if Abufes have crept into the Tri¬
bunals of the Holy Office.
It is of thefe Abufes therefore only that 1 defign
to complain -, however the Inquifitors, who affedl fo
great Secrecy in whatfoever relates to their Tribunals,
will perhaps be difpleafed, that I have taken the
Liberty to expofe to the Publick, Things, which it
feemed fo much their Concern to keep concealed.
But befides, that this Difcovery may, if they will
make a right Ufe of it, be ferviceable to them alfo, I
thought it my Duty no longer to deprive the Publick
of a Knowledge, which could not but be very ufeful
to it. In ejfeïï, it very much concerns thofe Per-
fons, whofe Curiofity, or Bufmefs /hall oblige them
to live in thofe Places, where the Holy Office exer-
cifeth its JurifdiElion, that they be informed of what
they ought to avoid or do, that they may not fall in¬
to the Hands of thofe Officers, and thereby undergo
a Misfortune like to that, which makes the fubjeil
of this Relation.
At

An Extrait of t he Privilege of the King*

C>t
B Y the Grant and Privilege of the King*
given at Herfailles the zifl day of Auguft,
lôSj. Signed, by the King in his Council, P ouilain,
it
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 An Extraft of the Priviledge^ &c.
it is permitted to the Sieur D # * * to caufe a
Book to be imprinted, Intituled, A Relation of
the Inquifition of Goa, during the time and (pace
of 8 Years, to be accounted from the day, when
the firft Impreffion fhall be finithed. And it is
forbidden to all Printers, Bookfellers, and others,
to Print, Sell, or divulge the faid Book, upon
pain of the Penalties mentioned in the faid Grant.
The faid Sieur hath yielded and trans¬
ferred his Right in the prefent Privilege to Da¬
niel Horthemels, to enjoy it according to the A-
greement made between them.

A
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RELATION
O F T H E

gjnnmfttton of go A.

CHAP, L

Motives which induced me to publish this

Relation«

LL the World knows in general what

the Inquifition is, and that it is efta-
blilhed in certain Places, as Italy, Spain,
and Portugal, and moft of the Coun¬
tries which depend upon them, and that the
Judges which poflefs it, exercife with much fe-
verity upon the People ftibjefl: to them, a Judi¬
cature unheard of to other Tribunals. It is more¬
over known, that this Rigour is not every where
equal, for the Inquifition of Spain is more fevers
 C 16 )
than that of Italy, and lefs fevere than that of
Portugal, and the States depending on it.
The Maxims of this unheard of Judicature
may be found in printed Books, the Examinati¬
on of thofe Maxims, and the EffeCts of them
in diverfe Occafions *, but I know none who hath
given himfeif the Liberty to tell us what pafleth
in the Recedes of this Tribunal, The Officers
of this Judicature are too much interefted in its
Gonfervation for to difcover the Secrets of it,
and as for thofe who have had to do with thefe
Magiftrates and their inferior Officers, are in¬
formed of what is there pra&ifed, and have had
fome Reafon to complain of it : The Fear of
thofe terrible Punifhments, that are carefully in¬
flicted upon thofe who {hall be convinced not
to have kept their Oath of Secrecy (which is
extorted from them before they are let at Liber¬
ty) renders the Myfleries of the Inquisition fo
impenetrable, that it is almoft impoffible ever to
learn the Truth, unlefs to him who hath the Un»
happinefs to be carried into her Prifon, and make
the Experience of them in his own Perfon : Or
to yield under fo great an Adverfity. Moreover,
it is nectiTary that he who hath been (hut up
in the horrible Solitudes of the Holy Office,
fhould have taken Care, during his Imprifonment,
diligently to obferve what pafîedj and after his
Enlargement, hath the Courage to relate without
any fear, what himfeif hath learned and expe¬
rienced.
Thefe are the Reafons that very few Perfons
truly know what pafleth in that terrible Tribu¬
nal *
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naî j and as after the Obligation of rendring to
God what we owe to him, there is no Duty
more preffing than that of fervingour Neighbour,
and efpecially the Pubiick * I thought my felf
obliged to relate what I buffered, and what
I obferved in the Prifons of the Inquifition at
Goa \ adding to it what I learned from credi¬
ble Perfons, whom I knew familiarly during
the Time of my Imprifonment, and after my
Enlargement.
I doubted a long Time whether I ought to
publifh this Relation, for it is more than eight
Years fince I returned into France, and it is more
than four fince this Relation was writ. I fear¬
ed to fcandalize the Holy Office, and violate my •
Oath, and this Fear was confirmed in me bv
pious, but timerous Perlons, who were of the
fame Opinion as my felf j but other Perfons no
lefs pious, and who feemed to me more ratio¬
nal, at laft convinced me, that it concerned the
Pubiick upon many Accounts to know this Tri¬
bunal well j that this Relation might be ufeful
even to the Minifters of the Holy Office, if they
knew how to profit by it , and much more to
thofe who have a Right to regulate the Pro¬
ceedings, and limit the Jurifdiâion of it. And
as for the Oath of Secrecy, fo un juft ly extorted,
as that is which the Inquifition extorteeh under
Pain of burning j the pubiick Good fufficicnily
difpenfeth with it, for to let at Liberty the Con¬
fidence of him who took it, and confequently
puts him into a kind of Obligation to relate what
he knoweth.
B Sec
 C 13 )
See the Reafons which hindred me from pub-
lifhing this Relation before, and thole which
now engage me to publilh it at prefent $ if the
Delay of it hath deprived the Publick of an ufe-
ful Knowledge > at lead it will ferve to allure me
that I have precipitated nothing, and that the
Relentment of thofe ill Treatments which Ifuf-
fered, had no Share in this Account. In fine,
what Ï here fay of the Inquifition of Goa, is to
be underflood of thofe alfo of Portugal and Spain $
for although this lall be led cruel than the other
two, upon this account, that thofe publick Exe¬
cutions, which they call Affis of Faith, are here
lefs frequent $ and that there is a greater Igno¬
rance in the Indies than in Portugal, we fee ne-
verthelefs by the Relation which the Gazette of
France giveth the izth of Augufl i<58o, that the
fame Spirit, the fame Rules, and the fame Ri¬
gour, reign in all the Executions of the Inquifi¬
tion in all thefe Countries j forafmuch as there is
even in the Relation of the Gazette, Circum-
fbnees much more terrible than thofe of the
Act of Faith, which I underwent.

CHAP. IL

The Apparent Caufes of my Imprifonment.

I Had Hayed at Daman, a Town of the Eaft-

hidies polled by Portaguefe, for to refrelh
my felf a little from the Fatigues which I
had differed in my Voyages,' and that I might
put
 C l9 )
put my (elf into a Condition of continuing my
Travels : But in the fame Place where i had
hoped to find Reft, I found the Beginning of
much greater Troubles, than all thofe which I
had hitherto experienced. The true Caufe of
all the Perfecutions which the Minifters of the
Inquifition made me endure, was an ill-grounded
Jealoufy of the Governor of Daman. It is not
hard to judge that this Reafon was never al-
ledged in my Procefs : Yet for to fatisfy the
Paflion of this Governor, they made ufe of di¬
vers Pretexts 5 and they found at laft the Means
of feizing me, and removing me from the In¬
dies^ where perhaps other wife I had palled the
reft of my Days.
It muft be acknowledged, that altho’ thefe
Pi etexts, of which they made ufe, were very
weak for Perfons inftru&ed in the Faith, or in
Law * they were neverthelefs too fufficient for
fuch Perfons as the Portuguefe are, in refpect t5f
their Prejudices and Maxims. Infomuch as up¬
on this Account I thought them my felf fo plau-
fible, that I difeovered not the true Reafons of
my Detainment, but in the Sequel of the Af¬
fair.
The firft Occafion which I gave to my E-
nemies, to make ufe of the Inquifition to de-
ftroy me, was a Difcourfe which I had with an .
Indian Monk, a Divine, of the Order of St. Do¬
minick. But before I proceed any farther, I
muft premife, that altho’ my Manners have not
always been conformable to the Holinefs of
that Religion wherein I was baptized, I have
B z , yet
 ( 10 )
yet been always flrongly addi£ted to the Reli¬
gion of my Forefathers, I mean to that of the
Catholick, Apoftolick, Roman Church \ and that
God hath given to me more Affedtions to the
Inftruftions which are received in it, than the
greateft Part of Chriftians ordinarily have. Con-
fequently I have always taken Pleafure both to
hear and read : And I never read any Thing with
fo much Diligence, as the Holy Scriptures, as
well of the Old, as of the New Teftament,
which 1 commonly carry about with me. I
had alfo taken Care not to be ignorant of the
School Divinity, becaufe in long Travels there
is a Necedity of continual Converfution with all
forts of People ; among whom may be found
fome of all Religions and Se£ts ; And I freely
difputed withHereticks and Schifmaticks, whom
I found in my Way. I carried with me Books
fit for this Purpofe, and among others an Abridg¬
ment of Divinity, writ by Father Don Peter de
St. Jofeph Feuillant $ and I was fufficiently in-
iiruâed by Difcouide, and Reading, during my
great Leifure at Sea, and Stay which I made in
divers Places of the Indies. 1 thought my felf
then in a Condition of converting, or even de¬
puting with profell Divines, and I fell very in¬
nocently into the Snare in talking with this
Monk.
I lodged with the Dominicans, becaufe of thofe
earned: Defires which they had made to me j
and I lived with them with much Kindnefs and
Familiarity: I had ferved them alfo upondiverfe
Qccafions in Acknowledgment of the Honour
which
 ( 21 )
which they did me in defiring my Company,
and in return of the Friendship which they tef-
tifyed to me. We were oft-times in Difpute,
and that which I had with the aforefaid Monk,
was concerning the EfFedfo of Baptifm : We
both agreed in the three Species of Baptifm,
which the Catholick Church acknowledgeth,
and it was only in way of Difcourfe, not for that
I doubted of ir, that Ï would deny the Effect
of that Baptifm, which they call Flaminis : and
for to maintain my Opinion, I alledged that Paf-
fage, Whofoever is not born again of Water and
of the HolyGhoftj 8cc. Neverthelefs I had fcarce
ended my Difcourfe but the good Father retired
himfelf without anfwering one Word, as if he
had fome prefling Bufinefs, and went, according
to all Appearance, to inform againft me to the
Commiffiry of the Holy Office. I afterwards
difcourfed fever a 1 Times with this fame Monk,
and as he teflify’d no Coldnefs towards me, I
was far from believing he had done to me fo
bad an Office.
I was oftentimes prefent in the Afiemblies,
where they carry about little Trunks, upon
which is painted the Image of the Blefied Vir¬
gin, or that of fome other Saint. The Portu-
guefe are wont to kifs the Image which is upon
this Trunk 5 and thofe who have Devotion to
thofe Confraternities, put their Alms into thefe
Boxes. Here it is free to give any thing or nor $
but none can omit luffing the Image without
giving Scandal to the Company. I was not then
above 24 Years old, and I had not all the Pru¬
dence
 M

( i% )
dcnce requifite to a Perfon who liveth among
Strangers, to whofe Cuftoms it is fit to conform
as much as may be > and as I was not then ufed
to thefe forts of Ceremonies, I refilled often¬
times to take and kifs thefe Boxes 5 from whence
they rafhiy inferred, that I contemned the Ima¬
ges, and confequently that I was an Heretick.
I was with a Portugueze Gentleman, on a time
when he was about to let his Son blood : I faw
that this young Man had in his Bed the Image
of the Holy Virgin made of Ivory 5 as he loved
this Image extremely, he killed it often, and
addrefied his Speech to it. This Way of ho¬
nouring Images is very ordinary among the Por¬
tugueze $ and it created fome Reluftance in me,
becaufe in Bffedl the Hereticks interpreting it ill,
this hinders them as much as any thing from re¬
turning to the Church. I faid then to this young
Man, that if he did not take heed, his Blood
would fly upon the Image $ and heanfwered me,
That he could not find in his Heart to lay it by ,
I reprefented to him that this would hinder the
Operation : Then he reproached me that the
French were Hereticks, and that they adored not
Images : To which I anfwered, That I belie¬
ved we ought to honour them, and that if it
were permitted to ufe the Word Adore, yet this
ought only to be in refpeft of our Lord Jefus
Chrtft : In which Cafe alfo it were necefiary,
that this Adoration ihould be referred to Jefus
Chrtft reprefented by thefe Images : And for
this I cited the Council of %rent9 Sefiion zf.
It happened about the fame time that one of
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my Neighbours coming to vifit me, and feeing
a Crucifix upon my Pillow, faid to me, Mon-
fieur, remember to cover this Image, if by chance you
take any Woman into Bed to you, and to take heed
of it. How is it, faid I, that you imagine by
this Means to hide your felf from the Eyes of
God ? Are you of the Mind of thofe debauch¬
ed Women which are among you, who after
they have fhut their Chaplets and Boxes of Re¬
liques, believe they may without any Crime a-
bandon themfelves to all Excefs : Go Monfieur,
have more noble Thoughts of the Deity $ and
think not that a little Linnen can hide our Sins
from the Eyes of God, who feech even the Se¬
crets of our Hearts. In fine, what is this Cru¬
cifix, but a Piece of Ivory ? We fiopt there,
and my Neighbour having withdrawn, acquit¬
ted himfelfvery well of his pretended Duty, in
going to accufe me to the Commiflary of the
Inquifition. For it is to be known, that all Per-
fons living in Countries fubjedt to the Jurifdidti-
on of the Holy Office, are obliged under pain of
the greater Excommunication, referved to the
Grand Inquifitor, to declare within the Space
of thirty Days, all which they have feen to be
done, or heard to be (poke, touching the Cafes
of which that Tribunal takes Cognizance. And
becaufe many People might flight thisPumÛinient,
or doubt whether they have actually incurred it,for
to obligePeople to obey this Order pundiually, the
loquifitors will, that thofe who fail in.making
this Declaration within the time limited by their
.Confutations, fhail be efteemed guilty, and con-
fequently
 Ch)
fequentîy punched, as if themfelves had com?
mitred the Crimes which they did not reveal j
which caufeth that in the Matter of the Inqui-
fit ton, Friends betray Friends, Fathers their Chib
dren, and that Children, by an indifcreet Zeal,
forget all the Refpedl which God and Nature
oblige them to bear to thofe who gave them
Life.
The Obftmacy which I {hewed in refuting
to wear a Chaplet about my Neck, contributed
no lefs to make them believe I was an Heretick,
than my Refufil to kifs the Images $ but that
which ferved above all the reft as a Motive to
my Imprifonment, and my Condemnation, was,
that being prefled in Company, where a Dif-
courfe was railed concerning the Juftice of Men,
I Lid that it much left defervcd that Name,
than the Name of Injuftice 5 that Men judging
not but according to Appearances, which are
too often deceitful, were fubjedt to make very
unequitable Judgments j and that God alone
knowing Things as they are, there is none but
God who can truly be called juft. One of thofe
before whom I fpake, took me up, and told me,
that generally {peaking what I advance was true,
that nevertheleft there was this Diftindlion to
be made, that if true Juftice were not to be
found in France, they had this Advantage above
us, That among them might be found a Tri¬
bunal whole Decrees were no left juft, and no
lefs infallible, than thofe of Je fus Qhrifl. I then
iinderftanding very well that he meant the In-
/luijition, anfwered, Think you that the Inquifi-
tors
 ( *5 )
tors are lefs Men, and lefs fubjeâ: to their Faf-
fions than other Judges ? Speak not to me Jo, an-
fwered this zealous Defender of the Holy Office *
if the Inquifitors fitting upon the Tribunal are in¬
fallible, it is becaufe the Holy Ghofi prefides over
their Decifions. I could no longer bear a Dif-
courfe, which appeared fo unreafonable to me,
and to prove to him by an Example, that the
Inquifitors were nothing lefs than what he pre¬
tended, I related to him the Adventure of Fa-
ther Ephraim de Nevers, Capuchin and Apofto-
lick Miffionary into the Indies, who as Monfieur
de la Boulay le Gou, relateth in the Hiftorv of
his Travels, was arrefted by the Inquifition pure¬
ly out of Envy, about feventeen Years before,
where they had kept him, and very ill treated
him for a long time $ and I concluded, in telling
him, that I made no doubt that this Monk was
more virtuous and learned than thofe who had
kept him thus in Frifon, without fo much as
permitting him to read his Breviary. I added,
that I efteemed France happy in refofing ever to
admit this fevere Tribunal, and I thought my
felf fo, in not being fubjeâ: to its JuriidicHon.
This Difcourfe failed not to be exaâly related
to the Father CommilTary 5 and this, added to
what I have already faid, ferved alter wards to
jnake my Procels.

CHAP.
 C 26 )

CHAP. III.
Of the Vifit which I made to the Commiffary of the
Inquifition to accufe my felf\ and ask Advice
of him.

N Ot with (landing the inviolable Secrecy

which the Inquifition exadleth, by Oath
of all thofe who approach her Tribunals, I fail¬
ed not to have fome Notice of the Depofitions
which were made againfl me. The Apprehen-
fion of falling into the Hands of the Holy Of¬
fice made me go to find out the Commiffary,
from whom I hoped for Counfel and Protection,
becaufe I had been recommended to him by
Perfons, who deferved that Confederation fhouîd
be had of diem % and for that all the time I had
been at Daman, he had always affeded to be ac¬
counted one of my Friends. I therefore fairly
related to him how Things had pafied 5 and
praying him to inflruft me in what manner I
fhould behave my felf for the future, affuring
him that as I had never any ill Defign, fo I was
ready to amend my felf, and even to recanr, if
be fhould judge that I had advanced any thing
which was not convenient. This Father afllired
me, that my Prçceeding had given Scandal to
many People, that he was satisfied that my In¬
tention had not been ill, and that there was no¬
thing in ^all which I had faid abfolutely Crimi¬
nal, that never thelefs he advifcd me to accommo¬
date
 C *7 )
date my felf a little to the Fafhion of the Peo¬
ple, and not to fpeak fo freely of thefe forts of
Matters, and above all, of Images, which I had
often fa id ought not to be adored, which I had
endeavoured to prove by Citations out of the
Scriptures and the Fathers. That the People
were in truth in feme light Errors, which paf-
fed for a true Devotion, but that it was not for
me to undertake to correét and reform them,
I thanked the Commiflary for the good Ad¬
vice which he had given me, and returned very
well fatisfkd : Forafmuch as I knew that having
accufed my felf before I was arreded, Ï could
not according to the Laws of the Inquifition,
be any more accufed. I was hefides very well
fatisfied of the Judice and Integrity of this
CommifTary, becaule that having not found me
guilty, he had given me all necefiary Advice for
my future Conduct with fo much Prudence 5
infomuch as I could not any longer entertain
the lead fhadow of Sufpicion againd my felf.

CHAP. IV.

Containing the true Caufes of my Imprifonment, and

how they arre[ied me.

A Lthough all which I have laid down in

the foregoing Chapters, was more than
fufficient for to ddtroy me, according to the
Maxims of the lnquifition, and the Cudom of
the Country 7 yet Things had not gone on io
far,
 Os)
far, or fo haflily, if the Governor of Daman,
called Manuel Hurtado de Mendoza had not been
incited with that Jealoulie which I before men¬
tioned > which he diffembled fo well, that he
fëemed to be one of my belt Friends, yet under¬
hand he vigoroufiy follicited the Commifiary of
the Holy Office to write to Goa to the Inquife-
tors for to inform them of the Difcourfe which
I had held, refolving not to lofe the Occaiion
which I had unadvifedly given him, of making
fure of me, and removing me from Daman for
ever. The Reafon of the Jealoulie of this Go¬
vernor, was the frequent, but innocent Villes
which I paid to a Lady whom he loved, and
of whom he was but too much enamoured, that
which I rhen was ignorant of > and as he judg¬
ed upon feeble Appearances, he apprehended that
I was more loved by her than himfelf.
A certain Black Frier, Secretary of the Holy
Office, lodged over againft this L ady 5 he had for
her no lefs ftrong a Paffion than the Governor,
and had follicited her to fatisfie his infamous De-
lires, even in the Tribunals of Pennance, as the
Lady her felf allured me. ThisPrieltobferving
me, became as jealous as the Governor, and al¬
though till then he had been one of my Friends,
and that I had alfo done him very important
Services, he ceafed not to joyn himfelf to Ma¬
nuel Hurtado to opprefs me.
Thefe two Rivals thus united, preffed the
Comm» far y fo vigoroufiy, that upon the Advice
which he lent at their Sollicitation to Goa, he
received Order from the Inquifition to arreft me,
which
 (29)
which was performed the Evening of the z^th
of Juguft) 1673. as I was returning from vifitiog
a Lady of great Worth, called Senora dona Fran-
cifca Pereira, Wife of one of the chief Gentle¬
men of the Town, called Manuel Peixoîe de Ga¬
ma. This Lady was about 60 Years old, fhe
thought her felf obliged to me for the Life of
her eldeft Daughter, and of her Grand-daughter.
And in truth, I had been fo happy as not to
be unferviceable to her. The eldeft had fallen
fick in the Abfence of her Mother, and the
Impudence of an Indian Phyfician had reduced
her to the laft Extremity. When I was called,
I took in hand this fick Perfon and cured her j
the Mother being returned, and raviftied with
Joy for the Cure of her beloved Daughter :
Her Grand-daughter, who was yet more dear
to her, fell alfo fick, and that more dangerouf-
îy than her Aunt ; nevertheîds, I was not cailed
at firft for to fee this young Patient, nor had
they any Recourie to me till her Life was in a
defperate Condition. I found her in a very vio¬
lent Fever, and although fhe wns at the Point
of falling into a Phrenzy, the Indian Phyfician,
far from thinking of letting her Blood, had co¬
vered her Head with Pepper, which I caufed
firft to be taken off, and undertaking the Cure,
fucceeded very well, infomuch as my Patient re¬
covered in a few Days a perfedf Health. From
that time this Lady feeking Occafions of de-
monftrating her Gratitude, loaded me with
Prefents, and defiring that I would lodgenearer
her file had given me an Houfc oyer again ft
her
 ( 3° )
her own. This was the fame Day which I
before mentioned, wherein fhe had given me
this Houfe, and I departed from this fo generous
a Lady to return in the Evening to my own
Lodgings, when the Criminal Judge of the
Town, called in Portugueze, Ouvidor de Crime,
came upon me, and commanded me to follow
him into Prilon -, whither I was carried with¬
out being able to obtain of him by what Order
he did this, till I was fliut up in Prifon.
How great foever my Surprize was, when the
Judge arrefted me, yet as I was confcious of my
own Innocence, but above all becaufe I ima¬
gined that I was feized upon fome flight Occa-
iion -y I hoped, with fufiicient Probability, that
Manual Hurtado, who had always profefled much
Friendfhip towards me, would not permit that
I Ihould ftay fo much as one Night in Prifon.
But when he who carried me thither told me,
that it was by Order of the lnquifition, my A-
Aonifliment was fo great, that I remained for
fome Time immovable at lafl, having a lit¬
tle recolleéfed my felf, I de fired to fpeak with
the Com miliary, but to heighten my Misfor¬
tune, they told me, that he had parted that ve¬
ry Day for Goa j fo that there remained to me
no other Comfort, than the Hope which eve¬
ry one gave me that I fhould be very fliortly fet
at Liberty 5 becaufe the Juflice of the Holy Of¬
fice was not only equitable, but inclined very
much to Mercy, efperially towards thofe who
acknowledged their Fault betimes, without be¬
ing a long while follicited to do it.
Ail
 ( 3* 3
All thefe fine Words hindred not my Uir
happinefs from becoming very fenfible to me 5
and the Sight of my Friends, who failed not to
come and comfort me, far from comforting,
fcrved only more extremely to afflifl: me, by the
Comparifon which I made of their Condition
to my own. As I had no Enemies but hidden
ones, they eafily mixed themfelves among my
beft Friends : The Governor and the Black Fri¬
er, who defired nothing fo much as my Remo¬
val, knew admirably well how to diffemble their
Hatred and their Jealoufy 5 the firfi in fending
to me the Officer of his Houfe, to afilire me of
the Sorrow which he conceived from my Mis¬
fortune, and to offer all poffible Affifiance to me $
the other in coming to the Grate, to (bed fome
falfe Tears, which Joy, rather than Compaffion,
drew from him.

CHAP. V.

Description of the Prifon. 1 writ to the

Inc[tiifitors, who returned me no Anfwer*
Extreme Mifery of the Prifoners.

T HE Prifon of Daman is lower than the

River, which is near to it, which makes
it rnoifi and unhealthy \ and it wanted but little
that it was not overflowed fome Years fince, by
a Hole which the Prifoners had made under the
Wall, for to elcape thereby. The Walls are
very thick. The Prifon confifts in two large
low
 (30
low Rooms, and one upper one. The Men are
in the lower, the Women in the upper Room.
Of the two lower Rooms, the greater is about
40 Foot long, and if broad, and the other two
thirds of this Extenfion. We were in this Space
of Ground about 40 Prifoners, and there was
no other Place to fatisfy the ordinary Neceffi-
ties of Nature but that. We made Water in
the Middle of this Room, where the Golleffcion
of thefe Waters made a kind of Sea : And the
Women had no better Convenience in their Stage,
there being this only Difference between them
and us, that their Waters ran from their high
Room through the Planks into ours, where all
thofe different Waters mixed together. For the
other Excrements, our only Convenience was a
large Basket, which was fcarcc emptied above
once a Week j whereby an innumerable Swarm
of Worms were bred, which covered the Pave¬
ment, and came even upon our Beds. While I
llaid in this Prifon, the Care which I took to
have it cleanfed, rendred it a little lefs horrible j
but âltho’ I often caufed even fo Pitchers of U-
rine to be call out in one Day, yet the Stink
ceafed not to be very great.
Scarce was I (hut up in this fad Dwelling, but
making a ferious Reflexion upon my Unhappinefs,
] eafily difcovered the Caulë, and refolved to for-»
get nothing which might contribute to my En¬
largement. My Friends continually told me, that
my bed and readied Way to recover my Liberty,
was to confefs voluntarily, and at large, what I
thought had procured my Ruin. Being willing
then
 C 33 3
then to make ufe of their Advice, I writ to Goa
to the Grand Inquifitor, who is called in Porta«

guefe, Inquifitor mor : I ingenuoufiy declared to

him in my Letter, all which i believed I could
have been accufed of ; and defired him to confi-
der, that if I had failed, it was rather through
Levity and Imprudence, than Malice. My Let¬
ter was delivered faithfully, but againft my Hope,
and the Defire of my Friends, they returned no
Anfwertome, but fuffered me to languifh in this
{linking and obfcure Prifon, in the Company of
diverfe Negroes; who, as well as I, were arreil-
ed by Order of the Holy Office.
The charitable Care which Dona Francifica
took of me all the Time that I {fayed Prifoner
at Daman, rendred my Captivity a little more
fupportable. This generous Lady contented non
her felf to fend me what was necefiary, but I
received every Day from her wherewith to nou~
rifii abundantly and delicately four Perlons. She
her felf took the Trouble of dreffing my Meat,
and always fent along with the Slave, who brought
the Meat, fome of her Grand-Children, who
might fee me receive it ; fearing left any one
fiiould fuborn her Domefticks or the Jayior to
Poifon me- And altho’ fhe could not come in
Perfon to comfort me in the Prifon, ihe took
Care that her Husband, her Children, and her
Sons-in-Law fhould come every Day.
It was not fo with the other Prifoners ; there
j is no regulated Subfiftance for them at Daman :
! The Magiffrates leave them to the Charity of
il whofoeyer have a Mind to relieve them : And
C as
 04)
as there were in the whole Town but two Per-
fons, who fent them Meat duly twice a Week $
the greateft Part of the Prifoners receiving no¬
thing upon other Days, were reduced to fo de¬
plorable a Mifery, that this contributed not a
little to imagine mine the greater. I gave all
that I could fpare from my own Subfiftance,
yet there were fome of thofe unhappy Perfons,
who were feparated from us but by a Wall, who
were forced by Hunger to live upon their own
Excrements. Upon this Occafion I learned that
fome Years before, about Fifty Malabar Pyrates
being taken and flint up in this Room, the hor¬
rible Famine which they fuflfered, call: more than
forty of them into fuch a Defpair, that they
flrangled themfelves with the Linnen of their
Turbants. The Extremity which thofe poor
People endured, that were with me, created
much Compaffion in me, which induced me to
write to the Governor, and to the chief Men
of the Town, who after that were fo charitable
as to fend Maintenance to thofe miferable Vic¬
tims of the Holy Office.

CHAR VL

The Return of the Father Commïffary• They

remove me to Goa.

T HE Commiflary had not found me a Cri¬

minal in that Confeffion, which I went
to make to him of my own Accord, as I be¬
fore
 t 35 )
fore faid ^ and although he had found me %
Criminal, yet ought I to remain free ceording
to the Laws of the Inquifition. But as this was
not the Intention of the Governor and the Black
Friar, this Father violating all thefe Laws, had
accufed me as a dogmatizing Heretickj he might
have fent me to the Inquifition of Goa immedi¬
ately after my Imprifonmenr, and if he had done
fo, I might have come out of Prifon three Months
after, at thz Aft of Faith, which was performed
in the December following. But this was not
the Intent of my Rivals, that I fhould be fo foon
at Liberty * this is the Reafon why the Com»
miflary, far from removing me immediately from
Daman, departed himlelf that he might not re¬
ceive my Defires and Complaints, and went to
Goa as foon as he caufed me to be arretted, from
whence he returned not till after the Aft of
Faith, that is to fay, till the end of December ;
and I know not whether he employed the four
Months which he made me pafs in the Prifon of
Daman, in commending me to the Inquifitor,
as a Man very criminal, and very dangerous,
whom it were neceffary to remove from the In¬
diesy rather I have Reafon to fufpeci: it, by the
Rigour which they affeâcd to ufe in my Con¬
demnation, which appeared fo extraordinary e-
ven in Portugal. The Com miflary returned then
the 20th of December, with the little Fleet which
gocth ordinarily in this Seafon from Goa to Cam-
baia, for to ferve as a Convoy to the Merehant-
Ships. This Father, who had order to caufe
all the Prifoners of the Inquifition to be embar-
C i qued
 < 16 )
qued upon the Galliotsp warned me to be ready
to depart, when the Fleet fliould return from
Cambaia.
Monfieur V Able carre returning in the mean
time from St. ’Thome, where was Monfieur de la
Haye, and paffing by Daman, having with much
Difficulty obtained Leave to fee me, was fo kind
as to vifit me in the Prifon upon the Eve
and the Day of Chrifimas, which was that of
his Departure to Sunat. I writ to the Com¬
mit ary, and defired him by diverfe Perfons, that
lie would fpcak with me* but neither my Let¬
ters, nor the Sollicitations of thofe who inte-
refted themfelves for me could prevail with him ;
fo much did he fear the juft Reproaches which
I fliould have made to him upon account of his
Infincerity.
About the fame Year a Portuguefe, named Ma¬
nual Vas, whom I had known very particular¬
ly, being accufed of having a Wife in Portugal,
was arreited by Order of the Holy Office, and
carried into the Prifon where I was, for having
married a fécond Wife a Month iince at Da¬
man.
My generous ProteSxefs underftanding that I
was to be removed to Goa, failed not to prepare
Provifions for me, which might have fufficed
for a much longer Voyage than what I was to
perform. At laft3 part of the Fleet being re¬
turned from Cambaia, the Commiflary fent Irons
and Chains for to put upon the Feet of all thofe
who were to be carried to Goa: The Negroes
were chained two and two, except iome which
were
 . O'37)
were fo wafted with Famine endured in the Pri-
fons, that they were forced in embarquing them,
to leave them the Liberty of their Feet, which
yet they were not in any Condition to make u(e
of. As for the Portuguefe and me, they did us
the Hônour for to afford us feparate Irons. The
Commiftary had alfb the Civility to tell me, that
he left me the Choice of two Chains, which
were deftined for his Fellow-country-man and
my felf, and to makeufe of his Civility, I chofc
the mo ft convenient, altho? the heavier Chain*
I went out of Prifon with the reft on the laft
of December, and was carried in a Pelanvyin with
the Irons on my Feet, to the Bank of the Ri¬
ver where I found diverfe of my Friends met
together, whom I had the Liberty to embrace,
and bid farewel to them. The Governor, who
was prefent, omitted nothing whereby he might
perfwade me of the Sorrow which he took in
my Misfortune j and made a thoufand counter¬
feit Prayers for my fpeedy Deliverance and hap¬
py Return. The Sight of my Friends, and their
Tears, fervëd only to augment my Grief* but
nothing was more grievous to me than the De¬
nial of taking Leave of my Benefadrefs, whom
I would have thanked for all her charitable Care
which fhe had taken of me* at laft, after ma*
ny melancholly Compliments, they put me into
a Boat, and I was carried into one of the Gal¬
liots of this little Fleet, which expeded only
the Orders of their General for to weigh her An¬
chors.

C H A Pa
 ( 3§ )

CHAP. VII.

Departure from Daman. We pafs to Ba¬

caim, and ftay there. Our Arrival at
Goa.

A Lthough one great Part oF the Galliots and

Barques were not yet arrived from Diu
and Lambda, the General, Lewis de Melio, ceaf-
ed not to give the Signal of Departure to thofe
which were then at Daman, From whence we
parted the firft Day of the Year 1674, with a
Defign to go to Bacaim, to wait there till the
reft of the Fleet fhould join us, as the Wind was
favourable, and that we had not above twenty
Leagues to fail, we arrived thereon the Morrow,
and had no fooner let down our Anchors, but all
the Prifoners were immediately landed, and carri¬
ed into the Priions of that Town, to be kept
there all the while the Ships fhould remain in
the Haven. Ï was carried thither with the reft.
One of my Friends, who had been fettled a while
fince at Bacaim, having in vain endeavoured to
obtain Leave to fee me, allured me by a Letter,
that he had alfo much Difficulty to let meknow
the Part which he took in my Misfortune.
The Prifon of Bacaim is lefs rafty, and larger
than that of Daman j we found there a good
Number of Companions in Mifery, whom the
Father-
 ( 39 )
Father-Comm iflary of the Inquifîtion in that
Town had detained Prifoners a long time, wait¬
ing for a fit Occafion to fend them to Goa.
They were all chained as we were. They put
us aboard the 7th of the fame Month, and all the
Fleet being met together, and fufficientiy pro¬
vided with all Things neceflary, we weighed An¬
chors, and made Sail the next Day.
There happened nothing remarkable to us du¬
ring the reft of the Voyage. We failed always
in fight of Land, and the Wind being pretty fa¬
vourable to us, we arrived on the 14th at the Bar
of Goa. Our Captain having immediately given
Advice to the Inquifitors, we landed the next
Day, and were carried to the Inquifition. But be-
caufe there was no Audience on that Day, one
of the Officers of the Houfe caufed us to be car¬
ried into the ordinary Prifon $ that is, into the
Prilon of the Archbifhop of Goa. This Prifon
is called in Portuguefe, al Jouvar. I entred one
of the firft, and faw all our unfortunate Compa¬
nions arrive by degrees, and meet together, after
their Difperfion during the Voyage.
Th is Prifon is the molt rafty, the molt dark,
and the molt horrible of all which I ever faw $
and I doubt whether a more nafty and horrible
Prifon can any where be found. It is a kind of
Cave, wherein there is no Day feen but by a ve¬
ry little PaftagCj the molt fubtle Rays of the
Sun cannot enter into it, and there is never a-
ny true Light in it. The Stink of it is extreme,
for there is no other Place for the Neceffities
of the Prifoners, than a dry Pit upon the Floor,
 (40)
in the Middle of the Cave, which a Man dare
fcarce Approach, infomuch as part of the Ordure
remained upon the fide of the Pit, and the great-
eft part of the Prifoners went not fo far, but
eafed themfelves round about it. When Night
came 1 dud! not venture to lay my felf down,
as fearing the Vermin, whereof the Prifon was
full, and of the Ordures, wherewith it was fcat-
tered all over, but was forced to pafs away the
Night, leaning again!! a Wall. Neverthelefs, as
horrible as this Dwelling was, I fiiould have pre-
"ferred it to the private and lightfome Chambers of
the Holy Inquifition j becaufe there was Compa¬
ny and Converfation to be had in the al Jouvar,
whereas I was informed there was none in the
Priions of the Holy Office.

C H A P. VIII.

How 1 was conducted to the Inquifitlon, and what

is done to them who are jhut up in Prifon.

Ï Began to flatter my felf that they would

fuffer me to remain in the aljouvar, till my
Affair fhould be ended, becaufe they had left us
there all the Day and the Night following. But
i faw all my Hopes to vanifh, when on the i6th
Day of January, an Officer came at eight of the
Clock in the Morning, with Order to carry us
to the Holy Houfe : Which was immediately
put into Execution. It was not without great
Trouble that I got to the Place whither they
con-
\ >
 C 41 )
conduced me, becaufe of the Irons I had upon
my Legs. Yet were we in this lamentable E-
quipage forced to walk the whole Way from the
al Jouvar to the Inqtvfition. Being helped to
afcend the Stairs, I entred with my Companions
into the great Hall, where we found Smiths,
who took our Irons off* after which I was firft
called to Audience.
After I had crofTed the Hall, I palled in an
Antichamber, and from thence to the Place
where my Judge was. This Place, which is cal¬
led by the Portugueze, Mela de Santo Officio, that
is, the "Table of the Holy Office, was fpread with
diverfe Pieces of Taffeta, fome Blue, others O-
range-colour. At one of the Ends was placed a
great Crucifix in Relievo, which reached aim oil
to the Plancher, There is in the middle of the
Chamber a great Scaffold, upon which is placed
a Table about if Foot long and 4 broad, and
round about Rails, even upon the Scaffold. At
one of the Ends of: this Table, and upon the
Side of the Crucifix, was the Secretary fitting
upon a folding Stool. I was placed at the other
End, over againft the Secretary : Juft by me,
and on my right Hand, was within a Rail the
Grand Inquifitor of the Indies, called Francifco
Del Gudo e Mates, a Secular Prieft, about 40
Years old 5 becaufe of the two Inquifitors which
are ordinarily at Goa, the Second, which is al¬
ways a Religious of the Order of St. Dominick,
was gone a little before into Portugal, and that
pone had been yet named to fupply his Place.

As
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As foon as I was entred into the Chamber
of Audience, I caff my felf at the Feet of my
Judge, imagining to mollifie him by this hum¬
ble pofture : But he would not fuffer me to
continue in that Pofture, commanding me to
arifb. Then having asked my Name, and my
Profrffion, he enquired whether I knew for what
Realbn I had been arretted, and advifed me to de¬
clare it at large 5 fince this was the only Means to
recover my Liberty fpeedily9 After I had fa¬
ns tied his two firft Queftions, I told him I be¬
lieved I knew the Reafon of my Detention ; and
that if he would have the Goodnefs to hear me,
I would accule my felf upon the fpot, I mixed
my Tears with my Prayers, and once more pro-
ft rated my felf at his Feet : But my Judge, with¬
out being moved, told me it fignificd nothing 5
that he had then more important Bufinefs to han¬
dle than mine was $ and that he would caule me
to be advertiled when he fhould refume my Af¬
fair: And fo immediately ringing a little Bell of
Silver which was before him, he made ufe of it
to call the Alcaide^ or Jaylor, of the Holy Of-
fice^ wtho entred into the Chamber, from whence
he led me, and carried me into a long Gallery
not far off, whither the Secretary followed us ;
Thither I faw my Trunk brought, which was
opened in my Prefence $ they fearched me alio
narrowly, and took from me all which I had a-
bout me, to my very Buttons, and a Ring which
I had epon my Finger, without leaving me any
thing except my Chaplet and my Handkerchief,
and fome Pieces of Gold which I had fowed up
in
 ( 43 3
in one of my Garters, which they forgot to
fearch. Of all the reft they immediately made
a pretty exa£t Inventory, which afterwards was
wholly unufeful to me j for all that was valuable
was never reftored to me, although at that time
the Secretary had allured me, that at my En¬
largement all fhould be faithfully returned into my
Hands : And the Inquifitor himfelf had after that
oft-times reiterated the fame Promife.
This Inventory being finifhed, the Alcaide took
me by the Hand, and led me bare-headed into a
little Cell of ten Foot fquare, where I was iliut
up all alone, without fight of any one, till the
Evening, when they brought me my Supper.
As I had eaten nothing either this or the fore¬
going Day, I received very gladly what they
gave to me $ and this contributed to give me a
little reft the following Night.' When they
came the next Day to give me wherewith to break
my faft, I asked for my Books and my Combs j
but I foon underftood that they gave the .firft
to no body, not even the Breviary to Priefts ;
and that the fécond were no longer neceffary to
me, my Hair being immediately cut off j which
is done to all the Prifoners of what Condition
or Sex foever, the firft Day that they enter into
thefe Holy Prifons, or on the Morrow at the
lateft.
I muft here for feme time interrupt the Ac¬
count of what particularly refpeds my felf, to
deferibe fuccin&ly this Houfe, with the Orders
and Formalities that are obferved in it,

C H A P.
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CHAP. IX.

Defcription of the Inquifition of Goa.

^TjpHE Houfe of the Inquifition, which the

X. Portuguese called Santa Cafa, that is, the
Holy Houle, is fcituated on one Side of the great
Space which is before the Cathedral Church de¬
dicated to St. Catherine. This Houfe is great
and magnificent, having in its Front } Gates,
That in the middle is larger than the other, and
it is by this that they afcend into the great
Stair-cafe which leadeth into the Hall before-
mentioned. The Gates on the Sides lead to the
Apartments of the Inquifitors, of which every
one is large enough to lodge a reafonable Train.
There is within it divers other Apartments for
the Officers of the Houfe * and in paffing far¬
ther, may be feen a large Building divided into
divers Lodgings, in two Stories, feparated the
one from the other by Back-courts. There is
in every Stage a Gallery, one ten Foot fquare y
and the Number of thefe Chambers may be in
all Two hundred.
The little Cells of one of thefe Dormitories
are dark, without any Window, lower and îef-
fer than the others > and they ihew’d me them
one Day, when I complained that I was treated
with too much Rigour, to let me know that I
might have been worfe provided than I was.
The
 ( 4> )
The others are fquare, vaulted, private, and en-
lightned by Means of a little grate Window,
which ftiutteth not 5 and to which the talleft
Man cannot reach. The Walls are throughout
f Foot thick * every Chamber isftiut with two
Doors, the one on the infide, and the other on
the outfide of the Wall $ That withift confifts
of two folding Leaves, is ftrong, well bolted,
and opened from the lower Part like a Grate :
It hath in the upper Part a little Window, by
which the Prifoners receive their Meat, their
Linnen, and other Things whereof they have
need, and which can pafs through it. This
Window hath a little fhutter to it, which is
(hut with two ftrong Bolts. The Door which
is on the outfide of the Wall, is not fo ftrong
nor fo thick as the other, but is whole, and
without any Window $ they leave that ordina¬
rily open from Six in the Morning to Eleven,
that the Wind may enter in by the Clefts of the
other Door, and fo the Air of the Chamber
may be purified.

CHAP. X.
In what manner the Prifoners of the Inquifition
are treated.

T HEY give to every one of thofe, whom

their Unhappinefs leads into thefe Holy
Prifons, an Earthen Pot full of Water to wafh
themfdves $ another more convenient of thofe
which
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which are called Gurguleta, alfo full of Water to
drink, with a Pucaro or Cup made of a kind of
fine Earth, which is commonly found in the
Indies, and which cooleth the Water admirably
well, after it hath flood in it for fome while.
They give them alfo a Broom to keep their
Chamber clean ; a Matt tofpreadupon the Floor
where they lye* a great Bafon which is changed
every four Days, and a Pot to cover it; which
ferveth alfo to put the Filth in which is fwept
up. The Prifoners are there pretty well treated,
they have three Meals in a Day, that is, Break-
fafl at fix a Clock in the Morning, Dinner at
Ten, and Supper at four a Clock in the Eve¬
ning. The Breakfall of the Negroes is ordina¬
rily Cange, which is Water thickned with Rice.
For their other Meals they always make ufe of
Rice and Fifh. The Whites or Europeans are
better treated. They carry to them in the Mor¬
ning a little foft Bread, weighing about three
Ounces, with fried Fifh, Fruits, and a Saufage,
if it be Sunday, and fometimes alfo upon Hhurf-
day. They gave them alfo Flefh to Dinner on
thefe two Days, with a little Bread as in the
Morning ; a Plate of Rice with fome Ragout,
and much Sawce to mingle with the Rice
which is boiled only with Water and Salt. On
all other Days they have nothing to Dinner but
Fifh, for Supper they bring to them in like
manner Bread, fried Fifh, a Plate of Rice and
a Ragout of Fifh or of Eggs, whofe Sauce may
be eaten with the Rice. As for Flefh they ne¬
ver make ufe of it to Supper, not even upon Ea-
fter-dayj
! |, ’ C 47 )
fter-day. I think that this Way of Life is not ob-
ferved fo much out of Sparingnefs, Fifti being a
very good Commodity in the Indies, as for to
mortifie the more thofe who have incurred the
greater Excommunication, and to preferve them,
at the fame time, from that cruel Difeafe which
the Indies call Mordechi, which is nothing elfe but
Indigeflion, a Difeafe very frequent and dange¬
rous in thefe Climates 3 and above all, in a Place
where no Exercife is performed.
They take care to give the fick Perlons all
Things neceflary for them. The Phyficians and
Chirurgions fail not to vifit them at all requifite
times 3 and if the Sicknefs grows dangerous, they
aflign ConfefTors to them. But they adminifter
to none within this Holy Houfe, either the Eu-
charift, or Extreme Unétion, As alfo they ne¬
ver hear Mafs there.
Thofe who die within thefe Priions, are buried
in the Houfe without any Ceremony. And if
they are judged worthy of Death according to
the Maxims of this Tribunal, they are digged
up, and their Bones are kept to be burnt at the
next Act of Faith. I will relate in another Place
the Particularities of this Ceremony.
As it is always very hot in the Indies, and in
the Inquifttion no Books are allowed to any Per-
fon, the Prifoners never fee any Fire, nor other
I Light than that of the Day. There is in every
Cell two Couches to lye upon, becaufe when
Necefllty requireth ir, they fhut up two Perfons
together. Befides the Matt which is given to e-
very one, the White Men have moreover a Co¬
verlet,
 C 48 3
vevlet, which ferveth inftead of a Matt, there
being no need of it to cover themfèlves, unlefs
it be to avoid the Perfecution of thofe Flies,
which are called Confins, and are there in very
great Numbers, and which caufe one of the
greatelt Inconveniences, that is to be found in
this melancholy Retirement,

• CHAP. XI.
Wherein is treated of the Officers of the Inquifition.

T HERE are at Goa two Inquifitors. The

firft whom they call Inquifidor mor, or the
Great Inquifitor, is always a Secular Prieft, and
the fécond a Religious, of the Order of St. Do¬
minick. The Holy Office hath alfo Officers, whom
they call Deputies of the Holy Office j thefe are
in greater Number. There is of all Religious
Orders : They affid at the Trial of the accufed
Perfons, at their Examination and forming of
their Procefs j but they never come into the
Tribunal without being lent for by the Inquifttor.
There are others, whom they call Calficadores
of the Holy Office > to whom they affign the Care
of examining in Books, the Propofitions which
they iufpe£t to be contrary to the Purity of
Faith. And thefe affift not at the Trials, nor
come to the Tribunals, but -only their Report
concerning the Things which are committed
to their Charge.
There is moreover a Promotor, a Procurator,
and Advocates for the Prifoners who defire them,
who
 C 49 )
who ferve not fo much to defend them, as to
pump out their moft fecret Thoughts, and to ■*
betray them ; And even although there fliould
be no Reafon to doubt of their Fidelity, their
Protection would yet be wholly unufeful to- the
accufed Perfons, fince thole Advocates never
fpeak to them but in the Prefence of the Judges,
or of Perlons whom they fend to give an Ac¬
count of thefe Conferences. The Inquifition hath
other Officers, whom they call Familiars of the
Holy Office, who are properly the Serjeants of
this Tribunal. Perfons of all Conditions are
ambitious to be admitted into this noble Func¬
tion, altho’ they be Dukes or Princes. They
employ them to go and arreft accufed Perfons ,
and they are wont ordinarily to fend a Familiar
of Quality for him whom they would apprehend.
Thefe Officers have no Wages, and they efleem
it fufficient Recompence to have the Honour
to ferve fo holy a Tribunal. They carry always
as a Mark of Honour, a Medal of Gold, upon
which are engraved the Arms of the Holy Of¬
fice. They go alone when they intend to arreft
any one j and as foon as they have declared toa-
,
ny Perfon that they are called by the Inquifitors
every one is obliged to follow them without re-,
plying 5 for if any fhould in the leaf! refill, the
whole Multitude of People would not fail to
lend their Affiffance for the Execution of the
Orders of the Holy Office. Befides all thefe Of¬
ficers, there are alfo Secretaries, true Serjeants,
whom they call Meirinhos, an Alcaide or Jay lor,
D and
 /

( *0 )
and Guards to watch over the Prifoners, and
bring them their Meat, with other Things ne-
cefiary.

CHAP. XII.
t

In what Manner the Officers of the Inquifition he-

have themfelves towards the Prifoners.

A S all the Prifoners are feparated, and that

it feldom happens that two are put toge¬
ther, four Perfons are more than fufficient to
guard two hundred. They caufe a perpetual Si¬
lence to be in the Inquifition 5 and thofe who
would lament themfelves, weep, or even pray to
God too loud, put themfelves in danger of re¬
ceiving Blows with a Switch, from the Guards $
who at the lead Noife which they hear, run to
the Place whence it cometh, to give them notice
to be filent 5 and if Obedience be wanting to
the fécond Command, they open the Doors, and
beat the Prifoners without Mercy $ which fer-
veth not only to corredt thofe which they cha-
ftize in this Manner, but alfo to terrifie the reft,
who all hear the Cries and the Blows, by reafon
of the profound Silence which is obferved eve¬
ry where. The Alcaide and the Guards are con¬
tinually in the Galleries, and they lie there all
Night.
The Inquiftor, accompanied with a Secretary
and an Interpreter, vifiteth all the Prifoners from
two to two Months, or thereabouts, for to ask
.
themv.
 C r* )
them if they want any thing \ whether their
Meat be brought to them at the prefcribed
Hours, and whether they have not any Com¬
plaints to make againft the Officers which are
about them. As loon as Anfwer is made upon
thefe three Articles, they immediately Ihut the
Door. In truth, thefe Vifits are made only to
fet forth That Juftice and Goodnefs whereof
they make Oftentation in this Tribunal, but pro¬
duce not the lead Profit or Affiftance to the
Prifoners who make their Complaints, fince they
are not at all the more kindly treated. Thofe
among the Prifoners who pofTefs any proper
Goods, are no whit better treated than thofe
who have none ; and they furnifh to the lait
NecefTaries from what is confifcated from the
others. For the Holy Office very feldom fails to
confiscate all the Goods, moveable and im¬
moveable, of thole who have the Misfortune to
fall into their Hands.

CHAP. XIII.

Of the Formalities which are obfervcd in the In*

quifition.

W ,H E N any Perfon is brought before the

Inquifition, they firft of all ask kirn his
Name, his Profeffion, or his Quality % then they
exhort him to give an exa£t Account of all his
Goods 5 and to induce him the more eafily to
it, they lignifie to him on the Part of Je fus
'M? thrift
 C 5* >
Chrifi, that if he be innocent, all which he flhall
have declared to be his, fhall be faithfully re ft ai¬
red to him 5 and that on the contrary, even al¬
though his Innocence fhould be clearly proved,
âll which could be afterwards difcovered to be¬
long to him, which he had not acknowledged,
fhould remain confifcated, and be loft to him.
And becaufe almoft all Perfons are prepoflefled
with an Opinion of the Holinefs and Integrity
of this Tribunal $ a Perfon to whom his own
Confcience reproacheth not any Crime, not
doubting but that his Innocence will be demon-
11; rated, and that confequently his Liberty will
be reftored to him, maketh no fcruple to reveal
to thefe Inquifitors whatfoever is moft fecret, and
of greateft Importance* within his Affairs and
whole Family.
It is not without fome apparent Reafon that
the Publick is prepoffefTed in favour of this Tri¬
bunal 5 for to confider only the external Part
of it, there is no Judicature in the World where¬
in Juftice is exercifed with greater Sweetnefs and
Charity. Thofe who accule themfelves of their
own accord, and who teftifie their Repentance be¬
fore they are apprehended, remain free, and are
not liable to be imprifoned j it is true, that they
there look upon fuch as Criminals, who accule
not themfelves before their Imprisonment, and
that they condemn them as fuch : But they ne¬
ver punifli any Perfon with any temporal Pu¬
ni ill ment which procecdeth to Death, except
thofe who are manifcftly conviâcd. They are
not contented there with two or three Witnef-
fes, as in other Laick Judicatures, for to look
upon
 C 13 3
upon an accufcd Perfon as a conviâed Criminal;
and although two Witneffes fuffice to decree the
Apprehenfion of any Man, it is required that
there be, at leaft, feven to condemn him. How
enormous foever the Crime be, whereof the ac-
cufed Perfon is a reputed Cony ici, the Holy Of¬
fice contents it felf with the Ecclefiailical Pu-
nifhment of Excommunication, and the Confis¬
cation of his Goods. And in refpeft of tempo¬
ral and corporal Puniihments, for which the Cri¬
minal is owing to the Laick Juflice, if he ao
knowledgeth his Crime, he is quitted for that
time : The Holy Office intercedes for him, fuf-
pends the Secular Arm, and obtaineth Pardon
for the Criminal. Neither are there any Exhor¬
tations, or Inftanc.es, which they will not make
to produce this Acknowledgment $ it is true,
that if he relapieth into his Crime, the Inquifi-
tion cannot any longer fave him, but fhe aban¬
dons him unwillingly, and delivers him not to
the Secular Arm, till after fhe hath obtained of
the Lay-Judges, that if they perfift in their Re¬
factions of punifhing the relapfed Criminal with
Death, it (nail be, at leal^ without Effufion of
Blood : What Gentlenefs is this ?
But after having laid all which can be alleg¬
ed in favour of the Holy Office, we mull add
fome Circumilances, which will manifelt what
is to be expelled from this apparent Goodnefs
and Charity. The Witneffes are never confron¬
ted. They receive for Witneffes, a!J forts of
Perfcns, even thofe who are intereiled in the
Life and condemnation of the accufed perfon.
They
 : Cs4 )
They never admit any Objection to be made by
the accufed, againft Witneftes the moft noto-
ribufly unworthy of being heard, and moft ui>
capable of depofing againft him. The Number
of thefe Witneftes is ofc-times reduced to five $
they comprehend in the Number of thefe Wit¬
neftes the pretended Complices, who depofe on¬
ly in time of torture, and who can five, their
Lives no otherwifethan by confeftingThat which
they never did. And in this Number of feven,
the pretended guilty Perfon is comprehended,
who confeffing in torture the Crime which he
never committed, is reputed a Witness againft
himfelf. Oftentimes alfo, this Number of feven
is reduced to none, becaufe it is compofed only
of pretended Complices, who are truly innocent
of the Crime which they impolè upon them j
and whom the Inquifition renders truly Criminal,
in forcing them either by Threats of Fire, or by
torture to accufe the Innocent, to lave their own
Lives. For to underftand well this Myftery,
we are to know, that among the Ruins which
the Inquifetion hath right to take Cognizance of,
there are feme which may be committed in that
manner, that one alone is guilty, as Blafphemy,
Impiety, There are others which cannot be
committed without having at leaft one Complice,
as Sodomy. And Laftly, There are others which
cannot be committed without having divers Com¬
plices \ as to have afiifted at the JewiJh Sab¬
bath, or to have partaken in thole fuperftitious
Aftemblies, which the converted Idolaters have
fo much Difficulty to quit, and which they
treap
 C S5 )
treat as Magick and Sorcery y becaufe they are
held to difcover fecret Things, or for to know
future Events, by Methods which do not natu¬
rally lead to fuch Knowledge.
It is particularly in refpedt, and upon occafion
of thefe Crimes, which cannot be committed but
with one or more Complices, that the Proceed¬
ings of the Holy Office are more ftrange, and
more extraordinary. The Jews having been dri¬
ven out of Spain, by Ferdinand King of Arragon,
and Ifabelle Queen of Caftile, his Wife, they fled
into Portugal, where they were received upon
Condition of embracing Chriftianity, which they
did, at lead: in Appearance. But as the Name
of Jew is odious throughout the whole World,
they always diftinguiflied the Chriflian Families
from the Families of the converted Jews 5 and
they at this Day call thofe who are defcended
from them, in any degree whatfoever, Chriftams
novos, that is to fay, New Chriftians. And be¬
caufe in procefi of Time, fome have contra&ed
Alliance with the ancient Chriftians, they upbraid
it continually to their SuccefTors, that they are
partly New Chriftians, which the Portugueze ex-
prefs, by faying, tem parte de Chriftam novo. Infc-
much, that although their Grandfathers or Great¬
grandfathers were Chriftians,'thefe unhappy Perform
fhall never be able to obtain Admiffion into the
Number of Chriftams Velhos, or Ancient Chriftiani.
And as the Families, which are defcended thus dj-
reétly, or in part from thefe Jews, are diftin&lÿ
known in Portugal,where they make theObje£t of
the Hatred and Horror of others $ they are forced
 C *<5 3
to unite themfelves more ftriftly together^ to ren¬
der to each other that mutual Affiitance which
they cannot hope for from others. And it is this
very Union which augmenteth the Contempt
and Hatred of them > and which is the ordinary
Caufe of their Misfortunes.

CHAP. XIV.

Of the Injuft ice which is committed by the Inquifi-

tion, in rejfeft of Perfins accufed of Judaifm*

F OR to illqftrate this Matter well, I will

fuppofe that a New Chriftian, but who ne¬
ver thelefs is very lincerely and truly a Chriftian
defcended from thefe unfortunate Families, is ar-
refted by Order of the Holy Office > and that
he is accufed not only by feven Witneffes, but
by fifty, if you will. This Man who is afili-
red of his own Innocence, which he hopeth will
be undoubtedly acknowledged, maketh no fcru-
ple to give to his Judge an exact Declaration of all
his Goods, which he believcth will be faithfully
reftored to him. Neverthelefs thefe Gentlemen
no fooner get them into their Hands, but they
fell them publickly, as being well allured that
they (hall never reilore any thing.
Some Months being palled, this Man is called
to- Audience, for to ask him, if he knows why
he is put in Prifon to which he fails not to an-
fwer, that he.knoweth no Reafon : He is then
exhorted to confider ferioufly, and to tell them$
** * ~ t t . ’ . * " * » * * > •• > Î* » •' /? λ

fincç I V
l . ^
 ( 5f )
fince this is the only Means fpeedily to recover
his Liberty after which he is remitted to his
Lodgings. He is again brought to Audience
fome time after, and is asked divers times in the
fame Manner, without drawing any other Am*
fwer from him. But at laft the time of the Lduto
Dafe approaching, the Promoter prefents him»
felf, and declares to him, that he is accufed by
a good number of unexceptionable Witneflesto
have Judaized 5 which confifteth in obferving
the Ceremonies of the Mofaick Law, as not to
eat Swines Fleih, an Hare, or Fifh without
Scales $ to have aftembled with others, and fo-
lemnized the Sabbath-day : To have eaten the
Pafchal Lamb, and fo in the reft. He is then
conjured by the Bowels of the Mercy of our
Lord Jefus Qhrifl, (for thefe are the proper
Terms which they affeét to uie in this Holy
Houfe) voluntarily to confefs his Crimes, fincc
this is the only Means which remain for him
to fave his Life : And chat the Holy Office
feeketh all pofîibîe Means not to fuffer him to
deftroy himfelf. This innocent Man perfiftetfa
in denying what is charged on him, and here¬
upon he is condemned as a Negative Convicted
Perfon, (that is to fay, one who is convidied but
will not confefs his Crime) to be delivered up to
the Secular Arm, to be punifhed according to
the Laws, that is, for to be burnt.
Yet they never difeontinue to exhort him to
accufe himfelf, and provided that he do it be»
fore the Eve of his being led forth to Execo-
lion* he may yet avoid death. But if he per ft ft
 f 58 )
toproteft his Innocence, maugre all Exhorta¬
tions, Sollicitations, and even Torture it felf,
which are ufed to oblige him to accufe himfelf*
at laft they fignifie to him the Decree of his
Execution on the Friday, which immediately
precedeth the Sunday of his being carried forth.
This Signification is made in Prefence of a Ser¬
jeant of the Secular Juftice, who cafteth a Cord
upon the Hands of the pretended guilty Perfon,
in token that he taketh Pofleffion of him, after
that the Ecclefiaftical Juftice hath abandoned
him 5 after that a Confeflor is brought in, who
never leaveth the condemned Perfon either Night
or Day : Who never ceafeth to prefs him par¬
ticularly, and exhort him to confefs that where¬
of he is accufed, that he may thereby fave his
Life. An innocent Man muff needs then find
himfelf in a great Perplexity. ïf he conjtinueth
to deny till Sunday, he is cruelly put to Death
the fame Day $ and if he accufeth himfelf, he
becometh infamous and miferable for his whole
Life. Neverthelefi, if the Exhortations of his
Confeflor, and the Fear of the Punifhment, induce
him to confefs Crimes which he never committed,
he muff defire to be carried to Audience, which
fails not to be immediately granted. Being there
in Prefence of his Judges, he mu ft firft declare
himfelf guilty, and then ask Pardon as well for
his Crimes, as his Obftinacy, in refufing fo long
to confefs them. And as they always imagine,
they have Reafon to believe they accufe them-
felves fincerely, they oblige him to relate all his
Faults and Errors particularly : And fo this inno¬
cent
 <59 3
cent Man, to whom they have already fignified
the Depofitions of his Enemies, not being able
to perform what is required of him, is forced
to repeat that, which he had before heard told
to him. This Man may then, perhaps, imagine
that he {hall be wholly quitted^4 but there re¬
main Things to be done by him incomparably
more difficult than all which he hath hitherto
done j for the hquifiton fail not to fpeak to him
very near, in this manner. If you have been at
the Aflemblies upon the Sabbath-day^ as you fay %
and that your Accufers have been there prcfent,
as is very probable j for to convince us of the
Sincerity of your Repentance, it is neceflary
that you name not only thofe who have accufcd
you, but moreover all thofe who have been with
you at thefe Aflemblies.
It is not eafie to difcover the Reaion which
induced Meffieurs of the Holy Office^ to oblige
thefe pretended Jews to gueis the Witnefles
which have accused them $ unlels it be that the
Witnefles of aflembling in the Sabbath are Com¬
plices of the Fa£b. But how fiiall this poor In¬
nocent be able to guefs ? And if he fiiould be
guilty, for what End is it that he rauft name
them to the Holy Office, which already knows
them, fince (he hath received their Depofition^
and that it is only upon Account of this Depo-
fition that flie thus treatetb the accufed Perfon
as guilty ? In all other Cafes they permit not
that the Criminals {hall know their Witnefles, a-
gainft whom they would have Objeétions to al-
ledge j here they force them to guefs who they
are,.
 (ôo)
are. They arc Complices, I grant it, but
the Inquifition will not a bit the better know
them after the accufed Perfon fnall have named
them. If they accuie themfelves voluntarily, the
Inquifition hath no more to fay to them. If they
have been forcefu to confefs their Crimes in the
Priions of the Inquifition^ they are there ftill where
they were before $ and it concerns not the Holy
Office to make the accufed Perfon guefs their
Names $ himlelf will not become thereby the
more innocent, nor they the lefs guilty. The
accufed Perfon and the Witnefles are equally in
the Power of the Inquifition j what is then the
Defign and Intereft of thefe Judges ? Unlefs it
be to caufe that this Man fhould accufe all his
Complices in fceking to guefs out his Witnefles.
This may ferve for fomewhat if he be truly
guilty, but if he be not, this Necefllty of Guef-
ling cannot but involve the Innocents ; and fo
it happens, for this poor New Chrifiian being
forced to name People whom he knows not,
to the Inquifition, who knows them (fince with¬
out that, the Confeflion of a Crime, whereof
he is innocent, would nothing avail him, to fave
him from the Fire) reafons very near thus 5 It
mu ft neceflarily be, that thofc who have accufed
me, fliould be of my Kindred, of my Friends,
of my Neighbours 5 and laftly, forae of the New
Chriflians, whofe Company I have wont to fre¬
quent . For the ancient Chriflians are never al-
mod accufed or fufpe&ed of Judaifm. And it
may be that thefe Perfons have been reduced to
the fame Condition wherein I am at prefent $ it
L v- r 61 )
is necefiary therefore that I accufe all found a-
bout me : And as it is not impofiible that he
fhotild guels pun&ually, and in order, thole who
have depofed againft him, to find out the fix
or feven Perfons who have accufed him, he is
neeeftarily obliged to name a great number of
innocent Perfons who had never thought of him $
againft whom, neverthelels, himlelf becomes a
Witnefs by his Declaration* which is oft-times
fufficient to caufe them to be arrefted, and keep
them in the Prifons of the Holy Office, till with
time they can get feven Wknefies againft them,
as againft him, whom I have already fuppofed :
which will be fufficient to caufe them to be con¬
demned to the Fire.

CHAP. XV.

Wherein is farther treated of the Formalities which

are obferved in the Inquifition.

I T is eafie to know by what hath been al¬

ready faid in the precedent Chapter, that
thefe miferable Viftims of the Inquifition mutual¬
ly accufe one another j and that a Man may by
this Means be very innocent, although he hath
fifty Wknefies againft him, and yet this Man
as innocent as he is, for want of accufing him-
felf, or of guefting well, is delivered to the Exe¬
cutioners as fufficiently convicted 5 which would
never happen, or at leaft very feldom, if they
took care to confront the Accufers, Wknefies,
and accufed Perfons All
 C 52 ;
All which is pradtifed againfl; Perfons fufpe&ed
of Judaifm, and all which hath been hitherto
faid, is to be underftood alfo of Perfons become
fufpefled of Sorcery j becaufe they are fuppofed
to have been prefent at thofe fuperftitious Af*
femblies which I before mentioned. And here
the Difficulty of naming their pretended Com¬
plices and Accufers is much greater, becaufe they
are not as the New Chriftians, to feek their
Witnefles, and their Complices, in a certain Spe¬
cies of Men. But it is necefiary that they find
them at a Venture, and indifferently, among
their whole Acquaintance, Friends, Kindred, E-
nemies, Neuters of all Profeffions, which takes
in many more Innocents into thefe fortuitous
and forced Accufations$ becaufe they mu ft name
a greater Number, fo to meet in this Multitude
of Innocents with the Witneffes, concerning
whom they are asked.
The Goods both of thofe who are punched
with Death, and of thofe who avoid it by their
Confefiion, are equally confifcated -, becaufe they
are reputed guilty. And as the Inquifitors de¬
lire not to much their Lives as their Goods, and
that according to the Laws of the Tribunal,
they deliver none over to the Secular Arm but
reiapfed Perfons, and thofe who will not fubfcribe
to their Accufations j thefe Judges ufe all pof-
fibîe Arts to induce the Prifoners to confefe,
not forgetting to rack them, to force them to
it. They are alfo fo merciful as to rack thefe
aocufed Perfons in a mod violent Manner, for to
lave their Lives in forcing them to confefs the
Crimes
 C^3)
Crimes whereof they are accufed 5 but the true
Reafon which makes them fo paffionately délire
that one fhould accufe himfelf, is that a Man
having confeffed himfelf guilty, the World hath
no longer any Reafon to doubt that his Goods
were juftiy confifcated. And becaufe remitting
the Punifhment of Death to thefe pretended
Criminals, they dazzle the Eyes of the Simple
with an apparent Goodnefc and Juftice, which
contributes not a little, to preferve the Idea com¬
monly entertained of the Holinefs and Gentle-
nefs of this Tribunal ; without which Artifice,
it could not any long time fubfift. It will not
be amifs here to let the Reader know, that thole
who have thus efcaped the Fire by their forced
Confeflion, when they are out of the Prilon of
the Holy Office, are ftri£tly obliged to publifh
that they were treated with much Goodnefs
and Clemency, fince their Life was preferved to
them, which they had juftiy forfeited. For if
a Man who having confeffed himfelf guilty,
fliould afterwards prefume to juftifie himfelf af¬
ter his Enlargement, he would be immediately
accufed, arrefted, and burnt at the fir ft Aft of
Faith, without any hope of Pardon,

CHAR
 (64 )
*

CHAP. XVI.

Other kinds of Injufiice which are ordinarily com¬

mitted in the Inquiiition.

I F Cbrifiians are often put to death falfly ao

cufed, and ftenderly convidted of having Ju-
daized j as the Judges of the Holy Office would
themfelves foon acknowledge, if they would take
the pains to examine the Matter without Pré¬
judice, and eonfider, that among an hundred
Perfons condemned to the Fire, as Jews, there
are fcarce found four who profefs this Law at
their Death, the reft crying out and protefting
to their laft Breath, that they are Chrijlians9
that they have been fo all their Lives, that they
adore Jefus Chrift as their only and true God,
and that it is wholly upon his Mercies and the
Merits of his adorable Blood that they found all
their Hopes. But the Cries and Declarations of
thefe unhappy Perfons, if we may fo call them,
who fuffer for not acknowledging a Lye, can¬
not in the leaft move thefe Gentlemen, who i-
magtne that this authentick Confeffion of their
Faith, which fo great a Number of People make
in dying, deferveth not to obtain the leaft Re-
fleftion 5 and who believe that a certain Number
of Witneftcs, whom the foie Fear of Fire hath
induced to accufe very innocent Perfons, will be
x Reafon ftrong enough to defend them from
the juft Vengeance of God. If, I fay, fo many
Glorifiions paffing for Jews are unjuftly delivered
up to Execution in all the Inquifitions, there are
no lefs, nor fewer A£fo of Injuftice performed
in the Indies, againft thofe who are accufed of
Magick and Sorcery, and as fuch condemned to
the Fire. For to illuftrate this, we are to ob-
ferve that the Gentiles, who in Paganifm obier-
ved a very great Number of ridiculous Superfti-
tions 5 to know, for Example, the Succeft of an
Affair, or of a Difeafe, whether one is loved by
a certain Perfon, who Hole away any thing which
is loft, and for other Reafons of this Nature :
That thefe Gentiles, I fay, cannot fo well, nor
fo readily forget all thefe Things, but that they
put them often in Practice after they are bapti¬
zed 5 which will be thought left ftrange if we
confider that in France, where the Chriftian Re¬
ligion hath been eftablifhed for fo many Ages,
there may be yet found fo many Perfons who
will give Belief to, and ufe their impertinent Ce¬
remonies, which fo long a Time hath not cau-
fed to be forgotten. Farther, that thofe Gentiles
newly converted to the Faith, have paffed the
greater Part of their Life in Paganifm, and that
thofe who live in the States of the King o£Por¬
tugal in the Indies, are Subjects or Slaves, who
ordinarily change not their Religion, but in hope
of being better treated by their Lords and Ma¬
ilers 5 neverthelefs, thefe fort of Faults, which
in groft and ignorant Perfons, would methinks,
defervc rather the Whip than the Fire, ceafe not
to be expiated by this cruel Punifhmenc in all
E thofe
 (66 ) «
ttiofe who are convicted, according to the Ma-*
iims of- this Tribunal the fécond time, if they
con felled the fîrft time 3 or the firft time, if they
peril (ted to deny, the Fa<£L And th e Inquifition
puniftieth not only Chrifiians who fall, or who
àre accu fed to have fallen into the Cafes, where¬
of it hath Right to judge, but alfo Mahometans9
Gentiles, and other Strangers of whatfoever Reli¬
gion they be, who* have committed any of thele
Crimes, or who have performed any Exercife of
their Religion in the Countreys fubjedt to the
King of Portugal. For although the Prince
granteth Liberty o f Confcience, the Holy Office
having the Interpretation of this Commiiîion,
Confentech indeed that Strangers (hoiild live in
their Religion, but punifheth thofe as guilty who
perform any Exercife of it. And as in the
Lands of the Portugueze Dominion in the Indies
there are many more Mahometans and Gentiles thaï}
,
Chrifiians^ and that the Inquifition which punifh¬
eth the rclapfcd Chrifiians with Death, never in-
flidtech Capital Punilhment upon thofe who ne¬
ver received Baptifm, alt ho’ they fliould relaple
an hundred times into the fame Fault 3 and that
at the mod: they are quitted for Ranifhment, the
Whip, or the (rallies 3 this Fear of living con¬
demned to the Fire hinders manv from embra¬
cing Chrifiianity. And the Holy Office far from
being ufeful in thefe Countries to the Propaga¬
tion of the Faith, lerveth for nothing elfe but to
drive People from the Church, and create in them
an Abhorrence of it.

The
 The perpetual Succeffion of Accufkion%
which necdlarily follow, all which I have hither¬
to related, and the Liberty which every one ta-
keth, of freely accuEng thole who are his Ene¬
mies, caufeth that the Priions of the Inquifttion
.are never long time empty, and tho’ the Ads
of Faith are made at the lateil from two to two,
or from three to three Years, there fail not ne-
werthelefs to appear in every one about two hun- '
dred Prifoners, and fomedmes more.

CHAP. XVII.

Some Particulars concerning the Officers of the In-

quilition.

N all the Countries of the Portugueze Domi-

nions, there are four Jnquifiiions, to wit,
in Portugal^ thole of Lisbon, Coninbra, and Dévo¬
ra, and in the Eafi Indies that of Goa. Thefe
Tribunals are all Supreme, and judge without
Appeal all thofe Matters which happen within
the Extent of their Bounds, That of Goa ex¬
tended! its Jurifdidion over all the Countreys po(-
fdfed by the King of Portugal, beyond the Cape
of good Hope. Belide thefe four Tribunals, there
is alfo the Great Council ef the Inquifttion, where¬
in prelideth the Inquifitor General. This Tribu¬
nal is the Chief of all others, and is informed
of all which is done by the others. Belide the
Honour, the excelfive Authority, and the Pen¬
dions annexed to the Charges of all the Inquifi-
.;;o E z tor s,.
 ( 68 )
tors, they draw thence alfo a confiderable Profit
two Ways. The Firft, then when they caufê
the Effe&s of the Prifoners to be publickly fold j
by which Means, if there be found any thing
rare and precious, they need only fend fome of
their Domellicks to cheapen it $ and it is certain
that no body will dare to be fo bold as to bid a-
bove him. Whence it happens often that things
are adjudged to him at half of their juft Va¬
lue.
The fécond Mean, by which they may yet
more confiderably gain, is, that the Price of the
confifcated Goods being brought into the Royal
Exchequer, they have Power to fend Orders when
they will, and for what Sums they pleafe, to fup-
ply the Expences, and fecret Necefiities of the
Holy Office, which is paid to them ready down,
without that any Perfon dare enquire wherein thefe
fecret Necefiities confift, infomuch as almoft all
which comes from thefe Confifcations return to
them one way or other.
All the Inquifitors are named by the King, and
confirmed by the Pope, from whom they receiver
their Bulls. There is no Man at Goa* but the:
Grand Inquifitor, who hath orclaimeth the Right::
of being carried in a Chair. Much greater Re-
fpe£f is given to him than either to the Archbi-*
ftiop or Vice-roy j and the Governors when the
Vice-roy is dead. His Authority extends over
all forts of Perfons, L'aick and Ecclefiaftick, except
the Archbifhop, his Grand Vicar, who is always
a Biftiop 5 the Vice-roy, and the Governors,
when the Vice-roy is dead $ although he car:
 C«9)
caufc even them to be arretted, after he hath gi«
ven Advice of his Intention to the Court of Por-
tugal9 and hath received fecret Orders of the Su¬
preme Council of the Inquifition at Lisbon, cal¬
led Coufelbo Supremo. This Tribunal aOembleth
not but from fifteen to fifteen Days, unlefs fome-
what extraordinary intervenes, which may oblige
them to meet more frequently 5 whereas the or¬
dinary Councils are regularly aflembled twice a
Day, in the Morning from eight of the Clock
to Eleven, and in the Afternoon from Two
to Four, and fometimes later, efpecially when
the Times of the Acts of Faith draw near, for
then the Audiences are oft-times prolonged till
ten at Night.
When they judge Caufes, befides the Depu¬
ties which attitt, the Archbifhops or Biftiop? of
the Places where the Inquifition is eftablittied,
have a Right to be prefent at the Tribunal, and
to prefide there in all the Judgments which are
made. But it is time to return to what parti^
cularly relates to my felf.

CHAP. XVIII.

In what manner I was Jed the the firft time to

Audience, and what they /aid to me.

T Hey had given me Notice when I was firft

fhut up in the Priions of the Holy Office,
thac whenfoever I fhould have need of any thing,
I need only knock fofdy at the Door to call the
Guards,
 C 70 ) )
Guards, or define ic of them at the Hours-of
Meals 5 and that when X would go to Audience,
I mult addrefs my felf to the Alcaide, who, as
well as the Guards, never fpake to the Prifoners
without a Witnefs. They had a Ho given tome
Hopes, as I before laid, that my Liberty iliould
immediately follow my Confeflion. For this
Reafon I ceafed not to importune the Officers
that I migh t be carried before my Judges : But
with all thefe Tears and Entreaties, I could not
obtain this Favour till the lait of January,
1674.
The Alcaide accompanied with one of the
Guards, came to me upon this Account, at two
of the Clock in the Afternoon, I habited my
felf according to his Diredtions, and went out
of my Cell, my Head, Legs, and Feet being
naked. The Alcaide went before me, and the
Guard followed me : We marched in this Or«
der to the very Door of the Chamber of Au¬
dience, -where* the Alcaide having advanced a lit¬
tle and made a profound Reverence, dept back
to Jet me enter alone. I found there, as before,
the inqmfitor and the Secretary. I fell down at
fir (I upon my Knees j but having received Or¬
der to anfe.and fit down, ï fèated my felf upon
a'Bench which was at the End of the Table,
on the fame Side with my Judge. Near me,
upon the .End of the Table, lay a Mijfal3 upon
Which,before we proceeded any farther,they made?
me lay my Hand, and promife to keep Secrefie,
ànd (peak the Truth . Which two Oaths are
exacted of all thole who approach this Tribunal,
whether
 ( 71 )
whether it be for to depofe or to receive any Or¬
der. They then asked me if I knew the Caufe
of my Iinprifonment, and whether I were re-
folved to confefi it. To which having anfwer-
ed, that I defired nothing more, Ï recited
exafldy ail which I before related in the begin¬
ning of this Narrative, touching Baptifm and
Images, without faying any thing of what i had
advanced concerning the Inqwfition^ becaufeldid
not then remember it. My Judge having far¬
ther asked me whether I had nothing elfê to fay,
and being told that , this was all which I re-
memhred, far from reftoring my Liberty to me,
as I had hoped, finiihed this Audience with
thefe very Words,
That I had done, very wifely in accufing my
fe’f fo willingly, and that he exhorted me on
the Part of our Lord Jefus Chrift, fully to con-
fefs the reft of my Accufations, to the end that
I might make Proof of the Goodnefsand Mer¬
cy which are ufed in this Tribunal, towards
thofe who fhew a true Repentance of their
Crimes, by a fincere and unforced Confeffion.
My Confefîîon and his Exhortation being fi¬
ll i ill cd and written down, they read it to me,
and I ftgned it j after which the Inquifitor rung
the Bell to call the Alcaide, who carried me out,
and brought me back into my Chamber in the
Lme Order, in which I had gonç.

G H A P,
 C 72 )

CHAP. XIX.

My fécond and third Audience.

I Was carried the fécond Time before my

Judges without defiring it, the ifth of Fe¬
bruary^ which made me believe that they had
fome Defign to free me : As foon as I came in
they asked me anew, whether I had nothing
more to fay, and exhorted me to difguife nothing,
hut on the contrary fincerely to confefs all my
Faults. I anfwered, that how great Care foever
I had taken to examine my felf, I could not call
to mind any other thing than what I had al¬
ready confeffed. At laftthey asked me my Name,
That of my Father, Mother, Brother, Grand-fa¬
thers and Grand-mothers, God-fathers and God¬
mothers 3 whether I were a Chriftam de oito dias,
that is to fay, a Chriftian of eight Dayr, becaule
in Portugal they baptize not Children till the
eighth Day after their Birth 3 asalfo Womenin
Child-bed go not out, nor go to Church, till
forty Days after their Delivery, how happy fo¬
ever that may have been. My Judge feemed
to be furprized, when I told him that the Cu-
ilom of deferring the Baptifm of Children till
the eighth Day was not obferved in France, where
they baptized them as foon as could be: And it
fufficienriy appears from the Obfcrvance of thefe
Legal Ceremonies, that notwithftanding the A-
yerfion
 C 73 )
verfion which the Portugueze teftifie againft the
Jews, they arc neverthelefs no very refined Chri-
ftians. But this is not the greateft Evil which
refulteth from the Obfervation of thefe Ce¬
remonies. For Firft, It happens but too often
that Children dye without being regenerated by
the Holy Sacrament of Baptifm, and are thereby
deprived of Heaven for ever * and not to violate
the Guftom of Purification, which ought no
longer to be continued after the Publication of
the Gofpel, the Portugueze Women make no
fcruple to contemn the Commands of the Church,
which oblige all Chriftians to be prefentat Sun-
day9 and on the Feafts of the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mafs, if they be not prevented by lawful
Impediments.
They alfo asked me the Name of the Curate
who had baptized me ? In what Diocefe? What
Town ? What Parifii ? And laftly, Whether I
ever were Confirmed ? And by what Bifiiop ?
Having fatisfied all thefe Queftions, they com¬
manded me to kneel down, to make the Sign of
the Crofs, to repeat the Lord's Prayer, the Ave-
Mary, the Greedy the Commandments of God, and
of the Church, and the Salve Regina $ Laftly,
He finifhed as at the firft Time, by exhorting
me through the Bowels of the Mercy of our
Lord Jefus Chrift to confefs without delay j which
being read in my Prefence, and figned by me, I
was remitted to my Chamber.
From the firft Moment that I had been in this
Prifon, I had been always melancholy, and never
ceafed to lhed Tears j but at my Return from
this
 fC 74 0
tbisfccohd Audience, Ï entirely abandoned my felf-
to all Grief, feeing that they exacted of me the
Things which appeared impoflible to me, fince my
Memory fuggeiled to me nothing of that which
they defired 1 fhould confds. I endeavoured then
to end my Life by Hunger, I received indeed
the Meat which they brought to me, becaufe I
could not refufe it, without expofing my felf to
to receive Baftinadoes from the Guards, who take
great care to obferve, when the Plates are return¬
ed to them, whether the Prifoners have eaten e-
liough to fiiftain Nature : But my Defpair fug-
gelled to me Means of eluding their Diligence :
I pa-fled whole Days without eating any thing ,
and that they might not perceive it, I caft into
the Bafin part of what they gave me. This courfe
of Diet was the Caufe that I was entirely de¬
prived of Sleep, and my whole Employment con¬
fided in mortifying my Body, and fhedding Tears.
However, I omitted not in this time of my Af¬
fliction, to refieét upon the Errors of my paft
Life, and to acknowledge that it was by a juft
Judgment of God, that I had fallen into that.
Depth of Mifery and Unhappinefs. I proceed¬
ed. alfo fo far as to believe that he intended per¬
haps to make ule of this Mean to. call me to
himfelf, and convert me. Having a little fortifi¬
ed my felf by fucb Meditations, I implored with
my whole Heart, the Affiftance of the Blejjed
Virgin, who is no Ids the Confolation of the af-
flifted, than the Afylum and Refuge of Sinners >
and from whom I have fo viiibly experienced
Protedion, as well during my Imprjfonmenr* as
upon
 C 75 )
upon other Occafîons of my Life, that I could
not omit to render this publick Teftimony of
it.
At laft, after I had made a more exadi, or a
more happy Examination of all which I had faid
or done, during my flay at Daman, I called to
mind what I had advanced concerning the In-
qaijitwn, and its Integrity 3 I immediately defired
Audience, which yet was not granted to me till
the fixteenth of March following. I doubted
not, but in appearing before my Judge, to ter¬
minate all my Affair 3 and that upon myGonfeC-
fion, which I intended to make, they would im¬
mediately re (lore me to perfect L iberty 3 but
then when I thought my Elopes at the Point of
being eompleated, I faw my lelf at once depriv'd
of all thefe fweet Hopes 3 becaufe having con-
felled all which I had to fay touching the Inqui-
fition, they told me that this was not That which
they expedtedof me 3 and I having nothing elfe
to fay, was immediately remitted, without lb
much as their vouchfafing to write down my
.Confeffion.
P- " "* ' 1»« ii .M'n». a» mrwwa—11 mm■■

CHAP. XX.

How Defpair induced me to attempt my Life,

I Am now come to the moll unhappy time or

my Captivity 3 for how fevere foever it had
hitherto been, I had, at leaf!, the Comfort of
having fuffered with fome Patience, and even of
having
 (76 )
having endeavoured to make a good Ule of my
Sufferings $ for the Faith obligeth us to believe
that the greateft Evils are fo many Advantages,
to thofe who make good ufe of them. I ought
not therefore to look upon this as an unhappy
Time, any more than That wherein I commit¬
ted Faults, which I cannot but confider as very
great, and which I pretend not to juftifie, or e-
ven to excufe, by the Cruelty of thofe who re¬
quired of me impoffible Things, on pain of bur-
ning, fince they carry not along with them fo
great Extremity as may juflifie Defpair, which
is the greateft and worft of all Evils.
I was once refolved not to fpeak of, in this
Place, the Defpair which feized me, nor the En?
deavours of deftroying my own Life, to which
I was induced by it * but it was believed it
would be important to give this Account, fince
it cannot be denied that the unjuft Severities of
the Inquifition give at leaf! Occafion to many to
fall into the fame Condition : And that it con?
cerneth the Publick to make known not only the
Evil of the unjuft Adions confidered in them-
felves, but alfo the horrible Evils which are the
too ordinary Confequences of them. For if Per-
fons who have Learning and Education, who are
inftruded in their Duties, and who never forfake
the Confiderations of Faith, fall into fuchExtre-
mities $ what may not be feared from fo many
ignorant Perfons without Education, the greateft
Part of them New Converts from Fagamfm,
where they have almoft all their Life looked on
Defpair as an Aft of Generofity ? I confefs, that
 C 77 3
the ill Succefs of my laft Audience, which Ï had
believed would be fo favourable for me, was an
infupportable Blow to me, and that thenceforth
accounting Liberty to be an Happinefs to which
I could no longer pretend, I abandoned m y felf
fo far to Melancholy and Defpair, that l want¬
ed but little of entirely lofing my Reafon.
I had not forgot that it is forbidden to a Man
to deftroy himfelf, and I had no Defign to deftroy
my felf eternally, but I defired to live no longer -,
and the extreme Defire which I had to dye,
troubled me fo far, that I invented a Mean, in
the midft of my Defpair, which might effedtu-
ally procure my Death, and a natural Death,
fince I could not refolve to lay violent Hands up¬
on my felf •, and I imagined that God would
pardon me if I procured it flowly, and by the
Means of others. I feigned then to be fick,
and to have a Fever j they immediately brought
to me a Pandit*, or a Gentile Phyfician, who
made no fcruple to be convinced from the Mo¬
tion of my Blood within my Pulfe, which he took
for a true Fever, and ordered me to be let Blood,
which was reiterated for five Days together $ and
as my Intention in ufing this Remedy was very
different from that of my Phyfician, who la¬
boured to recover my Health, while I thought
of nothing but ending this miferable and unhap¬
py Life. As foon as every one was retired, and
my Door was fhut, I untied the Fillet, and fuf-
fered fb much Blood to run out as might fill a
Cup containing at leaft 18 Ounces. I reiterated
thefe cruel Evacuations as often as I was blooded,
and
 • 'Os )
and withal, eating almoft no Food, it is not
hard to Judge that I was reduced to extreme
•'Weafcnefs. ;
The AUaide, who obferved fo confiderable a
Change in my Body, could not fufficiently won¬
der at the ill Condition wherein I was, which
admitted fcarce any Hope of Recovery. The
Pandite was in the fame Allonifoment, which
obliged them to advertife the Inquifitor, who
propofed to me to be Confefled. As I did not
believe my felf to be in a Condition of efcaping
Death, I began to refent what I had done, and
being unwilling to deftroy Soul and Body both
together, I confented to receive a ConfefTor.
They brought to me a good Religious of the
Order of St. Francis, to whom having given an
entire Knowledge of my Proceeding, I received
much Confolation from him.: His good Advices
made me take a Refolution of contributing as
much as Ï could to the Recovery of my Healthy
I gave him leave to inform the Inyuifitor feci et-
]y of all which had happened : * And from that
Day, which was Holy Friday, they gave to me,
with all Care, all Things neeelTary for thefpee-
dy Recovery of my Strength, which I had lofi
with mv Blood 5 iatid for to fweeten my IVleian-
choly a little, wherewith I was overwhelmed,
they font up with me another Negro Prifbrier,
who was acctfféch of Magick,* and who kept me
Company for five Months. I enjoyed, during all
this while, more command of my Reafon, and
was lefs melancholy j but as foon às they imagined
me to be well recovered, they withdrew my
Com-
 C 79 )
Companion, and the lofs of this Comfort made
me relapfe into the lame Condition, to which I
had been at fir ft reduced.

C HAP. XXL

New Excejjes to which my Bejpair carried me.

I Became more furious than ever by the Ab-

fence of my Companion $ I beat my Rreaft
and my Face with my Fill, y and not contented
with that, fought Means to take away my Life,
which I could not lole by my former Atrempr.-
I believed well that I fhould not fucceed in Coun¬
terfeiting Sicknefs a fécond Time 5 and even if
I fhould really be believed, if they opened me a
Vein, they would take alkpolfible Precaution to
hinder me from doling my Blood a fécond time.
This is the Reafon why be og animated with my
Defpair, I remembred that notwithftanding the
diligent Search which had been made upon me,
when I was fhut up, I had faved fome Pieces of
Gold which had been Town in a Ribband tied
about the Calf of my Leg, in. form of a Garter,
I took then one of thofe Pieces, which I broke
in two, and iharpned one part fo well, and fo long
againft an Earthen Pot, that I gave it a Point,
and made it cut on both Sides. This I made ufe
of as a Launcer, with defign to open the Arte¬
ries of my Arm. I took for this end all necefia-
ry Precautions $ I thruft it into my Arm as far
as waspolfiblej but notwithftanding all my Care,
I could
 (80)
I could not effe£t what I intended -, and inftead
of the Arteries, I opened only the Veins that are
above them.
Being refolved no longer to keep any Meafure,
T contented not my felf with drawing out my
Blood by degrees, I let both my Arms bleed, till
growing faint I laid my felf down in my Blood,
wherewith the Chamber was filled. And it is
certain that if God by a particular Mercy had
not diredted, that at that very time the Door
fhould be opened to bring me fomewhat necef-
fary, in a time when it was not ordinary for the
Guards to come, I had miferably loft both my
Life and my Soul. I leave you to imagine the
Surprize of my Guards when they faw me in
this Condition. They immediately called the
Jllcaide, and altogether came in. They bound
up my Arms, and ufed fuch Skill, that I foon
returned out of that Swoon, wherein fo confi-
derable an Evacuation of Blood had reduced me.
They firft carried this News to the Inquifitor,
who ordered they fhould lead me to Audience,
whither I was carried at four a Clock.
Lying at Length upon the Ground, my ex¬
treme Weaknefs riot permitting me either to Hand
or fit, the Inquifitor, after many Reproaches,
commanded them to carry me away, and put Ma¬
nacles upon me, to hinder me from pulling off
the Bands wherewith my Arms were bound up 5
this was immediately put in Execution, and I had
not only my Hands chained, but alfo a Collar of
Iron that was joined to the Manacles, and was
 ' ( 8i )
fhut with a Padlock, infomuch as I could not
any longer move my Arms*
Bin this Proceeding ferved only to enrage
me the more 5 I threw my felf upon the Ground j
I ran my Head againft the Walls and Pavement.
If they had fuffered me to continue never fo lit¬
tle while in this Condition, my Arms would in¬
fallibly have been unbound, and I could not have
avoided Death : But as they kept a ffri£t Eye
upon me, they perceived very well by my Add¬
ons, that Severity was not feafonable, and that it
were better to try Ways of Sweet nefs 5 they took
off my Irons therefore, and endeavoured to com¬
fort me with deceitful Hopes. They changed
my chamber, and once more gave me a Com¬
panion, who had order to anfwer for me * never-
thelels God who had always prelerved me from
fo great an Unhappinds, diffipated by his Grace,
the Defpair wherein I was plunged. More hap¬
py herein than many others, who often murder
themfelves in the Prifons of the Holy Office, where
thele unhappy Perfons are debarred all forts of
humane Comforts. My new Companion flayed
1 with me about two Months, and asfoon as they
i perceived me to be more peaceable, he was taken
away, although my Weaknefs was then fo great,
! that I could fcarce rile from my Bed to receive
my Meat at the Door, which was let not above
! two Paces from it. At lafl, after I had paffed
I a Year in this Manner, by fuffering much, I even
si contraded a Habit of fuffering ^ and God, after
li that, gave me Patience enough not to make any
tl more Attempts upon my Life,
F CHAP.
 *80
CHAP. XXII.
My fourth Audience, in which the Promotor form•
eth again ft me Concluions of fuffering Death.

I Had been now almoft eighteen Months in

the Inquifition, when my Judges undemand¬
ing that I was in a Condition to anfwer, caufed
me to be brought the fourth Time to Audience,
where they asked me whether I were, at laft,
refolved to confefs what they had fo long ex¬
pected from me i to which I anfwering, That I
could remember nothing elfe than what I had
already confefled -, the Promotor of the Holy
Office prefented himfelf with a Libel, to fignifie
to me the Informations made againft me.
In all my other Examinations I had been ac«
cufed, and they had contented themfelves to hear
my Depofition without entring into any Dif-
courfe with me $ and were immediately wont to
fend me back as foon as I had ended the Accu-
fation of my fell, but in this fourth Examina¬
tion I was accufed, and time was given me to
defend my felf 5 and they read to me in the In¬
formations made againft me, the things whereof
I had accufed my felf. The Fads were three,
I had acknowledged them of my own proper
Motion. There was then nothing to oppofe
concerning the Fads themfelves, but I thought
it my Duty to demonftrate to my Judges, that
they were not fo criminal as they imagined ; I
faid then upon the Account of what I had dis¬
puted concerning Baptifm, my Intention was
not
 C 83 )
flot in the leafi: to oppofe the Do&rine of the
Church : But that the Pafiage, Unlefs a Man
be born again of JVater and of the Holy Ghofi, he
cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ( John 3 »
f.) appearing to me very exprefs, J had defired
the Explication of it. The Grand Inquifilor
feerned furprized at this PafTage, which all the
World knows by Heart, and I was no lefs fur-
prized at his Surprize. He asked me where I
had that Pafiage? From the Gofpel of St,John9
faid I, the third Chapter, and the fifth Verfe.
He caufèd a New feftament to be brought, look¬
ed for the Paffage, but explained it not to me >
it had been, neverthelefs, eafie to tell me that
Tradition explained it fufficiently, fi'nce they al¬
ways accounted to be baptized, not only thofe who
had fuffered Death for our Lord Jefus Chrifi, with¬
out receiving the ordinary Ceremonies of Baptifm,
but alfo thofe who had been furprized by Death in
the Defire of being baptized, and in Repentance of
their Sins.
Concerning the Adoration of Images, I told
him that I had advanced nothing which I had not
taken from the Holy Council of front, and cited
to him the Paffage of the zyth Seffion, concerning
the Invocation of Saints^and
Holy Images, * fhe Images * imn?mcs y.nn1^ ^e,'PJra
of Chnft, of the Mother of rum re.tinendas, dcjbi;-
(zW, and of Other Saints, turn honorem <3c‘veuerauo-
are to be retained j and due nem i.mpert^ndaai,ita ut pet
Honour and Reverence is to
be 'paid to them^ JO that mus, & Snn&os quorum il~
through their Images to te fimilitudinem gerunr, ve-
which we fall down pro- r,eremur* &JT* 25-
F z fir ale,
 C 84 >
firate, we may adore Chrifi, and venerate the Saints,
*whofe Likenefs they bear. My Judge Teemed much
more furprized at this than at the former Cita¬
tion, and having fearched it in the Council of
2"rent, he fhut the Book without explaining the
Paftage to me.
There is fomewhat incomprehenfible in this
degree of Ignorance, in the Perfons who under¬
take to judge others in Matters of Faith 5 and I
confefs that I fttould have hardly believed thefe
Fafts my felf although I Taw them, and very
well remember them, if I had not learnt by the
printed Relations of Mr. Tavernier, That how
referved foever Father Ephraim de Nevers were,
upon what refpe&eth the Inquifition, which had
made him fuffer To much, he could not forbear
to fay, that nothing had been more infupporta-
ble to him than the Ignorance of its Minifters.
The Promotor in reading the Information, had
faid, that befides all this which I had acknowledg¬
ed, I was moreover accufed, and fufficiently con-
viâed of having fpoken with Contempt of the
Inquifition, and its Minifters, and of having held
difrefpeâful Difcourfes concerning the Pope, and
ngainft his Authority 5 and concluded, that the
Obftinacy which I had hitherto manifefted in
contemning fo many Delays and charitable Ad¬
monitions, which had been given to me, was a
convincing Proof that I had very pernicious De-
ftgns, and that my Intention was to teach and
foment Herefie j that conlêquently, I had incur¬
red the Punifhment of greater Excommunication,
that my Goods ought to be confifcated to the
King’s
 C 80
Iging’s; Exchequer, and my felf to be delivered to
the Secular Power., to be punilhed for my Crimes
according to the Laws* that is, for to be burnt.
I leave the Reader here to imagine what effect
thele cruel Conclufions of the Promoter of the
Holy Office produced in my Soul. Yet I can
allure you* that how terrible foever thefe Words
were* the Death wherewith Î was then threat»
ned, appeared to be much lels formidable than
the Continuation of my Slavery $ fo that not»
withftanding the Trouble and Grief which leized
me* upon thefe Conduirons pronounced again ft
me, I failed not to anfwer to the new Accufa-
tions which were even now lignified to me, that
n refpedt of my Intentions, they had never been
bad, that Î had always been a zealous Catholick,
t all thofe with whom I had converftd in the
ham could teftifie the fame, particularly Father
Miûbrcife^ and Father Tues^ both French Capu»
chins, who had divers times heard me in Con-
felfion * And I underftood after my Departure,
that Fa her Tues was actually at Goa at the fame
time when I alledged him as a Witnefs of my
Innocence j that I had gone lixteen I eagues to
fat is fie the Duties of Eafter > that if I had non-
rifhed any Herefie in my Heart, it had been very
eafie for me to propagate it in thofe Parts of the
Indies, where any one may live and fpeak with
perfect Freedom, and that I would not then have
chofen my Habitation in the Dominions of the
King of Portugal 5 that I was fo far from Dog»
matically oppofing Religion, that I had on the
[contrary entred divers times into Difpute with
 C 86 )
the Hereticks for to defend it ; that indeed I re-
membred my felf to have fpoken with too much
Libeny of that Tribunal, before which I then
pleaded, and of the Perfons which pofiefled it 5
but that I was furprized they fhould make that
a Crime, which had been treated as a Trifle, when
I would have confefled it altnofl a Year and a
half flncej that for what concerned the Pope% I
remembred not to have fpoken of him in that
manner which my Accufations infinuated, that
neverthelefs if they would tell me the Particulars
of it, I would fincerely confefs the Truth.
The Inquijitor taking me up, told me, that
time fhould be given me, to confider of what re-
fpefted the Pope, but that he could not fuflicient-
jy admire my Impudence, in that I pretended to
have confefled what related to the Inquifttion,
when it was moll certain that I had not opened
my Mouth about it, and that if I had made any
'Cp'nfefljbn upon this Article, in that time when
I pretended to have made it, I had not conti¬
nued fo long time in Prifon. I remembred fo
perfectly what had been faid, and what had been
anfwered to me, and I was moreover fo tranfport-
•cd with Anger to fee my felf fo abufed, that if
they had not immediately commanded me to be
taken away, as foot! as I had ligned my Depofl-
tion, I fhould not perhaps have contained my felf
from reproaching my Judge -, and if I had en¬
joyed as much Force and Liberty as my Paflion
gave me Courage, it may be he fhould not have
efcaped with reproachful Words,

CHAP,
 C 87 )

CHAP. XXIII.

They carry me yet feverai times to Audience : Divers

Obfervations upon the Proceedings of the Inqui-
fltion.

I Was yet called to Audience three or four

Times in lefs than a Month, and they urged
me to confefs That whereof I had been accufed
concerning the Pope. They alfo fignified to me
a new Proof, which the Promoter pretended he
had drawn againfl me upon that Subjedf, but
which contained nothing different from what he
had already urged againft me $ but what clearly
demonfh ares this Acculation to have been only a
Falfity invented on purpofe to make me confefs,
is, that they would not tell me the Particulars of
what they pretended I had fpoken y but at laft
perceiving it impoffible to draw any thing of that
nature from me, they ceafe to mention it to me $
and that this Article was not inferted in my Pro-
cefs, when it was publickly read in the Aft of
Faith. They endeavoured alfo in their laft Au¬
dience to make me acknowledge that in the Fafl:s
whereof I had been accufed, my Intention was
to defend Herefie j but to this I would never
condefcend, there being nothing more contrary
to Truth.
During the Months of November and Decern-
hery I heard every Morning the Cries of thofe
who were put upon the Rack j which is fo cru¬
el
 Ces > ,
el a Torture, that I faw divers Perfons both of
the one and the other Sex, who were diftorted
and maimed by it, and among others, the firft
Companion they had aftigncd to me in the Pri-
fon. In this Holy Tribunal no Rcfpeâ: is made
of Quality, Age, or Sex, and all are indifferent¬
ly fubmitted to the Torture, when the InterefH
of the Inquifition fo rcquireth it.
I remembred to have heard it faid, before I
entred into the Prifons of the Holy Office, that
the Auto dafe, or Adi of Faith was ordinarily
performed the firft Sunday in Advent,becaufe on
that Day is read in the Church that Part of the
Gofpel, wherein mention is made of the laft
Judgment, and that the Inquifitors pretend, by
this Ceremony, to make a lively and natural Re-
prefentation of it. I was moreover perfwaded
that there were then a great Number of Prifo-
ners in the Inquifition. The profound Silence
which is every where obferved in this Houfe,
had given me Opportunity to count very near
how many Doors were opened at the Hours of
Repart, I had alfb obtained a pretty certain
Knowledge that there was arrived an Archbifhop
at GW, in the Month of Odloher, after that See
had been vacant near thirty Years 5 becaufe they
had extraordinarily rung the Bells at the Cathe¬
dral for nine Days together, upon which neither
the univpifal Church, nor that of Goa in particular,
celebrates any remarkable Feftival 5 and becaufe
I knew this Prelate was expedled even before my
Jmprifonment. All thefe Reafons made me hope
that I ihould be (et at Liberty in the beginning
 r 89 )
oF December, but when I faw the firft and fécond
Sundays of Advent pafîed, I doubted not but that
either my Liberty or my Punifhment were at
lead deferred for another entire Year.

CHAP. XXIV.

Flow I perceived that the Auto dafe was to he

performed on the Morrow, and what Habits were
given to us to appear in this Ceremony.

A S I perfwaded my felf that the Auto dafe

was never performed but in the Month of
December, when I faw the whole Month fpent
without obfèfving any Preparation to that terri¬
ble Ceremony, I determined to fuffer yet one
Year longer 5 neverthelefs when I expeXed it
Icaft, I found my felf to be in the Eve of my
Enlargement from that long Captivity, wherein
1 languifhed two Years.
I obferved that on Saturday the nth of Ja¬
nuary^ 16j6. being about to give my Linnen af¬
ter Dinner to the Officers to be wafhed, after
the ufual Guftom, they would not receive it, but
put me off till the next Day 5 I failed not to
make a great many Reflexions upon the Caufe
of this extraordinary Réfutai 5 and not finding
any which fatisfied me, I concluded that the Act
of Faith was probably to be performed the next
Day 5 but I confirmed my felf much more in my
Opinion, or rather I held it for mo ft certain,
when after I had heard it ring to Vefpers at the
Cathc-
 (90)
Cathedral, it immediately rung to Mattins -, which
was never before done while I was Prifoner, ex¬
cept upon the Eve of Corpus Chrijli Day, which
is celebrated in the Indies upon the Thurfday,
which immediately follows quafi modo Sunday,
becaufe, of the continual Rains which fall there
at the Time when it is celebrated in Europe.
They brought me my Supper, which Ï refu¬
nd, and which contrary to their ordinary Cuftom,
they prefled me not very much to receive. As
loon as the Doors were fliut upon me, I entirely
abandoned my felf to thofe melancholy Thoughts
which poflefled me j and at laft, after many Tears
and Sighs, overwhelmed with Sorrow and Ima¬
ginations of Death, I fell afleep, a little after
eleven a Clock at Night.
I had not been long afleep, when my Sleep
was interrupted on a fudden by the Noife which
the Guards made in opening my Door. I was
furprized to fee Perfons enter into my Cell with
Light, being not before accuftomed to it, and
the time of the Night contributed to redouble
my Apprehenfion. The Alcaide gave me an Ha¬
bit, which he ordered me to put on, and to be
ready to go out when he fhould come to call me,
and fo withdrew, leaving in my Chamber a Lamp
burning.
I had not upon this Occaflon either Strength
to rife, or to make any Anfwer to him j and
from the Inilant that thefe Men quitted me, I
was feized with an univerfal and fo violent a
Trembling, that for more than an Hour it was
not poflible for me fo much as to look upon thé
 C pi >
Habit which they brought me. At laft I arofe,
and proftrating my felf upon the Ground before
a Crois which I painted upon the Wall, I recom¬
mended my felf to God, and abandoned my For¬
tune to his Proteâion. Then I put on the Ha¬
bit, which confifted ofa Veft whole Sleeves came
down to the Wrift, and a pair of Drawers which
reached to the very Heels j the whole made of
black Stuff, ftriped with White.

CHAP. XXV.

Of the Preparations to the Aft of Faith, and the

clivers Ornaments which are diftributed to the
Criminals, according to the Diverfity of their
Crimes.

I Had not long time to wait after I had taken

the Habit which was left for me. Thefe
Gentlemen, who had come the firft time a little
before Midnight, returned at two of the Clock
in the Morning into my Chamber 5 out of
which they led me into a long Gallery, where Ï
found a good number of my Companions in Mi-
fery, ranged round about againft the Wall 5 I
put my felf into my Place, and there came yet
divers after me.
Although there were near 200 Men in this
Gallery, as all obferved a mo ft profound Silence,
that in this great Number, there were not above
It Europeans^ who could hardly bediftinguiihed
among the others, and that all were as my felf,
cloathed
 ( 92 )
doathed with black Stuff. One might have ea-
fily taken all thefe Perfons for fo many Statues fee
againft the Wall, if the Motion of their Eyes,
the Ufe of which alone was permitted to them,
had not teflified them to be living Creatures. The
Place wherein we were thus afièmbled, was en-
lightned only by a little number of Lamps, whofe
Light was fo obfeure, that this joyned to fo many
black, melancholy, and afflicted Objects, feem’d to
be no other than a Preparation for the Celebration
of fome Funeral.
The Women who were vefied with the fame
Stuff with us, were in the next Gallery, where
we could not fee them $ but I obferved that in
a Dormitory a little remote from ours, there were
alfo other Prifoners, and Perfons veiled in Black,
and fome in a long Habit, who walked up and
down. I knew not then what this meant, but I
learned after a few Hours, that thofe who were
to be burned were there, and that the Perfons
who walked about were their Confeffors.
As I knew not then the Formalities of the
Holy Office, whatfoever de fire I had in time paft
to die, I then feared to be of the Number of
thofe who were defiined to the Flames > yet I
recovered Courage in a little time, when I con-
fidered that Ï had nothing in my Habit which
difiinguifhed me from others, and that there was
no likelihood that fo great a Number of Perfons,
who were apparelled like my felf, fhould be put
to death together.
After we were all ranged againft the Walls of
this Gallery, they gave to every one of us a Ta¬
per
 C 93 )
per of yellow Wax : They then brought to us
other Habits to put over the former, made like
Declinaticks, or great Scapularies 5 they were of
yellow Stuff, with St. .Andrew's Crojfes painted
on them in Red, before and behind. They are
wont to give thefe fort of Marks to thofe who
have committed, or who are efteemed to have
committed Crimes againfl the Faith of Je fus
Chrift, whether they be Jews, Mahometans, Sor¬
cerers, or Hereticks, who were before Catholicks y
they call thefe Grand Scapularies with thefe Gref¬
fes of St, Andrew Samhenito's. Thofe who are
accounted convi&ed, and who perfift to deny
the Fa£ls whereof they are accufed, or who are
relapfed, bear another kind of Scapulary, called
Samarra, whofe Ground is grey j the Piâure of
the Prifoner is reprefented to the Life upon it,
both before and behind, placed upon bur¬
ning Torches, with Flames rifing up, and De¬
vils round about} their Names and their Crimes
are written at the Bottom of the Pifture, but
thofe who accufe themfelves after Sentence is
pronounced upon them, and before they are car¬
ried out of their Chamber, being no relapfed Per¬
lons, bear upon their Samarra's, Flames invert¬
ed, which they call fogo Revolt0, that is, Fire
inverted.
Sambenito's were diftributed to twenty of the
Blacks who were accufed of Magick, and to one
Pcrtugueze, attainted of the fame Crime, who
moreover was a New Ghriftian.
 ( 94 y
As they would revenge themfelves upon me by
Halves, and that they were refolved to infult o-
ver me to the End, they forced me to put on a
like Habit to that of the Sorcerers and Hereticks,
aîtho’ I had always made ProfeHion of the Catho-
lick, Apoftolick, and Roman Faith, that which my
Judges might eafily have known from an infinite
Number of Perfons, as well Strangers, as of mine
own Nation, with whom I had lived in divers
Parts ot the Indies.
My Fears redoubled when I faw my felf thus
habited, bccaufe it feemed to me that there be¬
ing among fo great a Number of Prifoners, no
more than iz Perfons to whom thefe fhameful
Sambenito1 s were given, it might very well hap¬
pen that thefe fhouid be the Perfons to whom no
Mercy was to be extended.
After this Difiub’ tion, five Bonnets of Paper
were brought in, rifi; g up in a Point like a Su¬
gar-loaf, all covered with De. 'Is and Flames of
Fire, with a Writing round about, expreffing
this Word, Feiticero9 that is. Sorcerer, they call
thefe Bonnets Carocbas $ they fee them upon the
Heads of fo many Perfons the moll: guilty of all
the red, among thofe as were accufed of Magick*
and as thofe Perfons flood very near me, I then
believed they would not fail to prefent one to
me alfo, which yet did not happen. I did then
make no doubt almofl but thefe miferable Men
were thofe Perfons defigned to be burnt 5 and
as themfelves were no better inflru£led at that
Time in the Formalities of the Holy Office^ I was
allured by them afterwards, that at that Mo¬
ment
 ( 95 >
ment they believed their Deftru&ion to be ine¬
vitable.
Every one being thus adorned according to
the quality of his Grimes, we were permitted to *
fit down on the Ground in expeâing new Or¬
ders y at four of the Clock in the Morning the
Servants of the Houfe came following the Guards,
for to diftribute Bread and Figs to thofe who
would accept them j but altho’ I had not flipp’d
the Night before, I found in my felf fo fmall an
Appetite for eating, that I had taken nothing,
if one of the Guards coming near me had not
faid, 'fake your Breads and if you cannot eat it now9
put it into your Pockety for you will be certainly
hungry before you return. The Words of this
Man brought great Comfort to me, and difli-
pated all my Fears, by the Hopes which he gave
of my Return, which obliged me to follow his
Advice.
At lafl: after we had waited a long while, the
Day appeared at five a Clock ; and I might then
obferve upon the Faces of every one prefent, the
divers Motions of Shame, of Grief, and of Fear,
wherewith they were then tormented : For altho®
they felt no fmall Joy in feeing themfelves upon
the Point of being delivered from fo cruel and in-
fupportable a Captivity, yet this Joy was very
much diminifhed, by the Fear wherein every one
was of what would become of himlelf.

CHAR
 (96)

CHAP. XXVI.

How we went in Proceffion to go to the A£t of

Faith. "The Order of this Ceremony.

^ FI E great Bell of the Cathedral Church

JL was rung a little before the Riling of the
Sun, which was as the Signet to advertife the
People to run together to fee the Auguft Cere¬
mony of the Auto dafe, or Aiï of Faith j and
Firft, They made us go out one by one. Iobfer-
ved in paffing from the Gallery into the great
Hall, that the Inquifttor fat at the Door, having
a Secretary by him j that the Hall was filled
with Inhabitants of Goa, whofe Names were
wiitten in a Lift, which he held in his Hands j
and that at the fame time any Prifoner was
brought forth, they called one of thefe Gentle¬
men who were in the Hall, who immediately
came up to the Criminal for to accompany him,
and ferve him as a Godfather in the AÏÏ of Faith,
Thefe Godfathers receive the Perfons in charge
whom they accompany, are obliged to anfwer for
them, and to produce them when the Feftival
is ended * and Mefjieurs the Inquifitors, pretend
to do them great Honour when they choofb them
for this Office, 1 had for Godfather the Ge¬
neral of the Portugueze Ships in the Indies $ I
went out of the Hall with him, and as loon as I
was in the Street, I faw that the Proccffion be-
can
 C 97 )
gan by the Order of the Dominicans, who have
this noble Priviledge, becaufe St. Dominick their
Founder, was alfo of the Inquifition. They were
preceded by the Banner of the Holy Office, where¬
in the Image of the Founder is represented in
very rich Embroidery, holds a Sword in one
Hand, and in the other a Branch of Olive, with
this Infcription, Juftitia & Mifericordia. Thefe
Monks are followed by the Prifoners, who march
on after the other, having every one his Godfa¬
ther at his Side, and a Taper in his Hand. Thole
who are lefs guilty go firft j and as I palled not
for one of the more Innocent, there were more
than a hundred preceded me. I had as all the
reft, my Head and Feet naked, and I was very
much troubled during all this March, which con¬
tinued for an Hour almoft, bccaufe of the little
Flint-ftones wherewith the Streets of Goa are (bat¬
tered, which made my Feet bleed abundantly.
They made us walk through all the greater
Streets, and we were gazed on by an innumera¬
ble Croud of People, who had run together from
all Parts of the Indies, and who lined all the
Streets through which we were to pafs $ for they
took care to give Notice to the Parifh-Priefts in
the Parifhes of more remote Places, a long time
before the Aft of Faith was performed. At laft^
covered with Shame and Confufion, and very
W'eary of the March, we arrived at the Church
of St. Francis, which for this time was deftined
and prepared for the Act of Faith. The great
Altar Was Spread with Black ; and there were up¬
on it fix Silver Candlefticks, with fo many Ta-
 C 98 )
pers of white Wax burning. There were rai¬
led on the Sides of the Altar two kind of Thrones,
the one on the right Hand for Monfieur the /»-
quifit or and his Councellors, the other on the
Left, for the Vice-roy and his,Court.
At lbme Di (tance, and over againft the great
Altar, inclining a little towards the Door, was
placed another, whereon were laid two Miffals
open. From thence to the Door of the Church
was made a Gallery about three Foot broad, with
a Bali Iter on each Side, and both on one Side
and the other were placed Benches for the Cri¬
minals and their Godfathers to fit on, who ac¬
cordingly feated themfelves in order as they en-
tred into the Church, infomuch as thofe who
came in fir ft., fat very near the Altar.
As foon as I was entred and placed in my Rank,
I applied my felf to confider the Order, which
they made thofe obferve who came after me. I
law that thofe, to whom thofe horrible Carochas
of which I (pake, were given, marched laft in
our whole Troop j that immediately after them
a great Crucifix was carried, whole Face refpeâ-
ed thofe who marched before 3 and which was
followed by two living Perfons, and four Sta¬
tues of the Height of a Man, reprefented very
naturally, fixed every one to the End of a long
Pole, and accompanied with fo many little Chefls,
born each by a Man, and filled with the Bones
of thofe whom thefe Statues reprefented. The
Face of the Crucifix turned toward thofe who
went before it, fignifieth the Mercy which is
ufed in refpeft of them, in delivering them from
Death
 ( 99 )
Death altho’ they had juflly deferved it : And the
lame Crucifix turning the Back upon them that
followed it, fignifieth that thofe unfortunate Per¬
fons have no more Favour to hope for. For io it
is that all is myflerious in the Holy Office.
The Habits where with thefe miferable Perfons
were veiled, were no leli capable of linking Hor¬
ror and Pity into the Beholders 3 as well the li¬
ving Perfons as Statues bore a Sumarra of Grey
Stuff, all painted over with Devils, Flames, and
burning Fire-brands, upon which the Head of
the Prifoner was reprefented to the Life before
and behind, with his Sentence written below,
bearing an Abridgment, and in great Characters
his Name, That of his Country, and the Crime
for which he was condemned. Belides this ter¬
rible Habit, they had alfo upon their Heads choie
dreadful Carockas covered, as their Vellments,
with Flames and Devils. The little Coffers,
wherein were inclofed the Bones of thofe who
were dead, and againlt whom Procefs had been
made, either before or after their Deceafe, during
or before their Imprifonmcnt, that fo Oecafon
might be given to the Confifcation of their Goods,
were painted with Black, and covered alio with
Devils and Flames.
It mull be here obferved, that the Inquifition
terminates not its Jurifdiction upon living Per¬
fons, or upon thofe who died in her Prifon 3 but
that fhe fometimes formeth a Procefs againil Per¬
fons, who died many Years before they were ac¬
cu fed, then when after their Deceafe they are
charged with any great Crime, that in this Cafe,
G Z if
 ( ioo )
if they be convinced, they are digged up, their
Bones are burned at the Atl of Faith, and all
their Goods are confifcated, whereof thofe are
carefully defpoiled who have inherited them :
And I advance nothing which I have not feen
pra&ifed $ fince among the Statues, which were
ieen when I came out of the Inquifition, there
was one which reprefented a Man dead a long
time before, whole Procefs they had formed,
whofe Body they had digged up, and whofe
Goods were confifcated, and his Bones burnt, or
it may be thofe of fome other who had been bu¬
ried in the lame Place.

C II A P. XXVII.

Containing what was ohferved in the Place wherein

the A£t of Faith was celebrated.

T HESE unhappy Perfons being entred in¬

to that dreadful Equipage, which I have
already deferibed, and being feated in their Places,
which were appointed for them near the Door
of the Church, the Inquifitor, followed with
his Officers, entred and went to place himfeif up¬
on the Tribunal which was ereâed for him upon
the right Side of the Altar, while the Vice-roy
and his Court feated themfelves upon the Left.
The Crucifix was placed upon the Altar be¬
tween the fix Candlefticks. Every one be¬
ing thus fettled in his Poll, and the Church fil¬
led with as many People as it could contain, the
Pro-
 ( ioï 3
Provincial of the Augufiinians afcended the Pul¬
pit, and preached for half an Hour. Notwith-
llanding the Anxiety of Mind wherein I then
was, I failed not to obferve the Companion
which he then made of the Inquifition with the
Ark of Noah, between which yet he found this
Difference, that the Animals which entered into
the Ark, went out again after the Deluge, in¬
verted with the fame Nature which they had
when they entered in $ But that the InquifJcr
had the admirable Property to change in fuch
fort thofe who are Ihut up in it, that in coming
out we fee thofe to be as Lambs, who, when they
entred in, had the Cruelty of Wolves, and the
Fiercenefs of Lions. The Sermon being finifh-
ed, two Readers went up one after another into
the fame Pulpit, to read There publickly the Pro-
cels of all the Criminals, and to lignifie to them
the Punilhrnents to which they were condemn¬
ed. He whofe Procefs was read, was during
that Time led by the Alcaide into the middle
of the Gallery, where he flood upright, hold¬
ing a Taper lighted in his Hand, till his Sen¬
tence was pronounced. And as it was fuppofed
that all the Criminals had incurred the Punifn-
ment of greater Excommunication, they led us
to the Foot of the Altar whereon lay the Mif-
fais 5 where being placed on our Knees, they
made us lay our Hands upon one of thefe Books,
and remain in that Pollute, till there were as ma¬
ny Perfons as Mijfals. Then the Reader difcon-
tinued reading of the Procels, to pronounce with
a loud Voice a Confeffion of Faith, after he had
briefly
 C 1
briefly exhorted the Criminals to repeat it with
Heart and Mouth at the fame time with him ;
which being done, every one returned to his
Place, and the Reading of the Procefs was be¬
gan anew.
I was called in mv Order, and underflood that
all my Affair ran upon thefe three Heads ; The
Firff, for having maintained the Invalidity of the
Baptifm called Flaminis. The Second, for ha¬
ving laid that Images ought not to be adored,
and having blafphemed againft the Image of the
Crucifix, in frying of a Crucifix of Ivory, that
it was a Piece of Ivory. And Laffly, for
having fpoken contemptuoufly of the Inquifition^
and its Miniffcrs ; but above all, for the ill In¬
tention which I had in (peaking all thefe Things.
For which Crimes I was declared Excommuni¬
cate ; and for Reparation thereof my Goods were
confifcated to the King’s Account, and my felf
baniflied from the Indies, and condemned to ferve
m the Galleys of Portugal five Years; and more¬
over, to perform other Penances which fhould
be enjoyned to me in particular by the Inquifi-
tors.
Of all theie Punifhments, the nioft infuppor-
table to me, was to fee my felf in an indifpenfa-
ble Neceflity of quitting the Indies, where I had
refolved to Travel a yet much longer time. This
Sorrow, neverthelefs, was not fo great, but that
it was much allayed by the Hope of feeing my
felf fhortly out of the Hands of the Holy Of¬
fice. My Confeffion of Faith being made, I re¬
turned to my Place, and received Advantage
from
 C 103 )
from the Advice which my Guard had given
me of not refufing my Bread, for the Ceremony
!
continuing all the Day, there was no Perfon
who did not that Day dine in the Church.

CHAP. XXVIÏI.

They abfolve us from Excommunication, and deliver

ihofe to the Secular Power who were to be burn¬
ed : What was obferved upon this Occafeon.

A Fter they had ended to read the Procefs of

all thofe to whom they extended their
Mercy in faving their Lives, the Inquijitor left
his Seat to put on his Albe and Stole $ and being
accompanied with about 10 Priefts, who had
every one a Wand in his Hand, he came into
the Middle of the Church, where after he had
made divers Prayers, we were abfolved from the
Excommunication, which they pretended we had
incurred, by Means of a Blow which the Pried:
gave to every one of us upon his Habit. I can¬
not forbear to relate here a Thing, which will
fliew to what Degree the Portugueze Su perdi¬
tion proceeds in all Things which have any Re¬
lation to the Inquifition \ which is, that during
the Proceffion, and the whole Time of our Stay
in the Church, he who ieryed me as a Godfa¬
ther would never anfwer to me, although 1 had
fpoken to him divers Times, and that he even
refufed to give a little Powder of Tobacco which
I had defired of him j fo much did he fear to be
involved
 ( i oij. )
involved in the Cenfure wherewith he ftippofed
me hound. But as loon as I was abfolved, he
embraced me, gave me Tibacco, and told me that
he then acknowledged me for his Brother, fince
the Church had abfolved me.
This Ceremony being ended, and the Inquiji-
tor returned to his Place, they brought out one
after the other thole unhappy Vidlims who were
to be facrificed by the Holy Inquifition. There
were a Man, a Woraan, and the Reprefentation
of four dead Men, with the little Chefts where¬
in their Bones were inclofed. The Man and
Woman were Indian Blacks and Chriftians, ac¬
cu ted of Magick, and condemned as relapfed.
Of the four Statues, two reprelented alfo two
Men, held for convidled of Magick, and the
two others, two Men who had been New Chri¬
ftians, and were accufed to have Judaized 5 of
which the one had died in Prifon, the other in
his own Houle, and had been buried long fince
in his Parifh 5 but being accufed of Jufiaifm af¬
ter his Death, as he had left very confiderable
Riches, they took care to pluck him out of his
Grave, and take away his Bones to burn them at
the Act of Faith, afrer they had formed a Procels
again ft him. We may fee hereby, that the Ho¬
ly Office is not contented to attribute to it felf the
Infallibility of Jefus Chrift, but that they would
nlfo, as well as he, exercife their Authority up¬
on the Living and the Dead.
The lèverai Procédés of thele unfortunate Fer¬
ions were read, which were all ended with thele
Words, That the Inquifition could not Ihew any
Mercy
 m
»:

C î0> )
Mercy to them becaufe of their Relapfe and
their Impenitence, and that finding themlelves
indifpenfably obliged to punifh them according
to the Rigour of the Laws, they delivered them
to the Secular Armand Jurtice, whom they ear-
nefily defired to ufe Clemency and Mercy to¬
wards thefe miferable Wretches > and that if
they would impofe upon them the Punishment
of Death, it might be at leafh without Effufion
of Blood. At the laft Words of the Inquifitors,
a Serjeant of the Secular Juftice approached,
and took Pofieflion of thole unfortunate Perlons \
after they had received a light Blow upon the
Bread: from the Hand of the Alcaide of the Ho¬
ly Office, in Token that they were abandonedby
him. See the great Kindnefs of the Inquifition
to interceed thus for guilty Perlons ! The ex¬
treme Condefcendance of the Magiftrates, to
choofè rather in Complaifance to the Inquifition,
to content himfelf to burn thefe Criminals to the
very marrow of their Bones, than to ufe tha
Power which he hath of {bedding their Blood.
Thus was ended, in refpe6t of us, the famous
Ceremony of the Auto dafe, or AH of Faith 5 and
while thefe miferable Wretches were led alone
the Bank of the River, where the Vice-rov and
his Court were aflembled, and where the Piles,
upon which they were to be facrificed, were
prepared the Day before, we were led back to
the Inquifition by our Godfathers, without obfer-
ving any Order. Although I was not prelent
at the Execution of thefe Perlons thus abandon¬
ed by the Holy Office, neverthelefs as I was fully
in-
 ( io6 )
ftruâ'ed by Ferions who have oft-times fecn the
like Executions, I will here relate, in few Words,
the Ceremony which was there obferved.
As foon as the condemned Ferfons are arrived
at the Place where the Secular Judges are affem-
bled, they ask them in what Religion they will
dye, without informing themfelves, in the leaft,
of their Procédés, which they fuppofe to have
been perfectly well managed, and the Ferfons
moil )uilly condemned * lince no Doubt is to
be made of the Infallibility of the Inquifition :
As foon as they have anfwered ta this one Que»
Hion, the Executioner feizeth them, and tieth
them to Polls upon the Pile, where they are
fxrft ftranglcd if they dye Chriftians, and burnt
alive if they perfill in Judaifm or Herefie 5 which
happens fo feldom, that fcarce one Example is to
be feen in four ASts of Faith, although there are
very few in which are not burned a good num¬
ber of Perfons.
The Day after the Execution, the fmages of
thole who are put to death are brought into the
Churches of the Dominicans ^ their Head only is
prelented to the Life, placed upon kindled Fire¬
brands j at the Bottom is put their Name, that
of their Father and their Country, the Quality
of their Crimes for which thevJ were condemn-
ned, with the Year, the Month, and the Day
of the Execution.
If the Perfon who was to be burnt had twice
rekpfed into the fame Crime, they put thefe
Words at the Bottom of the Portrait j Morreo
quimodo pr herefe rehffo, which bgnifieth that he
was
 C I°7 )
was burned for a relapfed Heretick. If having
been accufed but once, he perfevereth in his Er¬
ror, they put Por herefs coniumas, for an obfti-
nate Heretick ; but as this Cafe is very rare, fo
there are very few of thefe Portraits. Laftly,
If having been thus accufed but once by a fuffi-
cient Number of Witnefies, heperfifteth to pro**
fefs himfelf innocent, and at the fame time pro-
feffcth Chriflianity to the very Death \ they put
at the Bottom of the Table Morreo queimado por
herefe conduit to negative^ which is to fay. That he
was burnt as a convi&ed Heretick, but who con-
fefled not. And of this lafi: Kind a great Num¬
ber of Portraits may be feen. We may hold it
for certain that of an hundred Negatives, there
are at lead ninety nine who are not only inno¬
cent of the Crimes which they deny, but who
have, befide that Innocence, the Merit of chafing
rather to die, than to tell a Lye in confeffing
themfelves guilty of a Crime, of which they are
really innocent. For it is not poffible that a
Man aflured to lave his Life if he confefletb,
would perfifi: to deny, and chufe rather to be
burnt than acknowledge a Truth, the Confeffion
of which will lave his Life. Thefe terrible Re-
prefentations are placed in the Nave of the
Church, and over the highefi: Door of the
Church, as fo many illuftrious Trophies confie-
crated to the Glory of the Holy Office $ and
when this part of the Church is all over hung,
they place them in the fide Mes near the Door.
Thefe who have been at Lisbon, and have feen
the great Church of the Dominicans, which is
not
 C l0^ )
not far from the Holy Houfe of the Inquifition, may
have obferved many hundreds of thcfe fad Pictures.

CHAP. XXIX.

My Enlargement from the Inquifition. They bring

us into an Houfe in the Town^ to caufe us to be
there fome time inftrufted.
b

IWas fo weary and fo fore at my return from

the Aft of Faith, that I had almoft no ieis1
Defire to re-enter into my Lodging to reft my
felf, than I had fome Days before to go out of
it. My Godfather accompanied me into the Hall ^
and the Alcaide having conduced me into the
Gallery, I went and ihut up my felf, while they
brought in the reft. I firft caft my felf upon
my Bed expeding Supper, which was nothing
dfe but Bread and Figs, the Trouble ol the Day
having hindred them from preparing any thing
in the Kitchen. I ilept much better this Night
than I had done of a long time, but when the
Day appeared, I expeded impatiently what they
would do with me * when the Alcaide came at
fix a Clock to demand the Habit which I had
wore at the Proceftion, of me, I would have gw
ven him the Sambenito, but he would not receive
it, becaufe I was to be veiled with it on all
Feftivals and Sundays, till I had entirely perform¬
ed my Sentence. At feven a Clock they brought
my Break fail, and a little after I was warned to
pack up all my Goods, and be ready to go when
called.
 ( tog )
called. I obeyed this Order with all pofîible
Diligence > and at nine a Clock a Guard having
opened my Door, I laid my Bundle upon my
Shoulders, and followed them into the great Hall,
where the greateft Part of the Prifoners were al¬
ready. After I had been there fome time, I faw
about Twenty enter, who had been the Day be¬
fore condemned to be whipped, and who then
received it from the Hand of the Hangman
through all the Streets of the Town. Being
thus all aflembled, the Inquifitor appeared, be¬
fore whom we fell upon our Knees to receive
his Bleffing, after we had killed the Ground near
his Feet. Then they commanded the Blacks,
who had little or no Luggage, to take up and
carry that of the Whites. Thole among the
Prifoners who were not Chrzftians, were fent
immediately to the Places appointed by their
Sentence, ibme into Banifliment, others to the
Galleys, or into the Houfe where they make
Powder, called Cafa da polvera $ and thoiè who
were Chriftians, as well Whites as Blacks, were
led into a Houfe which was hired on Purpoib in
the Town, to be there inftrufted for ibme Time.
The Halls and the Galleries of the Lodgings
were appointed for the Blacks to lye in, and we
Whites were put into a feparate Chamber, where
they fhut us up at Night, leaving us in the Day*
time the Liberty of walking about the Houfe,
and fpeaking with thoiè who were there, or who
came from other Places to fee us. Every Day
two Catechifings were held, one for the Blacks,
and the other for the Whites. Mafs was cele¬
brated.
 Ç no }
brated every Day, ac which we were all prefent,
as well ac Morning as at Evening.
While I Hayed in this Houfe I was vifited by
a Dominican Frier, one of my Friends, whom I
had known at Daman, where he had been Prior
of his Order. This good Father, loaded with
Difeafes and Years, no fooner knew that I was
enlarged, but he put himfelf into a Pelanquin to
to come and fee me > he wept at my Difafter,
and embraced me tenderly, alluring me he had
been in great Fears lor my fake, that he had
often enquired concerning my Health and my
Affairs, of Father Procurator of the Prifoners,
who was his Friend, and of the fame Order with
himfelf j that neverthelefs for a long while he
could obtain no Anfwer from him -, and that at
laff, after many Sollicitations, he could draw no
more from him than this, That J was Hill alive.
I received great Comfort from the fight of this
good Monk, and the Neceflky which was im-
pofed on me of quitting the Indies, created equal
Sorrow to us both 5 he had farther the Good-
nefs to vifit me feveral Times, invited me to re¬
turn to the Indies as loon as I fhould be at Li¬
berty, and lent me divers Provisions for the Voy¬
age Ï was to make, which the Condition and
Neceffity wherein I then was, permitted me not
to hope for from other Hands.

CHAR
 HAP. XXX.

They bring me again to the Inquifition, to receive

Penances which were impofed on me.

A Fter we had flayed in this Houfe till the

2,3d of January^ we were conduced once
more into the Hall of the Inquifition, and from
thence called every one in his Turn'to the Ta¬
ble of the Holy Office, to receive there from the
Hands of the Inquifitor, a Paper containing the
Penances to which it had plealed him to con¬
demn us : Ï went in my Order, and was made
to kneel down, after Ï had before laid my Hands
on the Gofpel, and promifed in this Poftore, to
keep inviolable Secrecy of all things which had
happened, and which I had feen and obferved
during my Imprifonment.
I received after that, from the Hand of my
Judge, a Writing figned by himfelf, containing
the Things which were to be performed by me %
and as this Memoir is not very long, I thought
it convenient to put it here Word for Word in
French, as it was in Portugueze.
* •

A Lift of the Penances which N. N. ought to

perform.

Ï. For the three next Tears he ft jail confefs him-

m and communicate j the firft Tear every Months
and
 ( III )
and the two following Tears on the Feajls of Eafter,
Whitfunday, and the Affumption of our Lady.
IL He Jhall hear Mafs and Sermon upon Sun¬
days and Holidays, if he hath Convenience.
III. He Jhall repeat during the /aid three Tears,
five times every Day the Parer Noder and Ave
Maria, in Honour of the five TViunds of our Lord
Jefus Chrid.
IV. He Jhall never enter into Friendjhip, nor
have any particular Commerce with Hereticks, or
Perfons whofe Faith is fufpefted, who may Preju¬
dice his Salvation.
V. And laftly, He Jhall keep exactly the Secret
of all which he hath feen, heard, or faid, or which
hath been aïïed concerning him, either at the Table,
or at any Places of the Holy Office.
Signed Francifco Delgado ematos*

Having received this Writing I luffed the

Ground, and returned into the Hall, to wait
there till the like Writing fhould be given to all
the red : In going out they feparated us, and I
know not what became of the greateft part of
our Company, or whither they were fent. We
remained together not above twelve, who were
led into the al Jouvar, which is that Prifon of
the Office, wherein I was put the firft Day that
l came to Goa, before Ï entred into the Inquifi-
tion. 1 flay’d there till the ifth, when an Of¬
ficer of the Holy Office clapping Irons upon my
Feet, carried me into a Ship which was in the
Road, ready to fet Sail for Portugal

CHAP,
 C ”3 )

CHAP. XXXI.

Containing fome Obfervations upon all that hath

been hitherto [aid.

B Efore I continue the Account of my Adven¬

tures, I believe it will not be unreafonable
to make fome Refle&ions upon all which hath
been faid. I will begin then by the Confidera-
tion of the principal AXs of Injuftice committed
in the Inquifition > of which the firfl; is the Trea-
fon of the Commiflary of Daman $ who, after
I had confefled to him what I had faid, and what
relateth to the Holy Office, gave me fo infincere
Advice, that he ceafed not to arreft me to fatif-
fle the Paflion of the Governor, although the
lnquifition is not wont to apprehend thofe who
voluntarily accufe themfelves, before they are put
in Prifon. I am not ignorant of what this Fa¬
ther faid to defend himlelf from this Imputation,
that I had not acctiled my felf in due Form 5
but any one may cafily perceive that this is a new
Trick, for he ought to have taught me the
Form : I was young, and a Stranger, and fliould
immediately have fatisfled him, but it was necef-
fary for him to make ufe of this miferable Pre¬
text to fatisfie the Governor.
The fécond Thing of which I think my felf
to have Reafon to complain, in refpeX of the
lame Commiflary, is, That he malicioufly kept
H me
 ( ii4 )
me at Daman till the Month of January ; in-
ftead of which, if he had fent me to Goa^ im¬
mediately after my Imprifonment, my Cafe might
have been examined and ended before the End
of November j and I fhould have been enlarged at
the Æ of Faith, which was performed that very
Year, in the Beginning of December j whereas
not fending me to GW, till the jFH of Faith was
ended, I was forced to flay in the Prifons of the
Holy Office two Years longer than I fhould have
done * becaufè fcarce any Enlargement of the
Prifoners is ever made, but at that terrible Cere¬
mony, called the jicl of Faith -y and as that is
performed but from two to two, or from three
to three Years, it is a double Unhappinefs for
thofe that are fhut up in thefe Floly Prifons, to
be carried thither immediately after this Goal-
delivery, bccaufe they are obliged to wait there
till there be a fufficient Number of Perfons to
render the Aft of Faith more illuflrious.
The Refufal which the Inquifitor made at my
third Audience to receive my Confefhon, touch¬
ing what I had faid concerning the Inquifition >
and his Injuflice, in daring to maintain that I had
not confeffed this Fa£l, which he made my
Crime fo long time after, was one of thofe things
which moftaffiidled me, during my Imprifonment,
and is none of the leafl Grievances which I have
to complain of againfl thefe Meffieurs.
I might alfo juflly complain of this, that the
Inquifetion defiling to lay a new Snare for me,
when I accufed my felf of what I had faid con¬
cerning the Holy Office, and what had happened a
long
 ( si? 3
long time before to Father Ephraim Nevers >
asked me if I would defend the Errors of that
Monk ; but although I knew very well that
the Innocence of this Father had been fully ma-
nifefted, and that he had been arrefted mrerly
upon Envy 5 I anfwered that I pretended not to
defend any Perfon, being fufficiently troubled to
defend my fclf.
I had moreover methinksall Reafon to believe,
that they had an Intention to pleafe the Vice¬
roy, and Governor of Daman his Coufin, in
fending me into Portugal, fince of more than
zoo Perfons who went with me out of the In-
quifition, I alone was obliged to leave the Indies
and go for Europe.
The Cruelty of the Guards, who often ufed
very rude Words to me, and forced me unwil¬
lingly to eat my Meat, and take Remedies when
I was fick, deferves alfo in my mind fome Con-
federation j for although the Guards have Rea-
fon to force the accufed Perfons to eat their Meat
and take Remedies, they might ufe in rcfpe&of
them the fame Method which is ufed in refpeft of
other fick Perfons, who are not wont to receive
the Stirrup-Leather, or Baftinadoes, to make
them take the Prefcriptions of their Phyficians.
I will add, that although the Inquifition grant»
eth fomething of fiafe Condufts to thole, who
being in a Place of Security, will come and ac-
cufe themfelves 5 yet it is bed not to trull them
too much, fince they make no great Scruple in
this Holy Tribunal, to violate the Promile which
they have made, and when they have a mind
H Z TO
 C 116 )
to it they will find Pretexts enough not to keep
it, which Ï will prove by an Fxample.
I knew at Surrat a religious Perfon of the
Order of St. Dominick, called Father Hyacinthe,
who for many Years had cjuitted his Convent
and his Habit, living in a very diffolute and fcan-
dalous Manner. Ic happened afterwards that a
Woman with whom he had lived along Time,
and by whom he had divers Children, dyed 5 this
Lofs touched him, and produced in him a Refo-
lution of changing his Life. He refolved then
to return into his Convent at Bcicciim : but be-
caufe all the Portugueze, and above all, the Prie its
and religious Perfons, who have palled any con-
fiderable time among tne Infidels, aie obliged in
returning into the Vortuguefe Dominions, to prê¬
tent themfelves to the Inquijïtioîi, and make there
all exact Declaration of the manner of their pad:
Life, if they would prevent their being compel¬
led to it by Force : This Religious, whofe
Confcience perhaps was touched with fomething
relating to the Holy Office, before he left Sur¬
feit wrote to the Inquisitor at Goa foi a lafeCon-
duft, that fo he might come to prefent and ac¬
cule himfelf, which was granted him ; with this
poor A durance he departed and came to Bacaim,
where lie was not differed to refume the religi¬
ous Habit, without having firft cleared himfelf
before the Inquifttors, upon which he went to
Goa, prelented himfelf at the Table of the Holy
Office, whither he was feveral Times called, and
at la ft having been fufficiently examined, he was
abfolved, and fent back to the Vicar-General of
his
 ( rï7 )
his Order, who reftored him the Habit, and a-
gain authorized him to difcharge the Fiinftio.ps
of a Preacher and ConfelTor. He thinking all
was over, prepared for his Departure to Bacaim,
where was his firil Convent, when being juft
ready to embark in a Galliot, he was hurried a-
way to the Prifons of the Holy Office, whole
Minifters had not fo eafily granted him Abfolu-
tion, were it not the eafier to perform their De-
lîgn, that it might not be Paid they had viola¬
ted their Word, and the fife Condudl they had
given him j at the fame time they fpread about
a Report, that lince his Abfolution, Difcovery
had been made of Crimes of which he had not
accufed himfelf.
This Religious, who was clapped up a few
Days after me, remained thereafter I got out, as
appears by his not being mentioned in the Abl
of Faith, and his Procefs not being read, which
would certainly have been done, had he died in
Prifon, fo that in all probability he muft conti¬
nue there till the next Aft of Faith j I had this
Relation from a religious Perfon of the lame Ol ¬
der, who vifited me alter my Delivery. And
this Example ought to teach them who travel,
or live in thofe Countries where the Inquifition
isedablirhed, not only to be circumfpedt in their
Words and A étions, but alfo never to rely too
much on Affiurances, of fafe Conduéts, granted
them by the Inquifitors, or their Commiffaries,
how little foever Occafion of Miftruft they may
feem to have.

CHAP
 C 118 )

CHAP. xxxn.
Hiftory cfjokph Pereira de Montes.

S nothing inftrufteth better than Examples,

2 ^ I will here fuccin£tly relate what hap¬
pened to one of the moft considerable Gentle¬
men of Goa, named JoJeph Pereira de Monies *
who having-been Captain-General of the Naval
Armies of the King of Portugal, was command¬
ed by the Governor of the Indies, (the Office of
Vice-rov being then vacant) to go with his Ships
to the Relief of the Town of Diu, then be-
iieged by the Arabians. He departed, and arri¬
ving at Bacaim, was conftraincd to (lay there a
longer time than he had intended, becaufe the
Winds were contrary -, info much as the Arabians
came down to Diu, lacked it, and returned la¬
den with Pillage, before the Arrival of the Re¬
lief. The General, who was come too late,
having given his Orders, returned to Goa *, where
he was fcarce arrived, but the Governor, who
was then Antonio de Mello de Caftro, a fworn E-
nemy of Jofeph Pereira, caufed him to be appre¬
hended, formed his Procels, and becaufe neither
the Governor, nor even the Vice-roy, have Pow¬
er to put Gentlemen to Death, without receiv¬
ing express Order from the Court of Portugal>
Antonio de Mello not being able to take away the
Life of his Enemy, pronounced againft him a
Sentence,
 C “9 )
Sentence, the Execution of which was more cru¬
el than Death it felf, condemning him to be led
through the great Streets of the City, by the
Hand of the Hangman, with an Halter about his
Neck, a Quonoville at his fide, and an Herald
walking before, and proclaiming, that this Ju-
flice was performed by order of the King, on
the Perfon of this Criminal, attainted and con-
vi&ed of Cowardize andTreafon.
This cruel Sentence was executed, not with-
Handing the Sollicitations of the Friends of the
Prifoner -, who after he was led about in this in¬
famous Poflure, was carried back into Prifon,
whither he was fcarce returned, when a Familiar
of the Holy Office came to apprehend him, and
carry him to the Inquifition.
This new Accident furprized the whole City,
as knowing that Pereira could not be accufed of
. Judaifm, being no New Chrijlian, and that he
had always lived in good Efteem $ they expect¬
ed therefore with Impatience the ncxtHff of Faith,
to fee the End of this Bufinefs. But this Ceremo¬
ny being perform’d after a Year, he was not feen
to appear, nor was his Procefs heard to be read,
which increafed the Aflonifhment of all. We
are to know, that Jofeph Pereira had a long time
fince had a Quarrel with a Gentleman of his Ac¬
quaintance, with whom he had been afterwards
reconciled. This falfe Friend who had not loft
his Defign of revenging himfelf, fuborned with
Money five domeftick Servants of Pereira, to ac¬
cu fe him to the Inquifition as guilty of Sodomy,
and produced thefe five WitnefTes, who depofed
 ( HO )
they had feen him commit this Crime with one
' oï his Pages > whereupon the two accufed Per¬
lons were apprehended. The Page who had lefs
Conlfancy than his Mailer, whom he knew to
be as well as himfelf in the Priions of the Holy
Office, and not doubting but that he was accu-
led of the fame Crime, whereof the Promotor
pretended himfelf to be guilty, terrified by the
Threats of the Inquifeturs, and fearing to be burnt,
as he would in Truth have been, if he had per¬
il fled to deny the Fa6f, and feeing no other Means
to five his Life, but in confeffing himfelf guilty,
accufed himfelf of a Crime which he never com¬
mitted, and fo became a feventh Witnefs againft
his Mailer, the Informer being accounted one,
according to the Maxims of the Inquifition, His
Confeflion faved his Life, and being freed at the
fir ft Aft of Faith, he was condemned to be ba-
mfhed to Mozambique.
Neverthelels as Pereira perfifted to maintain
his Innocence, they condemned him to the Fire ;
and he had been carried to be burnt at the fame
Aft of Faith wherein his Page appeared, if the
continual Proteflations which he made of his In¬
nocence, had not induced his Judges to defer
the Execution of his Sentence, ro try whether
in time they could oblige him to confels, or if
they could not obtain more Light in his Cale,
they then referved him to another Aft of Faith,
which was performed a Year after, the Priions
being then fooner than ordinarily filled. During
this Year, the Acculer and his Witnefles were
examined divers times, and one of the Judges re-
folviW
 ( ?21 )

folving to examine the Witneffes feparately, whe¬

ther that Night wherein they prerended to bavé
feen their Mafter commit this deteftable Crime,
the Moon (hone or not > the Witneffes not agree¬
ing in the Anfvver which they made to this
Queftion, were put to the Rack, where they
dilowned all which they had teftified againft their
Maher. His Innocence being thus clearly ma-
nifefted, the Acculers were apprehended * Pe¬
reira came out innocent at the firff Aft of Faith,
and the Witneffes two Years after, at the fame
time with my felf 5 when the firlt were con¬
demned to the Gallics for five Yens, and that
Gentleman banifhed for nine Years into the Co a ft
of Africa.
It is eafy to judge that the confronting of
Witneffes might have freed the Inquifitm from
this Trouble, and the accufed Perlon from the
Danger of being facrificed by the Hands of the
Holy Office, to the Fury and Malice of his Ene¬
my i who in my Opinion ought, together with
his Complices, to have been punifhed with the
fame kind of Death, which they intended to have
infliÊled on an innocent Perfon. And we can¬
not doubt, but that this Clemency of the Holy
Office, exercifed fo openly towards fuch grofs
Offenders, often gives Encouragement to the
like Attempts.

* - f ■ ef '

C H A P.

>
 ( 12 2,>

CHAP. XXXIII.

Of what happened to fame other Perfons, who to¬

gether with me were enlarged at the A& of
Faicli.

O young Gentlemen married about Ba-

.JL caim9 who forved the King of Portugal
in his Navy, took Care of a young Portugueze
Soldier, who waited on them. Thefe Meilleurs
being at Goa at the end of the Campaign, and
defiring to go and pais at their Houfes the rai¬
ny Scafon, which is called Winter in the Indies,
left this young Soldier at Goa, where he pretend¬
ed to have fome Bufinefi, and therefore would
follow them fome Days after. This young Man,
immediately after the Departure of thefe Gentle¬
men, married in Goa, from whence he departed
two Days after his Marriage, and arrived at Ba~
cairn four Days alter his Mailers, to whom he
gave no Account of what he had done in their
Abfénce. A little while after a Match being of¬
fered to him, which Teemed advantageous to
him, he refolved to make life of the Occafion
in marrying himfolf a focond time. To this end
his Mailers were defired to certifie to the Curate
that he was a fingle Perfon, which they did, not
knowing that he was already married : Not long
after this fécond Marriage he had a De fire to fee
his fir ft W ife at Goa 7 whither the Brother of the
fécond •
 ( **3 3
fécond Wife being refoîved to follow him, he
found out his firi! Marriage, and accufed him
to the Inquifition, who caufed him to be appre-
hendcd, and knowing who they were that had
certified him to be a fingle Man, fent order to the
Commiflary of Bacaim to féize them. So thde
two Gentlemen, more unhappy than guilty, were
fent to Goa with Irons on their Feer, and fhut
up in the Prifon of the Holy Office. Having
remained there eighteen Months, they were at
laffc produced in the Atti of Fatih, and were com
demned to a triennial Baniffiment into the Coafts
of Africk, and he who had been married twice,
was banifhed into the fame Quarter for feven
Years, after which he was to return to and live
with his firfl: Wife.
One of thefe Gentlemen was of the Race of
New Chriftians 3 and as thefe unhappy Perfons
are always fufpeded to be bad Chriftians, the
Inquifitors examined him at the Audience, to
know if he were not a Jew 3 and if he had not
had fome Knowledge of the Law of Mofes ? This
poor Man ftupified with thefe Queftions, and
fearing that the Unhappinefs of his Birth would
draw upon him, in this Occafion, fome Misfor¬
tune -, and befides, not very well inffruâed in the
Chriftian Religion, imagining himfelf to lay one
of the fineft Things in the World, and moil:
proper to juftify himfelf, J^lafphemed agami! Mo-
fes, and faid that he had nothing to do with him,
and that he knew him not 3 which his Judges
laughed at very pleafantly.
Among
 C I24 )
Among thofe who were enlarged at the A5l
if Faith, I obferved one who had a Gag in his
Mouth, fallened to his Ears with Packthread.
I learned from the reading of his Frocefs, that
this Pqnifhment was inflated on him for having
tiled divers Blafphemies in Play. This Blafphe-
mer, befides the Shame of appearing in this E-
quipage, was moreover condemned to a Banilh-
ment of five Years.

CHAP. XXXIV.

My Departure from Goa, my Arrival fir ft at Bra-

fil, and then at Lisbon.

I Was led with Irons on my Feet into a Ship,

which was then in the Road, ready to let
lail for Portugal. They put me into the Hands
of the Mailer of the Ship, who was charged
to deliver me to the Inquifition of Lisbon. And
the Captain having received his lalt Difpatches,
we weighed Anchor the 27th of January 1676,
and the fame Day my Irons were taken off. Our
Voyage was profperous as far as Brafil, where
we arrived in May. As foon as they had call
Anchor in the Bay of All Saints, the Mailer un¬
der whofe Guard I was, caufed me to land with
him, and brought me to the Palace of the Go¬
vernor, and from thence to the common Prifon,
where he delivered me into the Hands of the
Jay lor.
I
 C )
I was detained in this Prifon all the while
the Ship Hayed in the Haven * but by the Fa¬
vour of fome Friends, whom I gained in this
Country, I obtained, during my Stay, the Li¬
berty of going out of Prifon in the Day time,
and being fhut up only in the Night. The Pri¬
fon of this Town is the moll proper of all thofe
which I had hitherto feen, except thofe of the
Holy Office. Belide the low Rooms, which are
tolerably clean and lightfome, there are above
Stairs divers Rooms for Perlons Ids guilty, more
rich, or better recommended. There is alfo a
Chappel wherein Mafs is celebrated upon Sun¬
days and Holidays. And there are in this Town
fo good a Number of charitable Perfons, that the
Priloners fuffer no Want. We re-imbarked in
the beginning of September to go for Lisbon -9 but
this laffc Pallage was not fo favourable, as was
that from the Indies to Brafil.
There happened to me an Accident, during
this Voyage, which deferveth to be here men¬
tioned. Approaching one Day to the HolyTable, to
receive the adoreable Body of Je fus Chrifl^ he from
whofe Hands I received it, who was a Cordelier
of the obfervant Friars, obferved that Ï flint my
Eyes, while he pronounced thofe Words, Do¬
mine non fub dignus j and although Ï had no other
Intention in this A£Hon, than of humbling my
felf in the Prefence of my God j this good Fa¬
ther, who had already entertained a bad Opinion
of me, becaulè I had been in the lnquiftion, 1b
ill interpreted this Mark of my Devotion, that
he could not forbear from reproaching me many
Days
 ( n6 )
Days after, and telling me that he had no Rea**
fon to doubt but that I was (till an Heretick,
iince I vouchfafed not fo much as to look upon
our Lord, when he was prelented to me in the
Communion I leave you to think whether the
Judgment, which this religious Pei fon made then
of me, was not of the Number of thofe which
are called raffi ? However, I endeavoured to de¬
fend my felf, and declare my Intention to him j
he always affined me, that after an Aftion of that
Nature, he could not any longer retain a favou¬
rable Opinion of me.

CHAP. XXXV.

'They hr ini me to the Gallere. A Defcription of

that Place.

S foon as Anchor was caff: in the Haven

of Lisbon^ the Mafter, under whofe Guard
1 then was, gave Notice of my Arrival to the
Inquifitiw, whither I was carried the next Day,
and from thence, by Order of the Inquifitors,
who vouchfafed not to fee me, I was led to the
Prilbn called the Gallere, which beareth this
Name, becaufe, there being no Galleys in /V-
tugaly thofe whom the Holy Office, or lay Lay-
Judges condemn to that Punifhment, are fent
thither. They clapt a Chain upon my Foot, to
which was chained a Portuguefe, who had esca¬
ped the Fire, by confcffing the Evening before
he
 ( 1*7 3
lie was to be burnt by Order of the Holy Of¬
fice.
In this G alien all Criminals are chained two
and two together by one Foot, only with a Chain
about a Foot long. The Prifoncrs have at their
Wafle a Hook of Iron, whereunto hang their
Chain, and there remains yet about three Foot
of Chain between them. Thefe Couples are
fent every Day to labour at the Work-houfe
where they build the Ships5 they carry Wood
to the Carpenters, unload the Ships, pick out
Stones and Sand for Ballafl, carry Water andVic-
tuals aboard for the Voyages, (erve to make
Ropes, and all other Ufes, wherein they can be
imployed for the Service of the Prince, or of
the Officers who command them, how vile and
rude foever they be.
There are found among thefe Galley-Oaves, Per-
fons condemned by the kiquifitiw, others by the
Lay-Judges, fugitive and incorrigible Slaves,
whom their Mailers put into this Place to eba-
ftize them, and reduce them into Order, "Turks
who have been taken Prifooers in the Pirate Ships
of Barbary. All thefc Perfons, of whatfoever
quality they be, are indifferently employed in
vile and painful Labours $ uoleis they have Mo¬
ney to give the Officers who conduct them, and
who exercife an unheard of Cruelty upon thofe
who cannot mollifie them feme what from time
to time.
This Land-Gally is built upon the Bank of the
River, it hath two great Halls, the one above,
the other below, both are filled, and die coupled
Prifoncrs
 ( 128 )
Priloners laid upon Couches with Matts $ all their
Heads and Beards are fhaved once a Month, they
wear a Coat made clofe to their Bodies, and Caps
of blue Cloath. They alfo allow to them an
Hood of coarfe grey Serge, which ferveth them
as well for a Mantle in the Day, as for a Cover¬
let in the Night $ and thefe are aU the Garments
which are given to them from fix to fix Months,
together with Shifts of coarfe Cloath.
They give to every one a Pound and an Half
of very hard and black Bifcatc to eat every Day,
fix Pounds of fait Fiefh every Month, with a
Difh full ofPeafe, Lentils, or Beans j this Allow¬
ance they may order as they pleafe. Thofe who
receive any Supply from otherwhere, fell this
Fare to buy fomewhat better, according to their
Ability. No Wine is allowed to them, and
thole who drink it, buy it at their own Coft j
every Day betimes in the Morning, except on
fome very few Fefiivals, they are led to the
Work-houle, which is a good Half- league from
the Galley, where they labour without any In»
termifiion, on whatfoever they are employed till
Eleven a Clock * they then ceafe working til!
One a Clock, and during this Interval they may
either eat or re It themfelves \ at one a Clock they
return to their Labour, continuing it till Night,
when they are fent back to the Gaily.
There is in this Prifon a Chappel, wherein
Ma/s is faid on Sundays and Fefiivals. There are
at Lisbon charitable Clergymen, who come often
to make Catechifms and Exhortations to the Gal¬
ley-Slaves. Befidc the Victuals which the Prince
 ( I29 )
givetb them, they receive very often Alms, info-
much as no Want is there fuffered j when there
are any fick Perfons, the Phyficians and Chyrur-
geons come to vifit them, and if the Difeafe
grows dangerous, all the Sacraments are admini-
itred to them. Thofe who commit any Fault,
are whipped - in a moft cruel manner. They
ftretch them out at Length with their Bellies
upon the Ground $ and while two Men hold
them, a third ftriketh violently with a great knot¬
ted Rope upon their Buttocks, which oft-times
teareth off the Skin, and large Pieces of Flefli
with it. Î have fecn more than once, how that
after fuch Whipping they have been forced to
make deep Incifions, which degenerating into
Ulcers, fender thefe unhappy Wretches incapa¬
ble of working for a long time.
When one of the coupled Slaves hath Bufinefs
in the Town, they permit him to go thither,
even without his Companion, if he defireth it,
paying a Guard, who may follow him every
where. In that Cafe he is forced to carry his
Chain alone, and as it is very long he layeth it
over his Shoulder, letting it hang down before
or behind, as himfelf (hall find molt convenient

C II A P. XXXVI,
/ prefented divers Petitions to the Inquifition to ob~
tain my Liberty, which is at la ft granted to me^
H E Day after my Arrival into the Galley,
JL I was fhaved, cloathed, and employed in
Labour as the other Slaves % but how laborious
l foe vc r
 ( 1l° )

focver this Manner of Life was to me, the Li¬

berty of feeing and (peaking to the whole World,
rendreth it much lefs troublefome to me than
the horrible Solitudes of the Inquifition. According
to the Terms of my Sentence, 1 was to pafs five
Years in this rude Slavery, and there was no great
Appearance that any Favour would be (hewed to
a Man who had fpoken againd; the Integrity and
Infallibility of the Holy Office. Nevertheless the
Defire which all unhappy Perfons naturally have
to fee their Mifery ended, made me think of fome
Means to recover my Liberty much fooner than
1 was other wife probably to expedt it j I firft en¬
quired whether there were any French at Lisbon,
who might ferve me in the Defign which I had.
And having learned that Mr.-- firft Phyfi-
cian to the Queen of Portugal, was not only fa¬
voured by that Princefs, but alfo by all the Gran¬
dees of the Court, I addreffed my felf to him,
and begged of him that he would grant me his
Protection $ this he did in the moil obliging Man¬
ner in the World, offering not only his Intereft
in all Things which lay in his Power, but alfo
his Purfe and his Table, where he did me the Ho¬
nour to give me a Place, enchained as Ï was,
whenfoever Liberty of going to him was grant¬
ed me -, fo that the Habit of a Galley-flave ren-
dred me not more contemptible in his Effeem.
He had alfo the Goodncfs to vifit me in Prifon,
and adminifler Comfort to me, whenfoever his
Affairs permitted him.
I writ in the next Place into France, to my
Kindred, to give them an Account of the de¬
plorable-
 ( *3* )
plorable. Condition whereinto I had been for a
long time reduced, that they might follicit, either
by themfdlves, or by others, thofe Perfons whom
they might imagine to have any Intereft with the
Queen of Portugal, who I hoped would interpofe
in my Behalf. I mult not here omit, that the
Liberty which was afterwards granted to me,
was no other than the Effefè of the powerful
Prote&ion of Mr-- In effe£t Mr.——* who
was naturally generous and beneficent, knowing
that he had the Goodnefs to intereft himfelf in
obtaining my Liberty, redoubled his Diligence,
to caufe it to be obtained the fooner. I prefented,
by his Advice, an ample Petition to thz Inquifitors^
wherein I briefly declared the Cauies of my Im-
prifonment, and requefted them to moderate the
exceflive Severity which I pretended to have been
exercifed again ft me in the Indies.
No Anfwcr was returned to this Petition, no
more than to three or four others, which follow¬
ed it in lefs than two Months ; and the Reafon
of this Silence was, That the Office of the Inqui-
fitor General was then vacant, and Monfieur Don
Herijjimo de Lencaftea, Archbifhop of Braga, af¬
terwards Archbifliop of Lisbon, and prefent Car¬
dinal, having been but lately promoted, had not
yet taken Pofleflion.
This Prelate, for whofe coming I made con¬
tinual Vows, as knowing that he alone could de¬
termine my Bufinefs, arrived at laft at Lisbon,
towards the Holy IVeek : But fince in that time
the Tribunals are not open, I was yet forced to
have patience till after Quafmodo Sunday. As
1 i foon
 ( 132 )
foon as the Inpifitor General had entred upon the
Functions of his Office, I prefented a new Pe¬
tition to him, which was carried to the Supreme
Council i but all which it produced, was, that
Don Feriffimo faid, That he could not believe that
what I related was true, there being no Appear¬
ance that they would have condemned a Man
to ferve y Years in the Gallies for Matters of fo
little Confequençe.
This Anfwer, of which an Account was given
to me, produced fo much the more Joy in me,
becaufe every one affiured me, that the Prelate
with whom Ï had to do, was equally noble, learn¬
ed and generous 5 all this induced me tocaufe a
new Petition to be prefented to him, to intreat
him to give himfelf the Trouble to read my
Procefs, that fo he might by that Means, per¬
ceive that I had offered nothing to him but what
was moil true 5 this Propofition met with great
Difficulties in the Council, none of them being
willing to confent to this Review of my Pro¬
cefs, which I defired, becaufe all the Tribunals
of the Inquifiiion being fupreme, and no Appeal
lying from one to the other, this would be to in¬
trench upon the Authority of the Inqmfition of
Q0ay and to go about to reform its Decrees 5
this was fo great an Obdacle, that I had never
obtained my Defires, if the Inquifitor General
had not ftrongly folli cited in favour of me.
At lall, after many earned Addreffes to him,
he differed himfelf to be overfwayed by the Sol¬
licitations of divers Perfons of Quality, and chief¬
ly of his Niece, the Countefs of Figveirol, who
had
 ( i33 >
had a very particular Efteem for the fir ft Phyfi-
cian of the Queen. He carried then my Pro-
cefs to be read at length in his Prefence, and
being convinced that I had propofcd nothing falfe
to him, and withal, perceiving the Injuftice and
Ignorance of my Judges, who had condemned
me upon pretence of my ill Intention, he or¬
dered that I fhould be reftored to perfedt Liber¬
ty, writing with his own Hand thefè Words, at
the Bottom of my la ft Petition, Seia folto como
pede^ è fe vapor a Francœj that is. Let him be fet at
Liberty as he defirettnand let him return to France,

CHAP. XXXVII.
My Departure from Lisbon, and Arrival in France.

Y Requefl being thus anfwered by the

Inquifitor General, in the Supreme Coun¬
cil, which is afîèmbled from Eight to Eight, or
from fifteen to fifteen Days, was remitted to
the Table of the Holy Office, where Audience
is held twice every Day > thefe Meffieurs imme¬
diately lent a Familiar to advertize me, that Li¬
berty was granted to me, that I fhould feek for
a Veflel to go into France, and give Notice of it
to the Inquifition, who would not fail to imbark
me therein.
I received this News the firft: of June, with
a Joy which Perfons who have not fuffered Cap¬
tivity, will fcarce be able to conceive $ but af¬
terwards reflecting upon the Difficulty of finding
a Veffel, and bargaining for my Paflage, while
I had
 ( 134 )
I had not the Liberty of adling, I repreftnted to
the InquiJUors by a Memoir which I caufed to be
prefented to them, that it would be impofiible
lor me to receive any Benefit from the Favour
they had file wed tome, while I remained chain¬
ed, there being no Poffibilitv in fo great a Town
as Lisbon, to know what Ships come in, or go
out of the Haven, unlefsa Man waits there him-
felf, or hath fome Friend who may inform him-
feIf with Diligence.
The Officers of the ordinary Council, who
had malicioufiy and rigoroufly interpreted the
Words, which the Inquifitor generally made ufe
of to grant me Liberty, in faying I fhould be
let at Liberty as I defired, and go into France,
explained thefe latter Words, which were indeed
added as a Surplufage of favour to me, as an ab-
folute Obligation of immediately embarking my
felf $ and fo made Anfvver for my Memoir, That
they would grant me my Defire, on Condition,
I would give Caution, and procure Sureties, that
I would itay no longer at Lisbon than was ne-
ceffary to obtain an Opportunity of being gone.
This Anfwer was fignified to me the 28th of
yune j I went immediately to give an Account
to Mr.-—— and intreated him to finiih that
Matter which he had fo kindly begun. Some
urgent Affairs hindred him from going the fame
Day to the Inquifition, but going thither the
30th of the fame Month in the Morning, and
giving Caution for me, that in default of my be-
mg gone at the firft Opportunity, he would pay
four hundred Crowns $ they fent in the After*
noon
 ( i35 )
mon of the fame Day, being the laft of June,
i6jjj a Familiar to the Galley, who caufed my
Irons to be taken off, and carried me to the Holy
Office •> where being called in the Prefence of the
Inyuifitors, they asked whether I knew the
Queen’s Phyfician 3 they told me he had given
Caution for me, that themfelves extended their
Favour to me, and that from that Moment I
might go. whither I pleated. Then commanding
me to withdraw, I anfwered only with a pro¬
found Reverence, and was immediately freed from
the Tyrannical Power of the Holy Office, under
the Rigour of which I had groaned almoft four
Years, continuing from the Day of my Imprifon-
ment^Augufl the 24th, 1673 .to the laft of June^ 1677
As foon as I had fet Foot out of this terrible
Houfe, I went into the next Church, to render
Thanks to God and the Holy Virgin, for the
Liberty which I had juft now obtained. I went
in the next Place to Mr. — who wept for
Joy, embracing me. I then took a Turn to
the Galley, to give my laft Adieu to thofe poor
aftli&ed Perfons, who had been the Companions
of my Misfortune, and to take away that little
Luggage which remained to me. I enquired
with all poftible Diligence, when any Ship would
part for France, having much greater Defire to
be gone, that fo I might get out of the Jurif-
diftion of the Inyuifitors, than they could have
for my Departure. I found one in a ftiort time,
upon which I embarked my felf 3 and after ha-
ving paffed through fome light Fatigues, I had
the Happinefs to arrive in my Country in per-
fra Health. - CHAP-
 , ( )
C H A P. XXXVIII.
The Hif or y of a Gentleman, which will ferve to
Jhew the Spirit of the Holy Office.

Î Will ffiiifh this Difcoufe of the Inquiftion

with the Relation of what I know to have
happened to two Perfbns, whom I law in the
Galley at Lisbon, who were there before me, and
remained there when I came our, and with whom
I had particular Difcoui fes, upon the Account of
ray own, and their Cafes.
The firfl of thefe unfortunate Gentlemen bore
the Office of Major of a Regiment, when he
was apprehended, he was of the Race of New
Chriftians, and was accuied to have Judaized,
by Perlons who in all Probability had no other
.Means to lave their Lives than by confeffing
îhetnfclves guilty of the fame Crime, and na¬
ming many Innocents, endeavouring to find out
the Wjtnefies Whom they were obliged to guefs
at by the Inquijition > this poor Officer thus ac-
cufed, was feized, and fhut up in the Prifons of
the Holy Office, he was examined divers times
to learn from his own Mouth the Caufe oi his
Imprilonment, but he not being able to tell ir,
fince he knew it not himfelf, after he had been
kept more than two Years, they let him know
that he was legally accufed and convicted of be¬
ing an Apodate Jew^ which he always dourly
denied, proteding that he had never ceafed to
be a Glorifiai?9 and fubmitted to none of all thofc
Accufations wherewith he was charged , no¬
thing
 ( 137 )
thing was omitted to oblige him to confefs, not
only Life, but alfo the Refiitution of his Goods
were promifed to him 5 he was afterwards terri¬
fied with chreatning of a cruel Death, but none
of all thefe Things could (hake his Conftancy,
And he boldly declared to his Judges, that he
would choofe rather to dye innocent, than to
preferve his Life by an A£t of Cowardice, which
would for ever overwhelm him with Infamy.
The Duke De Aveira, who was then Inqui-
fitor General, and pafiionately defired to lave the
Life of this Prifoner, vehemently exhorted him
to make ufe of thole Means which were of¬
fered to him,of preferving himfelf from Execution.
And becaufe the accufed Perfon had tefiified a con¬
fiant Refolution of never yielding to render him-
lelf infamous, by a bafe Confeflion of thofe Crimes
which he had never committed. The In qui fi ter
General offended with his feeming Obfiina-
cy, was tranfported fo far, as to lay to him
Cuides que aves de ganhar ?, That is. What do
you then pretend to ? Do you think that we
have belied you ? And fo withdrew, leaving to
the Prifoner to think at Leifure what he had
to do. The Words of this Judge include a ve¬
ry ftrange Senfc, and may jufily give Occafion
to Refledtions, which are neither advantageous
to himfelf nor to the Holy Office, for this was
very near as if he fhould fay, We will rather caufc
you to be burnt as guilty, than let the World
believe that we have impriloned you innocent.
At lafi, the Adi of Faith approaching, after
more than three years Imprifonmenr, our Ma¬
jor
 C I38 )
jor heard the Sentence of Death pronounced a-
gainil him j and a Confeffor was given to him
to difpofe him for it. This Gentleman, who
had hitherto appear’d fo refolute, was terrified
by the Approaches and Preparation of his Exe¬
cution : Infomuch as hearing the Evening before
the Ceremony, acknowledged all which was de¬
li r’d of him againfl himfelf, however falfe $ he
appeared at the Proceffion veiled with one of
thofe Samarras covered with Fire, whofe Flames
tend downward, which is called in Portugueze,
fogo revolto $ to fhew that by his Confeffion,
however late, he had avoided Death, after he
had been juflly condemned to it j and by Sen¬
tence of the Inquijition befide the Confifcation
of his Goods, he was condemned to the Galleys
for five Years.
He had then ferved there more than two Years
when I arrived at Lisbon -, and it was in that
Place, and from his own Mouth, that I learned
what I have now related.

CHAP. XXXIX.
A Gentleman, one of the greatefl Quality in
Portugal, who was a New Chriftian, and
very rich, named Lewis Pecoadefijd, having in¬
termeddled in divers Criminal Caufer, but in the
Laick Judicature, had thereby contracted the Ha¬
tred of many Perlons. Thefe finding no better
Means to revenge themfelves of him, accufed him
to the Holy Office, as making fecret Profefhon
of Judaifim, together with his Family > fo that
in
 ( 139 )
in the fame Day, his Wife, his two Children,
his Daughter, and fome others of his who dwell
with him in his Houfe, were arrefted, and fhut
up in the Prifon of the Inquifttfon of Conimbra.
Lewis Pccoa was fh ft examined, to draw from
him a particular Account of his Goods, of which
the Immoveable alone yielded thirty thoufand
Livres Rent > and all this, as well as the Move¬
ables, was buried in the Treafures of the Holy
Office. They urged him in the next Place, to
declare the Caufe of his Imprifonment, which
he could not do, knowing nothing of it. All
Ways were attempted which the Inquifition is
wont to make ufe of, to oblige accufed Perfons
to confefs their Crimes * but all this fhook not
the Conftancy of Lewis Pecoa. At laff, almoll
three Years being elapled, the Promoter fignified
to him the Crimes whereof he was accufed, and
the Sentence of Death which would be pall up¬
on him, if he refolved not to confels. He en¬
deavoured to juftifie himfelf, protefled all the
Fads whereof he was accufed were lb many F af¬
filies, defired he might know his Wit ne ties
who had depofed againft him, whom he under¬
took eafily to convince of Perjury 5 and offered
many Arguments to his Judges, whereby they
might have clearly perceived his Innocence, if
they would have made ufe of them. But the
lnquifitors without having any Reiped to what
he alledged in his own Defence, feeing hiro
to perfift in denying the Accufation, condemned
him to the Fire, and acquainted him with his for¬
mal Sentence if Days before the Execution.
The
 ( 14° 3
The Duke of Cadaval, who loved Lewis Pecoa,
to whom he had been Godfather, and who was
an intimate Friend of the Duke d* Aveira, inform¬
ed himfelf from time to time of all Particulars con¬
cerning the Condition of the Prifoner’s Cafe 3 and
knowing from the Inquifitor General^ that the Pri-
foner confeffing nothing, and being otherwife dif¬
fidently convidted, according to the Maxims of
the Holy Office, could not efcape the Fire, if he
accufed not himfelf before his being carried forth
to Execution, was infinitely concerned for him.
Hedefired leave to fpeak or write to this unfortu¬
nate Gentleman, to perfwade him to fave his Life
at any Price whatsoever 3 buc this was not pof-
iible. At lad he bethought himfelfof an Inven¬
tion, which is fo fingular, that it never happened
to any other in Portugal 3 which was to gain a
Prom iie from the Inquifit or General, that if he
could perfwade Lewis Pecoa to confefs even alter
his being carried forth to Execution at the Aft of
Faith, he Should not be put to Death 3 al¬
though this was dire£lly contrary to the Laws
of the Holy Office 3 this being promifed to him,
and he knowing the Day wherein the Aft of
Faith was to be celebrated at Conimbra, he fent
from Lisbon feme of his own Friends, and others
of Lewis Pecoa, who pod themfelves at the Door
or the Inqufition, when the Proceffion began,
that they might approach to their unhappy Friend
as (bon as they fhouldfee him appear.
As he was condemned, fo the Pile of Wood
was made ready for him. He bore u Carocha and
a Samarra covered with Flames and Devils, his
Piâure
 ( 14i )
Pidture was drawn to the Life before and behind,
placed upon burning Fire-brands. His Sentence
was written at the Bottom, and his Confeflbr
walk’d by his Side j his Friends had no fooner
fpied him, but breaking out into Tears, theyfcall
themfelves upon his Neck, and begged of him in
the Name of the Duke of Qadavalle, and by all
that was moll dear to him, to think of faving
his Life. They acquainted him with the AfTu-
ranee which they had received, that he fhould
not be executed if he would confefs 3 and re-
monûrated to him, that the Lofs of his Ellate
ought not to create any Difficulty in him, lince
the Duke, who had fent them to him, had charged
them to affiure him in his Name, that he would
bellow upon him more than was taken from him.
All thefe Reafons, together with the Tears and
Sollicitations of his generous Friends, could not
move Lewis Pecoa 3 who continued to protefl
with a loud Voice, that he had always been a
Qhriftian, that he would dye fuch ; and that all
whereof he had been accufed, were fo many Fal¬
lu ies invented by his Enemies to take Revenge
upon him, and made ufe of the Holy Office to reap
the Spoil of his ERate.
The Proceffion being arrived at the appointed
Place, the Sermon was preached 3 the Proeefs of
thofe whofe Lives were faved was read, and the
Evening being come, they began to read the Pro-
celles of thofe who were to be burned : The
Deputies of the Duke then redouble their En¬
treaties, and at lall made their Friend confent to
demand Audience. He rofe up, and laid. Let m
g<?
 C 141 )
go then and acknowledge thefe Falfities, to fatisfy
the Defire of our Friends. Audience was granted
to him, and he was led back into Prifon. But the
Aft of Faith being finifhcd when they called him
to the Table to confels, he had much more Dif¬
ficulty to refolve himfelf $ and was divers times up¬
on the Point of fu fieri ng his Sentence to be con¬
firmed, without any Hope of Mercy : Yet at laft
he confefied what they would, and figned his
Confelfion.
Two Years more being elapfed from the time
of his being carried forth to Execution, he was
lent to Evora \ where he appeared in the Aft
of Faith, wearing a Samana with the Fire invert¬
ed : And after he had flay’d five Years in the
Prifon of the Holy Office, he was farther con¬
demned to the Galleys for five Years, and was
lent thither the Morrow after : And there it was
that I knew him, and learned from him the Par¬
ticulars of that which I have here related.
This unfortunate Gentleman, who appeared to
be a very honefi and tolerable good Chrifiian,
learnt after his Enlargement, that his Wife and
Daughter died in Prifon, a little while after they
had been finit up $ and that his two Sons, lefs
confiant than himfelf, having accufed themfelves
in time, had been enlarged fome time before, and
condemned to a Banifhment for ten Years into
the Algarves. As for himfelf, he expedted only
the Moment to be freed, as I was, and his De-
fign was to quit Portugal as foon as poffible, and
go (pend the refi of his Life in fome Country
where the Inquifition fhould have no Place,
FINIS.
 The Contents of the Chapters•
C H A P. i. Motives which induced me to
publifb this Relation.
Ch. 2. 'The Apparent Caufes of my Imprifonment. •
Ch. 3. Of the Vifit which I made to the Commif-
fiary of the Inquifition to accufe my felffi and ask
Advice of him.
Ch. 4. Containing the true Caufes of my Imprifon-
ment, and how they arrefied me.
Ch. f. Defeription of the Prifon. I writ to the
In qui fit or s, who returned me no Anfwer. Ex¬
treme Mifery of the Prifoners.
Ch. 6. The Return of the Father Commiffiary.
They remove me to Goa.
Ch. 7. Departure from Daman. JVe pafis to Ba-
cairn, andfiay there. Our Arrival at Goa.
Ch. 8. Flow I was conduced to the Inquifition, and
what is done to them who are fhut up in Prifon.
Ch. p. Defieription of the Inquifition of Goa.
Ch. 10. In what Manner the Prifoners of the
Inquifition are treated.
Ch. y. Wherein is treated of the Officers of the
Inquifition.
Ch. 12. In what Manner the Officers of the Inqui-
fit ion behave themfelves towards the Prifoners.
Ch. 13. Of the Formalities which are obfierved
in the Inquifition.
Ch. 14. Of the Injuftice which is committed by the
Inquifition, in refpeft ofPerfions accufied of Judaifm*
Ch. if. JVherein is farther treated of the For-
malities, which are obfierved in the Inquifition.
Ch. 16. Other kinds of Injuftice which are ordi¬
narily committed in the Inquifition.
Chap 17.
 The CONTENTS.
Ch 77. Some Particulars concerning the Officers of the Inqui-
fition.
Oh, i §. hi what Manner I was led the firfl time to Audience :
And what they faid to ?ne.
Ch. 19, My fécond and third Audience.
Ch. 20. How Defpair induced me to attempt my Life
Ch. 21. New Excejfes to which my Defpair carried 7ne.
Ch. 22. My fourth Audience, in which the Promoterformeth
again(l me Concluions of fuffering Death.
Ch. 23 They carry me yet federal Times to Audience: Divers
Obferv at ions upon'the Proceedings of the Inquiftion.
Ch. 24. How I perceived that the Auto dafe was to he per¬
formed on the Morrow, and what Habits were given to us
to appear in this Ceremony.
Ch. 25. OfiPe Preparations to the AH of Faith, and the di¬
vers Ornaments which are diflributed to the Criminals, ac¬
cording to the Diverfity of their Crûmes.
Ch. 26. How we went in Procejfton to go to the Aft of Faith.
The Order of this Ceremony.
Ch. 27. Containing what was obferved in the Place where¬
in the Aft of Faith was celebrated.
Ch. 28. They abfolve us from Excommunication, and deliver
thofe to the fecular Power who were to be burned : What
Was obferved upon this Occafon.
Ch. 29. My laf Enlargement ft cm the Inquiftion. They bring
us into a Houfe in the Town, to caufe us to be there fome
time inf ruble J.
Ch. 3©. They bring me again to the Inquiftion, .to receive the
Penances which were impofed upon me,
Ch. 3 1. Containing fome Obfervations upon all that hath hi¬
therto been faid.
Ch, 32. Hi for y 0/Jofepb Pereira de Montes.
Ch. 33, Of what happened to fome other Perfons, who toge¬
ther with me were enlarged at the Aft of Faith.
Ch. 34. My Departure from Goa, my Arrival firfl at Brafi!,
and then at Lisbon.
Ch; 35. They bring me to the G allere. A Defcription of that
Place.
Ch, 36. I prefented divers Petitions to the Inquifition to ob-~
tain my Liberty, which is at laf granted to me.
Ch, 37. My Departure from Lisbon, and Arrival in France.
Ch. 38. The H if tory of a Gentleman, which will ferve to [hew
the Spirit of the Holy Office.
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