maunde him to be taken, and put in an horrible prison, and thþ^t finde out crimes agaynst himMarginaliaExample of the same wel appeareth in Rochus aboue mētioned. at leasure, and in the meane tyme no man liuing so hardy once to open his mouth for him. If the father speake one word for his childe, he is also taken, and cast into prison, as a fauourer of heretickes. Neither is it permitted to any person, to enter to the prisoner: but there he is alone, in such a place, where he can not see so much as the ground, where he is, and is not suffred either to read or write, but there endureth in darknes palpable, in horrors infinite, in feare miserable, wrastlyng with the assaultes of death.

MarginaliaThe miserable handling of Gods people in Spayne. By this it may be estemed, what trouble and sorrow, what pensiue sighes & cogitatiōs, they sustaine which are not thoroghly instructed in holy doctrine. Adde moreouer to these distresses and horrors of the prison, the iniuries, threates, whippyngs and scourgynges, yrons, tortures, and rackes, which they endure. Sometimes also they are brought out, & shewed forth in some higher place, to the people, as a spectacle, of rebuke and infamy. And thus are they deteyned there, some many yeares, and murthered by long tormentes, & whole dayes together, entreated much more cruelly (out of all comparison) then if they were in the hangmās handes to be slayne at once. Duryng all this tyme, what is done in the proces, no person knoweth, but onely the holy fathers and the tormentours, which are sworne to execute the torments. All is done in secret, & (as great misteries) passe not the handes of those holy ones. And after all these tormentes so many yeares endured in the prison, if any man shall be saued, it must be by gessing: For all the procedynges of the Court of that execrable Inquisition is open to no mā, but all is done in hugger mugger, & in close corners, by ambages, by couert wayes, and secrete counsailes. The accuser secret, the crime secret, the witnes secret: what soeuer is done, is secret, neither is the poore prisoner euer aduertised of any thyng. If he can gesse who accused him, wherof and wherfore, he may be pardoned peraduēture, of his lyfe: but this is very seldome: and yet he shall not incontinent, be set at libertie, before he hath endured lōg tyme, infinite tormentes (and this is called their penitence) and so is he let go: and yet not so, but that he is enioyned, before he passe the Inquisitors handes, that he shall weare a garment with yellow colours, for a note of publicke infamy, to hym, and his whole race. And if he can not gesse right, shewyng to þ^e Inquisitours by whom he was accused, whereof, and wherfore (as is afore touched) incontinent the horrible sentence of condemnation is pronounced agaynst hym, that he shall be burned for an obstinate hereticke: and so yet the sentence is not executed by and by, but after that he hath endured imprisonment in some haynous prison.

MarginaliaDiuers Martirs in Spaine, since the tyme of Queene Elizabeth. ¶ And thus haue ye heard the forme of the Spanish Inquisition. By the vigour and rigour of this Inquisition, many good true seruauntes of Iesus Christ haue bene brought to death, especially in these later yeares, since the royall and peaceable reigne of this our Queene Elizabeth. The names and stories of whom, partly we will here recite, according as we haue faythfull recordes of such as are come to our hands by writyng. The other which be not yet come to our knowledge, we will differre, till further intelligence and oportunitie, by the Lords ayde and leaue, shall serue hereafter.

Marginalia30. Christian prisoners brought before for councell of the Inquisition. An. 1559. Maij. 21. In the towne of Valledolid, where commonly the counsell of the Inquisition is wont to be kept, the Inquisitors had brought together many prisouers, both of high and low estate, to the number of xxx. also the coffin of a certaine noble womā, with her picture lying vpon it, which had ben dead long before, there to receaue iudgement and sentence. To the hearing of which sentence, they had ordeined MarginaliaThree stages. in þ^e sayd towne, iij. mighty Theatries or stages. Vpon MarginaliaThe ceremoniall pompe of the Spanishe Inquisition. the first was placed Dame Iane, sister [illegible text] Philip, and chief Regent of his realmes: also Prince Charles, kyng Philippes sonne, with other Princes and States of Spayne. Vpon the other scaffold mounted the Archbishop De Seuille, prince of the Synagoge of the Inquisitors, with the Coūsell of the Inquisition: also other Byshops of the landes, and the kynges counsaile with them.

After that the Princes, and other spirituall iudges, & coūsellers were thus set in their places, with a great garde of Archers, and Halberdiers, and harnissed souldiours: with iiij. Herauldes also of armes, geuyng their attendāce to the same, and the Earle of Buendia bearyng the naked sword, all the market place where the stages were, beyng enuironed with an infinite multitude of all sortes of the world there standyng, and gasing out of windowes, and houses to heare & see the sentences & iudgementes of this Inquisition: then after all, were brought forth (as a spectacle and triumphe) the poore seruauntes and witnesses of Iesus Christ, to the number (as is aforesayd) of thirty, clothed with their MarginaliaThe Spanish Mantell of S. Benet of yellow color with red crosses both before & behinde, called Sanbenito. Sanbenito, as the Spanyards do call it, which is a maner of vesture, of yellow cloth cōming both before them & behind them, spangled with read Crosses, & hauyng burnyng Cierges in their handes: also before them was borne a Crucifixe couered with blacke lynen cloth, in token of mourning. Moreouer, they which were to receaue the sentence of death, had Miters of paper vpō their heads, which þ^e Spanyards cal Coracas. Thus they being produced, were placed in their order, one vnder an other, accordyng as they were esteemed culpable: So that first of all, stode Doct. Cacalla, an Austin Frier, a mā notable & singular in knowledge of diuinitie, preacher sometyme, to Charles the v. Emperour, both in hygher, and lower Germany.

These thinges thus disposed, thē folowed a Sermon, made by a Dominicke Frier, which endured about an houre. MarginaliaThis Dominicke was M. Melchior Cano. After the Sermon finished, the Procurator generall, with the Archbyshop, went to the stage, where the Princes and Nobles stode, to minister a solēne othe vnto them vpō the Crucifixe painted in the Massebooke: the tenour of which MarginaliaThe oth geuen to the princes by the Inquisiton of Spayne. oth was this. Your Maiesties shall sweare, that you will fauour þ^e holy Inquisitiō, & also geue your consent vnto the same: and not onely that you shall, by no maner of way, hinder and impeach the same, but also you shall employ t he vttermost of your helpe & endeuour hereafter, to see all them to be executed, whiche shall swerue from the Church of Rome, & adioyne themselues to the sect of the Lutherā heretickes, without all respect of any person or persons, of what estate, degree, qualitie, or condition soeuer they be.

¶ And thus much for the first Article of the oth. The second was this, as foloweth.

Item, your Maiesties shall sweare, that you shal constrayne all your subiectes, to submit themselues to the Church of Rome, and to haue in reuerence all the lawes and commaundementes of the same: and also to geue your ayde agaynst all them, whosoeuer shall hold of the heresie of the Lutherans, or take any part with them.

In this sort and maner, when all the Princes & states, euery one in their degree, had receaued their othe, then the Archbyshop liftyng vp his hand, gaue them his benediction, saying: God blesse your hyghnesses, and geue you lōg lyfe. This solemne Pageon thus finished, at last the poore captiues and prisoners were called out, the Procurator fiscall, or the Popes great Collectour, first begynnyng with Doct. Cacalla, and so procedyng to the other in order, as here vnder in this Table foloweth, with their names, and their iudgementes described.