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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36785	A narrative of unheard of popish cruelties towards Protestants beyond seas, or, A new account of the bloody Spanish inquisition published as a caveat to Protestants / by Mr. Dugdale.	Dugdale, Stephen, 1640?-1683.; Dugdale, Ric.,	1680 (1680)	Wing D2473; ESTC R763	26,721	32

to prison where he lay without any company laden with Irons above three years yet was his constancy so great and wonderful that the Tormentors themselves were sooner wearied in inflicting than he in suffering Torments and notwithstanding his weak and wearyish Body yet he remained undanted in mind in the undergoing of all their Tyrannies so that he departed from the Rack less dejected than he came to it neither threatnings nor pains nor torments made him shrink or yeild one jot to them but when he was drawn back to his prison he would tell his Fellows how he had conquered and confounded his Enemies saying they depart vanquished the Wolves flie with shame they flie with shame In the Day of their Triumph when he was brought out apparelled with his other Fellow-Prisoners in all their shameful Habits he exhorted them with a chearful countenance saying My Brethren be of good Chear this is the hour wherein we must be faithful Witnesses unto God and his Truth before men as becomes the true servants and Souldiers of Jesus Christ and ere long we shall have him to witness with us again and within a few hours we shall Triumph with him in Heaven for ever but hereupon they presently clapt a Barnacle upon his Tongue that he should speak no more and so he was led to his Execution but though he could not speak yet by his Countenance and Gestures he shewed his chearful and quiet mind then kneeling down he kissed the Step whereon he stood and being tied to the Stake he endeavoured by his Looks and Gestures to encourage his fellow-Martyrs in their Sufferings and so they quietly and patiently resigned up their Spirits unto God There was also one John Leon a Taylor by trade who out of a blind Deovotion to serve God resolved to enter into a Monastery but by Gods Providence it so fell out that he entred into a Cloister at Sivil wherein most of the Monks were well affected to the true Religion amongst whom in two or three years space he was so grounded in the Principles of Religion that he resolved to leave that kind of Life which accordingly he did and went into the Countrey yet after a time he had a great mind to confer with his former School-masters but when he came back to the Cloister he found that they were all fled into Germany hereupon he resolved to follow them and through many Dangers and Perils it pleased God at last after a long and tedious Journey to bring him safe to Frankford where he met with some of his old Acquaintance and with them he travelled to Geneva about which time Queen Mary suddenly dying and Queen Elizabeth of Blessed Memory succeeding her the English Exiles who lived in those parts were called home whereupon divers Spaniards that sojourned at Geneva thinking England a fitter place for their Congregation resolved to acompany the Englishmen and for this end they dispersed themselves into several Companies that they might travel with the more safety The Inquisitors took the departure of these Monks so ill that not sparing any cost they sent Flies abroad to apprehend them who way-laid them especially at Colen Francfort Antwerp and in all the ways that led from Geneva This John Leon had goten him a Companion with whom he travelled towards England who being discovered at Argentine were dogged into Zealand and as they were ready to take Ship they were apprehended John Leon took his arrest very composedly never changing countenance at it they were presently carried back into the Town where they were miserably racked to discover their Fellows and not long after were shipped for Spain having great Irons wrought like a Net that covered both head and feet within which also was another peice of Iron made like a tongue which being thrust into their mouths took away their speech they were also loaden with other Engines and Fetters of Iron wherewith they were bound hand and foot and in these continual pains and torments they lay a Ship-board till they came into Spain and then John Leon was sent to Sivil and his Companion to Validolid where afterwards in defence of the truth he suffered Martyrdom but John remained long in prison where he tasted of the Inquisitors Tyranny suffering both hunger and cold and enduring all their torments one after another and at last was brought out in their solemn shew arraied after the usual manner It was a sad sight to see such a Ghost as he was his Hair so grown his Body so lean that he had nothing but Skin and Bones left on him and his pain much encreased by having a Barnacle upon his Tongue After Sentence of Death pronounced upon him they set his Tongue at liberty hoping that he would have recanted but he made a stout and godly confession of his Faith and so quietly ended his Life in the flames There was also burned at the same time a Godly Virgin that had formerly been a Nun but being through Gods Grace converted she left her Cloister and joyned her self to the Church of Christ being apprehended by the Inquisitors she was treated as others had been before her and at last was brought on the Scaffold where wirh Manly Courage she put the Inquisitors to a foul Foil not only constantly affirming the Truth but sharply rebuking those Fathers calling them Dumb Dogs a Generation of Vipers c. Being brought to the stake with a chearful Countenance she underwent the pains of Death and so quietly slept in the Lord. There was also one Christopher Losada a Physitian a Learned Man and very well studied in the Scriptures as also of a very holy Conversation insomuch as he was chosen Superintendent of the Church of Christ in Sivil which at this time was very great though dispersed into Corners At last he was apprehended by the Inquisitors before whom he had made good Confession of his Faith for which he endured hard and sharp Imprisonment with most cruel Torments and the open Infamy of their solemn Shew And lastly was adjudged to the Fire As he stood at the stake the Barnacle being taken from his Tongue hd disputed notably with some Monks that came to seduce him and when they spake Latine that the Common People might not understand them Losada also began to speak in Latin so copiously eloquently as was strange to hear that he should have his wits so fresh when he was ready to be burned after which he patiently resigned up his spirit to God in the Fire There was also in Sivil one Arias a man of a sharp wit and well studied in Divinity but withall of a Crafty Wit and Inconstant Nature which Vices he yet covered with a Cloak of Religion whereby he deceived many About this time there were also in this City two sorts of Preachers and both had a great number of Auditors the one taught School-Divinity and were continually calling upon their Hearers to