Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Inquisition in Spam. Page Seizure of a person by order of the Inquisition. Page 105. WILLIAM LITHGOW 21 They drove him to
Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Inquisition in Spam. Page Seizure of a person by order of the Inquisition. Page 105. WILLIAM LITHGOW 21 They drove him to a vine-press house, about a league from the town,to which place a rack had been privately conveyed before ; and herethey shut him up for that night. About day-break the next morning, the governor and the alcaid ar-rived, into whose presence Mr. Lithgow was immediately brought, toundergo another examination. The prisoner desired he might havean interpreter, but was refused; nor would they permit him to appealto the superior court of judicature, at Madrid. After a long examina-tion, which lasted the whole day, there appeared in all his answers soexact a conformity with what he had before said, that they declaredhe had learned them by heart. They, however, pressed him again tomake a full discovery ; that is, to accuse himself of crimes nevercommitted; the governor adding, You are still in my power ; I canset you free if you comply: if not, I must deliver you to the Lithgow still per
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