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 were all brought into a court of the Inquisitors pallace, 

 where we found a horse in a readinesse for every one of 

 our men which were condemned to have stripes, and to 

 be committed to the gallies, which were in number 60 

 and so they being inforced to mount up on horsebacke 

 naked from the middle upward, were caried to be shewed 

 as a spectacle for all the people to behold throughout 

 the chiefe and principall streetes of the citie, and had the 

 number of stripes to every one of them appointed, most 

 cruelly laid upon their naked bodies with long whips 

 by sundry men appointed to be the executioners thereof: 

 and before our men there went a couple of criers which 

 cried as they went : Behold these English dogs, Luther- 

 ans, enemies to God, and all the way as they went there 

 were some of the Inquisitors themselves, and of the 

 familiars of that rakehel order, that cried to the exe- 

 cutioners. Strike, lay on those English heretiks, Luther- 

 ans, Gods enemies : and so this horrible spectacle being 

 shewed round about the citie, they returned to the 

 Inquisitors house, with their backes all gore blood, and 

 swollen with great bumps, and were then taken from 

 their horses, & carried againe to prison, where they 

 remained untill they were sent into Spaine to the gallies, 

 there to receive the rest of their martirdome : and I 

 and the 6 other with me which had judgement, and were 

 condemned amongst the rest to serve an apprentiship 

 in the monastery, were taken presently and sent to 

 certaine religious houses appointed for the purpose. 



[Chap. 6 

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