41 S Horrors of the 



po none who is not avnrc that the most 

 exquisite :ind affcctiiip; pieces have been 

 wriffen uiitlcr ti)c iiuiiiediate pressure of 

 the severest anxiety. 



Moore, speaking of the operation of 

 sorrow on a poetic mind, observes, 



I ' that broken lieart 



Which, hke the plants that tlirow 



Tlieir frasraiioe from the womided part, 

 IJreathes s!fw/»fss out uftcoe. 



But it is too much to waste argument 

 and example (both which migbt be ex- 

 tended tlivoufih paf^es,) on sucli a writer, 

 in behah' of the groat bard, whose free 

 and manly spirit will gain him as nnich 

 admiration from (he discerning and gcne- 

 rons, as his inimitable works will from 

 Jill those who have any taste for what is 

 elegant, harmonious, pathetic, forcible, 

 or commanding, in poetry. A. B. 



Canterbury; Sept. 2, 1816. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



.SIR, 



T HI'] following pathetic narrative is 

 extracted from "The History of 

 tlic Inquisition, abridged from the ela- 

 borate work of Pliihp Liniborch ;" a 

 work of which the groat John Ijocke 

 said, " that it was tit to bo translated 

 into the vulgar language of every na- 

 tion, that all might undtrstand the anti- 

 christian practices of that execrable 

 court." 



An Account n/the. Proceedings of the Court 

 of JnqnixitiiiH tit Lisbon, asainst Eiiza- 

 heth Vuacondlos, an F.ngUnh IVoman. 

 Elizabeth Vascoucllos, now in the city 

 of Lisbon, doth, on the lOtli of December, 

 Anno iroC), in tlie presence of John Mil- 

 ner, esq. her Majesty's ronsnl-gencral of 

 Portugal, and Joseph Willeocks, minister 

 of the English factory at Lisbon, declare 

 and testify, — That she was born at Arlin;;- 

 too, in tlie cotmty of Devon, and a danirh- 

 ter of John Chester, esq. ; bred np in the 

 Churcii of England; and, in the eleventh 

 year of her a';e, her uncle, David Jlorgan, 

 of Cork, intending to po and settle in Ja- 

 maifa as a physician, by her father's con- 

 sent, he having several children, took her 

 with him to provide for hir. 



In 1685 they went in an English ship, 

 and near the island tliey were attacked by 

 two Turkish ships; in llie fi^lit her uncle 

 was killed, bnt the ship got clear mto Ma- 

 deira, and she, though left destitute, was 

 tniertained by Mr. Bedford, a merchant, 

 v>'ith whom, and other English, she lived as 

 a fcrvaiil till ]ti96; in that year she was 

 married, by the chaplain of nn English 

 ;liaI^of \»ai, to Cordoza de Vasconellos, a 

 phjiician of ihat island, and iivej witls him 



Inquisition. [Dec. 1, 



eight years, and never in the least conform* 

 ed to the Romish church. 



In 1704, her hnsband having gone on a 

 voyage to Rrazil, she fell dans^erously ill, 

 and, being light-headed, a priest gave her 

 the Sacrament, as she was told afterwards, 

 forshe remembersd nothing of it. It please^ 

 God she recovered, and then they told her 

 she had changed her religion, and must 

 conform to the Romish chnrch, which she 

 denied, and refirsed to conform ; and there- 

 upon, by the bishop of that island, she was 

 imprisoned nine months, and then sent 

 prisoner to the inquisition at Lisbon, 

 will re she arrived the 19th of December, 

 170.7. The !-ecietary of the hnuse took 

 her effects, in all above ."jOOl. sterling ; she 

 was then sworn, that that was all she was 

 worth; and then put into a straight dark 

 room, about live feet square, and there 

 kept nine months and fifteen days. 



That the first nine days she had only 

 bread and water, and a wet straw bed to 

 lie on. On the ninth day, being examined, 

 she owned herself a Protestant, and would 

 .so continue ; she was told, she had con- 

 formed 10 the Romish church, and must 

 persist in it or burn; she was then remand- 

 ed to her room , and, after a month's time, 

 brought out a^jain ; and, persisting in her 

 answer as to her rehgion, they bound her 

 hands behind her, stripped her back naked, 

 and lashed her with a whip of knotted 

 cords a considerable time ; and told her af- 

 terwards, that she must kneel down to the 

 court, and give thanks for their merciful 

 usage of her; which she positively refused 

 to do. 



After fifteen days she was again brought 

 forth and examined ; and, a crucifix being 

 set before her, she wan commanded to bow 

 down to it and worship it, which she re- 

 fused to do ; they told her that she must 

 expect to be condemned to the tlamesi, 

 and be burnt with the Jews at the next 

 atito lie fe, which was niyh at hand. Upon 

 this she was remanded to her prison again 

 for thirty days ; and, being then brought 

 out, a red-hot iron was got ready, and 

 brought to her in a chaffiuf; dish of burning 

 coals; and, her breast being laid open, the 

 executioner, with one end of the red-hot 

 iron, which was about the bigness of a 

 laj-|»c seal, burnt her to the bone in three 

 several places, on the right side, one hard 

 by the other ; and then sent her to her pii- 

 son, without any plaster, or other applica- 

 tion, to heal the sores, which were very 

 puinfnl to her. 



A month after this she had another se- 

 vere whipping, as before ; and in the begin- 

 ning of August she was brought belore the 

 Table, a great number of inquisitors being 

 present, and was questioned whether she 

 would profess the Romish relij'ion or burn ? 

 Slie replied, she had always been a Protes- 

 tant, and was a stdyecl of the <Juecn of 

 England, who was able to protect her, and 



3 slie 



