Blaquicre’s Spain and Spanish Revolution. 
tors and hypocrites. It was nine o’clock 
before the prisoners were assembled round 
the Grand Inquisitor, to go through the 
different forms of abjuration. The Ar- 
ticles of the Faith were then put to each 
penitent, who was required to give his 
answer in an atidible voice. Giving ab- 
solution, saying mass, and chaunting Je 
Deum, took up another hour: after which 
the royal family withdrew, and thus ended 
the ceremony of the 30th June, 1680. 
“The process of strangling and burning 
continued all night: as to those who 
were condemned to be flogged and pub- 
licly degraded, their punishment was re- 
served for the following day. Nearly a 
third of the whole number, whether des- 
tined to be burned, flogged or degraded, 
were women. When the executions had 
terminated, another grand procession was 
performed, for the purpose of restoring 
the crosses and standard to the cathedral. 
According to the computation of 
Llorente, by which one. or more Autos 
were performed yearly at each of the tri- 
bunals, there could not have been fewer 
than 1112, during the twenty-two years 
of Charles II.’s reign, and forty-six of 
Philip V. The historian of the Holy Of- 
fice has fifty-four lists of the condemned 
in his possession, published by different 
Inquisitors-General, to prove their zeal. 
It appears from these pious catalogues, 
that “seventy-nine heretics had been 
burned “in person; seventy-three in 
effigy, to be really so, if ever taken; 
eig t hundred ‘and twenty-nine to be 
publicly whipped, and then shut up in 
the fortresses of Ceuta and Oran. Con- 
fiscation of property was a matter of 
course, and applied to all the foregoing 
cases, It results from the calculation 
made relative to the Autos which took 
lace in the remaining sixty-nine years, 
hat two thousand five hundred and 
twenty-four had been burned in person, 
twelve hundred and sixty-two in effigy, 
fifteen hundred and seventy condemned 
to Na Segal imprisonment, and other pe- 
nalties ; naking a grand total of nineteen 
thousand,’ three hundred and forty-six 
victims, in the short space of sixty-six 
ars, without enumerating those immo- 
ated or condemned in the tribunals of 
America, Sicily and Sardinia; all depen- 
dent on the Inquisition of Spain. 
THE INQUISITION ‘TORTURE. 
The ‘best illustration of this horrible 
unishment is furnished in the case of 
Juan de Salas, a ‘niedic4l practitioner of 
Valladolid, whose crime was that of hap- 
pening to say, in the heat of argument, 
that the Apostles had’ erred like other 
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men. As Salas did not lose a moment in 
atoning for his offence, by acknowledging 
that he meant no disrespect to religon, he 
flattered himself with the hope of escap- 
ing; nothing could be more ‘fallacious: 
arrested and thrown iuto prison, he had 
not been many days incarcerated, before 
the Inquisitor Moriz issued his order for 
applying the question. It was thus ex- 
pressed; “ We order that the said torture 
be applied in the manner, and during the 
time we shall think proper, having pro- 
tested, as we again protest, that, in the 
case of injury, fracture cf limbs, or death, 
the fault can be imputed only to the Li- 
centiate Salas.” The ceremony of tor- 
ture is next protested ; “ Valladolid, June 
Qist, 1527. The Licentiate Moriz, In- 
quisitor, has caused Don Juan de Salas to 
appear before him, and having read’ his 
act of accusation, the said Licentiate Sa- 
las declared he had said nothing of what 
he was accused; upon which, the said 
Licentiate Moriz caused him to be con- 
ducted to the chamber of torment; where, 
being first stripped to his shirt, Salas was 
extended on the’ bed of torment, to which 
the executioner, Pedro Porraz, bound him 
by the legs and arms, with hempen cords: 
of these he made eleven turns on each 
limb. While Porras was thus tying the 
said Salas, the prisoner was repeatedly 
urged to tell ihe truth; to which he re- 
plied, that he had never advanced what 
he was accused of. He recited the sym- 
bol’ Quicumque vult, and frequently 
thanked God and our Lady. The said Sa- 
las still continuing bound, as stated, a piece 
of fine linen, being first wetted, was spread 
over his face, when a pint of water was 
poured into his mouth and nostrils; not- 
withstanding which, the said Salas per- 
sisted in saying he knew nothing of what 
he was accused. Pedro Porraz then took 
another turn of the Garrote on the right 
leg, and poured in a second measure of 
water; another turn of the Garrote was 
made on the same lez; nevertheless, Juan 
de Salas said he had never advanced any 
thing of which he was accused; upon 
this, the said Licentiate Moriz, having de- 
clared the question commenced, but not 
finished, ordered that the torture should 
ceases when the accused was withdrawn 
from the frame, I was ‘present at the 
said execution, from the beginning to the 
end. Me, Henrico Paz, Registrar.” 
‘The bed, or ‘ladder of torture, (Ecalera) 
as it is called in Spanish, was composed 
of a frame, sufficiently large to receive the 
body of the victim ; having a bar passing 
through the’ centre, on which the back - 
bone rested, so that both extremities were 
much 
