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Be it for crimes oS heresy, Sufpicion of
herefy si. e. protestantism) forcery, juesaism,
or Speaking ill of the holy office,
the prisoner, aster fome time of confinement,
(perhaps months or years) is
conveyed from his wretched cell to the
great and dark room of torments ; the
persons who conduct him thither are always
muffled with black crape over
their faces, to prevent the criminal from
knowing his tearmentors : they carry a
dim torch or other light with them into
the room, just sufficient for to discern
the instruments os his torture: is the
cord is to be applied. then his hands
are bound fast behind him, and by
means of a pully fix'd at the roof as
this horrid place, he is hauled up by two
or three of the muffled jailers, and let
down several yards length of rope suddenly
from the top, to a foot's distance
eaf the floor ; these jerks are repeated
till the joints of his arms, wrists, and
shoulders are dislocated t there are other
kinds of racking ufed besides tbis
to extort confession. If the prisoner is
to be tormented by fire, while in the
holy inquisition office, he is alio conveyed
aster the foregoing manner to
tate Same dark Subterraneous room, his
snuffled warders strip him, bring the
Soles of his feet nigh to a fire placed
aon a hearth, and with prepared unguents
and other liquid eombustibles,
rub his feet to receive more piercing
heat and intolerable burning. If water
is to be the prisoners torture, he
is laid on his back in a deep hollow
trough, a round Stick passing through
the middle just under the criminal's
hack, who is obliged to receive vast
draughts of water forced into his throat
through a tunnel, mean time the posture
generally disjoints the prisoner's backbone.
These are but a few of the
wholesome Severities, gentle and pious
methods, invented to defrroy mankind
religiously, that their estates may hecome
plunder, merely to support in
pomp, luxury, and pride, the high flyaaa..
sons of St. Dominick, St. Francis,
.and of ignaiint ale Lo^oaa /
Pope P i o u s*s B u L L against Queers
s
E1 t z A n E r H.
OPE Pim V. had, by his bull
I dated i deprived the (^ueeit
of her kingdoms, absolved her ftlf^ecta
of all subjection to her, and pronounced
all that yielded her obedience accursed
• as appears by the latter part
of the said bull, in thefe words.——
Being therefore strengthened with his are.
thority, who hath please./ to set us in this
supreme throne ofyustict, though unsa for so
great a burthen, lie by the sulness of orer
aposto/ica/ power, do declore ihe foresaid
Llizaheth an heretic k, and a maintainor
of heretickil and those thai fakc her part
in the things aforesaid Sthat is| in estng
wicked rites anal institutions according to
Calvin*s prescriptions, and commanding
fhem to he observed by her Subjects, aie 1
abo/ishing thefiicrifce of the moist, prefers,
alms, difference of meat, fingle /ise, arre/
catho/ick riles, and compe/ling many to sin.
sinear and abjure the authority and dedience
of lhehistop of Rome, &c.j lo ha toe
incurred lhe sentence of .inathema, and to
be cul estseom lhe unity of Christ's boriy.
And moreover, lhat she is deprived of the
pretended rirhf of her Said kinalom, and
alio seom all rule, dianity, and preeminence
whaessever ; and a^o ber nobility,
subjects and people of lhe Sail realm, and
and a// others wbich have Swim unto her
by any mariner of means, are absolondsin
ever seom such oath, andseom all duty of
empire, file/i ty, and ohedience, in fiicbfi^
as trie ale absolve d'cm by fhess presents.
and deprive fhe said Elizabeth of the
pretended right of the kingdom, ana/ of al/
other things aloresuil And we ale command
and far hid a// and singulor oj the
nobility, subsocts, people, and others aserf
faid, thai tlay profane not to obey her admonitions,
command or lows. Whoste-
ver shall do otherwise, we do invoke
tbern in the like curses &C- Given at
Rome at u5t. Peter's in the year of the
incarnation of our Lord t569, the sa^
of tbr calends of March,, and of our p^
prtcy the Sseh.