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Title: Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Subjects: Martyrs Persecution Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., C. Foster publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nquisition to enforce confession from thosewhom it suspected of withholding evidence. It is impossible to describe the various tortures inflicted upon thepoor prisoner while he lay on this dreadful machine. Many of themwere of the most infernal nature; and had they been continued muchlonger he must have expired. On being taken from the rack, andhis irons again put on, he was carried to his former dungeon, hav-ing first received a little warm wine, which was given him ratherto preserve him for future punishments, than from pity. In thisdreadful situation he remained for several days. At last Lithgowheard some news which left him with little hope of ever seeing Eng-land again; it appeared that an English seminary priest, and a Scotchcooper, had been for some time employed by the governor to trans-late from the English into the Spanish language, all his books andletters; and that it was commonly said in the governors house thathe was an arch and dangerous heretic. About two days after an
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TORTURES OF THE INQUISITION:-THE RACK. 244 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. inquisitor, with the alcaid, entered his dungeon, and after several idlequestions, asked Lithgow if he acknowledged the popes supremacy?He answered that he did not, and in the bitterness of his soul heheaped reproaches upon the two hardened wretches, and ended bysaying— As you have almost murdered me for pretended treason,without finding any grounds for suspicion, so now you intend tomake a martyr of me for my religion.! To this the inquisitor replied, You have been taken up as a spy,accused of treachery, and tortured, as we acknowledge. It may bethat you are not a spy, but we have found by your books and writingsthat you surely are a heretic, and therefore deserve even worse pun-ishment than you have received. They then gave their prisoner eight days to consider whether hewould become a convert to their religion or not. During this time theinquisitor and others argued frequently with him, but to all their talk

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