Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy].
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Date:
- 1717
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![bear certain Paft-board Effigies, as big as Life *fome of thenm reprefenting thofe, that dy’d in Prifon ; whofe Benes {hall alfoo be carry’d in Coffers with Flames painted round them ; andl the reft fhall reprefent thofe who have efcap’d, and who have been condemn’d for Contumacy. Thefe Figures fhall be placed! at one end of the Theatre. After that, their Sentence fhall be? read, and they fhall be executed. But I fhould tell ye, addedl he, That the Supream Council of the Inquifition is more abfo-- lute than all the others. It is believed that the King himfelfhass not Power to releafe thofe who fhall be accus’d before it,, becaufe this Tribunal acknowledges the Pope only to be above: it ; and that there has been a time, when, upon fome occafions,, the King’s Power was found too weak to contend with that of: the Inquifition. Don Diego Samiento is Inquifitor General. He is ar mighty honeft and good Man ; and is about threefcore yearss of Age. The Ki nominates the Prefident of the Inquifition,, and his Holime/s confirms him : but as for the Imquifitors, thes Prefident propofes them to the King; and after he has ap— prov’d of them, he then puts them in their Places. This ‘Tribunal takes Cognizance of every thing concerning: the Faith ; and it is abfolutely invefted both with the Pope’ss and the King’s Authority. ‘There’s no appealing from its Judg- ment. And the two and twenty Tribunals of the Ingu/ition,, which are in all the Æ/fates of Spain, and which depend upom this at Madrid, every Month render an Account to it of their: Finances, and Revenues, and every year of their Caufes andl Criminals. But thofe of the Indies, and the other diftant Places,, only give, an account at the end of every Year. As to the: Places of thefe inferior Tribunals ; they are fill’d by the Ge-- neral Inquifitors, with the Approbation of the Counfellors. Iti would be pretty difficult to be able precifely to reckon up the! number of the Officers, which belong to the Inquifition ; for ims Spain alone, there are about two and twenty thoufand Familiarss of the Holy Office. They are call’d by this Name ; becaufe? they are as ’twere {pies fcattered up and down every where,, which are continually giving true or falfe Information to the? Inquifition ; upon which, thofe are feiz’d and taken up, whichy they ACCUIE. 7 33 Re She | 7 Whilft with the greateft Attention I was liftening to Don: Fernand, the Marchionefs de Palacios interrupted us, to let uss know, that we were come near Toledo ; and that certain old. Ruins of an ancient Caftle, which we faw upon our left hand,, were thofe of an enchanted Palace. I feem’d to Don Ferrand! to doubt of what fhe affirm’d : upon which he faid, you may] A +4 ’: “thinks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30538178_0256.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
