A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3Lea, Henry Charles
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A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3
Lea, Henry Charles
Inquisition -- Spain
in detail truly what she did. She said "What am I wanted to tell? I
did everything--loosen me for I don't remember what I have to
tell--don't you see what a weak woman I am?--Oh! Oh! my arms are
breaking." More turns were ordered and as they were given she cried
"Oh! Oh! loosen me for I don't know what I have to say--Oh my
arms!--I don't know what I have to say--if I did I would tell it."
The cords were ordered to be tightened when she said "Señores have
you no pity on a sinful woman?" She was told, yes, if she would
tell the truth. She said, "Señor tell me, tell me it." The cords
were tightened again, and she said "I have already said that I did
it." She was ordered to tell it in detail, to which she said "I
don't know how to tell it señor, I don't know." Then the cords were
separated and counted, and there were sixteen turns, and in giving
the last turn the cord broke.
She was then ordered to be placed on the potro. She said "Señores,
why will you not tell me what I have to say? Señor, put me on the
ground--have I not said that I did it all?" She was told to tell
it. She said "I don't remember--take me away--I did what the
witnesses say." She was told to tell in detail what the witnesses
said. She said "Señor, as I have told you, I do not know for
certain. I have said that I did all that the witnesses say. Señores
release me, for I do not remember it." She was told to tell it. She
said "I do not know it. Oh! Oh! they are tearing me to pieces--I
have said that I did it--let me go." She was told to tell it. She
said "Señores, it does not help me to say that I did it and I have
admitted that what I have done has brought me to this
suffering--Señor, you know the truth--Señores, for God's sake have
mercy on me. Oh Señor, take these things from my arms--Señor
release me, they are killing me." She was tied on the potro with
the cords, she was admonished to tell the truth and the garrotes
were ordered to be tightened. She said "Señor do you not see how
these people are killing me? Señor, I did it--for God's sake let me
go." She was told to tell it. She said "Señor, remind me of what I
did not know--Señores have mercy upon me--let me go for God's
sake--they have no pity on me--I did it--take me from here and I
will remember what I cannot here." She was told to tell the truth,
or the cords would be tightened. She said "Remind me of what I have
to say for I don't know it--I said that I did not want to eat it--I
know only that I did not want to eat it," and this she repeated
many times. She was told to tell why she did not want to eat it.
She said, "For the reason that the witnesses say--I don't know how
to tell it--miserable that I am that I don't know how to tell it--I
say I did it and my God how can I tell it?" Then she said that, as
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