Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"Arriving," he says, "safe at Rome, we were drawn in our lives directly
to the place where the dearly beloved J. P. was, and coming to the
prison door, I enquired for him, and having answer of his being there,
I desired for to speak with him, but it would not be permitted us; So
it was said in me, _Write unto him_, which I did, the which he answered
us in the fulness of love, which refreshed us after our weary steps;
For our souls were refreshed one in another, though one another's faces
we had never seen to the outward, and then we being kept in a holy fear
not to do nor act one way nor other, but as we were moved of the Lord,
least we should add to his bonds,--I say, being thus kept, we were
delivered out of the snare of the fowler, who secretly lay in wait to
betray our innocency; And after a little time the Lord showed me I
should go to the inquisition, which I did, and enquired for the
Inquisitor, as I was showed of the Lord I should do; and when I spoke
to him I told him _I was come from England for to see my brother
J. P._; to which he answered, _I should see him_, and appointed me to
come to a certain place called _Minerva_, and there, saith he, _I will
procure you the liberty of the Cardinalls to see him_; he had me also
to the Inquisition office, where he asked many questions of me
concerning our religion, to which I answered in the simplicity of my
heart in the fear of the Lord; and at the appointed time I came to the
place aforesaid, and there I was showed what further I should do, which
was to tender my body for my brother; and so from that time I hardly
missed opportunity to speak to them as often as they met: for their
manner was thus to meet twice a-week, the one time at _Minerva_, and
the other time at _Monte-Cavallo_, where the Pope's own dwelling is,
where I also did the like, more than once, which stirred them up
against me, in great enmity," &c.
I am afraid I am trespassing on your overfilled columns; but--omitting his
account of his going to the Jews' synagogue, and of the command which he
received to fast twenty days as a testimony against those who falsely
stated that John Luffe had fasted nineteen days and died on the
twentieth--omitting this, I must give one more extract. Having been
detained in one of his visits to the _Minerva_, he says:
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