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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"From thence I was carried to the Inquisition, where I was shut up
close, and after I had been there 3 dayes the Lord said to me, _Thou
must go to the Pazzarella_, which was the Prison or Hospital of mad
men, where our dear brother was prisoner; and it was also said unto me,
_Thou shalt also speak to the Pope_; And at the 17 dayes end, I was led
from the Inquisition towards the other prison, and by the way I met the
Pope carried in great pomp; as it was the good will of the Lord that I
should speak unto him, men could not prevent it, for I met him towards
the foot of a bridge, where I was something nigh him, and when he came
against me, the people being on their knees on each side of him, I
cried to him with a loud voice in the Italian tongue, _To do the thing
that was Just, and to release the Innocent_; and whilest I was
speaking, the man which led me had not power to take me away until I
had done, and then he had me to prison where my endeared brother was,
where I fasted about 20 dayes as a witness against that bloody
generation," &c.
As to how they got out, he only says:
"Soon after my fast, the Lord, by an outstretched arm, wrought our
deliverance, being condemned to perpetual galley-slavery, if ever we
returned again unto Rome."
It appears, however, that though thus prevented from exercising his office
of a missionary in Rome, Charles Baylie did not relinquish it. In the
letter just quoted he informs his correspondent (who this was does not
appear), that since he had seen his face, he had been several times (as he
was while {336} writing) shut up in strong prisons; and the letter is dated
"The third of the sixth month, 1661. _From the Common Gaol in_ Burkdou,
_in_ France, _about thirty leagues from_ Dover, _where I am a sufferer
for speaking the Word of the Lord to two Priests, saying_, All Idols,
all Idolatries, and all Idol Priests must perish."
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