Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original ManuscriptsWhite, Andrew Dickson
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Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts
White, Andrew Dickson
Inquisition -- Spain -- History -- Sources
She declared it was her declaration, and correctly recorded; that she
had nothing to add or alter respecting it, as it was the truth, and she
attested it for the same, and if necessary was ready to repeat the whole
anew against the said Joseph Jalbert, not out of malice or ill will, but
solely to discharge her conscience. Secrecy was enjoined upon her which
she promised to observe, and the deponent not being able to write, I,
the said Commissary, sign in her name, along with the honest persons.
NARCISO COLL, _Commissary,
and for the said Witness_.
GINES TORRENT, _Presbyter,
in the same name_.
THOMAS PARELLA, _Presbyter_.
Before me--
JOSEPH GASULL, _Presbyter Notary_.
* * * * *
In the city of Gerona, on the twentysecond day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seven, before Dr Narciso Coll, Presbyter, Inquisitor
Honorary, and Commissary appointed for this investigation, and me,
Joseph Gasull, Presbyter Notary, sworn to preserve secrecy and perform
faithfully our duties, appeared, voluntarily, and made oath to declare
the truth and preserve secrecy in everything which she knew, and about
which she might be interrogated, a person calling herself Eulalia
Forcat, of the city of Barcelona, aged about thirty years, a nun, and
attendant upon the foundlings in the Royal Hospicio of this city.
Questioned, if she knew or suspected the cause of her being summoned to
appear by the Holy Office.
Answered, that she did not know.
Questioned, if she knew or had heard that any person had said or done
anything which was or appeared to be contrary to our Holy Catholic
Faith and Evangelical Law, or against the just proceedings of the Holy
Office. Answered, that at present she could remember nothing.
Questioned, if she knew or had heard that any Ecclesiastic had practised
irregularities towards any person of the other sex in hearing them often
at confession.
Answered, that all she knew was this; about two years ago she served as
a domestic in this city, along with Agustina Buxeras, who afterwards
lived in the family of Puigcech, a button maker, in the Plazuela de
Basea in Barcelona, and being at that time in the house of Señores
Francisco Galup and Cayetano, merchants, in the Calle de la Merced in
Barcelona, she heard, on several occasions, the said Agustina declare
that on confessing herself to the Reverend Father Fr. Antonio Puig, of
Barcelona, of the order of San Francisco de Asis, he had ordered her
many times at evening to go into a room at the entrance of the church of
the Convent of San Francisco, on the right hand, where he disciplined
her and caused her to do the same to herself, and that, he had done this
also at the house of the abovementioned Señores Galup. This the deponent
learned from the mouth of the said Agustina, and furthermore by
examining her person on the second occasion, when she found her
posteriors were black and blue, and that she had evidently been severely
handled.
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