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The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.Llorente, Juan Antonio

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The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.

Name: The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.
Author: Llorente, Juan Antonio

Llorente, Juan Antonio

Inquisition -- Spain

The inquisitor-general would not admit the Dominican monks as witnesses,
because he supposed them subject to the archbishop: the evidences of
Count Oropesa and his brother were likewise rejected, because they were
his friends. The monk of St. Jerome declared that the archbishop arrived
at Yuste on a Sunday, two days before the death of the emperor; that
this prince _would not see him or allow him to enter_, but his
major-domo, Don Louis de Quixada, undertook to introduce him; that
Carranza threw himself on his knees in the chamber, and that the
emperor, _without saying a word to him_, fixed his eyes upon him, like a
person who wishes to express himself by a look: that the persons who
were present retired: that when the archbishop came out of the chamber
he appeared discontented, and he the witness believed that he was so,
having heard from William, the emperor's barber, that on the day when
the news of the nomination of Carranza to the archbishopric of Toledo
arrived, his majesty said, _When I gave him the bishopric of the
Canaries he refused it; now he accepts the archbishopric of Toledo; we
shall see what we are to think of his virtue_; that their private
interview lasted a quarter of an hour, and the archbishop called in the
attendants. When they entered, the archbishop threw himself on his
knees, and his majesty made a sign for him to sit down, and repeat some
words of consolation; that the prelate again threw himself on his knees,
and repeated the four first verses of the psalm _De profundis_, not
literally, but paraphrasing the text. His majesty made him a sign to
stop, and Carranza then retired with the other attendants; that on
another day, about the hour of ten in the evening, just before the
emperor expired, Carranza visited him, because he had been informed of
his danger, and gave him the crucifix to kiss, and at the same time
addressed some words of consolation to him, at which the monks Juan de
Regla, Francis de Villalba, Francis Angulo, prior, and Louis de St.
Gregoria, were scandalized. These persons conversed together afterwards,
and said that the prelate ought not to have spoken thus; but the witness
could not recollect what the words were. They were repeated to him, and
he replied that he believed they might be the same, but that he could
not be certain, as he was reading the passion of our Saviour, _according
to St. Luke_, at the time; he only remarked that the monks looked at one
another with a kind of mystery.

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The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.Llorente, Juan Antonio

History

The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.

Llorente, Juan Antonio

Inquisition -- Spain

The inquisitor-general would not admit the Dominican monks as witnesses,
because he supposed them subject to the archbishop: the evidences of
Count Oropesa and his brother were likewise rejected, because they were
his friends. The monk of St. Jerome declared that the archbishop arrived
at Yuste on a Sunday, two days before the death of the emperor; that
this prince _would not see him or allow him to enter_, but his
major-domo, Don Louis de Quixada, undertook to introduce him; that
Carranza threw himself on his knees in the chamber, and that the
emperor, _without saying a word to him_, fixed his eyes upon him, like a
person who wishes to express himself by a look: that the persons who
were present retired: that when the archbishop came out of the chamber
he appeared discontented, and he the witness believed that he was so,
having heard from William, the emperor's barber, that on the day when
the news of the nomination of Carranza to the archbishopric of Toledo
arrived, his majesty said, _When I gave him the bishopric of the
Canaries he refused it; now he accepts the archbishopric of Toledo; we
shall see what we are to think of his virtue_; that their private
interview lasted a quarter of an hour, and the archbishop called in the
attendants. When they entered, the archbishop threw himself on his
knees, and his majesty made a sign for him to sit down, and repeat some
words of consolation; that the prelate again threw himself on his knees,
and repeated the four first verses of the psalm _De profundis_, not
literally, but paraphrasing the text. His majesty made him a sign to
stop, and Carranza then retired with the other attendants; that on
another day, about the hour of ten in the evening, just before the
emperor expired, Carranza visited him, because he had been informed of
his danger, and gave him the crucifix to kiss, and at the same time
addressed some words of consolation to him, at which the monks Juan de
Regla, Francis de Villalba, Francis Angulo, prior, and Louis de St.
Gregoria, were scandalized. These persons conversed together afterwards,
and said that the prelate ought not to have spoken thus; but the witness
could not recollect what the words were. They were repeated to him, and
he replied that he believed they might be the same, but that he could
not be certain, as he was reading the passion of our Saviour, _according
to St. Luke_, at the time; he only remarked that the monks looked at one
another with a kind of mystery.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.

The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.

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