The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
Then were seuerally called the number of 53 one after an other, and
euery man had his seueral iudgement, some to haue 200 stripes on
horseback, and some 100, and condemned for slaues to the gallies, some
for 6 yeeres, some for 8 and some for 10.
And then was I, Miles Philips, called, and was adiudged to serue in a
monasterie for 5 yeeres, without any stripes, and to weare a fooles
coat, or S. Benito, during all that time.
Then were called Iohn Storie, Richard Williams, Dauid Alexander, Robert
Cooke, Paul Horsewell and Thomas Hull: these sixe were condemned to
serue in monasteries without stripes, some for three yeeres and some for
foure, and to weare the S. Benito during all the said time. Which being
done, and it now drawing toward night, George Riuelly, Peter Momfrie,
and Cornelius the Irishman, were called and had their iudgement to be
burnt to ashes, and so were presently sent away to the place, of
execution in the market place but a little from the scaffold, where they
were quickly burnt and consumed. And as for vs that had receiued our
iudgement, being 68 in number, we were caried backe that night to prison
againe. And the next day in the morning being good Friday, the yeere of
our Lord 1575; we were all brought into a court, of the Inquisitors
pallace, where we found a horse in a readinesse for euery one of our men
which were condemned to haue stripes, and to be committed to the
gallies, which were in number 60 and so they being inforced to mount vp
on horsebacke naked from the middle vpward, were caried to be shewed as
a spectacle for all the people to behold throughout the chiefe and
principall streetes of the citie, and had the number of stripes to euery
one of them appointed, most cruelly laid vpon their naked bodies with
long whips by sundry men appointed to be the executioners thereof: and
before our men there went a couple of criers which cried as they went:
Behold these English dogs, Lutherans, enemies to God, and all the way as
they went there were some of the Inquisitors themselues, and of the
familiars of that rakehel order, that cried to the executioners, Strike,
lay on those English hereticks, Lutherans, Gods enemies: and so this
horrible spectacle being shewed round about the citie, they returned to
the Inquisitors house with their backes all gore blood, and swollen with
great bumps, and were then taken from their horses, and carried againe
to prison, where they remained vntill they were sent into Spaine to the
gallies, there to receiue the rest of their martirdome: and I and the 6
other with me which had iudgement, and were condemned amongst the rest
to serue an apprentiship in the monastery, were taken presently and sent
to certaine religious houses appointed for the purpose.
Chap. 6.
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