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
When he was gone, the Generall came to the maine mast to vs, and swore
by the king, that we should not come out of the stocks til we came into
Spaine: within 16. dayes after we came ouer the Bar of S. Lucar, and
came vp to the Hurcados, then he put vs into a pinnesse in the stocks,
and sent vs prisoners to the Contratation house in Siuil. From thence
after one yere we brake prison, on S. Steuens day at night, 7. of our
company escaped, Robert Barret, I Iob Hortop, Iohn Emerie, Humphrey
Roberts, and Iohn Gilbert were taken, and brought backe to the
contratation house, where we remained in the stocks till twelfe tide was
past. Then our keeper put vp a petition to the Iudge of the contratation
house, that we might be sent to the great prison house in Siuil, for
that we broke prison, whereupon we were presently led thither, where we
remained one moneth, and from thence to the castell of the Inquisition
house in Triana, where wee continued one yere: which expired, they
brought vs out in procession, euery one of vs hauing a candle in his
hand, and the coate with S. Andrewes crosse on our backs: they brought
vs vp on an high scaffold, that was set vp in the place of S. Francis,
which is in the chiefe street of Siuill: there they set vs downe vpon
benches: euery one in his degree, and against vs on another scaffold
sate all the Iudges, and the Clergy on their benches: the people
wondered, and gazed on vs, some pittying our cases, others said, burne
those heretikes. [Sidenote: Robert Barret and Iohn Gilbert burned.] When
we had sit there two houres, we had a sermon made to vs: after which
one called Bresinia, secretarie to the Inquisition, went vp into the
pulpit with the processe, and called Robert Barret and Iohn Gilbert,
whom two familiars of the Inquisition brought from the scaffold before
the Iudges, where the secretarie read the sentence, which was that they
should be burnt, and so they returned to the scaffold, and were burnt.
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