History of the Reign of Ferdinand And Isabella volume 1
History of the Reign of Ferdinand And Isabella volume 1
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This promise was abundantly fulfilled; and wide was the ruin occasioned by the indefatigable zeal, with which the bloodhounds of the tribunal followed up the scent. In the course of his persecution, two hundred individuals perished at the stake, and a still greater number in the dungeons of the Inquisition; and there was scarcely a noble family in Aragon but witnessed one or more of its members condemned to humiliating penance in the autos da fe. The immediate perpetrators of the murder were al...l hanged, after suffering the amputation of their right hands. One, who had appeared as evidence against the rest, under assurance of pardon, had his sentence so far commuted, that his hand was not cut off till after he had been hanged. It was thus that the Holy Office interpreted its promises of grace. " Arbues received all the honors of a martyr. His ashes INQUISITION IN ARAGON. 287 were interred on the spot where he had been assassinated. " A superb mausoleum was erected over them, and, beneath his effigy, a base-rehef was sculptured representing his tragical death, with an inscription containing a suitable denunciation of the race of Israel.
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This promise was abundantly fulfilled; and wide was the ruin occasioned by the indefatigable zeal, with which the bloodhounds of the tribunal followed up the scent. In the course of his persecution, two hundred individuals perished at the stake, and a still greater number in the dungeons of the Inquisition; and there was scarcely a noble family in Aragon but witnessed one or more of its members condemned to humiliating penance in the autos da fe. The immediate perpetrators of the murder were al...l hanged, after suffering the amputation of their right hands. One, who had appeared as evidence against the rest, under assurance of pardon, had his sentence so far commuted, that his hand was not cut off till after he had been hanged. It was thus that the Holy Office interpreted its promises of grace. " Arbues received all the honors of a martyr. His ashes INQUISITION IN ARAGON. 287 were interred on the spot where he had been assassinated. " A superb mausoleum was erected over them, and, beneath his effigy, a base-rehef was sculptured representing his tragical death, with an inscription containing a suitable denunciation of the race of Israel.
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