“A physician and surgeon, who were in waiting as usual, to give their opinion as to the safety or danger of continuing those operations, that the inquisitors might not commit an irregularity by murdering the patient, were called in.  Being friends of the sufferer, they gave their opinion that he had strength enough remaining to bear more.  By this means they saved him from a Suspension of the torture, which would have been followed by a repetition, on his recovery, under the pretext of continuation.  The cords were therefore pulled a third time, and this ended the torture.  He was dressed in his own clothes, carried back to prison, and, after about seventy days, when the wounds were healed, condemned as one suspected of Judaism.  They could not say convicted, because he had not confessed; but they sentenced him to wear the sambenito [Footnote:  This sambenito (Suco bendito or blessed sack,) is a garment (or kind of scapulary according to some writers,) worn by penitents of the least criminal class in the procession of an Auto de Fe, (a solemn ceremony held by the Inquisition for the punishment of heretics,) but sometimes worn as a punishment at other times, that the condemned one might be marked by his neighbors, and ever bear a signal that would affright and scare by the greatness of the punishment and disgrace; a plan, salutary it may be, but very grievous to the offender.  It was made of yellow cloth, with a St. Andrew’s cross upon it, of red.  A rope was sometimes put around the neck as an additional mark of infamy.

Those who were condemned to be burnt were distinguished by a habit of the same form, called Zamarra, but instead of the red cross were painted flames and devils, and sometimes an ugly portrait of the heretic himself,—­a head, with flames under it.  Those who had been sentenced to the stake, but indulged with commutation of the penalty, had inverted flames painted on the livery, and this was called fuego revuelto, “inverted fire.”

Upon the head of the condemned was also placed a conical paper cap, about three feet high, slightly resembling a mitre, called corona or crown.  This was painted with flames and devils in like manner with the dress.] or penitential habit for two years, and then be banished for life from Seville.”

APPENDIX III.

Inquisition of Goa—­imprisonment of M. Dellon, 1673.

“M.  Dellon a French traveller, spending some time at Damaun, on the north-western coast of Hindostan, incurred the jealousy of the governor and a black priest, in regard to a lady, as he is pleased to call her, whom they both admired.  He had expressed himself rather freely concerning some of the grosser superstitions of Romanism, and thus afforded the priest, who was also secretary of the Inquisition, an occasion of proceeding against him as a heretic.  The priest and the governor united in a representation to the