A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[8] Vida de Don Diego Duque de Estrada (Mem. hist. español, XIII. 55-60.)

Estrada relates that, after the torture, he paid the executioner two hundred ducats to preserve him from being crippled. The process was very painful, consisting of stretching the limbs and rubbing with an ointment composed of equal parts of fat of man, snake, bear, lion, viper and frog, melted over a slow fire with oil of sweet almonds, of pericon, camomile, rosado and balsam of the East. The treatment was successful.

For a frightful case of torture in Antwerp, as late as 1792, extending at intervals over more than a year, see Eugène Hubert, La Torture dans les Pays-Bas Autrichiens, pp. 124-9 (Bruxelles, 1897).

[9] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 939, fol. 121.

[10] Instrucciones de 1561, § 21 (Arguello, fol. 30)

[11] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Toledo, Leg. 99, n. 25.

[12] Ibidem, Leg. 54, n. 356.—Boletin, XXIII, 335-7.—Instrucciones de 1561, § 50 (Arguello, fol. 34).

[13] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 3, n. 7, fol. 393.

[14] Pablo García, Orden de Processar, fol. 27-8.

[15] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.