The history of the Inquisition, as it is exercised at Goa / Written in French, by the ingenious Monsieur Dellon, who laboured five years under those severities. With an account of his deliverance. Translated into English.

  • Dellon, Gabriel, 1649-
Date:
1732
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    to it they will find Pretexts enough not to keep it, which Ï will prove by an Fxample. I knew at Surrat a religious Perfon of the Order of St. Dominick, called Father Hyacinthe, who for many Years had cjuitted his Convent and his Habit, living in a very diffolute and fcan- dalous Manner. Ic happened afterwards that a Woman with whom he had lived along Time, and by whom he had divers Children, dyed 5 this Lofs touched him, and produced in him a Refo- lution of changing his Life. He refolved then to return into his Convent at Bcicciim : but be- caufe all the Portugueze, and above all, the Prie its and religious Perfons, who have palled any con- fiderable time among tne Infidels, aie obliged in returning into the Vortuguefe Dominions, to prê¬ tent themfelves to the Inquijïtioîi, and make there all exact Declaration of the manner of their pad: Life, if they would prevent their being compel¬ led to it by Force : This Religious, whofe Confcience perhaps was touched with fomething relating to the Holy Office, before he left Sur¬ feit wrote to the Inquisitor at Goa foi a lafeCon- duft, that fo he might come to prefent and ac¬ cule himfelf, which was granted him ; with this poor A durance he departed and came to Bacaim, where lie was not differed to refume the religi¬ ous Habit, without having firft cleared himfelf before the Inquifttors, upon which he went to Goa, prelented himfelf at the Table of the Holy Office, whither he was feveral Times called, and at la ft having been fufficiently examined, he was abfolved, and fent back to the Vicar-General of his