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Page 5
... prisoners are kept for a long time , till they themselves turn their own accusers , and declare the cause of their imprisonment ; for they are neither told their crime , nor confronted with witnesses . As soon as they are imprisoned ...
... prisoners are kept for a long time , till they themselves turn their own accusers , and declare the cause of their imprisonment ; for they are neither told their crime , nor confronted with witnesses . As soon as they are imprisoned ...
Page 6
... prisoner is attended with a fami- liar of the Inquisition ; and those to be burnt have also a Jesuit on each hand , who is continually preaching to them to abjure . After the prisoners come a troop of familiars on horseback , and after ...
... prisoner is attended with a fami- liar of the Inquisition ; and those to be burnt have also a Jesuit on each hand , who is continually preaching to them to abjure . After the prisoners come a troop of familiars on horseback , and after ...
Page 7
... prisoners to be burnt , with a quantity of dry furze about them . The stakes of the professed , that is , such as persist in their heresy , are about four yards high , having a small board towards the top for the prisoner to be seated ...
... prisoners to be burnt , with a quantity of dry furze about them . The stakes of the professed , that is , such as persist in their heresy , are about four yards high , having a small board towards the top for the prisoner to be seated ...
Page 8
... prisoner by a Captain Plinket , of the rebel army , near Mud Fort Nied , and sentenced to suffer death : that by her means he was enabled to escape , with 22 American deserters , to whom she served arms and ammunition , and , on their ...
... prisoner by a Captain Plinket , of the rebel army , near Mud Fort Nied , and sentenced to suffer death : that by her means he was enabled to escape , with 22 American deserters , to whom she served arms and ammunition , and , on their ...
Page 15
... prisoners to Evander , to be sacrificed at the funeral pile of his son Pallas . ᏚᏅ The Trojans imagined , that it was necessary to shed blood at the tombs of the dead , iu order to appease them , and so prevalent was this superstition ...
... prisoners to Evander , to be sacrificed at the funeral pile of his son Pallas . ᏚᏅ The Trojans imagined , that it was necessary to shed blood at the tombs of the dead , iu order to appease them , and so prevalent was this superstition ...
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