whilſt he roared aloud with the pain, telling him it was a juſt reward for the torture he had put him to a while ago, when he tugged at a tooth, till he broke it in his jaw. "Ah, for the love of heaven," cried Pedroſa, "have more pity on me; for the ſake of St. Nicolas de Tolentino, my holy patron, be net ſo unmerciful to a poor barber ſurgeon, and I will ſhave your worſhip's beard for nothing as long as I have life.” One of the meſſengers of the anditory came in, and bade the felow ſtrike off the priſoner's ſetters, for that the holy fathers were in council, and demanded him for Examination. “This is ſomething extraordinary," quoth the tormentor, “I ſhould not have expected it this twelvemonth to come.” Pedroſa's fetters were ſtruck off; ſome brandy was applied to ſtaunch the bleeding of his cheeks; his hands and face were waſhed, and a ſhort jacket of coarſe tikng thrown over him, and the meſſenger with an aſſiſtant taking him each under an arm, led him into a ſpacious chamber, where, at the head of a long table ſat his excellency the Inquiſidor General with ſix of his aſſeſſors, three on each ſide the chair of ſtate. The alguazil mayor, a ſecretary and two notaries with other officers of the holy council, were attending in their places.
The priſoner was placed behind a bar at the foot of the table between the meſſengers who brought him in, and having made his obeiſance to the awful preſence in the moſt ſupplicating manner, he was called upon, according to the uſual form of queſtions, by one of the junior judges to declare his name, parentage, profeſſion, age, place of abode, and to anſwer various interrogatories of the like trifling nature. His excellency the Inquiſidor General now opened his reverend lips, and in a ſolemn tone of voice, that penetrated to the heart of
