10 INTERNAL AFFAIRS. PART had SO often been the objects of outrage ; and they
- — could only be appeased by the archbishop of Sara-
gossa, riding through the streets, and proclaiming that no time should be lost in detecting and punish- ing the assassins. Cruel perse- This Dromise was abundantly fulfilled ; and wide cutions. J- -' ' was the ruin occasioned by the indefatigable zeal, with which the bloodhounds of the tribunal followed up the scent. In the course of this persecution, two hundred individuals perished at the stake, and a still greater number in the dungeons of the Inqui- sition ; and there was scarcely a noble family in Aragon but witnessed one or more of its members condemned to humiliating penance in the autos da fe. The immediate perpetrators of the murder ~ were all hanged, after suffering the amputation of their right hands. One, who had appeared as evi- dence against the rest, under assurance of pardon, had his sentence so far commuted, that his hand was not cut off till after he had been hanged. It was thus that the Holy Ofifice interpreted its prom- ises of grace. ^ Arbues received all the honors of a martyr. His ashes were interred on the spot where he had been assassinated. ^° A superb mausoleum was erected 9 Llorente, Hist. del'Inquisition, none of the conspirators were ever torn. i. chap. G, art. 5. — Blancas, brought to trial, they all perished Aragonensium Rerum Commenta- miserably within a year, in dilFer- rii, (Caesaraugusta;, 1588,) p. 200. ent ways, by the judgment of God. Among those, who after a tedious (Hist, de Espana, torn. ii. p. 308.) imprisonment were condemned to Unfortunately for the effect of tiiis do penance in an auto da fe, was a moral, Llorente, who consulted the nephew of king Ferdinand, Don original processes, must be receiv- James of Navarre. Mariana, wil- ed as the better authority of the ling to point the tale with a suitable two. moral, informs us, that, although ^^ According to Paramo, when
