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.

CHAP. XXXIV. (Book 34)

My departure from Goa, my arrival first at Brasil, and then at Lisbon.

I Was led with Irons on my Feet into a Ship, which was then in the Road, ready to set sail for Portugal. They put me into the hands of the Master of the Ship, who was charged to deliver me to the Inqui∣sition of Lisbon. And the Captain having received his last dispatches, we weighed Anchor the 27th of Ianuary 1676. and the same day my Irons was taken off. Our Voyage was prosperous as far as Brasil, where we arrived in May. As soon as they had cast Anchor in the Bay of All Saints, the Master under whose Guard I was, caused me to land with him, and brought me to the Palace of the Governour, and from thence to the common Prison, where he delivered me into the hands of the Jaylor.

I was detained in this Prison all the while the Ship stayed in the Ha∣ven; but by the favour of some Friends, whom I gained in this Coun∣try, I obtained, during my stay, the liberty of going out of Prison in the day time, and being shut up only in the night. The Prison of this Town is the most proper of all those which I had hitherto seen, except those of the Holy Office. Beside the low Rooms, which are tolerably clean and lightsome, there are above Stairs diverse Rooms for Persons less guilty, more rich, or better recommended. There is also a Chappel wherein Mass is celebrated upon Sundays and Holidays. And there are in this Town so good a number of charitable Persons, that the Prisoners suffer

no want. We re-imbarqued in the beginning of September to go for Lisbon; but this last passage was not so favourable, as was that from the Indies to Brasil.

There happened to me an accident, during this Voyage, which deser∣veth to be here mentioned. Approaching one day to the Holy Table, to receive the adoreable Body of Jesus Christ, he from whose hands I re∣ceived it, who was a Cordelier of the observant Friers, observed that I shut my Eyes, while he pronounced those words, Domine non sub dignus; and although I had no other intention in this action, than of humbling my self in the presence of my God; this good Father, who had already entertained a bad opinion of me, because I had been in the Inquisition, so ill interpreted this mark of my Devotion, that he could not forbear from reproaching me many days after, and telling me that he had no reason to doubt but that I was still an Heretick, since I vouchsafed not so much as to look upon our Lord, when he was presented to me in the Com∣munion, I leave you to think whether the judgment, which this Reli∣gious Person made then of me, was not of the number of those which are called rash? However, I endeavoured to defend my self, and de∣clare my intention to him; he always assured me, that after an action of that nature, he could not any longer retain a favourable opinion of me.