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.

The Contents of the Chapters.

• CHAP. 1. Motives which induced me to publish this Relation.
• Ch. 2. The Apparent causes of my Imprisonment.
• Ch. 3. Of the Visit which I made to the Commissary of the Inquisition to Accuse myself, and ask Ad∣vice of him.
• Ch. 4. Contai••ing the true causes of my Imprisonment, and how they arrested me.
• Ch. 5. Description of the Prison. I writ to the Inquisitors, who returned me no answer. Ex∣treme misery of the Prisoners.
• Ch. 6. The return of the Father Commissary. They remove me to Goa.
• Ch. 7. Departure from Daman. We pass to Bacaim, and stay there. Our Arrival at Goa.
• Ch. 8. How I was conducted to the Inquisition, and what is done to them who are shut up in Prison.
• Ch. 9. Description of the Inquisition of Goa.
• Ch. 10. In what manner the Prisoners of the Inquisition are treated.
• Ch. 11. Wherein is treated of the Officers of the Inquisition.
• Ch. 12. In what manner the Officers of the Inquisition behave themselves towards the Prisoners.
• Ch. 13. Of the Formalities which are observed in the Inquisition.
• Ch. 14. Of the Injustice which is committed by the Inquisition, in respect of Persons accused of Iudaism.
• Ch. 15. Wherein is farther treated of the Formalities, which are obseeved in the Inquisition.
• Ch. 16. Other kinds of Injustice which are ordinarily committed in the Inquisition.
• Ch. 17. Some particulars concerning the Officers of the Inquisition.
• Ch. 18. In what manner I was led the first time to Audience, and what they said to me:
• Ch. 19. My second and third Audience.
• Ch. 20. How Despair induced me to attempt my life.
• Ch. 21. New excesses to which my despair carried me.
• Ch. 22. My fourth Audience, in which the Promoter formeth against me Conclusions of suffering Death.
• Ch. 23. They carry me yet several times to Audience: Diverse observations upon the Proceedings of the Inquisition.
• Ch. 24. How I perceived that the Auto dafe was to be performed on the morrow, and what Ha∣bits were given to us to appear in this Cer••mony.
• Ch. 25. Of the Preperations to the Act of Faith, and the diverse Ornaments which are distributed to the Criminals, according to the diversity of their Crimes.
• Ch. 26. How we went in Procession to go to the Act of Faith. The Order of this Ceremony.
• Ch. 27. Containing what was observed in the place wherein the Act of Faith was celebrated.
• Ch. 28. They Absolve us from Excommunication, and deliver those to the Secula•• Power who were to be burned: What was observed upon this occasion.
• Ch. 29. My last enlargement from the Inquisition. They bring us into a House in the Town, to cause us to be there some time instructed.
• Ch. 30. They bring me again to the Inquisition, to receive the Pennances which were imposed up∣on me.
• Ch. 31. Containing some Observations upon all that hath been hitherto said.
• Ch. 32. History of Joseph Pereira de Montes.
• Ch. 33. Of what happened to some other Persons, who together with me were enlarged at the Act of Faith.
• Ch. 34. My departure from Goa, my arrival first at Brasil, and then at Lisbon.
• Ch. 35. They bring me to the Gallere. A description of that place.
• Ch. 36. I presented diverse Petitions to the Inquisition to obtain my Liberty, which is at last grante•• to me.
• Ch. 37. My departure from Lisbon, and arrival in France.
• Ch. 38. The History of a Gentleman, which will serve to shew the Spirit of the Holy Office.

FINIS.