![]() The Conde de Castlemar smiled and inclined his head in a token of reverence, his fat lips curving in a cruel rictus of anticipation. “I, of course shall witness the interrogation.” And since you are witness to the sins of which you accuse her to the Holy Inquisition, then it is only just that you be her interrogator as well.” The fat monk grinned crudely. The fat friar untied the strings of the velvet purse and let the golden doubloons clink out onto the table, his eyes glistening with greed and lust. Moreover, as I have told you, she is a brazen child who, though a daughter of nobility, may have committed more grievous sins.” Since the death of her parents, she has ignored the order of the King to accept me as her guardian, that her estates may be under the proper and rightful protection of the Crown. “We are agreed, then, Friar Bartholomew,” the short, fat Conde de Castlemar eyed the black-robed monk as he tossed a purse on the table. ![]() My story is of such a case, in the year 1492, and it illustrate this policy. Often noblemen of power and wealth conspired with the black and gray robed monks to wreak their own personal vengeance on helpless men and boys, women and girls, punishing enemies in the name of the Church and paying money to the Inquisition to be permitted to pose as inquisitors and torturers. The cruel power of the Inquisition, whose bondage and suffering and tortures went on in secrecy behind the gray cloistered walls of the great monasteries in Toledo and Madrid, was not limited alone to heretics. ![]() Author’s Notes: Please post any comments to French Connection BBS (91) or Leather Rose BBS (31).
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