# Concerning The Places In Which Those Who Fell Under The Power Of The Inquisition Were Imprisoned.

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As regards the place where each was separately
confined and the narrowness of the same, it was as
follows: If it is below, it is wet, damp, and filthy,
so that it were better to call it a grave, than a jail
or a prison. If above, it is warm in summer, yea,
hot as an oven. When there are many prisoners,
generally two or three are shut up together in each
hovel or hole, who, when they lie down to rest,
have not as much room left, as to once stir, save
perhaps the space of a foot, where stands a vessel
for their necessities and a pitcher with water, to
quench their thirst. Sitting and lying thus day and
night in darkness, these miserable beings emaciate
and pine away by hunger and grief, to such a degree,
that scarcely the skin remains over their
bones; besides that they are so severely tortured,
racked and drawn with various cruel instruments,
that their limbs are drawn from their joints. Same
page.



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