en the Viceroy and his officers came upon the scaffold by
another flight of steps, closely followed by the Inquisitors, who took
the chief places and made much show of their authority. Then three
hundred friars, wearing the garb of their various orders, black, white,
gray, and brown, were marshaled to their places, and all was ready for
the judgments.

Now, we were so sorely exercised in our minds at that time because of
the agony of sitting there and wondering when our turn would come and
what our fate would be, that I have utterly forgotten many of the names
and sentences of my unfortunate companions. Some still come back to me,
because their sentences were heavier than those which have escaped my
memory.

The manner of judgment was after this fashion. The clerk to the
Inquisitors calling out our names in a loud voice, we were commanded to
stand up in our places and hear the judgment of the Holy Office upon us.

Thomas White, Cornelius Johnson, Peter Brown, Henry More, all Englishmen
shipwrecked on those inhospitable coasts or captured at sea, were
condemned to three hundred lashes on horseback, and to serve in the
galleys for ten years.

William Collier, Thomas Ford, John Page, two hundred lashes and eight
years in the galleys.

Stephen Brown and Nicholas Peterson, a Dutchman, one hundred lashes and
six years in the galleys.

Then came some forty or fifty men whose names I have forgotten, who were
condemned to a lesser number of lashes and less servitude in the
galleys, and after them some four or five who were adjudged to serve in
monasteries for various terms of years, wearing their San-benitos all
the time.

And then, after two or three hours of weary waiting, for they did
everything with exceeding tediousness and much ceremony, they called
upon Pharaoh Nanjulian and myself, and we stood up together to receive
sentence. And then we suddenly knew that God had not deserted us, for
the sentence was a lighter one than any that we had heard passed. We
were to serve two years in the galleys, submitting ourselves to the
chaplain for admonition and instruction. So that was over and we could
breathe freely again.

Nevertheless the horrible work of that day was far from over, for it was
hardly begun. The torments, the murders, were yet to come.

William Moor, John Wood, and Hans Schewitzer, a German Lutheran, were
brought up for sentence and condemned, being pestilent and naughty
heretics, to be burned to ashes.