the terrors of the stake. The only thing that moved him, was the sight of his wife in the garb of a penitent; and the look which he gave, (for he could not speak,) as he passed her to go to the place of execution, seemed to say, "This is hard to bear!" He listened without emotion to the friars who teazed him with their exhortations to repent; but when at their instigation his former associate and instructor began to address him in the same strain, he threw upon him a glance of disdain, which froze the words upon his recreant lips. Herezuelo and his wife, Leonor de Cisneros, were divided in their death, but it was in the time only, not in the manner of it. Leonor was only 22 years age when she was thrown into the Inquisition; separated from her husband, and kept in ignorance of his resolutions, or perhaps deceived into the belief that she would find him among the penitents, she suffered herself to be overcome by the

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persuasions of the monks, and renounced with the hand that truth which she continued to believe with the heart. But Leonor was not long in recovering from the shock. The parting look of her husband never departed from her eyes; the reflection that she had inflicted a pang on his heart, during the arduous conflict which he had to maintain, fanned the flame of attachment to the reformed religion which secretly burned in her breast; and having resolved in dependence on that strength which is made perfect in weakness, to emulate the example of constancy set by one so dear to her, she resolutely broke off the course of penance on which she had entered. She was again thrown into the secret prisons. During eight years that she was kept in confinement, every effort was made, but in vain to induce her to renew her recantation. At last she was brought out and publicly burnt.

I must just glance at the history of Don Carlos de Seso; for the whole deeply interesting recital I must again refer you to the "Reformation in Spain," by Dr. M'Crie.

This distinguished nobleman had performed important services for Charles V. He was held in great honour by that monarch, through whom he obtained in marriage a descendant of the royal family of Castille and Leon. De Seso was not less elevated by dignity of character, mental accomplishments, and decorum of manners, than by his birth and connexions. He most zealously promoted the cause of reformation by the circulation of books, and by personal instructions. He was at the head of those devoted to death. His conduct during the whole of his imprisonment, and in the formidable scene by which it was terminated, was worthy of

his noble character, and the active part he had taken in religious reform. In the examinations which he underwent, he never varied, nor sought to excuse himself by affixing blame to those whom he knew his judges were anxious to condemn.

When informed of his sentence on the night before his execution, he called for pen, ink, and paper, and having written a confession of his faith, gave it to the officer, saying "this is the true faith of the Gospel, as opposed to that of the church of Rome which has been corrupted for ages in this faith I wish to die, and in the remembrance and lively belief of the passion of Jesus Christ, to offer to God my body now reduced so low." "It would be difficult (says one who read this document in the archives of the inquisition) to convey an idea of the uncommon vigour of sentiment with which he filled two sheets of paper, though he was then in

the presence of death. The whole of that night and next morning was spent by the friars in vain attempts to make him recant. He appeared in the procession with a gag in his mouth, which remained till he was at the place of execution. It was removed after he was bound to the stake, and the friars again exhorted him to confess. He replied, in a loud voice, and with great firmness, "I could demonstrate to you that you ruin yourselves by not imitating my example; but there is no time. Executioners, light the pile which is to consume me." They obeyed, and De Seso expired in the flames without a struggle or a groan. He died in the 43d year

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One more specimen of the sufferings of the people of God must close my extracts from this interesting work. Dona Juana de Bohorques was a daughter of Don Pedro de Bohorques, and the wife of Don Francisco