1697 Portuguese Inquisition of GOA India, Torture, Heretics, Muslims, DUTCH

PRINTED 1697 THE EYE-WITNESS REPORT TO THE GOA INQUISITION
Tortured people beaten with instruments having sharp teeth.

Dellon, Charles. Histoire de l Inquisition de Goa.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1697.

Title printed in red and black and with engraved device, 6 engraved plates, some folding, toning and spotting, early calf boards worn, front board lose and patched, rear board tender.

The Goa Inquisition was the office of the Inquisition acting in the Indian state of Goa and the rest of the Portuguese empire in Asia.

It was established in 1560, briefly suppressed from 1774 to 1778, and finally abolished in 1812.

The Goan Inquisition is considered a blot on the history of Roman Catholicism in India.

Based on the records that survive, H. P. Salomon and I. S. D. Sassoon state that between the Inquisitions beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, some 16,202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition.

Of this number, it is known that 57 were sentenced to death and executed in person another 64 were burned in effigy.

Others were subjected to lesser punishments or penance, but the fate of many of the Inquisition's victims is unknown.
The victims of such inhuman laws of the Inquiry Commission included a French traveler named Charles Dellon.

He was an eyewitness to the atrocities, cruelty and reign of terror unleashed by priests.

He published a book in 1687 describing the lot of helpless victims.

While he was in jail, he had heard the cries of tortured people beaten with instruments having sharp teeth.

All these details are noted in Dellons book, L Inquisition de Goa, The Inquisition of Goa.