Excerpt from A new account of the East Indies. Edinburgh, 1727. 301.

Excerpt from A new account of the East Indies. Edinburgh, 1727. 301.

Christianity, Japan, torture, expulsion, persecution

Transcription: Many new Inventions were found out to torture the Christians, and the Priests were the first that made Trial of the Exquisiteness of their Pain. The poor Women and Virgins were torn Limb from Limb, by being tied to Stakes placed in the Ground, under the Branches of large Trees bended down, and their Limbs being fastned to the Stakes and Branches, by the Elasticity of the Branches they were torn to Pieces. Children were thrown down Precipices, and dasht to Pieces, and Infants were drowned, and so Romish Christianity ended in Japon, with a very dismal and tragical Catastrophe.

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies. Edinburgh: John Mosman, 1727. From the collection of the James Ford Bell Library

John Mosman

1727

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English

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Call #: 1727 Ha