Note 1770 — Chapter VIII · FINAL SHAPE OF THE TORTURE SYSTEM.

Damhouder. op. cit. cap. xl. No. 3.—Bigotry and superstition, especially, did not allow their victims to escape so easily. In accusations of sorcery, if appearances were against the prisoner—that is, if he were of evil repute, if he shed no tears during the torture, and if he recovered speedily after each application—he was not to be liberated because no confession could be wrung from him, but was to be kept for at least a year, “squaloribus carceris mancipandus et cruciandus, sæpissime etiam examinandus, præcipue sacratioribus diebus.”—Rickii Defens. Aq. Probæ cap. I. No. 22.