the apostacy of Francis Sega, was
absolutely false, for he had never offered to recant, but steadfastly
persisted in his faith, and was executed, a few days after Ricetti, in
the very same manner.

Francis Spinola, a protestant gentleman of very great learning, being
apprehended by order of the inquisitors, was carried before their
tribunal. A treatise on the Lord's supper was then put into his hands
and he was asked if he knew the author of it. To which he replied, I
confess myself to be the author of it, and at the same time solemnly
affirm, that there is not a line in it but what is authorized by, and
consonant to, the holy scriptures. On this confession he was committed
close prisoner to a dungeon for several days.

Being brought to a second examination, he charged the pope's legate, and
the inquisitors, with being merciless barbarians, and then represented
the superstitions and idolatries practised by the church of Rome in so
glaring a light, that not being able to refute his arguments, they sent
him back to his dungeon, to make him repent of what he had said.

On his third examination, they asked him if he would recant his errors!
To which he answered, that the doctrines he maintained were not
erroneous, being purely the same as those which Christ and his apostles
had taught, and which were handed down to us in the sacred writings. The
inquisitors then sentenced him to be drowned, which was executed in the
manner already described. He went to meet death with the utmost
serenity, seemed to wish for dissolution, and declaring, that the
prolongation of his life did but tend to retard that real happiness
which could only be expected in the world to come.

_An account of several remarkable individuals, who were martyred in
different parts of Italy, on account of their religion._

John Mollius was born at Rome, of reputable parents. At twelve years of
age they placed him in the monastery of Gray Friars, where he made such
a rapid progress in arts, sciences, and languages, that at eighteen
years of age he was permitted to take priest's orders.

He was then sent to Ferrara, where, after pursuing his studies six years
longer, he was made theological reader in the university of that city.
He now, unhappily, exerted his great talents to disguise the gospel
truths, and to varnish over the errors of the church of Rome. After some
years residence in Ferrara, he removed to the university of Bononia,
where he became a pr