JOSEPH GASULL, _Presbyter Notary_.
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In the city of Gerona, on the twentyfifth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seven, before Dr Narciso Coll, Presbyter, Commissary
commissioned for this investigation, and me, Joseph Gasull, Presbyter
Notary, sworn to preserve secrecy, and perform faithfully our duties,
appeared, and made oath to declare the truth and preserve secrecy,
Eulalia Forcat, and being present in the quality of honest and religious
persons, the Rev. Gines Torrent and the Rev. Thomas Parella, both
Presbyter Beneficadores of the Holy Church, sworn to preserve secrecy.
She was
Questioned, if she remembered having made a declaration before the
Ministers of the Holy Office against any person for crimes within her
knowledge.
Answered, by repeating, substantially, the foregoing declaration of the
twentieth of June current, made before the Commissary and Notary whose
names are signed below. She requested that it might be produced and
read.
The deponent was then informed that the Promotor Fiscal of the Holy
Office presented her as a witness _ad perpetuam rei memoriam_ in a cause
under his direction against the persons referred to in the said
declaration. She was directed to give attention while it was read, and
if she found anything to add or alter respecting the contents of it, to
do it in such a manner as to declare the truth, as what she now uttered
might operate to the prejudice of the aforesaid persons. The declaration
made before the abovementioned Commissary and Notary, on the twentieth
of June current was then read _de verbo ad verbum_, the deponent hearing
and understanding the same.
She declared it was her declaration, and correctly recorded; that she
had nothing to add or alter respecting it, as it was the truth, and she
attested it for the same, and if necessary was ready to repeat the whole
anew against the said Joseph Jalbert, not out of malice or ill will, but
solely to discharge her conscience. Secrecy was enjoined upon her which
she promised to observe, and the deponent not being able to write, I,
the said Commissary, sign in her name, along with the honest persons.
NARCISO COLL, _Commissary,
and for the said Witness_.
GINES TORRENT, _Presbyter,
in the same name_.
THOMAS PARELLA, _Presbyter_.