"... inquisitor received a legal oath..."; June 9, 1494

There was another witness that offered testimony in the case of Marina González, June 9, 1494. This witness was interred in the same prison that the accused was and could comment on her actions, behaviors, statements. How this statement, from this witness was garnered isn't detailed.

"... reverend lord Fernando Rodríguez del Barco, inquisitor, received a legal oath from Mayor del Castillo, wife of Juan Mendez, who is a prisoner in the Holy Inquisition's jail. By virtue of which they asked her to say what she knows about Marina González, wife of Francisco de Toledo, spice merchant, resident of Ciudad Real, who also is a prisoner in the jail, and why Marina González does not want to eat. The witness has heard Marina say many times she does not want to eat because they have to kill her and rip her to shreds. The witness has seen her eat sometimes and she is well; and other times the witness has heard Marina say that she does not want to eat since they have to rip her to shreds. Sometimes the witness has heard from other prisoners that when they tell Marina to commend herself to God and His Blessed Mother, she becomes silent and will not answer them at all. And this witness believes that Marina does not want to eat, that she has no fever, and that she is deliberately killing herself."

Asked if she had seen Marina 'in her right mind', the witness said sometimes so and sometimes not. Asked whether when she stopped eating, did she seem well, the witness said that she was well but that she thought a lot about who might testify against her. The editor reminds us in a footnote that the accused did not have any knowledge of who may have testified against her.
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from The Spanish Inquisition 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources, edited and translated by Lu Ann Homza, Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006