John Frampton was a 16th-century
English merchant from the
West Country, who settled in
Spain
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, was imprisoned and tortured by the
Inquisition
The Inquisition was a Catholic Inquisitorial system#History, judicial procedure where the Ecclesiastical court, ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly it became the name for various med ...
, and escaped from
Cádiz
Cádiz ( , , ) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated fr ...
in 1567. He became a translator of
Spanish works, partly inspired by revenge.
His publications have a markedly anti-Spanish tone
and include:
* 1577:
Nicolás Monardes, , translated from the 1565 Spanish edition
* 1578:
Fernández de Enciso, ''Geography''
* 1579: ''
The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo'', translated from the 1503 Castilian translation
* 1579:
Bernardino de Escalante, ''A discourse of the Navigation which the Portugales doe Make to the Realmes and Provinces of the East Partes of the Worlde, and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the Dominion of China'': thought to be the second European book (although small) primarily dedicated to China, and the first of them to be made available in English
* 1580:
Nicolás Monardes, ''
Ioyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde'': a new edition enlarged on the basis of the 1574 Spanish edition
* 1581:
Pedro de Medina, ''Art of Navigation''
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Spanish–English translators
Victims of the Inquisition
English torture victims
English escapees
Escapees from Spanish detention
16th-century English translators
16th-century English merchants
Anti-Spanish sentiment
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