Lithgow's nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world containing an exact description of the customs, laws, religion, policies and government of emporers, kings, and princes : also of the countries and cities, trades, rivers, and commerce in all places through which he travell'd : also an account of the tortures he suffered under the Spanish Inquisition by racking and other inhumane usages, for his owning the Protestant religion : together with his miraculous deliverance from the cruelties of the papists, which far exceeded any of the heathen countries herein largely described.