Abstract
This chapter follows the fortunes of three very different foreign printing-workers in Spain who were arrested by the Inquisition: Antonio de la Bastida, a puller from Albi; Enrique Loe, a compositor from Antwerp; and Pierre de Rinz, a compositor from Reims. The discurso de la vida or potted autobiography demanded by the inquisitors from the first of these is reproduced in full. Their training and experience in their native countries is examined as well as their relatively high level of education. They were all itinerant craftsmen who travelled thousands of miles in search of work and who had worked in Reformist centres like Antwerp, Lyon, La Rochelle, and Geneva as well as Catholic ones. They had chequered careers as students, servants, soldiers, and printers before travelling to Spain where they worked in numerous presses.
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