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The article focuses on the monograph "This Is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings...in the Inquisition in the Island of Malta," (1662) by English Quakers Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers. The women were held by the Roman Inquisition in a Maltese prison from 1659 to 1663 by orders issued by Cardinal Barberino in Rome, Italy. The author explores ideas of the women's Britishness versus the Continentalism of their male captors; the women's Quaker religious beliefs, which included their characterization of themselves as martyrs and prophets; and the Catholic beliefs of the Inquisitors.