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A16825	A compendiou[s regi]ster in metre contei[ning the] names, and pacient suffry[ngs of the] membres of Iesus Christ, a[nd the tor]mented; and cruelly burned [within] Englande, since the death o[f our] famous kyng, of immortal me[mory] Edvvarde the sixte: to the entr[ance] and begynning of the raign, of our s[o]ueraigne [and] derest Lady Elizabeth of Englande, Fraunce, and Ir[elande,] quene, defender of the faithe, ...	Brice, Thomas, d. 1570.	1559 (1559)	STC 3726; ESTC S109676	12,163	57

gatherynge of names but wyth lyfted eyes of the minde meditate vpō the omni potent power of God whiche hath geuen and wrought such constancie in his children in these oure dayes that euen in firie flambes and terrible tormentes they haue not ceased to inuocate and to extoll the name of their creator redemer and comforter accordynge to the sayinge of the. C. xlviii Psalme yonge men and maidens olde men and children haue set forth his worthy and excellent prayse to that the same iust and righteous God whiche for our sinnes corrected vs and gaue vs ouer into the handes of the most bloudy and viperous generatiō to be eaten like bread hath now of his mercie alone exalted the horne of his people Therefore al his sainctes shall praise him Fare well T. B. The maner how to vnderstande the letters and fygures INprimus the fygures whiche are alwayes foure in nūbre and ax placed in the myddle of the twoo strykes whiche goe betwene the verses within two short strikes signifie the yere wherein those persones were slayne vnder them conteyned And wher you see a lytle crosse on the out syde of the outmost lyne on the syde of the booke it signifieth the chaungyng of the yere as from M. D. L. iiii to M. D. L. v. and in such maner the letters which stand iii the lytle square place on the rightside of the booke signifieth the moneth wherein they died and for the playner vnderstandynge thereof I haue vsed twelue Letters for the twelue Monethes that is A. for Ianuary B. for February C. for March D. for April E. for May F. for Iune G. for Iuly H for August I. for Septēber K. for October L. for Nouēber M for December But where one letter standeth in y e litle square place an other is placed vnder it betwene the twoo lynes before y e verse be ended it signifieth the chaūgyng of the moneth so that the person or perfones where againste the letter so chaunged doeth stande was put to death in that moneth which that letter doth signifie And where as in the thirde verse and no where els there standeth fygures on the righte side betwene the twoo lynes that giueth to vnderstande that Hunter Higbye Picket and Knight which are placed in one lyne were brent in three sundrye dayes The fygures whiche standeth in the litle square place on the lefte side of the boke is but the sum of the verses But those which stande betwene the two lines on the left side of the booke signifieth the daye of the moneth wherein that person or persones died where agaynste those fygures stande the fygures whyche stande withoute both the lynes on the toppe of the righte syde signifieth the Folio or numbre of the sydes but the figures whiche stande vnderneath the neither strike betwene the twoo lynes is the numbre of the persones murthered on that syde thys is doen gentle Reader that thou shouldest vnderstande the yere moneth and day wherin euerye person dyed accordynge to the knowledge that I haue learned Also in some places where you shall see a name or names stande withoute fygures that signifieth the certayne daye to bee vnknowen Some therefore perchaunce wyll iudge muche rasshnes in me to write with ignoraunce to whome with reuerence I answere that as I receyued the names regestred and gathered by a good gentleman euen so at a frendes desier I haue putte theym in metre in this litle booke thinking that by pleasauntnes of reading easines of prices they myghte be the moore largely blowen knowen for my desier is that all menne shoulde participate thys my trauayle And were the Authour and endightynge halfe so worthye as the matter then woulde I moste earnestly wyshe and desyre that it myght bee conueyed and delyuered to the Quenes maiesties owne handes wherein her grace mighte see what vnmercifull ministers had charge ouer the poore shepe who woluishely at theyr wylles deuoured the same And also what ruyne and decay of her graces subiectes that myghte haue been they haue broughte to passe therein might her grace see as in a glasse howe that blood thyrstie generation neither spared hore headed auncient age which al men ought to honour neyther youth nor middle age neither wyfe nor widow yongeman nor tender virgins but lyke the vnnaturall egges of Astiages that tyraunte destroye and spyll the blood of all besydes stockynge rackyng and whippyng of the yonger sorte whome shame woulde not suffer to kyll as some are well ynoughe knowen and I am not all together ignoraunt Should such tyrannycall tragidies bee kept one houre from the handes of so noble and vertuous a gouer nesse whose princelye and natural hart I doubt not shulde haue occasion thereby to be in both hindes bothe heauie and ioyfull heauy for the innocent bloud spilt but ioiful for y t the prayses of her God our God shalbe honoured therby while the world doth endure I dout whether her grace inwardlye rapte vp wyth Paule Ihon in diuine science wyl brast out and say Oh happy Latymer Cranmer Hoper Rogers Far rer Tailer Sanders Philpot Cardmaker Bradford c. you membres of Christ you faithful fathers and preachyng pastours you that haue not defiled your selues with abhominacion but haue washed your garmentes white in the bloud of the lambe you that in fyrye tormentes with Steuen haue called vpon the name of youre redemer and so finished youre lyues you that now are clothed in white garmēts of inno cency with crownes of consolation and palmes of victory in your handes folowyng the Lambe whether so euer he goeth Or elles in anguishe of soule syghyngly say oh thou tyrannous and vnmercyfull world thou monstrous vnnaturall generation what deuyl inflamed thy mynde wyth such malicious mischief to tor ment and shedde the bloude of suche innocent lyuers perfect preachers and worthye councelours learned ministers diligent diuines perfecte personages and faythfull shepherdes they were constant confessours before but thou with the Romain Emperour thoughtest to preuent the determinacion of god in making them martyrs to be the sooner with their Christe whome they so muche talked of oh cruell Neroes that coulde kyll through malice suche worthye men as haue often preached to oure dere father and brother the euerlasting ghospell of GOD. Coulde neyther honourable age innocent syngle lyfe chast matrimonye inuiolate virginitie nor yet pitie morte you to cease sheadyng of bloude alas to muche vnnaturalnes whether the sighte of thys symple booke I saye shoulde bryng to her graces naturall heart the passions of heauines or ioye I doubte but I thynke rather both Therfore would to God it weare worthy to enter into the hands of so noble and naturall a Princes and Queene whom the Lord of his eternal and foreseyng determination hath now placed in this royal dignitie to the redresse of such vnnatural and bloudy factes as in thys booke are contayned But for asmuch as some imperfection is and may easly be in this gathering I commende it to

¶ A compendious Register in Metre conteining the names and pacient suffryngs of the membres of Iesus Christ. and the tormented and cruelly burned within Englande since the death of our famous kyng of immortall memory EDVVARDE the sixte to the entrance and beginnyng of the raign of our soueraigne derest Lady ELIZABETH of Englande Fraunce and Ir●●●● quene defender of the faithe to 〈◊〉 highnes truly and properly apperteineth next and immediatly vnder God the supreme power and authoritie of the Churches of Englande and Irelande Sobeit Anno. 1559. Apoca. 7. ANd one of the angels sayeth S. Ihō spa●… sayinge 〈◊〉 what are theie whiche are ar●… in longe whyte Ga●…entes and when●… came they before the people before sealed by the angel And I sai●…d ●…o him Lorde thou ●…otest and he saied vnto me these are thei which 〈◊〉 great tribulatiō and washed their garmentes and made theym whyte by th●… blo●… the lambe therefore are thei in the ●…esence of the Throne of GOD and serue him day ●…nd 〈◊〉 in his Temple a●…●…at sytteth in 〈◊〉 Throne wyll 〈◊〉 amonge them 〈◊〉 To the righte honourable Lorde Par Marques of Northampion Thmas Brice your lordshippes dayly Oratour wisiheth cōtinuall encrease of grace concorde consolation in hym that is was and is to come euen the first and the laste AMEN IT maie please your goodnesse honorable Lorde to receiue in good parte the ●…ttie labour of my pen whiche albe it the rudenes quantite therof procureth not to be dedicate to so honourable a personage yet the matter it self is of soche worthines as duely deserueth to be graeuen in golde but who goeth about so finely to depict with Appelles instrumēte this saied Regester thinkyng to excede the rest not I poor wretch bicause I am assured that soch a worthie woorke as thereof maie bee written can not neither shall passe vntouched emong so many godlie learned but were it that no man hereafter shuld in more ample and learned maner set foorthe the same yet should my presumption if I so mente bee tourned to reproche for this I beleue that thei be in soche sorte regestred in the booke of the liuing as passeth either pen ynke or memorie to declare This my simplicitie and to bolde attēpt might moue your honor to cōiecture in me moche rudenesse or at the least might perswade me so to thinke but that experience hath shewed me the humilitie and gentlenes of your long tried pacience the certain knowledge whereof hath pricked me forwarde in this my pretence and beyng thereto requested of a faithfull brother frend I haue with more industrie then learnyng God knoweth finished thesame which beyng as I thought brought to good ende I desired according to the accustomed maner to dedicate thesame vnto soche one as would not contēpne so simple a gift And callyng you to mind right honorable lord I knewe none more mete first bicause youre knowledge in Christe teacheth you thesame godlie vertuous life whiche not onely your lordship but al other honorable c. oughte to ensue Secondly bicause these late yeres you haue had good experiēce of the troubles and miseries of the faithful which haue pacientlye embrased in their armes the comfortable although painefull crosse of Christ which in so great a nūbre is commonlye not so plenteous as commendable but what stand I praisyng this pa cience in them whiche yet deserueth the same seing y ● migh tie god his christ hath prepared frō euerlastyng for soche a glorious rich incomprehensible croune of felicitie continual cōfortes This my short simple worke I commēde and dedicate vnto youre Lordeship crauynge pardon at your handes for this my to homely and rude enterprise cōsidering that albeit golden frute ware offered in Peuter and by the handes of a simple man yet is the frute notwithstandyng stil precious and neither abased by the Peuter or giuer euen so honorable Lorde though the verses be simple and the giuer vnworthy yet the frute or mat ter is precious comfortable and good The order to attaine to the perfecte vnderstandyng of my mynde in settyng forthe thesame with figures and letters shal largely appere in this booke whiche I haue not onely dooen to make plaine vnto your honour the yere moneth and daie but also to all other that hereafter shall read it for that I doe pretend if God and fauour will permit it to vse the same as comō to the profit of al for which cause I haue al so placed a preface to y e reader But that it maye please youre honor in respecte of the premises to extende youre fauourable assistaunce to the manifest setting forth of thys short and simple woorke to the glorye of the great and myghtie God to the comfort of christians I as vnworthye and to bolde a suter most humbly craueth your Lordshyps ayde and supportation in the same especiallye to beare the rudenesse of my vnlearned style which alas I lament But nowe ceassyng to trouble your Lordshyppe anye longer this shall bee my continuall praier for you The wisedome of GOD direct your honour the mercie of God giue you spirituall power the holie ghost guide and comforte you with all fulnes of consolation in Christe Iesus Amē Your Lordships dayly oratour Thomas Brice To the gentle Reader mercye and peace MAy it please the gentle reader to take in good woorth thys shorte and simple regester conteyning the names of diuers althoughe not all bothe men women and virgins c. Which for the profession of Christ their Capitaine haue been moste miserablie afflicted tormented and prisoned and in fine either died by some occasion in prison or els erected in the charret of Elias since the. iiii day of February M. D. L. v. to the. xvii daye of Nouember M. D. L. viii wherein accordynge to the determinacion of our louynge most merciful father our long wisshed for and moste noble Queene Elizabeth was placed Gouernesse and Queene by generall Proclamacion to the greate comfort of all trew Englishe heartes This I commit to thy frendlye acceptatiō and fauourable scannynge gentle reader and all be it I doubt not but some of godly zeale both wise lear ned wil not neglect hereafter to set forth so worthy a worke namelye of the martyrdome and paciente sufferynges of Christes electe membres and also of the tyrannicall Tragedies of the vnmercifull ministers of Sathan yet at the request of a dere frend to whom loue and nature hathe linked me I coulde not withoute ingratitude denie his lawful desier attempting the same also the rather because it might be manifest to the eyes of the worlde and also put the learned of godly zeale in memory moore amplie to enlarge and at theyr good discretion to set forth the same pardon my rudenes therfore I beseche thee considerynge that wyll in the vnable is to bee estemed looke not vpō the basenes of the metre the trew nombre whereof can not easely be obserued in soche a

thy goodnes gentle reader besechyng thee not to bee to precise in perusynge the daye for it maye bee that eyther through my negligence or some other wrytyng before me we may misse so narrow a ma●…e suche as it is I commende vnto thee onely Iudge well 〈◊〉 The ooke to the Reader PEruse with pacience I thee praye My symple style and metre base The workes of GOD wyth wisedome waye The force of loue the strength of grace Loue caused GOD his grace to giue To suche as shoulde for hym be slayne Grace wrought in theym while thei did liue For loue to loue their Christ agayne Now grace is of such strength and might That nothing may the same withstande Grace putteth death and hell to flight And guydes vs to the lyuyng lande The force of loue also is suche That feare and payne it doeth expell Loue thynketh nothyng ouer muche Loue doth all earthly thynges excell Thus loue and grace of GOD began To worke in them to dooe hys wyll These vertues force wrought loue in man That feare was past theyr bloude to spyll FINIS The Regester month F 7. 1555. Iune day 10 when worthy Wattes w t constant crie Continued in the flamyng fier day 11 when Simson Hawkes and Ihon Ardlie Did tast the tyrantes raging yre day 11 when Chamberlaine was put to death we wisht for our Elizabeth month F 8. 1555. Iune day 12 when blessed Butter and Osmande with force of fyre to death were brent month G day 12 when Shitterdun sir Franke Blande day 12 And Humfrey Middelton of Kent day 1 when Minge in Maistone toke his death we wisht for our Elizabeth month G 9. 1555. Iuly when Bradford beautified with blisse day 1 with yong Ihon Least in Smithfield died when they like brethren both did kisse And in the fyre were truely tried whē teares were shed for Bradfords deth we wyshte for our Elizabeth month G 10 1555. Iuly day 12 when Dirick Harman lost his lyfe day 12 when Launder in their fume they fried day 12 when they sent Euerson from stryfe with moody mindes and puffed pride day 12 when Wade at Dartford died the death we wisht for our Elizabeth month G 11 1555. Iuly when Richarde Hooke limlesse lame day 21 At Chichester did ●…eare the crosse day 12 when humble Hall for Christes name Ensued the same with worldly losse day 3 when Ione Polley was brent to death we wysht for our Elizabeth month G 2 1555. Iuly when william Ailewarde at Redding In prison died of sickenesse soore month H when Abbes which fained a recanting Did wofully wepe and deplore when he at Bery was done to death we wishte for our Elizabeth month H 13. 1555. August day 23 when Denly died at Uxbridge towne with constant care to Christes cause day 23 when Warrens widow yelded downe Her flesh and bloud for holy lawes when she at Stratforde died the death we wishte for our Elizabeth month H 14 1555. August day 23 when Laurence Collier Coker Stere At Cantorbury were causeles slayne day 23 with Hopper Wrighte vi in one fier Conuerted flesh to earth agayne day 24 when Roger Corriar was done to death we wishte for our Elizabeth month H 15. 1555. August day 26 when Tankerfielde at S. Albons day 26 And william Bamford spent his bloud when harmefull hartes as hard as stones day 30 Brent Robart Smith Steuen Harwod day 29 when Patrick Pattingham died the deth we wishte for our Elizabeth month H 16 1555. August day 31 When Ihon Newman Thomas Fusse At Ware Walden made their ende day 30 when Williā Hailes for Christ Iesus with breath and bloude did still contende day 31 when he at Barnet was put to death we wishte for our Elizabeth month H 17 1555. August day 31 When Samuell did firmely fight day 3 Till flesh and bloud to ashes went month I when constant Cob with faith vpright At Thetforde cruelly was brent when these with ioy did take their death we wisht for our Elizabeth month I 〈◊〉 1555. September When Williā Allen at Walsingham For trueth was tried in fiery ●…ame when Roger Cooe that good olde man Did lose his lyfe for Christes name when these with other were put death we wishte for our Elizabeth month I 19 1555. September day 6 when Bradbridge Streter Burwarde day 6 Tuttie and George Painter of Hyde Unto their duty had good regarde wherefore in one fier they were fried whē these at Cantorbury toke their deth we wishte for our Elizabeth month I 20 1555. September When Ihon Lesse prisoner in Newgate day 10 By sickenes turned to yerth and claye when wicked men with yre and hate brent Thomas Heywarde and Goreway day 13 when Tingle in Newgate toke his deth day 13 we wishte for our Elizabeth month I 21. 1555. September day 14 whē Richarde Smith in Lowlars tower day 15 Androwes and Kyng by sickenes died ●…n faier fieldes they had their bower where earth and clay doth still abide when they in this wise did die the death we wishte for our Elizabeth 22 1555. September day 19 when Glouer and Cornelius were fiercely brent at Couentrie day 4 whē Wolsey and Pigot for Christ Iesus month K At Ely felt like crueltie day 19 when y ● pore bewept master Glouers deth we wishte for our Elizabeth month K 23 1555. October when learned Ridley and Latymer day 6 without regarde were swiftly slayne when furious foes could not confer But with reuenge and mortall paine when these two fathers were put to deth we wisht for our Elizabeth month K ●…4 1555. October when worthy Web George Koper In Elyeschayre to heauen were sent Also when Gregory Paynter The same streight path voiage went when they at Cantorbury toke their deth we wishte for our Elizabeth month M 25 1556. December when godly Gore in pryson died day 14 And Wiseman in the Lowlers towre day 18 when maister Philpot truely tryed Ended his life with peace and power when he kissed the chayne at his death we wishte for our Elizabeth month A ✚ 16 1556. Ianuary day 27 whē Thomas whitwell Bartlet grene day 27 Annis Foster Ione Lasheforde Broune day 27 Tutsun Winter these vii were sene In Smithfield beate their enemies doune Euen flesh and Deuil world and death when we wisht for Elizabeth 27 1556. Ianuary 〈◊〉 day 31 When Ihon Lowmas An Albright day 13 Ione Soale Ione Painter Annis Snod In fier with flesh and bloud did fight when tonges of tyrantes layed on lode when these at ones were put to death we wishte for our Elizabeth month B 28 1556. February when two women at Ippeswiche towne day 19 Ioyfully did the fi●…r embrace when they sange out with chereful soūde Their fired foes for to deface when Norwich no body put them to deth we wishte for our Elizabeth month C 29 1556. Marche when constant Cranmer lost his life day 2 And helde his hande into