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A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

a place of better pasture and there left him In the County of Antrim they murther'd in one morning 954 Protestants and afterwards in the same County about 1200. Near Lisnearvie 24 were burnt in one house And that bloody butcher Philim O Neal boasted he had flain 600 at Gargauh and that he had not left man woman nor child at Munterlough And in another place he murther'd in their houses above 200 so that many houses were filled with dead bodies About 12000 were slain in the high-ways as they fled towards Downe some thousands were drowned and many starved to death with cold so that in the province of Vlster only there were about 15000. murthered by sundry kindes of torments and death A boy not above 14. years of age one night slew 15. Protestants that were set in the stocks with a skeen And another that was but 12. years old two women and an English woman A Papist kill'd 7. men and women her Neighbours in one morning forsaking nature and Country and all humanity having imbibed those horrid principles distilled into them by their Ghostly Fathers He that has a minde to be more fully satisfied of all their bloudy butcheries may reade Sir John Temples Book of the Irish Rebellion and that they are not falsly or maliciously put upon them they may there see the parties names and the several witnesses who gave in upon oath all that has been here related so that it is still upon record and among the Rolls of that Kingdom and will not be forgotten by posterity The slaughter and butchery was great the beast had here a full feast and he was gorged and glutted with bloud for according to the strictest account and computation that could be taken there was murthered and made away in cold bloud by these execrable Irish Papists besides those kill'd in sight from the first beginning of this horrid Rebellion to the cessation of arms Sept. 15. 1643. which was not full two years above 300000 British Protestants English Welch and Scotch Let us now return home and leave this Land polluted with bloud and Murthers and let us see if our own Countrey had escaped from becoming a prey to this Monster England Englishmen are naturally of a kinde and loving heart of a merciful nature and pittiful disposition they are apt to be touched with the miseries of others and they are not in their own natures bloudy barbarous nor cruel But we shall anon behold the marks of their rage we shall behold the land flaming with the bodies of Martyrs and the streets running down with bloud this fair Island to become an Acheldama a field of skulls and Martyrs bones We may see Tragedies Acted in every place and the Monster glutting himself with the fryed flesh of Saints It is then from the principles of their corrupted Religion the Englishmen as well as others obtain this cruelty and fierce nature and become so unrelenting and hard-hearted as to cut the throats of their friends Neighbours and acquaintance It is this horrid Monster of perfecution which this Popish Religion rides and which bears in triumph the pomp and pride of men and by which Rome maintains its power and greatness over as well the Souls as bodies of poor and ignorant wretches and carries Kings Captive in chains and makes the great ones stoop to its greatness and humble themselves at his feet and by which the Pope and his conclave have intruded yoaks and fetters on the hands and necks of Princes and enslaved the whole Christian world This is it that alters the very nature of Englishmen and makes them like Turks Infidels and Barbarians The venom of this Monster being suck'd in with the principles of Popery infects the blood and envenoms the Soul Instead of being meek and humble it makes them proud and arrogant instead of observing the commands of Christ it performs that of the People though never so contrary If Christ says hurt no man pray for your persecutors submit to Magistrates and Governours the Pope and his Doctrine says kill every man that is not of your Religion curse those that disobey your commands kill stab depose your King and Governours This is the Doctrine these the principles and commands of the Romish Church and has been ever since she was polluted and defiled and had once bestrid this bloody Monster to maintain her pride and greatness It was very early English Hist Fox Book of Martyrs that this bloody beast of persecution began to shew his fangs and his sharp nails and armed paws and it was early that this Island found those who began to perceive and to testifie against the corruptions and superstitions of Rome As high as the year 1200. When John of Salisbury plainly set forth the oppression and burthen of the Pope and his creatures and after him John Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln who wrote to the Pope and admonished him for which he had like to have suffer'd But the Monster did but yet shew his teeth and waited for the bloody banquet he afterwards obtained But we may finde more early testimonies against the corruptions of the Romish Church so that they need not tell us as they often impertinently do of Luther and the newness of our Religion for in the year 884 John Patric Erigena a Britain ordained the first Reader at Oxford by King Alfred who was condemned and Martyr'd by the Pope for writing a Book concerning the Sacrament In the year 960. many Divines wore the marks of this beast in their face being by order from the Pope branded in their faces with red hot irons for dissenting in many things about the Mass and Purgatory Monkery and such like and for calling Rome Babylon and Cloysters the Nurses of Sodomy and 1126. one Arnold an English man and a preacher was but chered at Oxford for preaching against the pride of the prelates and the wicked lives of the Priests Anno 1160. the Waldenses came hither for succour and were persecuted and condemned burnt whipt and stigmatized for their Religion both at Oxford and other places Almost in every year God raised up many learned and good men to give their Testimonies against the corruption of Rome both by preaching disputing and writing against them as 1170. Gualo and Gilbert Foliot Doctor in Divinity 1200. Silvester Gerald. 1207. Alexander a Divino 1210. Gualter Maxes Archdeacon of Oxford 1255. Sebald Arch-Bishop of York 1260. William Stringham Doctor of Divinity 1270. Roger Bacon fellow of Merton a Divine and Mathematitian 1290. John Scotus the great Schoolman 1320. John Baranthorp Doctor 1326. John Lyran a Divine of Oxford 1330. John Okeham called Doctor singularis 1340. Thomas Bradwardine 1351. Nicholas Orum Doctor of Oxford 1355. Rich. Filzrulf Chancellor of Oxford and about the same time Doctor John Wicklif and our famour Poet Jeffery Chaucer 1379. William of Wickham Bishop of Winchester 1382. Phillip of Repington 1429. Alexander Carpenter of Oxford 1440. John Felton of Magdalen Colledge 1460.

distinction of Age or Sex In the year 1213. near Muret a Town upon the Garronne Muret. there were slain in battle in the pursute and afterwards about two Millions of Albingenses with the King of Araagon who then took their parts In the year 1215. Fryer Conradus of Marpurg the Popes inquisitor most horribly tortured all that made profession of the Gospel or were but suspected marking them with red hot Irons and then giving them to the secular power to be burnt so that neither Noble nor Ignoble Clerks Monks Nuns Burgesses Citizens and Country people escaped the slames by the-means of this bloody Inquisitor The Town of Miromand being taken by Prince Lewis of France Miromand he destroyed there of the Albingenses for the same cause to the number of five thousand men women and children In the year 1234. many of these Albingenses being fled into Spain Spain the Pope caused a Croisado to be preached against them whereby a great Army of Pilgrims assembled together were sent by Pope Gregory against the Albingenses whom they slew with their Bishops and Teachers burnt their houses destroyed their Towns and plunderd and carried away their goods And about the same time those who retired into a fenny place on the borders of Germany were also all slain At the same time also many of them were slain and burnt in Millain and other parts of Italy beyond the Alpes In the year 1242. there were burnt in Tholouse 200. of these Albingenses Tholouse being taken in a certain Castle hard by and the year following 220. more in the same place In the year 1281. a great persecution was raised against them in Albi by one Gourdon so that they were almost all extirpated and rooted out and forced to fly for safety of their lives to all parts Albi. At the same time by the Popes Order many of the chief preachers of the Albingenses bones were dug up and burnt 20. and 30. years after they had been buried Luthers Forerunners and Cades Justification The perse cution of the Bohimians Ex-Hist Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohem The persecution of the Bohemians begun betimes even neer the year 977. by Pope Hildebrand and afterwards by Celestine continuing down to the times of Mathias of Frague 1375. and to John Hus and Jerome of Prague who were both burnt in defence of the Gospel at Constance notwithstanding the publique faith of Germany given them for their security At Cuttenburg where there are many deep Mines in the year 1420. they threw into one of them 1700. persons and into another 1038. and into ● third 1334. persons In the year 1421. at Litomeritia twenty four of the chief Citizens among whom was the Son-in-Law of the chief persecutor and Magistrate of the City were thrust into a great Tower and almost famished to death from whence being at last drawn because they would not abjure their Religion they were condemned to be all drowned in the River Albis which was accordingly done their hands and feet being bound and so thrown into the midst of the River and if the stream brought any of them to the sides of the bank they were goared to death with Iron forks and Pikes The daughter of the chief persecutor seeing she could not move her Father by her tears and prayers to save the Life of her Husband flung her self after him into the River and embracing his body perished with him and was found the next day with him fast in her Armes and were buried in one grave About the same time at Prague 4. men 4 boys and a Minister were then burnt in one fire because they administred and received the Sacrament in both kindes Many and indeed innumerable were the Murthers and torments and unheard of babarities executed both publiquely and privately on those poor wretches by those bloody Executioners About the year 1523. Martin Luther began to shine as a great light in Germany and his Doctrine to overspread those parts even to Bohemia which caused more violent persecutions wherein multitudes of Saints lost their Lives by the means of Ferdinand the first and Charles the 5th so that it wou'd be almost endless to enumerate every particular In the year 1549 there were no less then 200. Ministers banished out of this Kingdom and the Baron of Schanow because a Lutheran but under the pretence of a Conspiracy was laid upon the Rack but he magnanimously cut out his own Tongue and being asked the reason he wrote that it was lest the torments of the Rack should make him speak falsly against himself or others In the year 1617. Ferdinand the Second being obtruded upon by the Bohemians he siding with the Papists raised up a very great persecution against the Protestants which was the cause of Electing Frederick Palatine of the Rhine King of Bohemia and the cause of all those Wars and embroylments In which suffered many a godly Minister and other holy pious and harmless men by the sapistical Souldiers with that barbarous cruelty that Christian Ears cannot hear nor Tongue relate without indignation and abhorrency For some of them were stoned to death others hanged upon a beam with a soft fire made under them rosted to death others cut peace-meal And one Minister they laid on his back ramming his mouth full of Compowder set fire to it and blew his head all to peeces Another they hanged up by the privy Members being 70. years old and burnt his own books under him and at last shot him after he had endured a world of torment and pain In the year 1621. all the Ministers were banished out of Prague and out of the Kingdome of Bohemia and all the provinces thereunto belonging never more to return and made it death to harbour or conceal any one of them Also at Cuttenburg 21. Ministers were banished about the same time Anno 1624. a Popish Captain caused a Ministers hand first to be stricken off and then his head his bowels to be taken forth and wrapt in his shirt and his 4. quarters to be set on 4 stakes and his head on another At that time also 50. of the Nobility were condemned some to death some to perpetual banishment and some to perpetual Imprisonment 27. were executed some of their right hands and heads were hung upon the Tower of the Bridge who all dyed with great constancy of minde and fervency of spirit sealing to the Protestant cause with their blood whose heads were afterwards solemnly buried by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden Next came forth an Edict to banish all the Protestants and to take away the children from them that they might be bred in the Romish Religion And then another to banish all the Wives of such as were Catholicks from their Husbands unless they would turn Then they enacted that those who were not Catholicks should be prohibited all traffick and commerce with them There was hardly a City or Town that escaped their barbarous cruelties And at Prachatice

John Capgrave Doctor of Divinity at Oxford 1470. Henry Parker All these grave ample testimonies by their publique writings against their many corruptions and evil Doctrines and sup●rstitions worship of the Romish Church with the hazard of their lives Honours Liberties Estates and Fortunes So that many were persecuted and some burnt under King Henry the 2d 1174. and 1380. Vtred Bolton and John Ashwerly endured persecution 1382. John Ashton 1390. Walter Brute and John Pateskul 1392. Doctor Crump were persecuted 1400. William Sawtree a Divine of Oxford was Martyr'd 1401. William Swinderly was burnt in Smithfield 1407. William Thorp suffer'd 1420. Lawrence Redman and six others grieviously persecuted 1417. Lord Cobham was burnt in St. Giles's fields 1421. John Purvey Martyr'd 1428. William White burnt and the same year Richard White 1433. Peter Clark a Divine of Oxford for maintaining publiquely the Doctrin of Wickliff was fain to fly but was taken beyond the Seas and his tongue cut out then hang'd and afterwards burnt 1442. Roger Ovely was hang'd and quarter'd 1447. Humphry Duke of Gloster was Murthered in prison by the Popish party for being a favourer of the preachers of the purer Religion And several others that were divers ways persecuted for the sake of Religion before the rising up of Luther God having in ages raised up some to testify to the truth and to maintain the purity of his Gospel We have mentioned to you only the Divines learned and great men that suffered by the cruelty of persecution but there were also sundry and diverse lay men that then openly owned the truth and suffered for it for 1409. John Badly a Taylor was burnt in Smithfield William Thorp John Ashton John Purvy and others suffered for Wicklifs Doctrin And as the number of the faithfull increased who now began to be called Lollards so persecution grew hotter and the rage and malice of the Papists were augmented 1413. In the Reign of King Henry the 5th Sir Roger Acton John Brown and John Beverly were put to death in t. Giles's fields and divers others to the number of 36. 1436. John Claydon a Coriar of London was burnt and with him Richard Turning a Baker 1416 Benedict Vlleman was Martyr'd and several others to a great number imprison'd 1422. in the Reign of King Henry the 6th William Taylon a Wickliffian was burnt in Smithfield 1422. Henry Web and John Florence were cruelly whipt 1428. and 1431. about 120 men and women suffer'd many of them burnt 1428. William White was Martyr'd and at the same time two were burnt at Colchester 1430. Richard Hoveden a Citizen of London was Martyr'd for the same cause near the Tower and divers more cruelly whipped and handled 1431. Thomas Bayly Minister was burnt in Smithfield 1439. Richard Wiche a Minister burnt at Tower-hill 1433. In the Reign of King Edward the 4th John Goose was burnt 1494. In the time of HJenry the 7th one Joan Boughton 80. years old was burnt in Norfolk and another in Smithfield 1506. Several were stigmatised and many did penance and William Tilsworth was burnt in the Town of Amershant where they forced his own daughter to set fire to the faggots that were to burn her Father And two years after Thomas Bernard and James Melton were burnt in the same place and one Roberts at Buckingham 1506. Thomas Chase after many and cruel usages and hardships in prison was there murthered 1507. One Thomas Norris was burnt at Norwich and Lawrence Gust at Salisbury and a woman at Coippingsadbury with divers other per2ons in the Reign of King Henry the 7th In the Reign of Henry the 8th the flame began to encrease and abundance suffered in every place 1511. William Sweeting and John Brewster were burnt in Smithfield The same year William Carder Robert Harrtson and Agnes Grebyl were burnt they forcing the husband and daughters of the woman to come in as withesses against her Also Mr. Style with his Book of Revelations in English 25. burnt and 5. other persons accused for reading an Heretical Book which contained many damnable opinions being the Evangelists in English 1514. Richard Hune murther'd in the Lollards Tower and afterwards burnt 1517. John Brown was burnt 1518. John Stylman was burnt in Smithfield about the same time Thomas Man in Smithfield and Robert Cousin in Buckingham were burnt 1518. Christopher Shoemaker at Newbery Richard and Robert Bartlet and John Scrivener burnt the children of the last mentioned being forced to set fire to their Father And it was most usual to compel children to accuse their parents parents their children Husbands their wives wives their husbands bosome friends and Brothers and Sisters one another And many hundreds were forced to abjure against their Consciences or else be burnt But now two things greatly encreased the professors of the truth in England which were the bold owning the Gospel and the true profession thereof by Martin Luther in Germany and the Art of Print ing whereby it was more easily promulgated and dispersed thorow every County and in all Languages And now the beast began to rage and lay about him persecution and slaughter was raised every where thorowout the Kingdome against the Lutherans and 1519. many Prorestants were apprehended in Coventry imprison'd in nasty dungeons and 6. burnt And two years after in the same place Robert Silkeb 1423. Thomas Harding was burntat A Chesham in Bucking ham-shire 1529. One Sigal Nicholson was hung up by the privy members for having Luthers Books in his house being a Stationer at Cambridg Several were abjured William Tracy Esq burnt two years after his death 1530. Thomas Hitton was Martyr'd at Maidstone 1532. Richard Bayfield a Monk of Berry after he had been whipt and most cruelly handled in Prison gag'd beaten bound and degraded after a shamefull manner he was burnt with much druelty in London continuing half an hour alive in the flames for want of fewel and when his left Arm was burned off he rubbed that side with his right till it fell also in the fire And about the same time John Tewksbury was burnt also in Smithfield Several imprisoned and fed with bread made of sawdust Many set in the stocks with Iron collars about their necks and several racked till they were lamed 1532. James Baynham was also burnt in Smithfield John Bent at the Devises and one Trapnel at Broadford in the County of Wilts Three were hanged in chains for burning the Image or Rood of Dover-Court John Frith Andrew Hewet and divers others were burnt Thomas Bennet William Tyndal John Lambert William Leiton and Collins a Lawyer burnt and Robert Packington Murther'd And one Peck burnt at Ipswich Doctor Barns and Thomas Garrat in Smithfield and also William Hieron in the same place John Potter Murther'd in Prison Thomas Bernard and James Morton 1544. Robert Testwood Anthony Parker Henry Filmer at Winasor 1541. about 500 in and about London either dyed in Prison or fryed in the fire in Smithfield Danlip Dod Saxie and others slain

shapes and disguises They are rich and full of coyn to cary on all their designes and to bribe the covetous They know how to satisfie all Scruples and to please all humours they creep into all Courts and are in all places They are dilligent in their wicked vocation and 't is their whole study and employ how to propagate the greatnesse and power of Rome and to subvert all that oppose them They inculcate into the ears of their people dangerous doctrines and establish in their mindes wicked principles They tell them that Princes not professing the Romish Religion are absolutely fallen from their title and authority that they are no longer Princes but Tyrants and Usurpers and that the Pope may excommunicate them and that being so excommunicated their Subjects ought not to obey them but are absolved from all tyes of allegiance that they ought to be thrown out of the seat of their Authority the Scepter ought to be wrung out of their hands and that 't is a meritorious act to depose or to kill such Princes that the clergy are exempt from the Jurisdiction of Secular princes and are not bound to their Laws That the Pope of Rome hath the full and chief power and command over all throughout the whole world even in Civil matters That the Magistrates of this nation are Heriticks and therefore not to be accounted Magistrates nor obeyed And that after the Bull of their holy Father the Pope is pronounced against a Nation that all that shall be then acted shall be accounted null and void That faith is not to be kept with Hereticks and that the Pope hath power to absolve all vows promises oaths how strictly so ever made or done with many others of this stamp whereby they alienate the hearts of subjects from their Princes and place all the bonds of Duty on the Pope These principles well planted in the Hearts of the people have caused so many risings and Rebellions in England How did they persecute King John and at last poyson him in Swinstede Abby what commotions raised Thomas a Becket that proud and stubborn Prelate against King Henry the 2d so that he made him weary of his life and to commit murther to be rid of him How many other Rebellions have they stirred up and promoted in this Land and what Seas of Blood have they shed and how many thousand Martyrs have they destroyed here and elsewhere They exceeded the rage and cruelty of the Heathen and abominableness of the Barbarian they murthered more and shed more blood then all the 10. persecutions There are reckoned in France only in the persecutions of the Waldenses and Allbingenses to have been slaughter'd a Million of people and in less than 30 years 150000 Christians to have been made away by the Inquisition 'T is to bring us again to this pass that these sort of men struggle with all dissiculties that we may fry with sire and fagot and that they may again sit here as cruel Lords and masters that make them so industrious to animate the blind and ignorant people to their own destruction Queen Elizabeth having sent them all packing with all their trinkets of Superstition and establisht her Reformation and Religion many penal Laws were industriously made against them that they might not be able to do hurt and mischief which if put in execution are sufficient to keep them under but the indulgency of our Prince hath taken off the sharp edge of their execution in hopes to oblige them to a fidelity and compliance and to live in peace and quiet but 't is impossible by these means to subdue them whilst their Priests have the opportunity to distill their dangerous principles into their minds they think 't is better to obey their earthly God the Pope than their Lawfull King and Governour and to rise in Rebellion at the command of their Ghostly Father than to live in quiet under an Heretical Prince as they call all such as submit not their power and Authority to that of Rome Pope Pius the 5th Gregory the 13th and Clement the 8th all sent over their Breves and Bulls from Rome against the Queen which roar and thunder forth excommunications Anathema's and Curses against her and her Subjects In which they take from her all her Royal titles Dignities and Rights to the Kingdom of England and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and an Usurper absolving all her Subjects from their Oaths Faith allegiance and obedience to her Foulis Hist Popish Treasons and Life of Q. Elizabeth 〈◊〉 threaten all of what condition soever under danger of the wrath of God not to assist her in any wise but to imploy all their power to bring her to condign punishment promising ample reward to all those who shall lay hands on this proscribed woman and shall punish her and to be paid out of the Treasury of the Church and a full pardon of all their sins who shall engage against her But when they saw these would not effect their desires and that her subjects were too faithfull in England Suintilla King of Spain deposed by Childerick King of France murthered 665. Childerick the third King of France deposed Charls le gross Emperor deposed Henry the 4th Emperor deposed by Pope Gregory the 7th Lewis the King of France interdicted they proceed to secret and horrid machinations to take away her Life from which she was still preserved by miracalous providence Their many wicked attempts against the Life of this blessed Queen may be fully seen in several printed Books largely shewing the manner of their proceedings there my intent only is to put my Countrymen in minde of the continual practises against both Prince and people in this Nation and elsewhere and whereever they dissented or opposed the wicked and Tyrannical Power of Rome 'T was these very men agitated by these their divillish principles of King-killing that violently took away the Lives of the two Henrys the 3d. and 4th of France the one by the hand of Ravilliac the other by that of James Clement a Jacobin encouraged by the Jesuits set on by the Pope and the case resolved by the Prior of his Covent that if he undertook it not for private revenge but inflamed by the Love of God for Religion and the good of his Country he might do it with a safe Conscience and not only so but he should merit much before God and without doubt if he should dye in the Act his Soul should immediately ascend into the Quiers of the blessed This was the good councel of this Holy Father and for which he was afterwards torn to peeces by 4. horses but Clement accounted a Martyr and his murtherous act extolled openly in France both in their Sermons and printed Books These are the monsters of men that would do the like to every Prince that opposes their Lusts Witness their murthering of the Lord Darnly the Father of King James of the Prince of Orange and of others