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A13961	The fierie tryall of Gods saints (these suffered for the witnes of Iesus, and for the word of God, (vnder Queene Mary,) who did not worship the Beast ... As a counter-poyze to I.W. priest his English martyrologe. And the detestable ends of popish traytors: (these are of Sathans synagogue, calling themselues Iewes (or Catholiques) but lie and are not ... Set downe in a comparatiue collection of both their sufferings. Herewith also the concurrance and agreement of the raignes of the kings of England and Scotland, since the first yeare of Q. Mary, till this present, the like before not extant.	Burton, Francis, fl. 1603-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 24270; ESTC S118537	37,474	82

THE FIERIE TRYALL OF GODS SAINTS ¶ These Suffered for the witnes of Iesus and for the word of God vnder Queene Mary who did not worship the Beast nor his Image nor had taken his marke vpon their foreheads or on their hands or on their Garments and these liue and raigne with Christ Reuel 20. 4. As a Counter-poyze to I. W. Priest his English Martyrologe AND THE DETESTABLE ENDS OF POPISH TRAYTORS ¶ These are of Sathans Synagogue calling themselues Iewes or Catholiques but lie and are not These worshipped the Beast saying who is like vnto the Beast who is able to warre with him Reuel 13. 4. and these shall drinke of the wine of Gods wrath and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy Angells and before the Saints because they worshipped the Beast and his Image Re. 14. 10. 11 Set downe in a comparatiue Collection of both their sufferings Herewith also the Concurrance and agreement of the raignes of the Kings of England and Scotland since the first yeare of Q. Mary till this present the like before not extant AT LONDON Printed by T P for Arthur Iohnson 1612. TO THE PRINCE ENglands faire Hope borne Downe to quell the rage of Rome That proud Babell Which in its swelling-madde Desires to Worlds sole Empire still Aspires Deigne Sir to reade this little Booke at least with milde aspect to looke Vpon 't The pledge of Loyaltie and Subiects loue to Royaltie it is Vouchsafe your Princely Grace to me that humbly place my Faith and Dutie First to God then my King Who Vnitie did bring then to my Countrie The faithfull Subiect of my Lord the King and your Highnesse TO THE PATRONAGE AND protection of the high and mightie Prince Henry eldest Sonne of our Soueraigne Lord the King Prince of Wales c. AS that in one place was well sayd by Heathen Tullie Non nobis solùm nati sumus sed partē patria partem parentes partem liberi partem amici partem propinqui familiares peculiaritèr sibi vendicant So elsewhere was it spoken no lesse Christian-like Non quid quis fecerit sed quo animo studio fecerit ponderandum est Of these sayings the first seemed vnto me to Challenge at my hands A speciall Dutie to my Prince and Country which I knew not how to performe but in this kind The second I assumed as an Apologie for my weake and slender performāce of that Duty If my desire noble Prince to pay that debt for which by obligation Diuine Naturall and Nationall I stand obliged hath transported me beyond that wherevnto I am able of your Princely Clemency I humbly beseech you winke at that amisse and of your Heroicall and Magnanimous Spirit Shield me from the Darts of the mightie and maleuolent Your Kingly Father out of the goodnes of his nature for to iudge the worst as dissonant to a good Disposition hath been obserued to conceiue of things ill ment or which at least might be doubtfully taken well you certainly being the true Heire as of his Kingdomes so also of his vertues cannot adiudge of that which is well ment ill The cause which I handle is not mine owne but my Prince and Countryes wherein what I haue done I the rather vndertooke to publish at this time and in this Kind by reason of these encouraging Woordes of the reuerend then Bishop of Chichester now of Ely in his Booke Cuititulus est Tortura Torti in Epistola dedicatoria ad Regiam Maiestatem his wordes are these I am vbi in Discrimen adducta causa communitatis Spectator nemo sit Actor quisque c. My Intentions herein are right wherein I desire prodesse principi patriae non obesse If I faile in my purpose that is not want of will but of power If I haue performed ought herein that good is that same also is Multò plus votis quam factis Therefore for that sometimes noble Q. Elizabeths sake for she deserued to be loued etiam post mortem whose fame shall neuer die nam virtus post funera viuit For the King your Fathers sake who according to his names signification is a Maintainer of our peace for the Common wealths sake which is the Crowne of your Glory For your owne sake who are our Hope yeald me as the reading hereof so also your fauourable and Princely protection then shall I not care for the faces of mine enemies The Faithfull Subiect of my Lord the King and your Highnesse TO THE WELL affected and loyall hearted Reader AS to the spirit and soule of man nothing internally then a good conscience can bee more comfortable so externally then a good report from others nothing can be more precious And as for the first euery one that will enjoye it must himselfe alone by the vprightnesse of his owne actions assure it vnto himselfe in the sincerity of his own heart so for the secōd as it depends not vpō ones selfe alone but vpon the tongues and reports of others euery Christian by the rules of his profession is chargeable to his power to seeke the preseruation thereof towards others whome hee knoweth to be wronged This being graunted as it cannot be denyed if euery priuate mans good name so neerely touch him as that for the preseruation thereof wee are all of vs to others reciprocally bound and by law diuine obliged How much more strictly then are all faithful subiects tyed as much as in them lyeth to maintaine the good name honour and reputation of their lawfull Soneraignes by traytors rebels And antichristians so vniustly jmpiously and jmpudently taxed both in words and writings For as his Majestie is our King by God appoynted to rule ouer his British and Irish Israell both in Church and common wealth and as in dignity he is nulli secundus nay more for that may seeme to admit an equall Primus inter omnes without a mate highest euen so the blemish of good name honour and reputation in his Majestie is of all others most dishonourable most scandalous as his Majesty is of all others most eminent most conspicuous and therefore by euery good subiect as occasion offereth it selfe pro viribus to be maintained If a naturall father haue a bad name though vndesernedly yet is that in the worlds eye that cannot iudge thereof but by report a scandall vnto the children Our King is more for he is not onely Pater familiae a father of a priuate family but he is Pater Patriae a father of our Country nay more he is Pater multorum gentium regnorum a father of many Kingdomes England Scotland France and Ireland and which is most hee is a good Christian Christianae fidei Defensor the chiefe Champion for defence of Christian faith through whose sides the enemy seeketh to wound the whole Church of Christ and to lay aspersions of bloud and tyrany vpon all such as with him professe the gospell of Christ The consideration whereof as also a

and thereby was immediatly cured of all his wounds Another ST Swithine he when by a mischance a woman had broken all her egges made the signe of the crosse ouer the same egges and immediatlie they all became whole againe Another THe heads of Wiaman Vnaman and Sunaman being cut off and cast into a poole by the enemies of Christ S. Sigfride on a time walking by the poole and deploring their deaths on a suddaine there appeared three miraculous lights vppon the water which encompassed the vessell wherein their sayd heads were which he seing presently leaped into the poole and embracing them wept and sayd Vindicet Deus Whereto one answered Vindicatūerit another replyed in quem the third added in filios filiorum Another A Monke of a certaine Monastery whereof S. Alexander was comming to the said Alexanders tombe to pray and hauing an vlcer in his breast which was now growne to a fistula Alexander appeared vnto him brighter then the Sun with two Crownes one on his head and another in his hand The Monke demaunded what that double Crowne meant he answered The Crowne in his hand is for the temporall Crown which he forsook for Christs loue for he shold haue bin king of Scotland being next heire thereto as the story reporteth the other on my head is that which I haue receaued common with other Saints And that you may be assured of the verity of this vision you shall be presently cured of your infirmity and hauing thus spoken and the other jmmediatly healed he vanished away Another ST Decuman first passed ouer the Riuer of Seuerne miraculously with a faggot in steed of a boate and afterwards was slaine by a Pagan and his head cut off which hee tooke vp from the ground and carryed it to a fountaine where hee was woont to wash it Another ST Dunstan hee on a time when the diuell appeared vnto him in the likenesse of a yong woman tempting him to vncleanesse tooke a paire of pincers which lay by him and caught the diuell by the vpper lippe and so holding him fast and leading him vp and downe his chamber after diuers jnterrogatories droue him away Another ST Osith shee after that the Danes had cut off her head tooke it vp in her hands and carryed it three furlongs to a Church of S. Peter and S. Paul whither when she came all jmbrued in her owne innocent bloud she fell downe and so ended the course of her Martyrdome Another ST Keyna she by her prayers turned a wood full of Serpents into stones still retayning the likenesses of Serpents Also she being ready to depart out of this world an Angel came downe from heauen and put vpon her a white garment wrought with Gould bidding her to be in readinesse to enter into the kingdome of her celestiall Spouse Another ST Edmund hee hauing his head cut off by the Danes and cast into a wood neere by amongst bryars and bushes the Christians afterwards seeking for the same lost themselues in the same wood and calling one to another where art where art the head answered Here Here Here by which they found out the same Another ST Inthware she hauing her head cut off by her owne brother Bana vppon a day as shee came from Church because shee was accused by her stepmother to be an harlot her jnnocency was presently testified by this for that she presently tooke it vp in her owne hands and carryed it to the Church from whence shee came Adde hereto also their late coyned Death deseruing for the fact woonder of Garnets face in a wheat strawe Vide librum cuius titulipars est Vera historia de admirabili spica Rightly englished A fabulous story of a fained straw first divulged by a foolish Iack-daw Many more such grosse and palpable lying woonders are therein expressed which I am weary to recount and I almost wonder that they themselues are not ashamed to record for truths but as herein so also in their false accusations of Queene Elizabeth and King Iames by vnjustly and maliciously taxing them with bloud breach of promise and bloudy persecution for conscience they are most jmpudent and shamelesse yea past shame and past grace for as a Reuerend Father of our Church elsewhere vpon another occasion though more rightly applyable to this generation said Qui semel modestiae limites transilijt knauiter fit impudens But the Priests and Iesuites in this poynt of jmpudency surpasse and one maine reason hereof as I take it is because they hold the laye Papists of whome they haue their maintenance in such a thraldome of jgnorant obedience as that they dare not for feare of damnation read any booke whereby to enforme them in the truth but only such as their traiterous and seditious vn-ghostly leaders shall permit And so if they can hold the good opinions of their maintainers they will neuer blush at whatsoeuer themselues say or whatsoeuer bee said of them by others If any friend shall thinke that this my labour might well haue beene spared because the liues of the Martyrs the proceedings against them the times and causes of their sufferings are already by Mr. Foxe in his large Booke thereof more fully expressed or otherwise should thinke that I do the Papists too great a grace by placing them in the same Booke with the true Martyrs of Christ to him in friendly manner I thus replye and first to the first That though his allegation bee indeed true for I willingly confesse that hee hath deserued much for his extraordinary paines that wayes and hath compassed so much and such variety of matter therein as that I cannot say whether were greater his labour or the Readers profit yet cannot euery mans purse reach so great price as is that Booke at large and besides I haue not medled with any matter of Historie contained therin but only haue borrowed out of him the names of such as were in Queene Maries daies burned as I haue likewise out of their Martyrologist the names of their Priests Iesuites and Recusants for vnlesse I should set downe their names I could make no good comparison of their numbers in opposition one to the other which is the especiall end whereat I aime Secondly although that twentie or thirtie yeares since many hundreds of Thousands of persons were liuing that could viva voce beare record how cruelly and vnmercifully the Professors of Christs truth were dealt withall in Queene Maries daies and could also if any seducing Priest or Iesuite had accused their Soueraigne of cruelty haue thus replyed Away vild harlots belie her not fox Queene Elizabeth was a mercifull Queene but mine eies haue seene the aboundance of bloud shed in Queene Maries raigne onely for conscience wherwith ye were neuer glutted but now these Viue-speakers in Christs cause being by time consumed it is more needfull to preserue by these neuer-dying memorials the remembrance of their sufferings especially seeing

the great and serious protestations that Watson the Priest made in his Quodlibeticall questions That albeit he differed in religion from that which was professed in the Church of England yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seeke by hostile meanes to inuade his countrie hee would willingly spend his substance nay his dearest blood against any such as should attempt it and yet he himselfe was the first afterwards as I remember that came to the gallowes for violating it If I could find any thing that good is in either Priests or Iesuites I would commend them for it but because I cannot holding them all to bee traytors in heart vnto his Maiestie and their fauourers to be scarcely good subiects I will end for their cōmendations with the words of a late but wittie Satyrist F●uet illis quisquis de illis tacet FINIS a Vide Torturam Torti paginis 131. 132. b Three conversions of Eng part 3. in many places c English Martyrologe by J. VV. Priest Anno. 1608. d VVatson and Clarke executed at VVinchester in An. 1603. Novemb. 29. Stowe e Henry Garnet had 6. names to wit Ganet VValley Darcy Roberts Farmer and Phillips Likewise Edward Hall alias Oldecorne Likewise Oswa●d ●esmund alias Greenway Likewise Thomas Garnet alias Rookwood alias Sayer with many others f Three conversions of England in page 426. and many pages therof besides Ianuary 7. Page 7. Ianuary 11. Page 10. Ianuary 14. Page 12. Ianuary 20. Page 18. February 3. Page 32. March 17. Page 17. Aprill 3. Page 86. Aprill 9. Page 92. May 2. Page 116. Maye 18. Maye 22. Page 134. Iune 22. Page 167. Iuly 2. Page 178. Iuly 25. Page 202. August 6. Page 216. August 27. Page 233. September 7. Page 244. October 7. Page 372. October 8. Page 374. Nouēber 20. Page 320. Decēber 23. Page 350. g D. Barlow in his answere to M. Broughton 1610. h The booke at large worthy to be writtē in letters of gould is this yeare newly and well printed by the Companie of Stationets in London The Miracles that god hath wrought for confirmation of his gospell Two miracles of miracles The 1. The 2. The Iesuits reported in Spaine that there was no such matter as the gun-powder Treason Related by the L. Cooke at the Earle of Northumberl conviction in the Star-chāber Iune 27. 1606. Childish and strawish Myracles In your supplication to the kings Maiestie Anno. 1603. An. 1604 in many places thereof as also in diuerss other treasonable bookes since by you set forth and dispersed * Tortura Torti Page 83. The Starre-chamber Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius i● se crimē habet quanto maior qui peccat habetur The now 〈◊〉 Cooke The Lord Archbishop of Cant. The word thē vsed was To hold an Axe ouer the Kings head The L. Zouch Vide Tortûrā Torti Pag. 83. Prom●ssa nescioquae commēti sunt quae tamen nulla suerunt quod factū nunquā est id fuisse tamen factium in vulgus spargebant vide the Earle of Northamp printed speech at Garnets arraignment in pag. 1. of A aa The Earle of Salisburie in his answere to certaine scandalous papers D. Reynolds in his preface before his cōference with Hart. D. Morton M. Stocke with many more Greenewell Garnet Reported at his arraignmēt in VVestminst Hall Ianu 27. 1605 mentioned in the Earle of Northamptōs speech in the first pag of L. Confessed vnder his owne hand in an examination openly read in the Star-chāber at the cōviction of the Earle of Northumberl Iun. 27. 1606. Confessed in diuers examinations vnder their hands openly read the time and place aforesayd Simile These forward spirits as they wold be thought for the Kings Succession would yet haue bereft vs of his head before the Crowne had adorned it Tortura Torti Page 84. See the Catholique supplication to the kings Maiestie in Ann. 1604 neere beginning thereof See your supplication to his Maiestie Anno. 1604. chap. 5. Also in the first part of Engl. three Conversions neere the beginning thereof Mentioned in M. Fox his booke of Martyrs in the very beginning of Q. Maries Raigne a Bristow in his motiues 15. Chap. 73 calleth these Martyrs Aboue 1000 of thes saythe lay Catholiques in their Suplicatiō to the Kings Maiestie 1604. abandoned their liuīgs rather then they would chāge their religiō Also the three cōuersions of England part the first page 264. a Three conuersions page 265. Of Priests aboue 100. haue Sealed the confession of their faith with blood within 40. yeeres A small nūber in comparison of 278. martyrs in lesse then sixe yeeres a Vide Pope Sixtus the 5. his oration vpō the death and murther of Henry the 3. French King by a Fryar Ne misericordia in inimicos fit crudelitas in se suosque a Printed in Anno 1608. as hee saith Permissu superiorum a Vide Fox his booke of Martyres in Queen Maries raigne b Vide the Lord Burleigh late Lord Treasurer his booke intituled Execution of Iustice for treason and not for Religion c Earle of Northampton in his prīted speech at Garnets arraignemēt in the fourth page of the letter GG d Their refusall of the Oath of allegeance proueth what they hold in this point and the Popes gift of Ireland to the King of Spaine mentioned by Azorius the Iesuite in his institut moral confirmeth it a Vide Faux his confession with others mentioned in the afore quoted page by the Earle of Northāpton Confer al therewith Cat●sbies answere to Garnet in the last page of R. and also in the last page of T. of the former booke his words are If it were lawfull not to admitte of the Kings Maiesty at first warranted by the Popes Breeues then was it also lawfull to cast him out b This trebble bond thēselues whiles they laboured to seeme good subiects acknowledged in their supplication to the Kings Maiestie chap. 5. neere the end thereof Agreeable hereto is the Earle of Northamptons sound maxime in the last page of FF in his speech to Garnet c Scienti volenti non sit iniuria d Besides this Priestes confession agaīst themselues see also for thy better confirmation in this point the iudgement of two great Counsellors of state in their seuerall writings published by the Earle of Salisbury in his answere to certaine scandelous papers in the third page of C. and the Earle of Northampton in his speech at Garnets Arraignement in the letter HH in diuers pages thereof e This Thomas Garnet is the last that our Pseudomartyrologist I. W. Priest hath noted in his Beadroll to haue suffered in King Iames his raigne a D. Reignolds conference with Harts in Harts owne Preface therto b Relation of the state of religion in the west part of the world neere the beginning therof b Azorius in his institutions part 2. booke 11. chapt 5. a A strange thing that the Pope claiming to bee but Christs Vicar should yet challenge a larger power thē euer Christ himselfe did for Christ confessed that his Kingdome was not of this world and yet the Pope will be a disposer and ●etter vp and puller downe of Kings and Kingdomes at his pleasure b In his booke of Quodlibets c Here was Mel in ore fel corde a smooth tongue but a treacherous heart d Conclaue Ignati in Apologia pro Iesuitis ad finem libri adiecta