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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28159	Brachy-martyrologia, or, A breviary of all the greatest persecutions which have befallen the saints and people of God from the creation to our present times paraphras'd by Nicholas Billingsly ...	Billingsley, Nicholas, 1633-1709.	1657 (1657)	Wing B2910; ESTC R18441	104,705	230

Yet know I that the Lord his Justice flowes As well as mercy on those are his own Summon'd to death he said Lord from thy throne Look on me O illuminate mine eyes Left death o'recome me and mine enemies Insulting say We have prevail'd O Lord Be pleased to make good thy promis'd word Let me whose eyes have thy salvation seen Depart in Peace an Ax did pass between His head and neck Then four more Christian brothers They hanged one by one and begger'd others Nor might they have the ben'fit of the Laws When some did plead the Justness of their cause The Judges scoff'd them thus Although you ha'nt Sins that are actual yet you do not want Th'orig'nal sin of Heresie and store You can't exempted be from death therefore The Saints deprived of their livelyhoods In towns and villages retir'd to th'woods The Parent his encloystred child bemoans But cannot help it Oh! the griefs and groanes Of marriagable maids what sad farewels Take parting friends when into Monkish cells Fore'd are their neer'st relations Great mens sons Fryets must tutour and their daughters Nuns Wives from their husbands husbands from their wives Part with wet eyes some thousands lost their lives Others were stripp'd in frosty snowy weather While some imprison'd lay and starv'd together The Mass-priests are the men that must be heard And rude men if Apostates were prefer'd Bol'slavia the principallest seat The brethren had two hundred years compleat Was seized on her Ministers turn'd out And crafty Friers to pervert the rout Plac'd in their rooms but when this would not do They must into a stinking dungeon go The Cities Bidsove Tusta Zaticum Litom'ric Rokizan Radecium Don Murtin all were brought to desolation Under a fair pretence of reformation Some Citizens were into exile sent Some into voluntary exile went The maj'r and sixteen hundred persons more At Pracbatice lay weltring in their gore They threw Religion down where ere they come And set up superstition in the room As for the Bible Christians were forc'd from it Wiblia the Bohemian word is vomit Nor was there O most dámnable designe A toleration giv'n to Books divine The mouths of some are gagg'd the Host they do Thrust down their throats whether they will or no. Others t'auricular confession forc'd And many were from all they had divorc'd To tell how they the women-kinde did use Is not so proper for a modest Muse SECT XXII The Churches Persecution in Spain which began Anno Christi 1540. A Spanish Factor Francis Roman nam'd Hearing at Breme a Sermon was s'enflam'd And wrought upon that in a little space He grew in knowledge and encreas'd in grace Upon a time when he return'd agen He labour'd to convince his country-men Of blind-fold ign'rance for the wayes they trod Were dissonant unto the word of God But they reproachfully despis'd contemn'd His words and him unto the fire condemn'd Then with a paper-Mitre on his head Painted with ugly Demons was he led To execution and by the way Being urg'd to bow unto a cross said Nay The Christians are not wont to worship wood So having said he was the fire's food How many honest-hearted persons cast Into infectious dungeons breath'd their last The pris'ners cloath'd with red-cross'd Sambitoes Were at Validolid plac'd all in rowes The inquisition was first invented By the Domin'can Friers who attented The extirpation of the Christian race By death or ignominious disgrace One while they strive with flatt'ries to ensnare The doubting Christian e're he be aware And if they see that fair means will not do They exercise compulsion O who Who is there able to demonnstrate fully The kinde of torments that were us'd the pully Hang'd on the Gibbit holds the hands or thumbs Of the poor wretch then the Strappado comes And rends his weight-distended joynts a sunder Some in the Trough are tortur'd some are under Cruel imprisonments where is not any Light but what enters the Key-hole or crany Some are injoyn'd to run unto the racks With yellow Sambenitoes on their backs Their tongues in a cleft-stick have not the scope To empty Out their mindes and while a rope Encompasseth their necks coacting bands Press hard behinde them their united hands Thus thus poor Creatures in a piteous plight Are led to suffer in the peoples sight Burton and Burgate Burgess Hooker Baker English-men born were each of them partaker Of Martyrdom at Cadiz and ascended To happiness which never shall be ended SECT XXIII The Churches Persecution in Italy which began Anno Christi 1546. ENeenas by his Parents sent to Rome For educations sake at last become An able Scholar through the grace of God In Christ his School the wayes the Romans trod Renouncing quite for which he 's apprehended And clapt up yet he constantly defended The Christian faith he with his life might go If he would but put on the Sambito Which he refus'd nor any badge would wear Save that of Jesus Christ which was to spare No blood to seal up what he had profest So being burn'd he in the Lord did rest The Maj'r and Bishop of St. Angelo Long arguing the case which of the two Should at his proper cost procure some wood For Galeacius burning while they stood Demurring he bade them no more debate It should be fetch'd out of his own estate John Mollius a Roman did Christ own If he but named him salt tears ran down On his wet cheeks he preach'd where e're he came The word of truth until he fed the flame One Francis Gamba born in Lombardy Went to the slaughter with alacrity Algerius a fine young man acquaints By way of writing the afflicted Saints How much his joy in prison did abound And how he Honey in a Lion found Exhorting them to patience in the end Writes From a delectable Orchard pen'd He 's burned Pope Pius the fourth dislives At Naples many Nobles with their wives The City Venice after twelve years peace Was by the Pope disturb'd to the encrease Of Martyr'd Saints who unto stones were bound And in the bottom of the Ocean drown'd An Englishman Martyred in Portugal One William Gardiner whom Bristol bore In Portugal the Martyrs Garland wore SECT XXIV The Persecution of the Church in Germany which began Anno Christi 1523. WHen Luther with his fellow-labourers Converted many Germans unto wars The Pope his Highness stir'd up Charles the fift ' Gainst Proestants to further this his drift Two hundred thousand crowns and at a boot Five hundred horse and twice six thousand foot He sent with speed the Prot'stant Princes hence Rais'd also Armies for their own defence And now the Emp'rour for no other reason Proclaim'd them guilty of no less then treason Both parties are engag'd but the success Is left to God who doth not alwayes bless The better cause with Victory nor shield His Saints from wrong the Christians lost the field The persecution rose in sev'ral places Author'ty arm'd with rig'rous Laws outfaces