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A17087	A briefe treatise concerning the burnynge of Bucer and Phagius, at Cambrydge, in the tyme of Quene Mary with theyr restitution in the time of our moste gracious souerayne lady that nowe is. Wherein is expressed the fantasticall and tirannous dealynges ofthe [sic] Romishe Church, togither with the godly and modest regime[n]t of the true Christian Church, most slaunderouslye diffamed in those dayes of heresye. Translated into Englyshe by Arthur Goldyng. Anno. 1562. Read and iudge indifferently accordinge to the rule of Gods worde.; Historia vera: de vita, obitu, sepultura, accusatione haereseos, condemnatione, exhumatione, combustione, honorificaque tandem restitutione beatorum atque doctiss. theologorum, D. Martini Buceri et Pauli Fagii. English. Selections.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1562 (1562)	STC 3966; ESTC S106051	49,264	190

hast dispatched an innumerable company of mē secondlye thuntimelye death of our most noble kinge Edwarde the syxth whose life in vertue surmounted thopinion of al men and seemed worthy of immortality happened contrary to mens expectacion in that age in the vnlesse violence be vsed fewe do dye The conuersion of religion or rather the euersion turning therof into papistrie The incursion domination of straūgers vnder whose yoke our neckes were almost subdued The importunate crueltye of the byshoppes agaynst the Christians which executed that wickednes for making satisfaction wherof we ar gathered together thys day These are the thinges that ensued after his death but after his burninge ensewed yet greuouser thinges Namelye newe kinde of plagues and contagious diseases vnknowen to the very Phisitians whereby either euery mans health was appayred or els they were brought to theyr graues or els very hardly recouered blouddy battels with out victorye whereof the profite redounded to the enemie and to vs y e slaughter with great losse The which thinges do euidentlye declare that God is tourned from vs and angrye with vs and that he geueth no eare to our prayers and that he is not moued wyth our cries sighes but that he loketh that this our meting and assembly should be to this ende that forasmuche as we haue violated theyr coarses we should do thē ryght againe so that the memoriall of these most holy men may be commended to posteritie vnhurted and vndiffamed Wherfore amende yet at length my brethren whiche hitherto by reason of the variablenesse and vnconstancye of the times haue bene wauering and vnstedfast in your heartes shewe your selues chearefull and forwarde in making satysfaction for thiniurye you haue done to the dead whom wyth so greate wickednesse of late ye endomaged and defiled not by sensinge thē with the parfumes of those odours and spices now worne out of vre put to flight but with a true and vnfayned repentance of the hart and with praier to thentent that the heauenly godhead prouoked by our doinges to be our enemye may by our humble submission be entreated to be fauorable agreable to all our other requestes When Acworth had made an ●nd of his Oration M. Iames Pilkington the Quenes reader of the diuinitye lecture goynge vp into the pulpit made a Sermon vpō y e C.xi. Psalme the beginning whereof is Blessed is the man that feareth the lord c Where intending to proue that the remembraunce of the iust man shall not peryshe and that Bucer is blessed and that the vngodly shal freat at the syghte thereof but yet that all their attemptes shall be to no purpose to thentent this sayinge may be verified I will curse your blessinges and blesse your cursings he tooke his beginninge of hys owne person that albeit he wer both ready and willinge to take that matter in hand partlye for the worthinesse of the matter it selfe and inespecially for certain singular vertues of those persons for whom that congregation was called yet notwithstandinge he sayde he was nothing meete to take that charge vpon hym For it were more reason that he whiche before had done Bucer wrong should nowe make hym amendes for the displeasure As for his owne parte he was so farre from workynge anye euell agaynste Bucer eyther in worde or dede that for their singular knowledge almoste in all kinde of learninge he embraced both him and Phagius with all his heart But yet he somewhat more fauoured Bucer as with whom he had more familiarity and acquaintaunce In consideracion wherof although that it was scarce conueniente that he at that time shoulde speake yet notwithstandinge he was contented for frendeshippe and courtesye sake not to ●ayle them in this theyr businesse Hauynge made this preface he entered into the pith of the matter wherein he blamed greatlye that barbarous crueltye of the Courte of Rome so fierslye extended against the dead He sayd it was a more heinous matter thē was to be borne wyth to haue shewed such extreame cruelnesse to them that were aliue but for anye man to misbehaue him selfe in suche wise toward the deade was suche a thinge as had not lightly bene heard of Sauynge that he affirmed this custome of excommunicating and cursynge of dead folks to haue come first from Rome For Euagrius reporteth in his writinges that Eutichius was of the same opinion induced by thexample of Iosias who slewe the priestes of Baall and burnte vp the bones of theym that were deade euen vpon thaltars Whereas before the time of Eutichius this kinde of punishement was wel nere vnknowen neyther afterward vsurped of any man that euer he hearde of vntill a nyne hundred yeares after Christ. In the latter times the whyche how much the further they wer from that golden age of thapostels so much the more they wer corrupted this kinde of cruelnesse beganne to creepe further For it is manifestlye knowen that Stephen the sixth Pope of Rome digged vp Formosus his last predecessour in that sea and spoyling him of his Popes apparayle buried him agayne in laye mannes apparayle as they call it hauinge first cutte of and throwen into Tyber his twoo fyngers with which according to theyr accustomed maner he was wonte to blesse and consecrate The whyche his vnspeakable tyrannye vsed agaynste Formosus within sixe yeares after Sergius the third encresed also againste the same Formosus For taking vp his deade bodye and setting it in a Popes chayre he caused his heade to be smiten of and his other thre fingers to be cut from his hande and his body to be cast into the ryuer of Tiber abrogating and disanulling all 〈◊〉 decrees whiche thing was neuer done by any man before y t day The cause why so great cruelty was exercised by the report of Nauclerꝰ was this bycause that Formosus had bene an aduersarye 〈◊〉 Stephē Sergius when they sued to be made bishoppes This kinde of crueltye vnheard of before the Popes a while exercised one agaynst another But nowe or euer they had sufficientlye felte the smart thereof thē selues they had ●ourned the same vpō our neckes Wherfore it is to be wished that seinge it began among them it myght haue remayned still with thautours therof and not haue bene spred ouer thence vnto vs. But such was the nature of all euell that it quickly passeth into example for others to do the like For about the yere of our Lord 1400. Iohn Wicklyfe was in lyke maner digged vp burnte into ashes and throwen into a brooke that runneth by y e town where he was buryed Of the which selfe same sauce tasted also William Tracye of Gloucester a man a of worshipful house bicause he had writtē in his last will that he should be saued only by faith in Iesus Christe and that there neded not the helpe of anye man thereto whether he were in heauen or in earth and therfore bequeathed no legacye to that purpose as all other men were accustomed

A briefe treatise concerning the burnynge of Bucer and Phagius at Cambrydge in the tyme of Quene Mary with theyr restitution in the time of our moste gracious souerayne Lady that nowe is Wherein is expressed the fantasticall and tirannous dealynges of the Romishe Church togither with the godly and modest regimēt of the true Christian Church most slaunderouslye diffamed in those dayes of heresye Translated into Englyshe by Arthur Goldyng Anno. 1562. ☞ Read and iudge indifferently accordinge to the rule of Gods worde ¶ Imprinted at London in Flete-strete nere to saynct Dunslons Churche by Thomas Marshe IF causeles anye yet do doubt whether the wilye Papistes be the lōg foretold and looked for Antechristes to theyr oft con●uted doctryne let him ioyne the iudgement of theyr dāned dedes And discerne that theyr faith whose iustification they iustly flye by the filthines of theyr frutes Which reason was whilom among them of such force that in stede of disprouing doctrine they curiously searched others innocent liues as blamelesse them selues Not fearing as the abhominable harlotte who vpbrayded her chaste neyghbour with her owne shame most impudently to appeache others of vnhonest life where thē selues are so staynd with al kinde of vncleannes as but for that shamelesse dissemblinge which serueth thē to so many mischieues theyr conscyences would euen in theyr blushyng faces crie y ● contrary to theyr shamelesse wordes Neyther minde I by a fewe to defame them all or by a rascall noumber to stayne the best but euen with historical sincerity to propose the paterne of the perfectst that as the iudgemente is like of thinges alike so much more plainelye mayst thou d●me what the rascal rable be when the best be such So wilye in worldly affaires arguinge their ignoraunce in spirituall So dissēbling in al their dealing cloking not cancelling their crimes So cruell vnder colour of disguised mercye So farced with fables sor fatherlye doctrine Suche deluders euen of the learned vniuersity as though forgetting him whō no mā may deceiue measurīg religion by worldly estimation they had madlye proposed dissembling deceyt the end of theyr lewd profession yf they thē whom the simple sort had vainly in such admiration so deluded our expectacion euen in that time when both theyr wittes learnings chiefelye flourished power wanted not to assist their wordes if thē I say those yelded such rottē frutes of their great conceyued hope alas what is to be loked for eyther of the same yet liuinge crueltye the mightiest bulwarke of theyr doctrine wanting or of the rest whō neither wit nor worthines hath raysed either to so learned iudgement or to so graue report For to ouerpasse the rest againste whō theyr causeles pitied state bids sparelye to speake who worshipped Ormanet any lesse thē a liuīg saint ▪ who estemed him otherwise than the angel that should disclose the secretes lodged in the cardinals brest● whom they knewe to be enspired w t that romishe owlishe doue So hath honor reuerēce long since swerued frō that vprightnes of life whereto Philosophye at the first linked it waxd cōtented to be the mate of power the meede of the monstruous beaste of many heades But shall our good opinion of theym growe wyth theyr iust deserued woe Or shall we conceyue more of thē vnarmed whome the dreadfulst tormentes of fier famine could not proue soūdly learned Or shal we deme that rusty corners yet shroude others that could speake muche more O let vs not be more wittye to proue them eyther learned or godly then them selues are able And thou O Reader as the readyng of this litle treatyse shall often moue the to rue the miserye of the times wherein they were rufull so if prosperity haue not wholye blunted the prickes of vertue in thee they shall styrre the alyke to the consideracion of these ●appy yeares wherein they are not onelye lothed sorowed and mourned but euen hated detested and condemned Wherein so appeares the filthe of those wicked Tirauntes as yet euen after tombe and fyer flouryshe the ashes faine of theyr weake foes Theyr beggery nowe appearyng so beastly by theyr fal as wonted is the death of the deceyuinge detter to descrie his manye deceytes to the greate losse wracke of his creditours If you thinke it deserueth not the name of an historye for that pertiallye perhaps in thy opinion the guiltye are touched consider to whom it was forbidden to write ought vntruly from him was not ●rempted the causes and reasons of thinges disclosed to nippe the euil and prayse the good Unlesse thou wilte forbid him to thinke of eyther parte what it deserueth or what he thinketh to speake The fyrste of the whych as thou canst not forclose me so the other the benefite of the tyme graunteth me In the which to couer my iust affection what impiety wer it Wherfore wishing the fauorably to weygh my frendly meanyng in al poyntes syth what so ener I dyd I was enforced in respecte of common commoditye to do I remyt the to the perusinge of my doynges with such fauorable iudgement as is due to well meaning though it wante expressing CArdinall Poole thre yeares after his returne into Englād hauyng somewhat wythdrawen hys mynd from other affaires of the realme and hauing in all poyntes established the Romishe religion the which a certaine yeares past during the time of king Edward the .vi. was clerely abolished and worne out of custome began to haue an eye to the vniuersitie of Cambrydge the which it selfe inespecially semed to haue nede of reformation out of hande For he thought it should be to no purpose to bestowe his trauaile in purginge the residewe of the bodye if he left that parte still infected with maladies diseases frō whēce al other members should fetche their strength and nourishemēt To performe this charge were chosen Cuthbert Scot not long before consecrated bishoppe of Westchester Nicolas Ormanet an Italian Archepryeste of the people of Bodolon in the dyocesse of Uexon professed in both the lawes Thomas VVatson elected bishop of Lincolne Iohn Christoferson elected byshop of Chychester and Henrye Cole Prouoste of the Colledge of Eton. There was good cause whye the matter was inespecially committed to these persons For as touchinge Ormanet it is well knowen that he was a man of muche estimation wyth Iulius the thyrde at that tyme bishop of Rome whose businesse they dyd sitte vpon in this Commission and that for the same purpose he was appoynted to come into Englande wyth Cardinall Poole bycause that without his knowledge as in whō he put his chyefe trust and confidence the byshop would haue nothynge done that was of any importance or weyght The residewe were sent thither eyther for experience in matters of thuniuersitye or els they seemed of all others most meete to be put in trust with thandlynge of that case because they were taken for moste stoute Champions and earnest defenders of the Romyshe relygion