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A22076	The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe lately martyred in Smythfelde, by the Romysh popes vpholders, with the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale.	Askew, Anne, 1521-1546.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1546 (1546)	STC 848; ESTC S100286	39,105	120

Blandina put to her sydes So had Anne Askewe the flamynge brā des of fyre Full of God and hys veryte was Blandina So was Anne Askewe to the verye ende Christ wonderfullye tryumphed in Blandina So ded he i● Anne Askewe whan she made no noyse on the racke and so cr●estlye afterwarde reioyced in hym Blandina was geuen fourth to wylde beastes to be deuoured So was Anne Askewe to cruell Bys hoppes prestes whom Christ calleth rauenynge wolues deuourers and theues Math. 7. Ioan. 10. Blandina vpon the scaffolde boldelye reprehended the pagane prestes of their errour So ded Anne Askewe whan she was fast tyed to the stake with stomack rebuke that blasphemouse apostata Shaxtō with the Byshoppes and prestes genera cyon for their manyfest mayntenaunce of ydolatrye Blandina at the stake shewed a vysage vnterryfyed So ded Anne Askewe a countenaunce stowte myghtye and ernest Infatygable was the sprete of Blā dina So was the sprete of Anne Askewe The loue of Iesus Christ the gyft of the holye Ghost and hope of the crow ne of martyrdome greatlye mytygated the paynem Blandina So ded those iii. worthye graces the terrour of all tormentes in Anne Askewe The stronge sprete of Christ gaue stomack to Blandi na both to laugh and daunce The same myghtye sprete not the popes despera te sprete made Anne Askewe both to re ioyce and synge in the preson So bolde was Blandina sayth Eusebius that with a presumpcyō of stomack she cōmo ued with Christ vnseane I suppose Anne Askewes lattre examynacyō wyll shewe her not to do moche lesse Gentyll was Blādina to the ●hristē beleuers terry ble to their aduersaryes So was Anne Askewe verye lowlye to true teachers but scornefull and hygh stomaked to the enemyes of truthe Manye were conuerted by the sufferaunce of Blandina A farre greatter nombre by the burnynge of Anne Askewe Though Blandina we reyonge yet was she called the mother of martyrs Manye men haue supposed Anne Askewe for her Christen constancye to be no lesse Blandina prayed for her persecuters So ded Anne Askewe most feruentlye The ashes of Blandina and of other martyrs were throwne into the flood of Rhodanus What was done with the Ashes of Anne Askewe her companyons I can not yet tell All these former reportes of Blandina and manye more besydes hath Eusebius in Ecclesiastica historia libro 5. cap. 1. 2. 3. Hugo Floriacensis Hermannus Contractus Uincentius Antoninus Petrus Equilinus and other hystoryanes more And as touchynge Anne Askewe these ij examynacyons with her other knowne handelynges in Englande are wytnesses for her suffycyent Thus hath not the fyre taken Anne Askewe all whole from the worlde but left her here vnto it more pure perfyght precyouse than a fore as it wyll also Iohan Lassels within short space So that concernynge her it maye wele be sayd that Paule verefyeth 2. Cor. 12. The strength of God is here made perfyght by weakenesse Whan she semed most feble than was she most strōge And gladlye she reioyced in that weakenesse that Christes power myght strongelye dwell in her Thus choseth the lorde the folysh of thys worlde to confounde the wyse the weake to deface the myghtye Yea thynges despysed thought verye vyle to brynge thynges vnto nought whych the worlde hath in most hyght reputacyō I thynke yf thys martyr were ryght lye conferred with those canonysed mar tyrs whych haue had and yet hath styll sensynges and syngynges massynges ryngyngesi the popes Englysh churche cause with cause and reason with reason as haplye here after they shall she shuld be a great blemysh vnto them An example of stronge sufferaunce myght thys holye martyr be vnto all them that the lorde shall after lyke maner put forewarde in thys horryble furye of An tichrist to the glorye of hys persecuted churche Amen A table compendyouse of thys first boke BArnes and Tyndale pre 3 Beastes eate the prestes God 14 Bedas prophecye pre 2. 8 Beleue in prestes lecherye 36 Blandina with Anne Askewe pre 7. 8. 9 Bokes condēpned brent pre 5. 22. 43 Bokes not yet answered 42 Bokes of Iohan Wycleue pre 6 Bonner a craftye wolfe 18. 29. 42 Bonner playeth the foxe 18. 19. 20. 22 Bonner a false surgeon 24 Boxers of their God 26 Breade in a boxe 26 CAyphas of London 22. 23. 25. 29 Catholick not estemed 38. 39 Chauncellour of London 10. 16. 30 Christes dyuynyte 9 Christiudged an heretyke 25 Comparyson of Blandina pre 7. 8. 9 Counsels for recantynge pre 7 Crome and Shaxton pre 7 DElayes of delyueraunce 40 Doctryne of the supper 4 Dogges Rhetoryck 32 Dronkennesse of prestes 14 Druydes are pagane prestes 7. 30 EAtynge dyuerse 4 Englysh women lerned 11 Englande all for the pope 30 Eua an Ankorasse 26 Examynacyons written pre 5. 6 FAyth of the fathers pre 3 Fayth of the pope 36 Feast of Corpus Christi 26 Fyre taketh not all awaye pre 9 Forcronners of Christ pre 2. 3 Fryres for their Masse 30 GErmanes rayled on 43 God a sprete no breade pre 7. 14 God falleth is eaten 14 God in the boxe 26 Guimundus Auersanus 9 Hawkynge of Byshoppes 20 Helias sprete in our age pre 2. 3 Henrye Spenser warreth 29 Heresye is Christes doctryne 25 Hieremyes prophecye brent pre 5 22 Hilda a woman lerned 11 Hystoryanes dyuerse pre 9 Hypocrytes resysted 45. 46 Host a God of the papystes 14 Iames the apostle pre 4 Idolaters without wytt 14 Ignoraunt magistrates 8 In Godstede 28 Ioakim brent scriptures pre 5. 22 Iohan Baptyst great pre 3. 4 Iohan wycleues bokes pre 6 Iohan wycleue dysputeth 30 Iohan wycleue and huss 45 Iohan frith offendeth 21 Iohan Lassels martyred pre 3. 7 Israelytes conuerted pre 2 Iudas sent to betraye 12. 21 25 KYnge to be honoured 46 Kynges godlye enterpryse 5. 42 Kynges in Gods cause resysted 45 Kingedom of the pope 46. 43 LEcherye honoured 36 Legendes and hystoryes pre 4 Lordeshyppes of the clergye 33. 35 MAnne wounded 7. 24. 26 Marryage of prestes 35. 39 Martyrs of the pope pre 4 Martyrs hallowed and sensed pre 9 Masse is not of fayth 3. 36 Masse is no good worke 7 Masse a mamm●trouse Mazon ▪ 21 Masses pryuate common 6. 30 Myce howseled of papystes 9 Myracles loked for pre 4. 5 Mouse eateth God 8 NEwe martyrs of Christ pre 3. 4 Newe artycles of fayth 36 Newe sayntes of the pope pre 4 Nobylyte wherof it ryseth pre 6 No felde yet gotten 42 No suertyes for Christ. 11 OBieccyon of papystes pre 4 Obeye and praye 45 Offence of prestes daungerouse 17 Order of popysh scoles 14. 15 PEryn a foxish fryre 8. 14. 30. 43 Peryn howseleth a mouse 9 14 Peryns iij. sermons 43. 44 Peryn the popes ape 44 Practyse of prestes 13. 18. 22. 28. 40 41. Prestes mynystracyon in synne 4.

was hys owne promes ye shall be brought before rulers debytees sayth he for my truthes sake Mat. x ye shall be betrayed of your owne nacyon and kyndred so throwne in pre son Luc. 21. If they haue persecuted me thynke not but they wyll also persecute yow Io. 15 Thys serpēt is agayne become the prynce of thys worlde holdeth the gouerners therof captyue Io. 14. Suertees wolde haue bene taken for a thefe or a mourtherer but not for Christes mēbre the byshoppes chaūcellour beynge at hāde nor yet her fryndes permytted to confort her Anne Askewe But in the meane tyme there was a prest sent to me whych sayd that he was cōmaūded of the byshopp to examyne me to geue me good coūsell whych he ded not But first he asked me for what cause I was put in the Coūter And I tolde hym I coul de not tell Then he sayd it was great pytie that I shulde be there without cause and cōcluded that he was verye sorye for me Iohan Bale O temptacyon of Sathan Christ beyn ge in the solitarye wyldernesse alone was after thys flatterynge sort assaulted first of hys enemye Matt. 4. Thys Iudas was sent afore to geue a fryndelye kysse the more depelye to trappe the innocēt in sna re But Gods wysdome made her to perceyue what he was A false prophete is sone knowne by hys frutes amonge them that are godlye wyse Mat. 7. She consy dered with Salomon that more to profyght are the strypes of a frynde thā the fraudolent kysses of a deceytfull enemye Prouerb 27. Anne Askewe Secondly he sayd it was tolde hym that I shuld denye the sa cramēt of the aultre And I an swered hym agayne that that I had sayd I had sayd Iohan Bale In thyobrefe answere she remēbred Sa lomōs coūsell Answere not a fole all after hysfolyshnesse Beware of thē sayth Christ whych come in shepes clothynge for inwardlye they are most rauenynge wolues Mat. 7. God destroyeth the craf tes of the wycked sayth Iob so that they are not hable to perfourme that they take in hande Iob 5 Anne Askewe Thirdly he asked me if I were shryuen I tolde hymno Then he sayd he wolde brynge one to me for to shryue me And I tolde hym so that I myght haue one of these in that is to saye doc tor Crome syr Gyllam or Hun tyngton I was contented bycause I knewe them to be men of wysdome As for yow or anye other I wyll not dysprayse bycause I knowe ye not Then he sayd I wolde not haue yow thynke but that I or another that shall be brought yow shall be as honest as they For if we were not ye maye be sure the Kynge wolde not suffer vs to preache Thē I answered by the saynge of Salomon By commonynge with the wyse I maye lerne wysdome but by talkynge with a fole I shall take skathe Prouer. f. Iohan Bale Se how thys aduersarye cōpaseth lyke a rauenynge lyon to deuoure thyslambe 1. Pet. 5. Now tempteth he her with Cō fessy●n whych hath bene soche a bayte of theirs as hath brought in to their nettes and snares the myghtyest prynces of the worlde both kynges and emprours Se here if they leaue anye subtylte vnsought to obtayne their praye Se recke ned by thys to wynne hys purpose which waye so euer she had taken If she had bene confessed to hym he had knowne whych waye she had bene bent If she had vtterlye refused confessyon he had more matter to accuse her of O 〈◊〉 sede of the serpēr Thys part played your olde generacyon the Pharysees and prestes with Christ to brynge hym in daūger of the lawe Mat. 2● Io. 8. ●o Christē erudycyon bryngeth thys prest nor yet good counsels of the scripture But as Esaye sayth The hypocryte ymagyneth a bhomynacyon agaynst God to famysh the hungrye and witholde drynke from the thirstye Yet shall not the eyes of the seynge be dymme nor the eares of the hearynge be deffe Esa. 32. If the kynge admyt so he preachers as I can not thyn ke it a sore plage remayneth both to hym and to hys people Anne Askewe Fortly he asked me if the host shuld fall and a beast ded eate it whether the beast ded receyue God or no I answered Seynge ye haue taken the paynes to aske thys questyon I desyre yow also to take so moche payne more as to assoyle it your selfe For I wyll not do it bycause I perceyue ye come to tēp t● me ▪ And ●e sayd it was agaynst the ordre of scoles that he whych asked the questyon shuld answere it I tolde hym I was but a woman knewe not the course of scoles Iohan Bale Beastlye was that questyon and of a more beastlye brayne propouned to thys womā Lyttlenede shall other men haue to manyfest their blasphemouse folyes whan they do it so playnelye their selues Who euer hearde afore that their host was a God and myght fall and be eaten of a beast tyll they now so beastlye tolde the tale Though Saynt Paule where as it is ryghtlye mynystred doth call it the bodye of the Lorde j. Corin. 11. Yet doth he not call it a God Though Christ sayth Thys is my bodye Matth. 26. Marei 14. Luce 22. yet sayth he not thys is a God For God is a sprete and no bodye Ioannis 4. Where God is eaten it is of the sprete and neyther of mouse nor ratte as Wynchestre and Peryn with other lyke popysh heretykes haue taught now of late by their owne hande wrytynges Oure God is in heauen and cannot fall nor yet be eaten of beastes If they haue soche a God as maye both fall and so be eaten as thy● prest here confesseth it is some false or counterfert God of their owne makynge If he maye putryfye or be consumed of wormes moule rust beast or fyre Baruch sayth it is an Idoll no God Ba ruch 6. These witlesse ydolatours haue no grace in thys age to hyde their olde legerdemaynes They fare lyke those dronken Gossypes whych tell more than all wh● their heades be full of we le gyngerdeale The proude crowne of the dronken Ephraemytes sayth Esaye shall be tro den vnder fote The prestes and the prophetes do stacker they are so ouerseane with wyne Esa. 28. They stomble in the stretes and haue stayned thēselues with bloude Treno 4. All the dwellers of Iuda sayth the lorde shall I fyll with drō ckennesse both the kynges and the prestes I wyll neyther perdon them spare them nor yet haue pytie on them Hierc 13. And where as that dronckennesse is sayth Salomō there is no coūsell kept Pro. 31. In the ende thys hypocryte full lyfe hymselfe allegeth to thys woman a maner vsed of hys olde predecessours in the scholes of falsehede But frō the scole of truthe he bryngeth nothynge to the confort of her conscyence He declareth full