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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13422	The booke of martyrs· VVherein are set downe the names of such martyrs as suffered persecution, and laid downe theire lives for witnesse-bearing unto the Gospell of Christ Jesus; drawne downe from the primitive Church, to these later times, especially respecting such as have suffered in this land under the tyranny of Antichrist, in opposition to popish errours.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 23733; ESTC S118187	7,444	40

and Henry once againe By Warwicks power the Kingdome did obtaine Thus did the various state of humane things Make Kings of Captive and of Captives Kings Vntill at last King Edward turned backe Brought Henries royalty to finall wracke In whose raigne Iohn Goose as the story saith Was the first Martyr burned for Christs Faith King Henry in the Tower was stab'd to death And Edward yeeldeth up his life and breath His sonne young Edward of that name the fift Whom the third Richard from his life did lift Who by foule murders blood and tyranny Vsurp'd the throne of Englands Monarchy Till valiant Henry of that name the seven Kill'd him and made uneven England even Then first Ioan Broughton a man call'd Babrane By Faith thorow fire went to old father Abram An old man was in Swithfield burn'd because Hee did resist against the Roman Lawes One Ierom hang'd and burned on the Gallowes In Florence with two other of his fellowes And William Tilsworth Thomas Bernard and Iames Morton cause they did the Pope withstand Burned all and Father Rogers and old Reine Did die by fire a better life to gaine One Thomas Novice and one Thomas Chase Di'd constant Martyrs by the heavenly grace A woman and a man call'd Laurence Guest By death gain'd everlasting life and rest Besides a number past mens reckoning up For Iesus sake dranke of afflictions cup. Some carried faggots through a world of mocke Some rackt some pin'd some fetred in the stocks Some naked strip'd and scourged with a lash For their rejecting of the Romish trash Some branded in the cheeke did alwaies beare The badge and marke of their Redeemer deare Thus the insulting tyrannizing Pope With cursings fagot fire and sword and rope Did force the soules and consciences of men To run despairing to damnations den And they that valiantly his power withstood Did seale their resolution with their blood Before his triple treble trouble Crowne In adoration Emperours must fall downe Were they as high as any Caesar borne To kisse his feet they must not hold it scorne Henry the sixth the Emperour did fall downe Whom with his feet Pope Celestine did crowne Henry the fourth his Empresse and young son All three to Rome did barefoote goe and run And three daies so these three did all attend His holinesse a godlesse eare to lend Which afterward was granted on condition That he should give his crowne up in submission Pandulphus the Popes Legat with a frowne Did make King Iohn of England yeeld his crown King Henry of that name the second hee Kneeld downe and kist the Romish Legats knee The Emperour when Pope Adrian was to ride Did hold his stirrop on the meere wrong side For which his Holinesse in angry sort Disdainfully did checke the Emp'rour for 't When as the Pope doth ride in Cope of gold Kings like to foot-men must his bridle hold In pomp he must be borne upon mens shoulders With glorious shew amazing the beholders Whilst Kings and Princes must before him goe To usher him in his vaine-glorious showe This being true as no man can deny Those that will not be blind may plainly spy That their insulting proud commanding Priest Is absolute and onely Anti-Christ H'exalts himselfe 'bove all that 's called God Vpon the Emperours necke he proudly trod He is th'abomination void of grace That mounts himselfe into the holy place He makes the Princes of the earth drinke up And quaffe the poyson of the cursed cup Who being drunken with the dregs of sin They have his sworne and forsworne vassals bin Bewitched with his soule inchanting charmes Gainst one another they have rose in Armes By forraigne and domesticke bloody broiles Whilst he hath fild his coffers with their spoiles His double dealing too too plaine appeares In setting Christian Princes by the eares Whilst he into his avaritious hands Hath seiz'd their persons moveables and lands And as the Christian kings thēselves made weak The Turke into their Kingdomes 'gan to break And thus the Turk and Pope ioin'd with the devil Have beene the authors of all Christian evil The second BOOKE VVHen the 7th Henry in his grave was laid And the 8th Henry Englands Scepter swaid Romes bloody persecution raged more In England than in ten Kings raignes before And therefore Reader in this little Booke For every Martyrs name thou must not looke But men of chiefest note respect and fame That died in England onely those I name And first the Papists tyranny began In murthering Richard Hun a zealous man For being kept in prison by their power They closely hang'd him in the Lollards Tower And then they all in generall decreed Reporting Hun himselfe had done the deed And sixteene daies just after this was done They burn'd the foresaid corps of Richard Hun. Then to the number of full thirty five The furious flames did all of life deprive In severall places of this wofull Land Because they did the Pope of Rome withstand At which time Thomas Bilney did beginne To preach and teach 'gainst Antichristian sinne Where in Saint Georges Church in Ipswich town The Papists from the Pulpit pluckt him downe And as in dolefull prison he did lie He put his finger into the flames to trie He prov'd God did give him strength to beare His death to live with his Redeemer deare The next of note was one Iohn Frub a man Of learning great a Martyrs fame he wan Then learned Luther and grave Zwinglius With Calvin Beza Oecolampadius All glorious gracious reverend lamps of light Were instruments to clear bleard Englands sight In Flanders William Tindall for Gods Word Was sacrific'd to glorifie the Lord. Iohn Lambert valiantly his death did take And burn'd in Smithfield for his Saviours sake About this time that honourable man Lord Cromwell life and timelesse death began He like an earth-quake made the Abbies fall The Fryeries and the Nunneries all This famous noble worthy Essex Earle This Iem this Iewell this most Orient Pearle Was for his truth from all he had discarded And with his heads losse all his Faith rewarded The next of worthy note by fire that dide Was good Anne Ayscough who did strong abide Racks torturs the cruel raging flame To magnifie her high Creators name Then'gan the kings eies to be opened quite Inlightned by the everlasting light He banisht superstitious idle fables And packt the Papists hence with all their bables Then Bonner Gardner brethren both in evill Factors and actors blood-hounds for the Devill Their burning fame to infamy soone faded They godlesse gracelesse were disgrac'd degraded The King then having this good worke begun He died and left the Kingdome to his son Then raign'd young Edward that sweete princely child By whom all Popery was cleane exil'd But he too good to live 'mongst wicked men Th' Almighty tooke him hence to heaven agen No sooner Edward was laid in his Tombe But England was the slaughter-house of Rome Gardner and Bonner were