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B02519	Martyrs in flames, or, Popery (in its true colours) displayed. Being a brief relation of the horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of rome for many hundred years past, to this present age, inflicted upon Protestants in Piedmont ... : With an abstract of the cruel persecution lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686 and 1687. : Together with a short account of Gods judgment upon popish persecutors. / Published for a warning to all Protestants, [] what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. By R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7344A; ESTC R176606	106,868	208

He caused four men to be hanged upon suspicion that they had eaten a Goose upon a Friday And a Woman with a Child sucking at her breast was drown'd for refusing to pray to the Virgin Mary Many others were likewise Banished and Imprisoned for the Gospel and among the rest John Rogers a learned and godly Minister whom he caused to be murthered in Prison and then thrown over the Wall giving it out that by attempting to make his escape he broke his neck In the year 1546. Mr. George Wisheart a famous Minister was sent for to appear before Cardinal Beton and the other Bishops at St. Andrews where a Priest was ordered to curse him who called him Renegade Traitor Thief c. However Mr. Wisheart gave them an account of his Faith and Doctrine but they not being able to answer him immediately condemned him to be Burnt and presently a Fire was prepared over against the Castle and Velvet Cushions were laid in the Castle-windows for the Cardinal and the rest of the Prelates to see him suffer and for fear he should be rescued by his friends all the Castle Guns were mounted against the place of his Execution by the Cardinals order then with a Rope about his Neck and a Chain about his middle he was fastned to the Stake and having earnestly prayed and exhorted the People and forgiven his enemies and persecutors he said thus I Beseech you Brethren Exhort your Prelates to learn the Word of God that they may be ashamed to do evil and learn to do good or else there shall come upon them the Wrath of God which they shall not eschew Then the Hangman upon his knees said Sir I pray forgive me for I am not the cause of your Death Mr. Wisheart called him to him and kissing his Cheek said Lo here is a token that I forgive thee My heart do thine Office and so he was tyed to the Stake and the fire kindled The Captain of the Castle came to him and bid him be of good Courage to whom Mr. Wisheart said This fire Torments my Body but no whit abates my Spirits then looking towards the Cardinal he said He who in such State from that high place feeds his eyes with my Torments within few days shall be hanged out at the same Window with as much shame and ignominy as he there leans with Pride then his Breath being stopt with the Flames he gave up the Ghost This Prophecy was fulfilled in a short time after for the people being generally discontented at the Cruelty used against Mr. Wisheart several persons conspired against him and killed him in the Castle and the Provost raising the Town came to the Castle Gates crying What have you done with my Lord Cardinal where is he To whom they answered from within Return to your Houses for he hath received his reward and will trouble the World no more But they cryed We will never depart till we see him Then was he hanged out at that very window to satisfie them he was dead and so the people departed Shortly after one Adam Wallace was Burned likewise and Henry Forest suffered the same Cruel Death upon Account of Heresie One Walter Will was accused for Heresie and being bid to recant he said I am Corn and not Chaff I will not recant the Truth and being thereupon condemned to the Fire and all things made ready to that purpose they commanded him to go to the Stake No said he by the Laws of God I am forbidden to lay hands on my my self therefore do you put me in the Fire and you shall see my resolution Having then made his Prayer unto God he spake thus to the people Although I have been a Great Sinner yet it is not for that but for Gods Truth contained in his Word of the Old and New Testament that I now suffer and God out of his abundant Mercy doth honour me so far as to make me among other of his Servants to seal his Truth with my Blood Dear Friends as you would escape Eternal Death be no more seduced with the Lies of Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors c. but trust only in God After he had thus spoke he was tyed to the Stake and the Fire being kindled he quietly slept in the Lord and was the last person that died for the Protestant Religion in Scotland In the year of our Lord 1641. there brake forth a most horrid and Bloody Rebellion and Massacre of the Irish Papists committed on the English in Ireland a Nation famous for the Birth of divers worthy persons therein but none more renowned than that Excellent Learned and Religious Person James Usher late Ld. Archbishop of Armagh and Lord Primate of Ireland who amongst many other extraordinary Gifts and Graces which it pleased the Almighty to bestow upon him was wonderfully endued with a Spirit of Prophecy from which among many other things he foretold this bloody Rebellion forty years before it came to pass in a Sermon which he preached at Dublin in the Year 1601. where from Ezekiel 4.6 discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the Iniquity of Judah forty days the Lord therein appointing a day for a Year he made this direct application in relation to the Connivance at Popery at that time From this Year says he will I reckon the sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your Ruin and you shall bear your Iniquity which Prediction proved exactly true for from that time 1601. to the year 1641. was just forty years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and destruction of Ireland happened and which was acted by those Popish Priests Jesuits and other Papists which were then connived at For the Jesuits Priests and Friars were the chief Instigators to this horrid Massacre by continually incensing and stirring up the Popish Gentry and Commonalty to shew the utmost of their Zeal therein and this without any provocation given by the English for it was observed that they had all the Liberty they could reasonably desire and that there was not any reason for such Cruel Proceedings against the English but only for that damnable and unpardonable sin of being Protestants And the Popish Clergy the more to engage the deluded Papists to murther them every where loudly declaimed That they were Hereticks and not fit to be suffered any longer amongst them that it was no more sin to kill one of them than to kill a Dog and that it was a mortal and unpardonable sin to relieve or protect any of them And when their business was so fixt that they did not fear any miscarriage the success of this Great Design was recommended in their Publick Prayers as tending very much to the advancement of the Catholick cause and they likewise maliciously represented to the People the severe proceedings against the Papists in England All things being in a readiness they proceeded to the Execution of this Damnable Contrivance but their proceeding therein was various some

and was afterwards sent for to Rome by the Pope where many endeavours were used to tempt him to desert and deny the Truth which not prevailing he was Condemned to be burnt alive which he constantly suffered to the Admiration of all that saw him In the year 1559. John Aloysius a Minister being sent from Geneva to Calabria was sent for to Rome by the Pope where he suffered Martyrdom and at that time James Bovellus a worthy Minister was Martyred by the Popes Order at Messina Pope Pius the Fourth ralsed in hot persecution against the Protestants in all he Territories of the Church of Rome which was the destruction of many faithful Christians yea the Persecution was so hot in the Kingdom of Naples that many Noblemen and their Wives with divers others were slain And a Papist writing to a Noble Lord about the Cruelties shewed to some Christians ●n Calabria in the year 1560 hath these expressions When I think upon it I verily quake and tremble for their manner of putting to death may be fitly resembled to the slaughter of Calves and Sheep for Fourscore and Eight of them being thrust up together in one House as in a Sheepfold the Executioner cometh in takes one and blindfolds him and then leading him forth to a larger place commands him to kneel down and then cuts his Threat and leaving him half dead he takes his Butchers Knife and Muffler all go●e blood and fetches the rest and so one after another dispatches them all How sad this spectacle was I leave to your Lordship to Judge for my own part I cannot but weep to think of it neither were there any Spectators who seeing one to die could endure to behold another But truly so humbly and patiently they went to their deaths as is almost incredible to believe All the Aged Persons went more cheerfully the younger were something more timorous I tremble and shake to remember how the Hangman held his bloody Knife between his Teeth and his bloody Muffler in his hand and his Arms all gore blood up to the Elbows going to the Fold and taking every one of them one after another by the hand and so dispatching them all no otherwise than a Butcher doth his Calves and Sheep The City of Venice kept it self free a long time from this Plague of the Inquisition so that multitudes of Christians flocked thither from other places but in the year 1542 the Pope so far prevailed as to introduce it there likewise and then began a Terrible Persecution of the poor protestants there and they found out a new kind of death for them ●hich was to drown them in the bottom of the 〈◊〉 in the manner following when they ●ere condemned to die by the Inquisitors ●here was an Iron Chain fastened round their waste and a heavy stone was tyed thereto then they were laid upon a Plank between two Boats and so rowed to an appointed place in the Sea where the Boats parting asunder the Person immediately sunk into the Sea and was drowned notwithstanding which divers good Christians met together and had a Minister who preached the Gospel Administred the Sacrament to them but some false brethren creeping in among them betrayed them upon which many of them were apprehended and cast into the Sea others were imprisoned at Rome till they died Among others who were condemned to be drowned at Venice there was one Seignior Anthony Ricetto To whom after his condemnation his son of about Twelve years of Age came and with Tears beseeched his Father to recant for the saving of his own Life and that he himself might not be left fatherless To whom his Father answered A good Christian is bound to forgo Children goods yea and Life it self for the maintenance of Gods Honour and Glory for which cause said he I am now resolved with Gods assistance to lay down my Life When he came to the place where he was to suffer the Stone and Chain were fastned to him whereupon lifting up his Eyes to Heaven he said Father forgive them they know what they do Lord Jesus into thy hands I do commend my Spirit And so he ended his Life in the Sea A while after one Francis Spinola was apprehended and committed to Prison and being called before the Inquisitors he boldly reproved the Popes Legate and the other Judges in that contrary to their Consciences they persecuted the Truth of God and told them they were the Off-spring of the Pharisees c. Whereupon he had sentence passed upon him That he should be drown'd as an Heretick to whom he answered I am no Heretick but the Servant of Jesus Christ At which words the Popes Legate bid him be silent and told him that he lied The night after he was conveyed into the Sea and there drowned blessing and praising God with invincible Constancy In the year 1595 There was a young English Protestant at Rome who going into a Church and seeing their gross Idolatry he was so moved that he could not endure the sight of those impieties and therefore as the Procession passed by him he stept to him that bare the Host and Sacrament and plucking it out of his hands threw it on the Ground saying Ye wretched Idolaters do ye fall down to a Morsel of Bread This so provoked the People that they were like to have torn him in Pieces but he escaped death was sent to Prison complaint thereof being made to Pope Clement the 8th he was so inraged that he commanded him to be burnt the same day but his Cardinals advised to have him kept in Prison and Examined with Exquisite Tortures who set him on This they accordingly practised tormenting him with the utmost severity but could get nothing from him but these words Such was the will of God Then was he adjudged to be led from the Capitol naked to his middle and to wear on his head the form of a Devil his breeches to be painted over with Flames of Fire and so to be carried all about the City and then burnt alive This was Executed upon him and as he passed through the Streets he was mocked and derided of the People but he prayed fervently to God and at last uttered something against the debauched Lives of the Cardinals which so inraged them that they gagged him When he came before the Church where he threw down the Idol his Right hand was cut off by the Hangman and set upon a Pole in the Cart to which he was tyed Then two Tormentors with flaming Torches scorcht and burnt his Flesh all the way so that his body was all over blistered and bloody having no part free but his head then was he taken from the Cart and went himself to the stake kissing the Chains that should bind him The Fryars urged him to worship an Idol but he turned away his Face and shew'd his Detestation of it and when the Fire seized on him he bowed his head and quietly resigned up his Spirit

And this is a brief Abstract of this bloody and Hellish Popish Plot abundance of other particulars being omitted whereby it appears that this Horrid Plot is hardly to be parallel'd in any History considering that without any provocation so many Thousand Protestants were designed for slaughter destruction and Murder only to advance and promote the Holy Catholick Religion as they falsly call that Chaos of Blasphemy and Cruelty Presently after this Remarkable discovery happened the murther of that worthy Magistrate Sir Edmundbury Godfry who as is before related having taken the Depositions of Doctor Oats which was no more than any Justice of Peace by Virtue of his Office was bound to do yet it so inraged the Conspirators that they resolved to cut him off to deter as may be supposed all other Magistrates from intermedling with any A●●ai●s relating to the Plot. But it pleased God that the Crafty were taken in their own snare and they Mortally wounded their own cause for this bloody Enterprize allarum'd the whole Kingdom and left no doubt whether there were a Plot or no. It is not certainly discovered how many there were in all who conspired his Death but those that are known are Father Kelly and Father Girald two Irish Priests Robert Green Cushion-man to the Queens Chappel Laurenet Hill Servant to Dr. Godden Treasurer of the Chappel Henry Berry who was Porter of Somersethouse and Mr. Miles Prance a Goldsmith in Covent-Garden these were actually present at the Murther two others should have been there but were not that is Father Lewson a Priest and one Philip Vernatti who are since fled There were another Party to 〈◊〉 done it but did not namely Pritchard Le Fair Welch Keins all Jesuits and Mr. William Bedlow Of those that effected the Villany 't is Judged that Vernatti and some other Popish Priests undertoo● it and that they drew 〈◊〉 Green Hill and Berry first and afterwards engaged Mr. Prance telling him That Sir Edmundbury was a bitter Persecutor of Catholicks and a particular Enemy to her Majesties Servants whereof Mr. Prance reckoned himself one And that he had lately examined People against them and had got Depositions to fix base Crimes and Scandals on their Religion and that the Catholicks would be ruined unless ●he were taken ●ff and therefore it was necessary for the Glory of God and good of the Church that it should be effected and that there should be a good reward given them for it And when Mr. Prance scrupled it the two Priests Girald and Kelly told him It was no sin but a work of Charity and so far from being a Murther that it was a Meritorious work and be ought to assist in i. Having thus resolved of his Death they consulted several times how to effect it but at last upon Saturday October 12. 1678. Hill went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's house in the Morning but what he said to him is not known and then taking his leave went to Girald and Green and staid with them hard by waiting Sir Edmundburies going forth which was about Ten or Eleven a Clock they dogged him up and down all day till about seven a Clock in the Evening and then Green came to Prances house and told him that they had set him but did not name where only near St. Clements and that Prance must hasten down to the Water-Gate at Somerset house where he should find Kelly and ●erry which he did and they three waited there till about Nine a Clock at night then Hill came in haste and told them he was coming and that they must pretend a Quarrel and he would fetch him in Kelly and Berry began a seeming Quarrel and just as Sir Edmundbury Godfre was passing by the Gate Hill who was acquainted with ●im steps out in a great deal of haste and intreated him For Gods sake to come in for there were two men a Quarelling and he was afraid there would be blood shed He refuseth at first but the other being importunate he consented and Hill entred the Gate first after him Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and Girald and Green followed just behind As soon as they were in Prance watched at the Water-Gate that no body came that way Berry was to secure the Stairs and pass●ge by the Chappel but first he and Kelly who pretended to Quarrel stood at the end of the rail by the Queens Stables and as Sir Edmundbury went down toward them Green suddenly threw a twisted Handkerchief or Cravat about his neck and presently all four pull'd him down and throtled him so as he could make no noise then they threw him behind the Rail and gave him many Violent punches on the breast with their Knees and Green with all his force wrung his Neck almost round Having commited this Horrid Murther they removed the body into Dr Goddins Lodgings and on Monday to another Room on Tuesday from thence to another but on Wednesday night about twelve a Clock they carried his body towards Hamstead about two miles out of Town and laid it at a place called Primrose-Hill Girald having run Sir Eamundbury's own Sword through him and left it in and the Scabbard and Gloves they laid at a small distance from him that it might be supposed he had murthered himself The death of this worthy Gentleman caused great Consternation among the People and his Majesty was graciously pleased to publish a Pro●l●mation promising 500. l. to the Discoverer And a while after Mr. William Bedlow came in and gave some Account of the Murder and likewise of the Plo● in General and upon the 21 of December being in the Lobby of the House of Commons he there saw Mr. Prarce whom he knew to be concerned they two having Viewed Sir ●dmundbury's dead body together at Somerset-house and charging Mr. Prance with the Murther he was thereupon committed to Newgate and a while after confessed the whole matter as is before related Whereupon Green Hill and Berry were seized and upon full Evidence condemned and executed Kelly and Girald fled there were likewise several Traitors Tryed and Executed for the Horrid Plot that is Edward Coleman William Ireland Thomas Pickering John Grove Thomas Whitebread William Harcourt John Fenwick John Gaven Anthony Turner and Richard Langhorn The Papists being still disappointed in their cursed contrivances yet resolved not wholly to desist but endeavoured to stifle the Evidence by promising them great rewards and encouragements not to discover the whole of what they knew or to deny what they had deposed and upon this account Mr. Redding tampered with Mr. Bedlow Mris. Price and Mr. Tasborough endeavoured to corrupt Mr. Dugdale Osburn and Lane designed to invalidate the Evidence of Dr. Oats But these ill practices being discovered some of the persons concerned were Fined and Imprisoned and others set in the Pillory after which the Papists had several other Contrivances to throw off the Plot from their own party but all will not do for certainly he cannot pretend to be a