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A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

thirty miles a bloody spectacle Sixty women were cruelly rackt so that the cords peirced their Arms and Leggs to the bones and then being cast into prison dyed all but nine of the handsomest who were taken away from thence and never heard of more And thus they continued their cruelty till they had quite rooted out and extirped all professing that Religion in Calabria The Waldenses in Province who had fled thither out of Piedmont Province Daupheny and other places encreasing and being near Avignion the Popes Seat he soon raised against them an horrid persecution but the greatest was in the year 1360. in the time of Lewis the 12th in which many suffer'd and continued more or less rigorously to the year 1540. in which was the cruel Massacre by the means of the Popes Agents at Merindol and Chabriers Pepin and other places Where the Towns were fired wholly destroyed and all the Lands about laid waste The poor people were slain the young Virgins ravished and barbarously used Children pulled alive out of their Mothers Bellies the breasts of divers women cut off and their sucking Children left on the floor to dye with Famine or sucking the gore that ran from the wounds of their dead Mothers At Cabriers there being but sixty six weak men left in the Town the rest being fled they caused them to be brought all forth to a field and there the bloody Papists cut them to peeces And all the women they found in the Town with their young Children they lockt up together in a Barn and so set it on fire and burnt them and some that endeavoured to escape thorow the flames they knockt on the head with their Halberts and ript open the bellies of others that were with Childe their Children falling under their feet and others being bound back to back were broach'd in sport upon one Sword So that in this place were slain above a thousand Men Women and Children that could not lift up their hands to resist At Costa another Town they committed great slaughters and where they used several Women and Malds that fled into an Orchard for safety with so much cruel and inhumane beastliness that they dyed most thereof This long and bloody persecution of these Waldenses Collected out of Luthers Forerunners Cades Justification of the Church of England lasted near five hundred years in which time they spread their Tenents over Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Oroatia Sclavonia Greecia Livonia Sarmatia and Bulgaria in all which places they were persecuted and tormented more or less according as the Pope and his Ministers had power and Influences over the Princes of those Countrys The persecution also of those called Albingenses was very notorious The persecution of the Albingenses they were of the same principles and Tenents as the Waldenses and differ'd only in Country and Name being Inhabitants of the Country of Albi the chief of whom was Arnold from whom they were called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the third began with them and his successors followed his steps and Pope Innocent the third raised a War against them calling it the Holy War and gave out the same pardons and Indulgences for encouragement of those who went against these people as he did to those that went into the Holy Land against the Saracens in which War he so thundered against Raimond Earl of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and for penance to be led publiquely stript to his drawers with a cord about his neck and so whipt by the Fryers nine times about the grave of one Peter the Hermite kill'd in that War And then wou'd have forced him against his Conscience to have fought against the Albingenses His Legat playing the part of a General In Beziers besieges and takes Beziers by storm seting the whole City in fire and burnt it to ashes and slew all they could meet with without distinction both Catholicks as well as those they termed Hereticks for there were of both in the City At which time they slew in this City 60000 persons Their next morsel was the Town of Carcasson Carcasson Town which the Holy Pilgrims as they called themselves took also by storm burning destroying and slaying all as they had done before at Beziers After that they set upon the City of Carcasson Carcasson City defended by the Earl of Beziers and when they offered to Capitulate the Legat would grant no other conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their baggage but all the rest both men women and children should come forth stark naked without covering of either Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him But they disdaining such unworthy and ignominious terms stand it out till they had told the Earl forth of Town under pretence of parly with the Legat having given his Oath for his safe return but having him without regard thereto stormed the City to the amazement of the poor amazed Citizens who looked for nothing less but there being a certain Vault under ground which went to a Castle not far of most of them convey'd themselves away by it leaving their City and all therein to the fury and rage of the unholy Pilgrims Then they surprized the Castle of Beron Beron. where they pull'd out the Eyes of an hundred Albingenses and cut off their noses leaving only one with one Eye to guide the rest to Cabaret They took also the Castle of Menerby Menerby defended by the Lord of Termes whom they flung into a filthy Prison till he dyed his wife sister and daughter who was a Maid they burnt in one fire because they would not recant their Religion And after that they cast into one fire for the same cause 180 men and women at the same place who dyed rejoycing At the taking of the Castle of Lavaur Lavaur by Simon Monford who succeeded the Legat in his Generalship all the Souldiers therein were put to the Sword except 80. Gentlemen whom that cruel Earl caused to be hanged and the Lord Aimery on a Gibbet higher then all the rest And the Lady his Sister east into a ditch and there covered with stones The rest of the people who were about 400. persons were forced into a great fire made purposely for them and so burnt except those that for fear recanted their Religion which were sew At this time one Reynard Lollard by his preaching stirred up the English in Guienne to assist the Albingenses this Lollard was a holy man and a Prophet and afterwards was burnt at Collen by the Papists those in England of that Judgment were from him afterwards called Lollards These men still proceeding in their cruelty against the Albingenses take the Town of St. Anthonys St. Anthonys where they caused thirty of the principal men to be hanged in cold blood after they had granted them their lives and several other Towns where they put all to the sword without

trouble your eyes and you weep not at these Tragedies and are not sufficiently affected at these persecutions abroad and at a distance If it be so there is reason to let you know some of the sad and horrible effects of this monsters rage at home as well as abroad Do not deceive your selves to think Seas can stop him from coming to you or waters keep you safe from this paw of the Beast no he can stretch out his claws over the British Frith he can reach even from Italy into England from Rome to London you shall behold the same monster using the same cruelties and scratching up the earth to bury the Bodies of his opposers Where-ever the Religion of Rome is establish'd in its pride and power there you shall be sure to sinde this monster she rides upon this terrible beast and with it crushes the Sons of the earth and tramples on the Carcases of the slain and wades thorow the blood of Martyrs to her Throne where she sits boasting in her Iniquity and ruling Nations with a rod of Iron And that you may see the frozen North is not able to affright this Beast but that he has gone beyond the wall of the Picts and establish'd its dominion as far as the Orcades I will still observing the method I began in leaving our own concerns last shew you also some effects of its power and rage in Scotland from thence we will pass over S. Georges Channell into Ireland and lastly behold the sufferings and martyrdomes of the Protestants at our own doors and thoroughout England but with the same brevity as we have done all the rest In the year then 1527. Scotland Hist of the Reformation in Scotland Paeric Hamilton having been in Germany brought home with him into bis own Country the doctrine of Luther and was the first that began to oppose the blinde superstition and grosse ignorance of the Church of Rome and no sooner had he began to open his mouth but Cardinal Beven Archbishop of St. Andrews mounts the Beast of persecution and devours this poor Saint at a morsell He strait is condemned to the fire for his errors as they call them and suffers at St. Andrews 1527. In the years 1534. suffer'd also by burning David Stratton and Norman Gourlay and not long after Thomas Forret a Dean was burnt by the same Cardinal And in 1538. the Gospell still increasing four more were burnt in one fire The next year Jerome Russell and Alexander Kenedy likewise suffer'd by the same Cardinal and for the same cause 1543. the same persecuting Cardinal Archbishop coming to Edenborow caused many to be hanged only for suspition of Heresie and one for being only suspected to have eaten of a Goose on a Fryday And a woman with a child sucking at her Breast to be drowned because she would not pray to the Virgin Mary He caused many to be banish'd and many to be imprison'd at St. Johnstons among the rest one John Rogers a Minister whom he caused to be murthered in prison and his Body to be thrown over the walls 1546. George wischard was burnt by Cardinal Misle another persecutor of the Saints This Wischard was a very learned man and one who had been brought up a student in Cambridge and had prophesied many things concerning his own Country which was Scotland and which afterwards came to pass He suffer'd very couragiously at St Andrews The said Cardinal and divers other Prelats looking on and leaning at the window of the Castle on Velvet Cushions In the year 1563. one Henry Forrest was burnt having nothing against him but what he had uttered in consession to a Fryar they had sent on purpose to betray him having only a suspition of him and all that he confessed and for which he was burnt was that he thought well of the Articles that Patric Hamilton maintained and for which he suffer'd 1558. Walter Mill who had been a Priest was burnt He was the last man that suffer'd by the Papists for Religion in Scotland If that we do not sinde any marks of this ravenous beast persecution in Ireland before the year 1641. in which that grand execution Ireland Sir John Temples History of the Rebellion in Ireland and Massacre of the Protestants broke forth it is not because they wanted a will and desire thereto or that there were not many professors in that Kingdom but because they wanted power and opportunity to execute their malice For the English and the Protestants had been watchfull of all their actions and carefull in hindring their designs they stood upon their guard and with their Arms in their hands as if they dwelt among Wolves or robbers so that it was no easy matter to fullfill their desires by attempting upon those whom they saw so well guarded but they no sooner found them secure and that a long and amicable living together had made the English and Scotch Protestants fearless and consident of their amity and friendship and that the troubles in England gave them a desired opportunity but instigated by the Priests and Jesuits which came over from Spain Flanders and other parts beyond the Seas the Nobility Gentry and commonalty of the Irish Papists conspire together utterly to extirpate root and branch all Protestants out of Ireland of what Nation or condition soever The Priests telling the people that they were Hereticks and therefore ought not to live among them or have any commerce with them That it was no more sin to kill one of them then to kill a dog and that it was a mortal and unpardonable sin to releive succour or assist any of them and a meritorious act to kill and knock them on the head and that such who should dye or be any ways slain in the execution or performance of these acts should go immediately to Paradise should be free from the pains of Purgatory should have all their sins pardoned and they should dye Martyrs By these means and wicked artifices they so exasperated the people who believe all things their Priests say that as soon as the opportunity was given they shewed the horrid effect in the most bloody and barbarous Massacre as ever was committed Nay those wicked riests many of them gave the Sacrament to diverse of the Irish upon condition that they should not spare either man woman or child of the Protestants and said that it did them good to embrew their hands in the blood of Hereticks and threatned them with excommunication if they should relieve harbour or succour any in their distress and told them that to take from them their goods and Estates was no more then to take a bone out of a dogs mouth and before the Massacre began the people were dismissed from their Mass with free liberty to spoyl and take away from the Protestants whatever they could lay hold on and to kill them whereever they could meet with them for that they were worse then dogs being devils and such as