these with other mo were persecuted and sent vp to Boner specially by sir I. Mordāt Edmund Tyrrell Esquire and were condemned by him the third of Aprill and burned the sixtéenth of Maye The 5. day of May was Thomas Drewry Tho. Drewry a blinde boy and Thomas Croker Tho. Croker Bricklayer martyred in the fire at Glocester being condemned by D. Williams then Chaunceller Who when he said that the Chaunceller taught him that which he called Heresie in the pulpit and the Chaunceller bad him doe as he had done No said the boy to him though you can so easily dispense with your selfe and mocke with God the world and your conscience yet I will not so do Then God haue mercie vpon thée said the Chaunceller for I will reade sentence against thée and so did and committed him to the secular power to be burned with Thomas Croker The 21. of May Anno 1556. Thrée men Thomas Spicer Tho. Spicer of Winstone laborer Iohn Denny Ioh. Denny and Edmond Poole Edm. Poole were burned at Beckles for witnes bearing to the trueth They were persecuted by Syr Iohn Tyrrel Knight of Gipping hall in Suffolke and were condemned by Dunning Chauncelour of Norwich and maister Monges the register sitting at the towne of Beckles Where the Chancellour himselfe burst out in teares exhorting them to returne to the papistical Church Which when they refused he read the sentence against them euen with teares and deliuered them to the Secular power Sir Iohn Sylliard being then high Sheriffe of Norfolke and Suffolke notwithstanding that the writ de comburendo was not yet come downe After they had prayed they making confession of their Faith came to I beléeue the Catholike Church That is well saide quoth Sir Iohn Sylliard I am glad to heare that It is the best word I heard of you yet To the which wordes Edmunde Poole answered that though they beleue the Catholike Church yet doe they not beléeue in their Popishe Church and therefore no parte of their beléefe They being all at the stake and the fire burning about them praised God in such an audible voice The Martyrs praise God in the flames of fire as it was wonderfull to all those that stood by By the procurement of sir Iohn Tyrrel knight and other his fellow colleagues there were persecuted out of the towne of Winson in Suffolke these persons here following Anno 1556. Mistris Ales Twaites gentlewoman of the age of 60. yeares and more and two of her seruauntes Humfrey Smith and his wife William Catchpoole and his wife Iohn Mawlin and his wife Nicholas Burlingham and his wife and one Rought and his wife There were also driuen out of the Towne of Mendlesame in Suffolke Simon Harlestone and Catherin his wife with his fiue Children William Whitting and Catherin his wife Thomas Dobson and his wife Iohn Deacon his wife and his maide William Deacon Thomas Woodward the elder one Reynoldes wife a pore widowe one mother Symons maide besydes those that were constrained to do against their consciences The cause of their persecution was the they denyed the Popes supremacie held the Quéene to bée supreme the ministers might marry c. Many of these persōs were of great substance had possessions of their owne The last day of the moneth of May Iohn Slech being imprisoned in the kinges bench for the doctrine of the Gospell there died was buried on the backsyde of the same prison About the 6. day of Iune next following Thomas Harland Tho. Harland of Woodmancote Carpenter Iohn Oswald Iohn Oswalde ibid. husbandman Thomas Auington Th. Auington of Ardinglye Turner Thomas Read Tho. Read suffered at Lewis together for the testimony of the Gospel In the same towne of Lewis and the same moneth suffered Thomas Wood Tho. Wood. and Thomas Milles the 20. day of the same moneth for the testimonie of Iesus Iohn Milles. In the which moneth William Adheral minister dyed in the kinges bench the 24. day of the same moneth and was buried on the backe side And so also Clement whéelwright dying there was buryed vpon a dunghill the 25. of Iune A merchants seruant at Lecester Thirtene at one fire The xxvj of Iune suffered a merchants seruant at Leycester for the testimonie of the gospell The xxvij ot Iune xj men and two womē were burned in one fire at Stratford the Bow by London whose dwellings were in sundry places in Essex Their names were Henry Adlington H. Adlington Laurence Pernam L. Pernam Henry Wye Henry Wye William Halliwell W. Hallywell Thomas Bowyer Th. Bowyer Georges Searles G. Searles Edmund Hurst Edm. Hurst Lion Couch Lyon Couch Rafe Iackson Rafe Iackson Iohn Deryfall Iohn Derifall Iohn Routh Iohn Routh Elizabeth Pepper Eliz. Pepper Agnes George Agnes George vnto whom the sixt of Iune Anno 1556. Doctor Darbyshire Boners Chancellor in forme of law ministred articles of Poperie to which they made their answeres in simplicitie of good conscience When they were condemned and the day appointed that they should suffer which was the xxvij of Iune they were carried to Stratford bowe and deuided in two partes into seuerall chambers Afterward the Shiriffe came to each part and told them that the other parte had recanted and should not therefore suffer death The subtiltie of the diuell counsailyng them to doo the like c. To whom they answered as their brethren had doone before that their faith was not builded on Man but on Christ and his sure worde So the Shiriffe séeing no hope to preuaile had them to the stake which they kissed and embraced very hartely The two womē were loose and not tied to any stake Two women stood loose at the stake and so they all gladly suffered for the gospels sake the extremitie of the fire In the company of those before said were thrée more condemned to die whose names were Thomas Freeman William Stannard William Adams These being in the hands of the secular power Cardinall Poole Cardinall Poole pardoneth certaine condemned for the gospell sent dispensation for their liues by meanes whereof they escaped The Sunday after the condemnation of the sixtéene aforesaid Fecknam Deane of Paules preached at the crosse that they had as many sundry opinions as they were persons wherevpon they set foorth a confession of their fayth and set to their handes After the burning of these in Stratford the same moneth died in the prison of the kings bench in Southwarke one Tho. Parret and was buried in the backeside the 27. day of Iune Also Martine Hunt as is reported in the same prison was famished the 20. day At which time likewise died in the same prison Iohn Norice and was buried on the backside After the death of the thrée aforesaid Roger Bernard Roger Bernard a labouring man dwelling in Fransden in Suffolke was
of Ayos where he remayned the spare of foure whole yeares Afterwarde he came into Englande after the battayle of Muscleborow and preached at Carlill Barwicke and Newcastell and after that was placed by the Archbishop of Yorke in a benefice nigh Hull Where he remained till the death of King Edward after whose death he fled with his wife into Fréeseland and there liued by knitting of caps hose and such like till about the end of the moneth of October last before his death At which time lacking yearne M. Rough minister of the congregation at London he came ouer to make prouision and comming ouer to London was of the congregation there made their minister In the end with Cutbert Symson hée was taken at the Sarasines head in Islington by the meanes of a dissembling brother called Roger Sergeaunt a Taylor and was carryed to the Counsell and of them was sent to Newgate where hée had remayned but a while before Bishop Boner sent for him the eightéenth day of December and ministereth vnto him certaine Articles And againe the nintéenth day perswaded with him On the twentith day finding him constant hée pronounceth sentence of condemnation against him Amongst other talke with Bishop Boner hée affirmed that hée had béene twise at Rome and there had séene plainly with his eyes which hée had heard many times before namely that the Pope was the very Antechrist for there he saw him carried on mens shoulders and the false named Sacrament borne before him yet was there more reuerence giuen to him then to that which they counted for their God When B. Boner heard this More reuerēce done to the Pope then to the bread God rising vp and making as though he would haue torne his garments hast thou said he béene at Rome and séene our holy father the Pope and doest thou blaspheme him in this sort and with that flying vpon him he plucked of a péece of his beard after making spéedy hast to his death burnt him before six of the clocke in the morning This Maister Rough being at the burning of Austoo in Smithfield and returning homeward againe met with one M. Farrara a merchant of Hallifar who asked him where he had béene vnto whom he answered I haue béene said he where I would not for one of mine eies but I had béene where haue you béene said M. Farrar Forsooth said he to learne the way and so told him he had béene at the burning of Austoo where shortly after he was burned himselfe and with him Margarete Meering This Margarete Meering wherefore it is vncertaine gaue occasion to be excommunicated so was by M. Rough himselfe in the open face of the congregation which she tooke in euill part and gaue out threatnings against the congregation but God disposed otherwise For the Sunday after M. Rough being taken by the information of one Roger Sergeant to the bishop of London was layd prisoner in the Gate house at Westminster where none of his fréends could come to visit him This Margery hearing thereof got her a basket a cleane shirt in it and went to Westminster where shée fayning her selfe to be his sister got into the prison to him and did to her power not a little comfort him The Friday after she standing at Marke-lane end with another woman a fréend of hers sawe Cluny Boners sumner comming into the stréete towardes her house Whom when shée saw Margery Meerings ready to suffer for Christ said to the other woman standing with her whether goeth yoonder fine fellow said shée I thinke surely he goeth to my house and in vewing him still at the last shée saw him enter into her doore so immediatly she went home and asked him whom he sought Wherevnto Cluny answered for you you must go with mée Mary quoth she here I am I will go with you And comming to the bishop she was laid in prison and the Wednesday after burned in Smithfield An. 1558. the 28. of March was Cutbert Simson Cutb. Symson deacon of the same Church whereof M. Rough was minister in London burned in Smithfield and with him Hugh Fox Hugh Fox 1 Deuenish and Iohn Deuenish apprehended together at Islington and so together chéerefully suffered for righteousnes sake Beeing called into the Warehouse of the Tower before the Constable of the Tower and the Recorder of London maister Cholmeley refusing to tell who came to the English seruice he was put in a racke of yron where hée stood thrée houres and being loosed from thence because he would bewray none on a Sunday after they did binde his two fingers together and put a small arrow betwixt them and drewe it through so fast Cuthbert Simson racked twise that the blood followed and the arrow brake It was thought this was done rather in the Bishoppes house After they had twise racked him they fiue weekes after sent him to Boner of whom he was condemned Yet gaue he him great testimony of patience before al the people in his Consistorie saying if he were not an heretike Boner commēdeth the patience of Cuth Simson hee is a man of the greatest patience that yet euer came before me For I tell you hee hath beene thrise racked vpon one daie in the Tower also in my house hée hath felt some sorrowe and yet I neuer saw his patience broken The 9. of Aprill An. 1558. William Nichol W. Nichol. was burned for the cause of the Gospel at Hereford in West Wales The 19. of May after suffered William Seaman W. Seaman of the age of 26. an husbandman dwelling in Mendlesham in the countie of Suffolke Tho. Carman Tho. Carman and Thomas Hudson Tho. Hudson of Arlsham in Norfolke all three together at Norwich for the cause of Christ William Seamon was pursued and taken by the laying waite of Sir Iohn Tirrel who hauing searched for him himselfe in vain gaue charge to his seruants Robert Balding and Iames Clarke by whom he was taken and brought to Syr Iohn Tirrell who sent him to the B. of Norwich by whom he was condemned After his death he left behind him a wife and three children very young and with his children the wife was persecuted out of the towne of Mendlesham because she would not go to heare masse and all her corne and goods seised and taken away by maister Christopher Coles officers Lord of the towne Thomas Carman was taken because he pledged Bichard Crashfield at his burning Tho. Hudson after he had long bin absent from his wife children for the auoiding of the popish idolatry and superstition came home to his house to visit and to comfort them and at the first laye among the fagots where his wife had made him a place to remaine in the day At the last he walked abroad for certaine daies openly in the towne crying out continually against the masse and that trumpery and in the end comming home to his house he sate him
his bodie touched the ground After all this hee was brought before the Mayor of Reading and there those false Brethren which before had robbed his studie obiected against him Treason Sedition Murther and Adulterie c. Which when they coulde not proue they laide vnto his charge the writings that they had stolne out of his Studie Wherefore once againe he was called out of pryson and appeared before the Mayor and Byrd the officiall and two other Iustices to render an accompt of his faith And when they had gathered of his owne mouth sufficient matter to entrap him they deuised a byll of instructions against him to be directed to Doctor Geffery who had determined to hold his visitation the next tuesday at Newbery beyng the sixtéenth day of Iuly So he was sent to Newbery and came thether on the Munday at night and with him Thomas Askins his felow prisoner where they found Iohn Grome their faithfull brother in the Lord. So the xv of Iuly the prysoners appeared before Doctor Geffery and other Commissioners where after reasoning of the authoritie and vniuersalitie of the church of Rome and of the presence in the Sacrament c. when no allurements nor perswasions would preuayle they were all thrée condemned and burned together Being at the place of their martyrdome Palmer comforteth his fellowes with the promises of God and pronounced with an audible voice the xxxj Psalme But the other two made their prayers secretly to almightie God all thrée falling to the ground and as Palmer beganne to rise there came behind him a popish priest exhorting him to recant to whome Palmer Palmer at the stake answered Away away tempt me no longer away I said from mée all yée that worke iniquitie for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my teares And foorthwith they put of their rayment went to the stake and kissed it and when they were bound to the post Palmer said good people pray for vs that we may perseuere to the end and for Christes sake beware of popish teachers for they deceiue you Which as hée spake a seruaunt of one of the Bayliffes threwe a faggot at his face that the bloud gushed out in diuerse places Thus fire being put to them they all crying Lord Iesu strengthen vs Lord Iesu assist vs Lord Iesu receiue our soules they ended this mortall life Palmer was about 24. yeares old when he suffered The last time of his being at Oxford one Barwicke then fellow of Trinitie Colledge a rancke papist began to reason with him and perceiuing him to be earnest and zealous said vnto him in the hearing of Maister Thomas Perrey others there present Well Palmer well now thou art stoute and hardie in thyne opinion but if thou were once brought to the stake I beléeue thou wouldest tell me another tale I aduise thée beware of the fire it is a shrewd matter to burne Truly said Palmer Palmer diuers times in daunger of burning I haue bene in daunger of burning once or twise and hetherto I thanke God I haue escaped it but I iudge verily it wil be mine end at the last welcom be it by the grace of God In déed it is an hard matter for them to burne that haue the minde and soule linked to the bodie as a théefe is tyed in a paire of Fetters But if a man be once able through the helpe of Gods spirite to separate and deuide the soule from the bodie for him it is no more maisterie to burne then for me to eate a péece of bread For whom it is easy to burne About the same moneth of Iuly Agnes Wardal of the towne of Ipswich a vertuous woman and one that hated the Romish trash was persecuted by Richard Argentine a phisition in the towne Phillip Vlmes Edmond Leach Iohn Steward and Mathew Butler malicious enemies of Gods children But by Gods great prouidence they escaped their handes and was deliuered In the same moneth also Peter Mone a Tailer of the towne of Ipswich with his wife were called before the B. kéeping visitation at Ipswich and through frailtie yelded to the Byshop Whereof after they fsll into great griefe of conscience when they came home to their house and looking when they should be sent for againe to the B. the next day who had appointed them then to appeare The time appointed drawing nigh they heard the belles ring for the B. departure out of the towne So they escaped farther trial Against these was one Richard Smart a Portman of the towne an earnest member of the Popish Church but afterwardes he repented him thereof with teares In the Isle of Gernesey 3. women Katherine Couches Catherine Couches Guillemme Gilbert Perotine Massey The mother and 2. daughters at Gernsey the mother and one Guillemme Gilbert and Perotine Massey her daughters were burned for the cause of the Gospel refusing to come to Church Notwithstanding they protested to hold nothing against the Popish Church neither was there heard any information against them neither were they examined before of their religion at anye time yet were they condemned by Syr Iames Amy Dean and the Curates of the Isle to be burned for Heretikes Which when the Bayliefes and Iurates vnderstood howe they had not examined them of their faith yet condemned them for heretikes they would not sit in iudgement that day but ordeyned they should first bée examined of them Which being done an Act and sentence was deliuered against them to the former effect that they should be executed as heretikes no accuser hauing béene heard against them Cruelty against the mother and her 2. daughters and the innocent parties protesting they would entirely obey the ordinances of the Church So sentence being giuen against them by Elier Gosseline Bailieffe notwithstanding they had appealed from the same to the king Quéene and Councel yet were they the 18. of Iuly all burned together at 3. stakes the mother in the middest the eldest daughter on the right side and the youngest on the left They were first strangled but the rope brake before they were dead so the poore women fell into the fire Marueilous cruelty Perotine great with child brast asunder by the vehemencie of the fire and her infant being a faire manchild fell into the fire and eftsoones taken out of the fire by one W. Howse was laid vppon the grasse from thence it was had to the prouost and from him to the Baylife Whose censure was that it should be caried backe and cast into the fire so was the child baptized in his owne blood to fil vp the number of the saints Néere about the same time that these 3. women with the infant were burned there suffered for the doctrine of the Gospel at Gréenstéed in Sussex two men Thomas Dungate Tho. Dungate and Iohn Foreman Iohn Forman and one woman called mother Dree the 18. of Iuly About the 26. of Iune one Tho. Moore Tho. More of the age of
eadem Crueltie eadem Courage constancie 434 Gods vengeance 435 Iohn Huglein ead No promise to be kept with heretikes eadem George Carpenter eadem Leonard Keysar eadem The mother brethren one against another ead Wendelimata 436 Peter Filsteden eadem Adolph Clarebacke ead Nicholas of Antwerpe ead Iohannes Pictor ead A couragious martyr ead Mathias Werbell 437 A priest martyred ead G. Sherrer eadem A signe eadem Henry Flemming eadem Maister Perceuall 438 Antonia eadem Iustice Imsberge eadem Giles eadem Franciscus Encenas eadem Sharpe persecution 439 200. martyrs eadem Martin Heurblot eadem Nicholas van Pole eadem Iohn de Brucke eadem Vrsula and Mary ead Two brethren their mother 440 Peter Bruly eadem Peter Miocaus eadem A round answere eadem Bergeban eadem Iohn Diazius killed by his brother 442 An armed councell at Angusta eadem The Interim eadem A priest in Hungary 443 A strange cruelty eadem The duke of Saxonie ead Lantgraue of Hesse ead Hermannus archbishop of Colen eadem Martirdom for the truth ea Nicholas Marion ead A worthy martyr 444 Augustine eadem Two virgins eadem Magdeburge eadem Hostius eadem Iohannes Frisius eadem Bertrand le Blos eadem A wonderfull cōstancie 445 The crustie God ead 200. preachers banished Boheme eadem Ministers of Lorraine banished eadem Francis Warbut eadem Alexander Dayken ead Gillotus Viuer 446 Michella eadem Godfrey Hamell eadem Iohn Malo eadem Parents children martyred together ead Iames Pauan eadem Dionisius Rieux eadem Iohannes Caduceo ead Fiue burned at Paris ead Alexander Caius eadem Iohn Pointer eadem Peter Gandet eadem Quoquillard 448 Iohn Coruon eadem Martin Gouin eadem Claudius Painter eadem Steuen Brune eadem Constantinus 449 Iohn du Becke eadem Aymond de la Voy ead A notable saying eadem Frauncis Bribard ead William Russen ead De Landa 450 Iames Cobard ead Peter Clarke eadem William Briconetus ead 14 Christian martyrs ead The priests sing at the death of martyrs 451 Peter Chapet eadem The tongues of martyrs cut out eadem Samnitius eadem Steuen Polliot eadem Iohn English 452 Michaell Michelot ead Leonardus de Prato ead Iohn Taffingnot ead Michaell Mareschall ead Octauian Blondes eadem Hubert Cherrer 453 Florence Venot eadem Anne Andebert eadem Notable constancie courage in a woman ead A poore tayler ead Claudius 454 Leonard Galimard ead Maceus Marreon eadem Thomas Sanpalinus a notable martyr eadem Marueylous constancie ead Iohannes Put 455 Claudius Mouerius ead Renat Poyet eadem Iohn Loyer eadem Christian charitie ead Hugonius Grauier ead Fiue students burned ead Christian charitie 456 Petrus Bergerius ead Iohn Chanbone ead Dionysius Pelloquine ead A worthy chāpion of Christ 457 Mattheus Dimotheus ead William Neele ead Simon Laloe ead Iames Siluester ead Nicholas Nayle ead Peter Serre ead The name of a priest shameful to a christian 458 Stephen King ead Anthonius Magneus ead William Alencon ead Repentance 459 Paris Pamer eadem Peter du Val. eadem Iohn Filiolus eadem Notable constancy ead Dionysius Vair ead Cruelty of the fryers 460 Thomas Galbaragne ead Nicholas Poul ead Richard Feutus ead Iohn Bertrand 461 Peter Rouseau ead Arnold Myner eadem Bartholomew Hector 462 Philip Ceur eadem Archambant eadem Gods vengeance 463 Nicholas Startorius eadem George Tardife ead The father against the sonne eadem An assembly of 3. or 4. hundred of the faithful at Paris 464 A maruellous deliuerance eadem The cardinall of Lorayne a slaunderer of the faithful 465 An apology to the king eadem Nicholas Clinet and other martyrs ead A notable widow ead Bibles Testaments burnt 466 Frederick Danuile Francis Rebizies eadem Worthy martyrs ead Rene Seaw eadem Laurence Almerike ead Villegaignon 467 Iohn Bordell eadem Gefferey Varagle ead Benet Roman ead Francis Viuax 468 Peter Arundeaw ead Thomas Montard ead An du Burg ead The tumult of Amboise ead Marlerote ead Francis Sauromanus 469 The Emperour three tymes admonished by Sauromanus 470 Rochus ead The execrable inquisition of Spayne 471 Tormentes whole dayes together ead Three sortes of men in danger of the inquisition 472 28. martyrs in the towne of Validoly ead Caracalla ead A christian flocke ead Sanbenita ead Encenas 474 Franciscus Encenas 475 Fauinus eadem A constant martyr 476 The death of pope Paulus the 3. eadem Pope Iulius the 3 eadem Dominicus de Basuna ead Galeazius eadem Iohn Mollins 477 Laurentius Spatha ead De crassis 478 The zeale of Molius eadem Franciscus Ganiba eadem Pompeius Algerius eadem Iohannes Aloisius ead Iacobus Bonellus ead Iulius 3 eadē Marcellus ead Paulus 4 ead Eighty eight martyrs together eadem The popes promise 480 Georgius Maurellus ead Petrus Latomus ead A cruell monke ead Michellotus Serra 481 William Melius eadem Gods vengeance eadem Despaire eadem Cruell sentence against Merindoll ead The harlot of the bishop of Aix laboureth agaynst Merindoll 482 Martir burned with bibles about his neck 483 The manner of Gods childrē in affliction ead God heareth the Merindolians prayers ead King Francis pardoneth the Merindolians 484 Confession of the Merindolians faith ead Cabriers ead Sadolet helped Cabriers eadem Examination of Merindolians 485 Cruelty of Antichrist 487 Popish cruelty ead Maurice Blanc ead Merindol laid euen with the ground ead Miniers breaketh his oath with Cabriers 488 Maruellous cruelty ead 1000. slayne ead Cossa destroyed 489 Aubrius eadem Gods iudgement vppon the persecutors ead Switzers sue for the valley eadem Gefferey Varicala ead Persecution 492 Those that yelded more cruelly handeled than those that were constant 493 Cruell Monkes 495 The minister rosted eadem The wicked flie where none persecuteth 497 Odall Gemet 500 Rosa destroyed 501 God fighteth for his people 502 Supplication to the Duches of Sauoy eadem Liberty granted to the Waldois ead The Table of the second part BVrning at Couentry pag. 1 Mistresse Smith eadem Robert Sylkes pag. 2 Patricke Hamleton ead Patricks articles eadem Patricks places eadem Henry Forrest 3 Iames Hamleton eadem Katherine Hamleton recant ead Woman of Lieth recant eadem Norman Gorley martyr eadem Dauid Straton ead Harding ead Alice Doly 4 Robert West ead Father wife and children accusing a christian ead Thomas Lound ead Certayne abiured 5 Rome spoyled the pope taken prisoner 6 Rymes of the pope ead 220000. li. out of the kings treasure for to fight agaynst the Emperor ead Proud prelates 7 Compassing the kinges diuorce ead Cardinal in a premunire eadem The K. gracious to the Cardinall eadem A parlement eadem Griefe of communalty agaynst spiritualty ead Articles against the Cardinall 8 I and my king ead Card. had french pocks ead Cardinall confesseth the articles ead Cardinal vngrate to the king 9 Cardinal arrested ead Cardinal dieth ead Body of the Cardi. stinketh aboue ground ead Master Humfrey troubled 10 Abiuring ead Tho. Hitten martir ead Tho. Bilney ead 34 articles against M. Bilney 12 Bilney condemned ead Bilney recanteth
A dagger hurled at the preacher ead Bradford to the tower 98 M. Iohn Rogers eadem Hooper appeareth 99 Couerdale appeareth ead Hooper to the Fleete ead Pet. Martyr returneth home eadem Latimer appeareth 100 Cranmer to the Tower ead French protestāts suffered to passe hence eadem Mary crowned eadem A parlement eadem Statutes repealed 101 Sir Iames Hales apprehended ead Sir Iohn Hales lamentable end eadem Disputation of sixe dayes eadem Disputation confuted 103 The Prolocutor interrupteth Philpot ead M. Elmer 104 Romish Church against reason ead Maister Philpot a harty man eadem Maister Philpots argument 105 Conuocation breaketh vp eadem Communicatiō of mariage betwixt Q. Mary and K. Philip 106 Doctor Crome to the fleete eadem Wiat beheaded ead Lady Iane and Lord Gilford beheaded eadem Gods iudgement vpō Morgan eadem Articles 107 About 800. flie beyond the seas eadem Lady Elizabeth and Lord Courtney sēt to the Tower ead Popes supremacie not obteined 108 Boners commendation of priesthood eadem Doctor Cranmer Doctor Ridley and M. Latimer sent to prison vnto Oxford 109 Disputers at Oxford ead Questions to be disputed of eadem Thirtie and three Commissioners ead Cranmer before the Commissioners eadem Vnitie with veritie ead Ridley appeereth ead Maister Latimer appeereth 110 Neither Masse nor the marybones nor the sinewes founde in the Scripture eadem A disorderly disputation 111 D. Ridley disputeth eadem D. Smith a turner and returner eadem Weston triumpheth before the victory ead Mayster Latimer disputeth eadem Weston crieth Vrge hoc 112 The martirs bid read on the sentence 113 Latimer would not beholde the procession ead The Prolocutor breaketh promise with M. Philpot. eadem The Prolocutor openeth Crāmer his letters to the Councell eadem Maister Bradford Thomas Beacon Neron to the to the Tower 114 A false rumor of the archbishop 115 In Kings Colledge Papistes very forward ead Lady Ellzabeth to the tower 116 Lady Elizabeth to Woodstocke 117 Barlow and Cardmaker to the fleete eadem Against writing Scriptures on Churchwalles ead Twenty foure places voyd together in S. Iohns colledge in Cambridge ead Cardinall Poole lādeth ead Absolutiō giuē to the Lords and commons 118 Purchases of abbey lands to be cōfirmed by the pope eadem M. Rose sent to the Tower eadem The act of popes supremacy eadem Qu. Mary with child ead Certaine euill praiers to bee treason 119 Iames George ead Cardmaker submitteth ead Sentēce against Tayler Saunders Bradford 120 M. Iohn Rogers martyr 121 M. Rogers diuinitie reader in Paules eadem Rogers condemned 122 Cruel Gardiner eadem Boner would not suffer maister Rogers to talke with his wife before his death eadem Maister Rogers first martyr of Queene Maries dayes eadem A prophecy of the ruine of the pope in England 123 Laurence Saunders ead Laurence Saunders constancy and his letters 124 Sweete saying of Laurence Saunders eadem Hooper burned at Glocester 125 Hooper preached once or twise a day eadem Hooper depriued 126 Hooper hardly vsed in pryson 127 Hooper and Rogers to the Counter eadem False rumors of Hoopers recanting 128 Hooper goeth cherefullie to death 129 Hooper refuseth his pardon ead Hooper a woorthie Martir ead D. Taylor martir ead All the prisons in Englande Christian schooles churches 130 Taylor Bradford Saūders condemned ead Master Tailor pleasant at the antichristian attire 131 D. Taylor maketh Boner afraid ead Doctor Taylor masked that he may not be knowen eadem Wormes deceiued by Doct. Taylor 132 Marueylous courage of Doctor Taylor 133 Doctor Taylors braines smit out at the fire ead Gardiner referreth to Boner the butchering of Gods Saints ead Miles Couerdale graūted to the King of Denmarke 134 Thomas Tomkins Martir eadem Tomkins his hande burned with a taper ead Tomk burnt in Smithfielde 135 Father compelled against the sonne ead Hunters mother encourageth him to constancie 136 Hunter encouraged by his brother 137 William Sarton ead M. Higbed and M. Causton burned 139 Pigot and Knight Martirs ead Iohn Laurence ead Robert Farrar B. of S. Dauids burnt 140 Farrars words to a gentlemā at his death 141 Rawlins White ead Rawlins God the Bishops God 142 Rawlins wedding garments 143 Rawlins a worthy martir eadem Rawlins perswasion 144 Pope excōmunicateth those that held abbey lands ead P. Iulius the monster dieth ead P. misseth his peacock 145 A blasphemous pope ead Gods iudgement ead Branch blamed for carrying Deū time vitiū fuge about his neck ead George Marsh 146 G. Marsh his great patience 148 Wil. Flower woūdeth a priest at masse 149 Ioy at Q. Maries deliuery of child 151 Cardmaker Warne Martirs 152 People encourage Cardm at his death 153 Iohn Ardley a valeant Martir ead Iohn Symson martir ead Iohn Tooly ead Haukes at his death geueth a signe to his frends 155 Diuers comfortable epistles written by Haukes ead Thomas Wats martyr 156 Queene Mary proued not with child eadem T. Mault should haue bin Q. Maries child 157 A Caueat for England ead Nicholas Chāberlain Tho. Sommer Wil. Bāford ead Bradford reioyceth at the newes of his martirdō 158 M. Bradfords word at the stake eadem I. Leafe of 19. yeeres of age burned with Bradford 159 Iohn Leafe a notable yoong martyr eadem Gods iudgement eadem Bradfords letters eadem A dead bodie summoned to appeere and answere 160 4. martirs in Canterbury ea Nicholas Hall Christopher Wade martyrs 161 Margery Polley comforteth Wade eadem Wades prayer eadem Dyrick Caruer burned 162 Iohn Lander eadem Thomas Iueson 163 Iohn Aleworth eadem Iohn Denley Iohn Newmā Patrick Packingam ead The martyr singeth in the fire 164 Richard Hooke eadem 6. godly martirs at Cant. ea George Tankerfield 165 A prety saying of the martyr 166 For patience of the martirs the people said that they had the Diuell ead Robert Smith ead Martyr giueth a signe 167 St. Harwood Thomas Fust William Hayle eadem Robert Samuell 168 Samuell hath a vision ead Rose Notingham eadem W. Allen eadem Roger Coo eadem Thomas Cobbe eadem Thomas Haywood Iohn Gateway 169 M. Iohn Glouer ead God send his spirit of comfort 170 Robert Glouer eadem Cornelius Bungey ead Olyuer Richardine 171 W. Wolsey Ro. Pigot ead M. Ridley 172 Sundry letters tractations M. Latimer eadem M. Latimer sometimes an earnest papist conuerted by Bilney eadem Doctor Buttes a fauourer of good men 173 Verses of Latimer at the giuing of holy bread holy water 174 Smithfield had long groned for M. Latimer 175 Latimer almost starued for cold in the tower ead Latimers sundrie letters eadem Sermō of piping and daunsing ead Master Latimer to the King for restoring of the Scriptures 176 Latimers new yeres gifte to to the king eod Ridley couereth his head at the name of the Pope eadem Ridley not suffered to aunswere 177 Ridley Latimer condemned 178 Ridley refuseth his pardon ead The behauiour of Ridley Latimer at the place of execution 179 Latimer prophecieth at the
stake 180 Diuers Letters Treatises ead Steuen Gardiner dieth ead Gods iudgement on Gardiner 181 Winchesters wordes at his death ead Iohn Webbe G. Roper G. Parker Martirs 181 Men of vpright mindes 183 Hastning of iudgement a pleasure to the martir 184 Sharpe aunswere to Boners message ead Philpots zeale against Morgan 186 Articles against Master Philpot 187 Boner condemneth Philpot 188 M. Philp. payeth his vowes in Smithfield ead 7. burned together in Smithfield 189 Thomas Whittle repenteth and is condemned ead Whittles letters ead Bartlet Greene ead Master Greene condemned 191 Master Greene at the Stake ead Tho. Brown ead Iohn Tudson ead Iohn Went ead Isabel Foster 192 Ione Lashford ead 5. martirs sing a psalm in the fire ead Cranmer Archb. of Canterburie 193 M. Cranmers aduice touching the disputatiō for the kings diuorce eadem Cranmer sent for to the K. 194 Embassage to Rome about the diuorce eadem None would kisse the popes foote but a great Spaniell of the Earle of Wiltshires eadem Cranmer goeth to the Emperour eadem Cranmer satisfieth Cornelius Agrippa eadem Cranmer made archbishop 195 King Edward godsonne to Cranmer eadem Bookes of Cranmer ead Cranmer not brought to against his conscience ead Cranmer would do no reuerence to the popes subdelegate 196 Periured persons for witnesses 197 The meaning of supreame head 198 The Archbishop condemned for not beyng at Rome when he was kept prisoner in England ead Boner derideth the Archbishop 199 The poore estate of the archbishop ead Cranmer setteth his hand to a recantation ead Q. Maryes speciall hate to Cranmer 200 Law of equality 201 The pitiful case of Cranmer eadem Cranmer bewaileth his recātation 202 Cranmer first burneth his hand wherewith he subscribed eadem Cranmer burned eadem The wicked can not discerne spirits eadem Why Cranmer desired life eadem Iohn Spicer William Coberley and Iohn Maundrell 203 Purgatorie the popes pinfold ead Six at one fire in Smithfield viz. Robert Drakes William Timmes Richard Spurge Thomas Spurge Iohn Cauell and George Ambrose 204 A short answere of Timmes 205 Commissioners into Norffolke and Suffolke 206 Iohn Harpoole and Ioane Beats eadem Iohn Hullier eadem Sixe martyrs at one fire in Colchester eadem Christopher Lister eadem Iohn Mace Iohn Spenser Iohn Hammon Simon Iayne Richard Nicholas 207 Hugh Lauercocke and Iohn appryce burned ead Lauercock comforteth his fellow eadem Thomas Drewry and Thomas Croker 208 Thomas Spicer Iohn Denny and Edmund Poole burned eadem The martyrs prayse God in the flame 209 Thomas Harland Iohn Oswald Th. Auington Tho. Read martyrs ead Also Iohn Milles Thomas Wood ead A merchants seruant at Leycester 210 Thirteene at one fire viz. Hēry Adlington L. Pernam H. Wye W. Halywell T. Bowyer G. Searls Edm. Hurst Lion Couch Rafe Iackson Iohn Deryfall Iohn Routh Elizabeth Pepper Agnes George eadem Subtlety of the Diuell ead Two women stand loose at the stake eadem Cardinall pardoneth certain condemned ead Roger Bernard 211 Adam Foster Robert Lawson ead A worthy answere of the martyr eadem Iohn Carlesse a worthy confessor 212 Iulius Palmer Iohn Guin Thomas Askin martyrs 213 Iulius Palmer expulsed the colledge in King Edward his time for Papistrie eadem Th. Thackhā a false dissembling hypocrite 214 The mother threateneth hir sonne Iulius Palmer fire faggot eadem Palmer at the stake 215 Palmer diuerse times in dāger of burning 216 For whom its easie to burne eadem The mother Katherine Couches and the two daughters Guillemme Gilbert Perotine Massey burned in Gernesey 217 Cruelty against the mother and hir daughters ead Maruellous cruelty eadem Thomas Dungate Iohn Forman and mother Dree burned 218 Thomas More ead Ioane Wast eadem Ione hir offer to the Iudges eadem Edward Sharpe 219 Foure at Mayfield in Sussex eadem A young man at Bristow eadem Iohn Horne a womā ead William Dangerfield ead Great cruelty 220 The wife encourageth hir husband eadem A shoomaker at Northampton ead Hooke eadem Fiue famished and ten burned at Canterbury 221 A witty and godly answere of Alice Potkins ead Put to death in the fourth yeere of Qu. Mary 84. persons eadem Sir Iohn Cheeke 222 The vniuersitie of Cābridge to be reformed 223 Inquisitors came to Cambridge eadem S. Maries and S. Michaels churches in Cambridge interdicted eadem Kings colledge refuseth the Inquisitors 224 Kings colledge neuer without an heretike ead Robert Brassey M. of Kings colledge ead Bucer Phagius digged out of their graues 225 Bucer Phagius corps burned 226 The holy cōmissioners depart from Cambridge ea Peter Martyrs wifes corps at Oxford 227 Iohn Philpot W. Waterer Steph. Kempe W. Haydhith T. Hudson Mathew Brodbridge Th. Stephēs Nich. Finall W. Lowicke W. Prowting burned ea Another bloudy cōmission 228 Cardinall Poole mercyfull ead Tho. Losebie H. Ramsey T. Tyroll M. Hyde Agnes Stanley 229 The valiant martyr eadem W. Morant King S. Gratewicke ead Vniust proceeding ead Faith surely grounded 230 Iohn Bradbridge W. Applebie Petronel Ed Allen K. his wife I. Mannings E. a blinde maide ead I. Fishcock N. VVhite N. Pardu B. Fynall widowe Bradbridge Wilsōs wife Bendens wife ead Husbande against the wife 231 Diet of the Martirs in prison ead 3. Farthinges a day the martirs allowance ead Alice Benden a cōstant martir ead God sendeth the spirite of comfort 232 The bishop wil neither meddle with patiēce nor charitie ead Tenne burned at one fire Richard Woodman G. Steuens R. Maynarde Alex Hoseman Thomasin a Wood Marg. Moris Denis Burgis Ashdons wife Groues wife ead Father against sonne 233 Boner droonk with Philpots bloud ead Quick dispatch 135 Simon Miller Eliza. Couper ead Elizabeth Couper repenteth her recantation 236 Wil. Mount Alice his wife Rose Allen ead A tragicall dialogue betwixt Tirrel Rose Allen 237 Tirannie ouercome with patience ead Iohn Thurstone and M. his wife ead W. Bongeor A. Siluerside T. Benold W. Purcas H. Ewring E. Folkes prisoners in Colchester 238 Sharp answere of the martir ead Eliz. Folkes ead Rose Allen condemned song for ioy 239 Notable speeche of the martir ead Geor. Eagles called Trudgouer 240 Richard Crashfield ead Frier and G. Eagles his sister 241 Ioyce Lewes ead Sathan troubleth the martir ead She drinketh to all that loue the gospel 242 Rafe Allerton Iames Austoo Margerie Austoo Richard Coth ead The couragious Martir eadem They feare the martyr in prison 143 Agnes Bongeor ead Margery Thurstone ead Iohn Knode ead The martyr refuseth pardon ead Iohn Noyes eadem Cecill Ormes 244 The constant martyr eadem Cecill Ormes at the stake eadem Sixteene martyrs in Sussex 145 Thomas Spurdance eadem Iohn Hollingdale 246 W. Sparrow eadem R. Gibson eadem Articles for articles ead Ioh. Rough ead M. Mearing eadem Maister Rough minister of the congregation at London 247 More reuerence to the pope then to the bread God ead Margery Mearings ready to suffer for Chrish 248 Cuthbert Simpson Hugh Fox Iohn Deuenish ead Cuthbert Simsō racked twise 249 Boner commendeth the patience of Cuthbert Simson eadem W. Nichol eadem W. Seaman eadem Tho. Carman Tho. Hudson ead W. Harris Rich. Day Christopher Gorge 251 A sharpe proclamation against godly books eadē Henry Pond Rayn Eastlād Robert Southam Mar. Richarby Ioh. Floyd Ioh. Holiday Roger Holland 252 A straight proclamation eadem R. Holland at the stake ead R. Milles S. Wight S. Carton I. Slade R. Denis VV. Pikes 253 Richard Yeoman 254 Thomas Benbridge eadem A notable conflict betwixt flesh the spirit of God 255 I. Cooke R. Myles A. Lane Iames Ashley eadem Alex. Gouch Alice Driuer ead Alice Driuer of an excellent spirit 256 Phil. Humfrey Iohn Dauid Henry Dauid 257 Priests wife eadem The wife persecuted of husband and children ead Christ the martyrs husband eadem A worthy martyr 258 Note eadem Iohn Sharpe Tho. Hall 259 Thomas Benion eadem Iohn Cornford Christopher Browne Iohn Herst Alice Snoth Kath. Knight ead The martyr excommunicateth the Papists eadem The husband accused by his wife 260 Balaams marke 261 Cruelty of Balaamites ead N. Burton burned in Siuell Aue Maria after the Romish fashion eadem Marke Burges W. Hooke 262 Iohn Dauies of twelue yeres old 263 The congregation in London eadem The ministers of that congregation eadem Those that fled from Ipswich for persecution 265 Ipswich a good towne ead The affliction of L. Eliz. 268 Lady Elizabeth falsly accused 269 An hundred Northren souldiers watch the Lady Elizabeth 270 The L. Eliz. had none other friendes but God 171 Lady Elizabeth prisoned in the Tower eadem The Lorde Chamberlayne hard to the Lady Elizabeth 272 Sir Henry Benefield eadem Lady Elizabeth to Woodstock 273 L. Elizabeth in great feare eadem Tanquam ouis eadem Sir Henry Benefield presumptuous and vnciuill 274 The Spaniards against murdering of Lady Elizabeth 275 L. Elizabeth deliuered out of prison eadem God deliuereth L. Elizab. 276 Elizabeth prisoner ead Gardiner dieth 278 Queene Mary dieth ead Popish prelates die thicke about the death of queene Mary 280 Iohn Whiteman a notable martyr 281 A conference for matters of religion 282 Three propositions to dispute of eadem The Papists flie from the agreement
1527. deuers persons were compeleld to abiure for denying to worship the Crucifix for transubstantiation holy daies pilgrimages Abiuration adoration of images speaking against the immoderate riches of Churchmen the reading of English bookes for denying a priest to haue two benefices c. Ann. 1511. the 18. of October William Sweeting Iohn Banister who before had recanted receiuing farther strēgth from God William Sweeting and Iohn Banister martyrs were burned in Smithfield for the testimony of the trueth which was concerning the reall presence Ann. 1517. one Ioh. Brown who had born a fagot before in the daies of K. Henry 7. was burned at Ashford for the profession of the truth Iohn Browne martyr condemned by Archb. Warrham first hauing had his féet burned to the bones by Warrham Fisher bishops to compell him to deny the trueth Ann. 1514. one Richard Hunn merchant tailor in the city of London was priuily made away and hanged in the Lollards tower Rich. Hunn for the trueth and after his death to make him more odious they picked certaine articles against him out of the preface of his English Bible This was done by one Doct. Hedd The 20. of Decemb. the dead corps of Richard Hunn was burned in Smithfield first hauing condēned it of heresy after they had hanged him in prison secretly is bodie was burned 16. daies after his murdering But the matter hauing bin fully examined by the councel iudges and iustices of the realme it was found by good proofe and sufficient euidence that D. Horsey the Chancelor D. Horsey the Chancelor Charles Ioseph the Summer and Iohn Spalding the hel-ringer had committed the murther But by the suited of the Bishop of London vnto the Carinall Woolsey at the gaole deliuery the next Sessions the kings attourney pronoūced the iudgement against Horsey to be fales and him not to be guilty of the murther An. 1518. the 24. of September Iohn Stilman who had before recanted 11. yéeres past was apprehended brought before Richard Fitz-Iames B. of London and the 25. Iohn Stilman burned of October was condemned for a relapse and burned in Smithfield Doctor Hedd vicar generall reading the sentence It was obiected that he spake against pilgrimages that he vsed to read bookes of Wickliffe at his wicket c. That he called the Pope Antichrist c. and that the inferiour were the synagogue of Sathan c. The same yéere the 29. of March Thomas Man martyr Tho. Man was burned in Smithfield who had before abiured ann 1511. the 14. of August against auricular confessiō the sacramē of extreme vnction against worshipping of images that the popish church was not the church of God c. Doct. Hedd pronoūced likewise sentence against him deliuered him to the sheriffe of London to be presently burned Pilate washeth his hands with this protestatiō made before that he might not consent to the death of any therfore he desired the sheriffe not to punish him with rigour This yere was the great abiuration at Amersham The great abiuration at Amecsham 700. conuerted by T. Man Knowne men Iustfast men Tho-Man confessed of himself as it appeareth by the register that he had conuerted 700. from popery to the trueth In those dayes those that were professors of the trueth were called knowne men and Iustfast men After T. Man was Robert Cosin also condemned and burned at Buckingham for holding against pilgrimages confession to priests and worshipping of Images c. Anno 1511. William Sweeting alias Clerke was condemned and burned for a relapse He was taken at Chelsith where he kept the Towne beasts and was their Netheard His articles were against Pilgrimages reall presence worshipping of Images He had dwelt 16. yeres and more with the prior of Saint Osich named George Lawne where hée so turned the Prior that hée was afterward compelled abiure which also William himselfe through frialtie had doone before Hée beyng asked what cause hée had why he should not be iudged as relapse said he had nothing else but onely that hée committed himselfe to the mercie of God With William Sweeting was also condemned the same time Iames Brewster of the parish of Saint Nicholas in Colchester Anno 1505. He had béene abiured by William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury They were burned togither in Smithfield at one fire the 18. of October his Articles were against images pilgrimages worshipping of Images the sacrament of the altar c. Anno 1518. Christopher Shoomaker Christopher Shoomaker was burned at Newbery for like articles afore For then the Churche of Rome was chiefely withstoode for Pilgrimages adoration of Saintes the Scripture in English and real presence William Smith Bishop of Lincolne died an 1515. who builded the Colledge of Brasen-nose in Oxford Colledge of Brasen-nose in Oxford after whō succéeded Iohn Longland a Frier and cruell vexer of poore Christians who propounded such captions interrogatories that he forced one brother to detect another One brother detecteth another the husband the wife c. the husband the wife the brother the sister the son the father Yet notwithstanding all crueltie the number did so encrease that the B. séeing the matter almost paste his power was faine to require ayde of the king for the suppressing of them Whereto the king graunted and sent downe his letters to the Sheriffes Baylifes Officers c. to ayde the Bishop in that behalfe Whereupon a great number abiured anno 1521. in the Dioces of Lincolne and did sharpe panaunce Among which there were certain A great number abiure who because they had abiured vnder Bishop Smith were now condemned for relapse and were burned T. Bernard burned whose names are these Thomas Bernarde Iames Morden Robert Raw Iohn Scriuener Ione Norman and Thomas Holmes which had detected many of the brethren yet escaped hee not the relapese Iohn Scriueners owne children were compelled to set fire to their Father Vnnaturall crueltie as Ione Clarke was before compelled to doe to her Father William Tilsworth About this time D. Collet D. Collet was troubled of B. Fitziames Bricot and Standish but found fauor with the king Paules schole builded He erected the Schoole of Paules The firste Schoolemaster of his Schoole was W. Lilius This Collet was very lerned He died anno 1519. After Pope Iulius 2. succéeded Leo 10. who vnder pretēce of warring against the Turkes sent a Iubile with his pardons through all Christian Regions Dominions whereby he gathered innumerable riches and treasures The gatherers whereof perswaded the people that whosoeuer would geue x. s̄ should at his pleasure deliuer one soule out of purgatorie but if it were one iotte then then shillings Pardonous sold they preached that it would profit them nothing Ex Christ Mess li. 20. Chro. This filthie marchandise was brought into Germanie by a Dominike Frier called Tecellius whereupon Tecellius Frier Luther a Frier Augustine then
when the iudges sent for as one suspected being then out of the way he conceiued thereof such sorow in his mind that he went of his own accord and presented himself vnto the iudges wherevpon they being sory for his voluntary appearaunce they committed him to prison and after the commissioners threatning him with cruel torments the Friers flattering him to haue his punishment changed to be beheaded he yelded vnto them The persecutors were the Senate of Dornick and Doctor Hasurdus a gray Frier Ex Rabo c. Anno 1546. Iohan. Diazius a Spaniard was martired and killed of his owne brother at Norberg in Germanie where Diazius Iohan Diazius killed by his brother was busie in printing of Bucers Booke His brothers name was Alphonsus who brought with him frō Rome a cut throate and a ruffian to kill his brother To whom he comming perswading him to reuoke the truth the other refusing so to do he fained himselfe to depart took his leaue of his brother and by the way buying an hatchet of a carpenter sent his man disguised with letters to his brother himselfe following after as Iohn Diazius in the morning was rising out of his bed to read the letters the wretched hangman with the hatchet claue his head insunder to the braines leauing the hatchet in his head and so he with Alphonsus tooke them to their héeles They of Norberg hearing of the fact made after them and one of the cōpany ouertooke them and caused them to be put in prison at Genipont but the Papists handeled the matter so that the Emperour tooke it into his owne hearing and no iudgement was giuen Ex Claudio Senarclero Ann. 1546. Charles the Emp. held an armed Councell at Augusta 1546 An armed coūcel at Augusta The interim after his victory gotten of the Germains where Iulius Vfling Michael Sidonius and Iohn Islebius going about to concord together the Gospel of Christ with popish traditions drewe out a newe religion called an Interim which the Emp. endeuoured with the sword to mainteine and vnderstanding that among other the citizens of Constantia refused his Interim purposed to surprise them but the Spaniards were driuen backe and their captaine Alphonsus slaine Ex Sleid. lib. 21. At the same time many godly ministers of the churches in Germany were in great danger specially such as refused the Interim of whom some were cast in prison as Martine Frectius superintendent of Vlms with foure other preachers mo Also his brother George for comming to his house but to comfort him for which cause Musculus the same time with other preachers mo went from Auspurgh Brentius from Hala Blanrerus from Constance Bucer from Strausburgh In Hungary a certaine godly priest A priest in Hungary because he preached that eating of flesh was not forbidden in the Scriptures the Bishop caused his body to be tied round about with hares géese and hennes A straunge crueltie and so caused dogges to be set vpon him which cruelly tare and rent his body to death Within few dayes after the vile Bishop fell sicke and died madde Ex tomo 2. Conwal serm Anno 1547. the Duke of Saxonie The Duke of Saxonie Iohn Fredericke beyng taken prisoner of the Emperour at Albis the 24. of April because he would not forsake the trueth was 5. yeres detained from his wife and children and carried about with the Emperor At the last 1552. 1552 Lantgraue of Hesse he was set at libertie and continued in his religion till the houre of his death Sleid. lib. 19. Such also was the case of Philip the Lantgraue of Hesse who was sixe daies after the Duke of Saxonie fréed out of long captiuity Lib. 9. 24. Anno 1547. Hermannus Archbishop of Colen 1547 Hermannus Archb. of Colē was deposed by the Emperour because he had reformed his church of certaine Papisticall superstitions vsing therein the aduise of Martin Bucer In his roome was placed Adolphus Earle of Scauenburgh Sleid. 18. An. 1549. 1549 Martirdome for the trueth Nicholas a Frenchman and Barbara his wife with one Marion the wife of Augustinus a Barber a godly man suffered who fled and trauelling towards Englande passing by Dornick were there detected to the Lieutenant of Dornick and so carried to Bergis and there put into a dungeon And afterward Nicholas Nicholas Marion was condemned to be burned Marion wife of Austin to be buried quick Nicholas going to the place of execution was commanded to speake nothing to the people Yet forgetting his silence vnto the people hée cryed with a loud voice Charles Charles how long shall thy hart be hardened A worthy martyr wherevpon one of the souldiers gaue him a blow and the Friers cried he hath a Diuell To whom he spake the verse of the psalme Depart from me all ye wicked for the Lord hath hard the voice of my weeping Ex Lud. Rab. alijs Augustine A while after Augustine the husband of Marian was taken at Bellemount in Hennegow was caried to Bergis where he was burned hartily calling vpon the Lord. Ex Crisp alijs 1551 Two virgins Anno 1551. at Bamberg two virgins were burned for the testimonie of the truth they had garlandes of straw put vpon their heads wherevpon one comforted another saying Christ bare a Crowne of thornes and why shoulde not wée weare a crowne of strawe c. Ex Phil. Melancth The same time the citie of Magdeburg Magdeburg for refusing the Emperors Interim had béen distressed the space of a whole yéere but by reason of warre which fell that time betwixt the Emperour and the French king they were receiued into fauour and suffered to enioy their former religion quietly Sleid. lib. 23. Anno 1555. one Hostius 1555 Hostius otherwise called George for reprouing a Frier that preached false doctrine touching the Sacrament of the Lordes body after his Sermon in the Church was apprehended by Hesselius the Chamberlayne and first being strangled was afterward consumed with fire Ex Lud. Rab Anno 1554. Iohannes Frisius 1554 Ioh Frisius Abbot of Newstate in Bauaria was deposed for mayntayning the trueth The 25. of Iune Anno 1555. Bertrand le Blasse 1555 Ber. le Blas a Silke-weauer wente vpon Christmas day to the high Church of Dornick where the Priest being at masse he tooke the cake out of his hāds as he would haue lifted it ouer his head and stamped it vnder his féete For which fact he was first drawen to the castle of Dornick to the market place being before thrise tormented on the pinebanke Then he was set vpon a Stage where his right hand wherewith hee tooke the hoste was crushed and pressed betwixt two hote Irons till the forme and fashion of his hand was mishapen In like maner they vsed his right foote which he thrust out of his owne accord A wonderfull constancie to be vsed as his hand was before This done they tooke
sparing none Before he came to Merind he rāsakt burnt certaine townes namely La Roche S. Stephens ville Laure Lormarin la motte Cabrieretter S. Martin Pipu The cruelty of Antichrist and other places mo notwithstanding the arrest onely extended to Merindole where the most of the inhabitants were murthered and slayne without any resistance women and maidens rauished women with child and little infants most cruelly murdered the paps of many women which gaue sucke to their children cut of and the children staruing at the breasts of there dead mothers such crueltie as was neuer before séene The Merindolians séeing all on a flaming fire about them left their houses with women and children and other few and with them certaine ministers of their Churches Miniers in the meane time had deuided his army into two parts marching with the one partie himselfe towards Merindoll and hauing knowledge by espiall whether the Merindolians were fledde hée sent the other part of his armie to set vppon them on a sudden who came and found them assembled at prayers and spoyled them of all that they had pulling their garmentes from their backes Popish crueltie some they rauished some they whipped and scourged some they sold away like cattle c. The women were in number about fiue hundred In the meane time Miniers came to Merindoll where hée found none but a yoong man named Maurice Blanc Maurice Blanc who had yéelded himselfe to a Souldier promising him for his raunsome 2. French crownes Miniers would haue had him away by force but it was answered the souldier ought not to loose his prisoner Miniers therefore paying the two crownes himself tooke the yoong man caused him to be tied to an Oliue trée shot through with harquebushes and so cruelly martired the yoong man still calling on God so hée razed Merindoll and laid it euen with the ground Merindoll razed and layed euen with the ground When he had so done he laid siege to Cabriers which whē he could not ouercome by force he promised thē fairly if they would let him enter in swearing hée would harme none of them wherevpon the people let him in who when he was once entered Miniers breaketh his oth with Cabriers falsified his oth and first picked out about thirtie men caused them to be caried to a certaine medow bound and there to bée miserably cut and hewen in péeces of his Souldiers hée exercised also great cruelty ouer the women and caused fortie of them to be taken of whom many were with childe and put them into a barne full of hey and straw and caused it to be set on fire at foure corners kéeping them that would breake out with pikes and halberts there was a Souldier which being moued with pittie at the lamentation of the women opened a dore to let them out but as they were comming forth the cruell tyrant caused them to be slaine and cut in péeces opening their bellies Meruailous crueltie that their children might fall out whom they trode vnder their féete many were fledde into the wineseller of the Castle and many hidde themselues in caues whereof some were caried into the medow and there stripped naked were slaine other some were bound two and two together and caried into the hall of the Castle where they were slaine by the Captaines reioycing in their buchery That doone this tyrant commaunded captain Iohn de Guy with a band of ruffians to go into the church wher was a great number of women children and yoong infants to kill all that he found there he although at first refusing yet being threatned performed the same The number of them which were slaine 1000. slaine was a thousand persons men women and children the infants which escaped their furie were baptized againe of their enemies In token of this ioly victory the Popes officers caused a piller to be erected in the place of Cabriers in which was engrauen the yeare and daye of sackyng the towne by Iohn Miniers Lord of Oped and chéefe president of the Parlement of Prouence In this meane season they of Merindoll and Cabriers which had fled to the mountaines being in great necessitie of victuals procured certaine men which were in fauour with Miniers to intreate him they might depart safely onely with their liues although they had no more but their shirts to couer their nakednes Whervnto he answered not one of them shal escape my hands I will send them to dwell in hell among the diuels After this there was a power sent vnto Cossa Cossa destroyed which likewise they ouerran and committed there great slaughter Many of the inhabitants fled away and went into an Orchard where the souldiers rauished the women maidens and when they had kept them there a day and a night they handled them so beastly that they died shortly after They which escaped to the woods and went wandring by mountains were taken and set in gallies or els were slaine outright many which hid themselues in rocks and dark caues some were famished some smoothered with fire smoke put to thē And this was the destruction of Merindol Cabriers This cause was afterward in the time of Henry the second fiftie times pleaded to and fro by one called Aubrius Aubrius against Minerius and another named Robertus the defendant but it could not be determined and Minerius was let out of prison and restored to his possessions and libertie agayne vpon condition made to Charles Cardinall of Loraine that he should expell the true professors out of al prouinces which he after his restoring practised accordingly Gods iudgmēt vpon Minerius other persecutors till being stricken of God he died of a rotting in his guts his entrals being eaten with wormes yelding a horrible stēch Lewis de Vanie brother in law to the president the brother son in law to Peter Durand maister Butcher of the town of Aix flew one another vpon a strife that fel betwixt them and on them the same day the judge of Aix who accompanied Minerius in the same persecution as he returned home going ouer the riuer of Durance fell of his horse and was drowned Pantal. The histories of the persecutions and warres against the Waldenses in the valleies of Angroigne Lucern S. Martin Perouse and other in the countrie of Piedmount from the yeere 1555. till the yeere 1561. ALbeit these people had before this time certaine to preach the word of God minister the sacraments vnto them priuatly yet in the yere of our Lord 1555. in the moneth of August the Gospel was openly preached in Angroign for which cause they built thē a church in the mids of Angroign wherin assemblies were made sermons preached It happened at that time that one Ioh. Martin of Griqueras a myle from Angroign which vaunted euery where that he would slitte the ministers nose of Angroign was assaulted with a wolfe which bit of his nose that he
Morant one King and Steeuen Gratwicke W. Morant King S. Gratwick Who was aboue all most vnlawfullie put to death For first he was condemned by the Bishoppe of Winchester and the Bishoppe of Rochester Vniust preceeding which were not his Ordinaries neither could his appeale be taken Then when they had no colour they suborned one of the Priestes to come in for a false Ordinarie and sitte vpon him and pretended false articles which were no part of his examination And hauing no other ground nor iust matter against him but onely for saying these wordes That which I said I haue saide they read the Sentence of Condemnation against them So he with the other two about the ende of May was burned for the testimonie of Iesus Christ in S. Georges fieldes While the Bishoppe was reading Sentence against Gratwicke his Chaplaines cryed out saying stoppe stoppe my Lorde for now hee will recant Then the Bishoppe asked him what he would doe To whom he answered Faith surely grounded My Lorde my faith is grounded more stedfastly than to change in a moment It is not processe of time that can alter me vnlesse my faith were as the waues of the Sea So the Bishoppe made an ende and deliuered him to the Sheriffe I. Bradbridge W. Applebie-Pettonel Ed. Allen. K. his wife I. Mannings E. a blind maid In the xxviij day of the moneth of Iune were vij Christian and faithfull Martirs burned at Maidstone in Kente through the cruelty of Richard Thornton suffragan of Douer the bloudy Archdeacon of Canterburie Their names were Ioane Bradbridge of Staplehurst Walter Applebie of Maidstone Petronell his wife Edmund Allen of Fritēden Katherin his wife Ioan Mānings wife of maidstone Elizabeth a blinde mayden Edm. Allen was a Miller in the parish of Frittenden in Kent who in a déere yeare would féede the poore and would reade vnto them the scriptures and exhort them Hee was taken by the meanes of Iohn Tayler Priest of the Parish and committed after much vile taunting and rayling to prison by sir Iohn Baker knight The nintéenth day of Iune were burned seuen foure women and thrée men at Canterburie for the testimonie of Christ I. Fishcock N. White N. Pardu B. Finall Widow Brad. Wilsons wife Bendens wife Their names were these Iohn Fishcock Nicholas White Nich. Pardue Barbara Final widow Bradbridge widow who was thought to haue béene with childe Wilsons wife and Bendens wife The vsage of Alice Benden was most cruell Shée being deliuered was by the foolish wordes of her owne husbande imprisoned againe who tooke mony of the Constable to carrie her to prison himselfe The husband against the wife but that the wife tendering her husbands fame and that the world should not witnesse against him so facinorous a fact went to the Constable desiring him to go with her who answered that he could not but lent her his boy to go with her with whom she went to Canterbury castell Where she being in prison practised with a prison fellow of hers the wife of one Potkin to liue both of them with two pence halfe penie a day to trie thereby how well they could sustaine penury if they were put to it for they had heard when they should be remoued to the Bishops prison The martyrs diet in prison their liuings should be but thrée pence halfe penie each day did in déede so liue both fouretéene daies ere she were from thence remoued The two and twentith day of Ianuary following her husband went and told the Byshop that shée had a brother whose name was Roger Hall that resorted vnto her who if hée were kept from her hée sayd shée would turne for hée comforteth her saith hée and giueth her mony and perswadeth her not to recant Vppon which reporte of her husband shée was remoued to a pryson called Munday hole and straight charge giuen that if her brother came hée should be taken but hée comming earely in the morning when her kéeper was gone to ringe for he was a bell ringer otherwise did not know where shée had béene imprisoned but by hearing her voyce as shée powred out vnto God her sorrowfull complaints saying the Psalmes of Dauid And there putting mony in a loafe of bread sticking the same on a pole so did he reach it vnto her this was fiue wéekes after her comming thither all which time no creature was knowne to come at her more then her kéeper Three farthings a day the martyrs allowance Alice Bende◠a constant martyr Her lying in that prison was vpon a litle short straw betwixt a payre of stockes and a stone wall her allowance thrée farthings a day that is an halfe peny in bread and a farthing in drincke neyther could she get any more for her mony wherefore shée desired to haue her whole allowance in bread and vsed water for drinke Thus did shée lie nine wéekes during which tyme shée neuer chaunged apparell At the first comming into this place shée did gréeuously bewayle her state with great sorrowe and reasoned with her selfe why the Lord God with his heauie iustice suffered her to be sequestred from her louing fellowes in so extréeme misery In which shée continued till on a night as shée was in her sorrowfull supplications in rehearsing this verse of the Psalme Why art thou so heauy O my soule and againe the right hande of the most highest can chaunge all God sendeth the spirit of comfort shée receiued comfort in the middest of her miseries and after that continued ioyfull vntill her deliuerance from the same So shée with the rest the nintenth of Iune were consumed with fire for the testimony of Iesus after they knéeling downe together had called vpon the name of God Bradbriges wife when shée was condemned of the Bishop to be burned had two children named Patience and Charitie Who then said to the Bishop that if he would néedes burne her yet she trusted that he would take and kéepe Patience and Charitie The B. will neither meddle with Patience nor Charitie meanyng her two daughters Nay quoth the Bishop by the faith of my body I will meddle with neither of them both About this tyme Matthew Plase weauer of the parishe of Stone in Kent was examined before Thorneton Harpsfielde c. And constantly maintayned the truth against the popish hypocrites Ten at one fire Rich. Woodmā G. Stephens R. Maynard Alex. Hosemā Tom. a Wood Marg. Moris Iames Moris Denis Burgis Ashdons wife Groues wife but what became of him it is vncertaine In the towne of Lewes were ten faythfull seruaunts of God put in one fire the two and twentith day of Iune Their names were Richard Woodman George Stephens Robert Maynard Alexander Hoseman his seruant Tomasin a Wood Maynards maide Margery Moris Iames Moris her sonne Denis Burgis Ashdons wife Groues wife Rich. Woodman was twise imprisoned for the testimony of Iesus At the first apprehension he was
much Bentley Iohn Baker and William Harris and other companie and came to father Mountes house and apprehended him his wife being sick saying they shoulde goe to Colchester Castle Which mother Mount hearing desired her daughter might first fetch her some drinke for she was very sicke Which they graunted her So her daughter Rose Allen Rose Allen. tooke a pot and went with a candle to drawe drinke and as she came back againe Tirrel met with her and willed her to giue her parents good counsell c. To whom she answered sir they haue a better instructor than I for the holy Ghost doeth teach them I hope which I trust will not suffer thē to erre Tirrel said Why art thou still in that minde thou naughty huswife Marry it is time to looke vnto such heretikes in déede Rose Sir with that which you call heresie do I worshippe my Lorde God I tel you truth Tirrell The tragicall dialogue betwixt Tirrell and R. Allin Then I perceiue you will burne gossip with the rest for companies sake Rose If I be so compelled I hope in his mercies if he call me to to it he will make me able to beare it So he turning to his companie said Sirs this Gossip will burne do ye not think it Marry sir quoth one proue her and you shall sée what she will doe by and by So the cruell Tirrell taking the candle from her helde her by the wrest and the burning candle vnder her hande burning crossewaies ouer the backe thereof so long till the sinewes crackt in sunder In which time of his tirannie hee said often to her Why whoore wilt thou not crie thou young whoore wilt thou not crie c. Vnto which she alwaies answered that she had no cause she gaue God thankes He had more cause to wéepe she saide than she if he considered the matter well In the end Tyranny ouercome with patience when the sinewes brake he thrust her violently from him and said Ah strong whoore thou shamelesse beast thou beastlie whoore c. But she patiently suffering his rage at the last saide Haue you done what you will doe And he said yea And if thou thinke it be not well then mende it R. Mend it nay the Lord mend you and geue you repentance if it bée his wil. And now if you thinke it good begin at the féete and burne the head also And so she went and carried her mother drinke as she was commaunded After they had searched the house for more companie at the last they founde one Iohn Thurstone I. Thurston M. his wife and Margarette his wife also with other whom they carried to Colchester Castle immediatly With William Mount and his Familie was ioyned also in the same Prison at the Towne of Colchester another faithfull brother Iohn Iohnson otherwise called Aliker of the Towne of Thorpe in the Countie of Essex Labourer of the age of 34. yeres his wife being dead and thrée children by her left with him Other sixe prisoners lay in Mot-hall in the same town whose names were William Bongeor W. Bongeor of the Parish of S. Nicholas in Colchester Glasier about the age of 40. yeres Agnes Siluerside A. Siluerside alias Smith of Colchester widow of the age of sixtie yeres Thomas Benolde T. Benold of Colchester Talowchaundler William Purcas W. Purcas of Bocking in Essex Fuller of the age of twentie yeres Helene Ewring H. Ewring the wife of Iohn Ewring Miller of Colchester of the age of fourty eyght yeres who was one of the two and twentie prisoners before mentioned and was by Robert Maynarde then Bailiffe of Colchester imprisoned in the Mot-hall The sixtth of this companie was Elizabeth Folkes E. Folkes a seruant of the age of twentie yeres These were imprisoned in the Mot-hall and the other foure were in the Castle Diuers examinations these good men had at sundrie times before Iustices Priestes and Officers As Master Roper Iohn Kingstone Commissarie Iohn Boswell Priest and Bishoppe Boners Scribe Last of all they were examined in the Mot-hall the thrée and twentie day of Iune by Doctor Chadsey Iohn Kingstone Commissarie with other priests and Boswel the Scribe in the presence of Robert Browne and Robert Maynard Bayliffes of Colchester with diuers Iustices and Gentlemen of the Countrey At which time sentence of death was read against them chéefly for denying the Reall presence in the Sacrament Elizabeth Folkes the young maide being asked whether she beléeued the Lorde to be present in the Sacrament substantially and really A sharpe answere of the Martir made answere that shee beléeued it was a substantiall Lie and a reall Lie Then they read the Sentence of condemnation againste her In which time Doctor Chadsey wept that the teares trickled downe his chéekes This Elizabeth Folkes Eliz. Folkes the day before shee was condemned was examined onely vpon this article whether shée beléeued that there was a Catholicke Church or no Vnto which she answered yea then was she immediatly by Boswels meanes the Scribe deliuered vnto her vncle Holt of Colchester to be kept who carried her home to his house where she might haue departed if shée would meanes being offered to cōuey her away But she hearing that some doubted that she had yéelded to the Pope although it was most vntrue would in no wise content her selfe but wept and was in such anguish of minde that no remedie she would to the Papistes againe And comming before them at Cosines house at the white hart in Colchester she was at vtter defiance with them and their doctrine and so was condemned with the rest as also were the 4. that were put into the castle Of which company Rose Allen Rose Allen cōdemned soong for ioy after her condemnation song for great ioy to the wonder of many The 2. day of August was appointed for their martyrdome on which day betwixt 7 and 8. of the clock in the morning these 6. were brought from Mote-hall to a place of of ground hard by the towne wall the place of their martirdō Where al things being prepared they made their praier to God but not in such sort as they would because they were interrupted especially by one maister Cleere who sometime had béene a Gospeller Elizabeth preparing her selfe to the fire when she had plucked off her peticote would haue geuen it to her mother A notable speech of the martir but was not permitted Therefore taking it in her hande she threwe it from her saying Farewell all the world farewel faith farewel hope and so taking holde of the stake sayde Welcome loue When these vi were all nayled to their stakes and the fire about them they clapped their hands together for ioy in the fire So ioyfully they all ended their liues in the quarrel of Christ The same day in the afternoone they foure of the Castle were likewise martired in the flaming fire and gladly
age of foure and fiftie yéeres dwelling in the Dioces of Exceter not farre from Lawceston burned at Exceter for the testimonie of the truth Shée was persecuted of her husband and children The wife was persecuted of husband and children and condemned by the Bishop whose name was Troubleuile Among other communication when the Bishop had said let this mad woman bée put downe to prison till we send for her husband she answered him no I haue but one husband which is here already in this cittie meaning Christ and in prison with me from whom I will neuer depart Christ the martyrs husband After that saying they thought good to giue her a moneths libertie to prooue if she might thereby be chaunged during which time of her libertie it happened that shée entring into Saint Peters church beheld there a cunning Dutchman how he made new noses to certaine fine Images which were disfigured in King Edwards daies What a mad man art thou said she to make them new noses which within a few dayes shall also loose their heads The Dutchman accused her and layd it to her charge And moreouer she sayd vnto him thou art accursed and so are thine Images He called her whore Nay sayd shée thine Images are whores A worthy martyr and thou art a whore hunter for dooth not God say You go a whoring after straunge Gods figures of your owne making and thou art one of them Then was shée sent for and clapt fast At the last when they perceiued her to bée past remedie and had withstood all their threatnings and flattery shée was deliuered to the temporall power Of whom shée was exhorted yet to call for grace and to leaue her fond opinions and go home to thine husband sayd they thou art an vnlearned Woman thou art not able to answere to such high matters Note I am not sayd shée yet with my death I am content to be a witnesse to Christes death and I pray you make no longer delay with mée my heart is fixed I will neuer otherwise say nor turne to your superstitious dooings Then the Byshop did say the Diuell did lead her No my Lord sayd shée it is the Spirit of God which leadeth mée and which called mée in my bedde and at midnight opened his truth vnto mée for once especially at midnight praying to God for strength and assistaunce shée found it plentifully In the end after shée had receyued sentence of death shée lifted vp her voyce and thanked God saying I thanke thée my Lord God this day haue I found that I haue long sought After iudgement giuen agaynst her they promised to spare her life if shée would yet recant Nay that will I not said shée God forbid that I should loose the life eternall Note for this carnall and short life I will neuer turne from my heauenly husband to my earthly husband from the fellowship of Angels to mortall children And if my husband and children bée faithfull then am I theirs God is my Father God is my mother God is my sister my brother my kinsman God is my friend most faithful so being brought to the place of slaughter she méekly suffered calling vpon the name of God saying God be merciful to me a sinner God be me mercifull to me a sinner The 7. of May were burned at Bristow being condemned by M. Dalbney the Chancelour Richad Sharp Weauer of Bristow and Thomas Hall Tho. Hall Shoemaker of the same towne Sharpe Ioh. Sharpe by the perswasion of the Chancelor had recanted and afterward felt such anguish of minde and conscience that shortly after comming to his parish Churche called Temple he came to the quire doore and said with a loude voyce Neighbors beare me record that yonder Idoll pointing to the altar is the greatest and most abhominable that euer was and I am sory that euer I denied the Lorde my God Wherupon he was apprehended and burned with the other at one stake which they chéerefully suffered embracing the flame The 27. of the same moneth Tho. Benion Tho. Benion was burned at Bristow being condemned by the same Chauncellour Dalbney The 10. of Nouember suffered fiue of Gods children at Canterburie being hastened to the fire by the bloody Archdeacon notwithstanding he had heard in what danger Q. Mary was Their names were Ioh. Cornford Ioh. Cornford of Worthā Christoph Brown Christopher Browne of Maidstone Iohn Herst Iohn Herst of Ashford Alice Snoth Alice Snoth Katherin Knight Kath. Knight aliâs Tilney an aged woman Against these when sentence should be read and they excommunicated one of them Iohn Cornford stirred with a vehement spirite of the zeale of God procéeding in a more true excommunication against the Papists in the name of them all pronounced sentence against them in these words following In the name of our Lord Iesus Christ The martyr excommunicateth the Papists the sonne of the most mighty God and by the power of his holy spirite and the authority of his Apostolike church c. proceding with his excōmunication against all mainteiners of the false church Which sentence tooke such effect against the enemy that within sixe daies after Quéene Mary died and the tyranny of all English Papists with her Note Alice Snoth or Agnes Snoth who was burnt before being at the stake called for her Godfather and Godmothers whom when the maide saw she asked them what they had promised for her and so immediatly rehearsed her faith and the commaundements of God and required if there were anie more that they had promised in her behalfe and they said no. Then said she I die a Christian woman beare witnes of me And so was she with fire consumed These godly martyrs in their praiers which they made before their martirdome desired God that their blood might be the last that should be shed and so it was There were diuers of Gods children in prison which by the death of Quéene Marie escaped some after sentence of death pronounced Of which sort were Iohn Hunt and Richarde VVhite who after two yéeres captiuitie were condemned by Doctour Geffery the Bishops Chancellour The Sheriffe béeing vrged very vehemently to burne them refused because they had no writ Which comming down not long after one M. Michael Syr Anthony Hungerfords vndersheriffe a godly man took it burnt it saying I will not be guiltie of these mens blood Within foure daies after the Chauncellour dieth and the confessors of the Gospel remained in prison till the happie daies of Queene Elizabeth There was a godly man named Iohn Fette a Tailor of 42. yéeres dwelling in the parish of Clarkenwell accused by his owne wife The husband accused by his wife imprisoned by the B. in Lollards tower where he suffered great extremity hanging in the stocks This poore man had a childe of 8. or 9. yéeres olde that came to visite his father to whom a Priest of the Bishops house said why thy
father is an heretike No said the boy my Father is no heretike but you are an heretike For you haue Balaams marke With that the Priest tooke the child and scourged him so sore that he was al on a gore bloud and so caused Clunie to carrie him to his Father naked the Sumner hauing his coate vpon his arme At his comming to his Father the childe fell downe vpon his knées and asked him blessing And being demaunded by his Father who had vsed him so he made answere that a Priest with Balaams mark Balaams marke had done it And with that Clunie with violence pulled him from his father and kept him thrée dayes after in the Bishoppes house Who to salue vp ths matter deliuered the father and the childe Crueltie of the Balamites But the childe died within xiiij dayes after Anno 1560. Nicholas Burton 1560. N. Burton burned in Ciuil a Marchant of London dwelling sometimes in the Parish of little Saint Bartholmewes was burned in the Citie of Ciuill in Spaine Who died so chearefullie and with such patience that the Tormentors and enemies said that the deuill had his soule before he came to the fire and therefore said they his sences of féeling were past him After his death another marchant of Bristow for whom Burton was Factor sent his Atturney into Spaine called Iohn Fronton a Citizen of Bristow to claime those goods which belonged to the other Marchant Against whō after imprisonment because he could not say his Aue Maria after the Romish fashion Aue Maria after the Romish fashion they gaue sentence that he shoulde lose all the goods he sued for though they were not his owne and besides suffer a yeares imprisonment At what time Burton suffered which was anno 1560. was also martired another Englishman with thirtéen mo one of them being a Nunne and another a Frier both constant in the Lord. The ij day of Nouember was burned Iohn Baker and William Burgate both Englishmen apprehended in Calis and burned in Ciuil Anno Domini one thousande fiue hundred and thréescore Marke Burges M. Burges an Englishman Master of an English Ship called the Minion was burned in Lishborne a citie in Portugall and Williā Hooke W. Hooke of the age of xvi yeres stoned to death by certaine young men of Ciuill for the confession of his faith As the most were burned and tormented to death so some were torne with scourging as Richard Wylmot and Thomas Fairefaxe both whipped in Drapers hall through the crueltie of Brookes then Master of the Companie That Wylmot could not lie in his bed vi nights after and neither of them enioyed health after They were thus scourged for saying they were sory for D. Cromes recantation After these two was one Green scourged because he had a booke called Antichrist and woulde not bewraye more matter to their minde He was accused by his Master called Iohn Waylande a Printer and brought before Doctor Storie by whom after long stocking and euill vsage in prisō he was adiudged to be whipped Which was performed vpon him in the presence of Doctor Storie in Christes Hospitall Also Steeuen Cotton burned as before at Brainforde was twise beaten by Boner Likewise was Iames Harris of Byllerica in Essex scourged by Boner in his garden So likewise Robert Williams endured the same torment by the bloudy Bishop With these also is to be numbred a poore Beggar which was whihped at Salisburie after hee had béene put into a Dungeon because he would not receiue the Sacrament at Easter in the towne of Colingborowe As some were tried by burning racking and scourging so vpon other some the Lorde did lay a lighter hande of imprisonment as vpon William Liuing and his wife in the citie of London Iohn Lythall Elizabeth Yong and William Wats of Tunbridge who fled away his kéepers beyng tippled and fallen asléepe Alexander Winshurst a priest that escaped by negligence of Cluny who left none at home to kéepe him fast in whose house he was prisoner Bosomes wife the Lady Kneuet of Northfolke towards an hundred yéeres old the Lady Vane who with much trouble yet passed these terrible daies with life In the time of King Henry the eight Anno 1546. there was one Iohn Dauis a childe of twelue yéeres old Iohn Dauis a child of twelue yeeres old dwelling with one Maister Iohnson Apothecarie in Worcester who beyng complained of by his Mistris the wife of Maister Iohnson for that he had written something against the six Articles and had the Ballad called Come downe for all your shauen Crowne After long imprisonment with bolts of irons on his legges was arraigned being holdē vp at the barre in mens armes before the iudges who were Portman and Meruen and by the death of king Henry was deliuered else had hée béene burned for that offence He endured the prison from the fouretéenth of August till within seuen daies of Easter Likewise Mistris Roberts by Gods prouidence escaped daunger dwelling in Hawkhurst in Sussex Mistris Anne Lucie of Nottingham c. Likewise a congregation at Stoke in Suffolke was deliuered by Gods mercifull prouidence but especially that of London was diuerse times in perill and alwayes was preserued of God in which congregation were sometimes fortie The congregation in Lōdon sometimes an hundreth sometimes two hundreth sometimes mo sometimes lesse About the latter end of Quéene Mary it greatly increased From the first beginning which was about the first entrie of Quéene Maries raigne they had diuerse ministers First Maister Scamler then Thomas Foule The ministers of the congregation in London after him Maister Rough then Maister Augustine Benher and last Maister Bentham who likewise was by Gods prouidence wonderfully preserued Likewise at Calis few there were of the professors of the gospell that miscaried especially Iohn Thorpe and his wife were mercifully preserued and succored of straungers To these are to be added Edward Benet Ieffery Hurst in the towne of Shakerley in Lankeshire who were saued by the death of Quéene Mary William Wood of Kent of the parish of Strowd who was deliuered by the disagréement of Kennall and Chadsey two popish Doctors that examined him as Paule was deliuered by the contention of the Phariseis and Saduces Likewise was Symon Greeuens mercifully deliuered beyng at the assembly held at Spire and complained of to the king by Faber the B. of Vienna whom he had gently reprooued for maintaining certaine errours in his Sermon which he had there preached So likewise the Lady Katherine dutches of Suffolke hardly escaped and passed the seas into Germany where she suffered the afflictions of a straunger in another land Also Th. Sprat and William Porredge escaped very narrowly persecution by M. Brent Iustice in Kent and the two Blachendines Iohn Cornet prentise with a minstrell was onely whipped by the commaundement of the Earle of Oxford and banished the towne of Roughedge So likewise Thomas Brice professor of the gospell hardly
escaped the bloudie hands of the tyraunts To those aforesayd are to be added Gertrude Crockhey of S. Catherines William Maulden in the tyme of the six articles Robert Hornebey groome of the chamber to the Ladie Elizabeth Mistris Sandes now wife to sir Morice Bartlet then Gentlewomen waiter to the Ladie Elizabeth while shée was in the Tower Father Rose borne in Exmouth in Deuonshire after much affliction in King Henries daies and more gréeuous in Quéene Maries after his constant witnessing of the gospel escaped and passedouer seas and there liued till the death of Quéene Mary and of late beyng aged of 76. yéeres was preacher in the towne of Luton in Bedfordshire Doctor Sandes likewise Vicechauncellor of the Vniuersity of Cambridge who for his Sermon at Cambridge preached against Quéene Marie was imprisoned in the Tower and afterward in the marshalsea by the meanes of Syr Thomas Holcroft Béeing set at libertye hardly escaped beyonde the seas where hee liued all Queene Maries time in Germanie Anno 1556. there was a complaint against such as fauoured the Gospel in Ipswich exhibited to Quéene Maries Counsel sitting in commission at Beckles in Suffolke the 18. of May An. 1556. by Phillip Williams aliâs Foteman Iohn Steward and Mathew Butler sworne for that purpose The names of such as fled out of the towne Such as fled out of Ipswich for persecution and lurked in secret places were these Of S. Mary tower Rober Partridge Rose Nothingam daughter of William Notingam the elder Of L. Laurence Anne Fenne seruant to Robert Notingam Andrew Ingforby his wife and daughter Ipswich a good towne Thomas Tomson Shoemaker supposed to haue receiued but twise those 17. yéeres Martine Locksmith his wife Of Saint Margarets William Pickesse Tanner Iohn Woodles Couerletweauer and his wife William Harset Bricklayer Thomas Fowler Shoemaker W. Wrightes wife at the Windmill Laurence Waterward late Curate borne in Chorley in Lancashire Of Saint Nicholas widow Swanne Mathew Birde and his wife Stephen Greenwich and his wife William Coleman seruaunt to the sayde Stephen Robert Coleman and his wife Roger Laurence aliâs Sparrow Iohn Carleton Sadler William Colemam Iames Hearst his wife Of Saint Peters Richard Houer apprentise with Nicholas Notingham Richard Hedley a seller of hereticall Bookes Of Saint Stephens Iames Booking Shoemaker his wife Iohn Rawe late seruaunt to Iames Ashley William Palmer Richard Richman Shoemaker his wife daughter to mother Fenkell midwife Of Saint Clements mistres Tooley who departed to Darsham in Suffolke Agnes Wardall the elder Widowe Robert Wardall her sonne Of Saint Mathewes Iohn Shoemaker and his wife The names of such as had not receiued the Sacrament Of saint Clements Robert Braye Iohn Notingham Agnes VVardall wife of Robert VVardal Nich. Notingham Richard Michell William Iordan his wife Rich. Butler Robert Browne Of Saint Peters Iohn Reede Thomas Spurdance Iohn seruaunt to Stephen Greenleefe Of Saynt Stephens Robert Scolding Of saint Margarets Iohn Greenwich and his wife Of saint Nicholas Thomas Sturgeon mariner Iohn Fenne his wife Of saint Marie Kye Robert Branstone brother and seruaunt to William Branstone Of saynt Marie tower Martine Iohnson who lyeth bedredde Agnes his kéeper Benet Alceed seruants to Robert Nottinghā Of saint Laurence Robert Silke his sonne Of saint Marie at Ellens Iohn Ramsey and his wife in prison The names of such as obserued not ceremonies Of saint Clements some refused the Paxe Robert Brage his wife refused to suffer anie childe to bee dipped in the Font Ioane Barber widowe Thomasin her daughter refused to beholde the eleuation of the sacrament Mistresse Ponder mother to Ioane Barber in the same fault Tye a mariner his wife Of saint Marie Ellines Richarde Hawarde refused the Paxe at Masse in Saynt Laurence Of saint Peters Maister Lions at masse at saint Marie Stoke refused the Paxe mother Fentell Ioane Warde aliâs Bentley wife refused to haue their children dypped in the Font. At Saynt Stephens mother Beriefe refuseth to haue children dipped in fontes At S. Nicholas George Bush his wife reiected the host after receit of it Names of priests wiues that had accesse to their husbands RAfe Carletons wife Curate of S. Mathewes and S. Marie at Ellins Elizabeth Cantrell wife to Rafe Cantrell Iane Barker wife to Robert Barker priest late of Burie Latimers wife Curate of S. Laurence S. Stephens William Clarkes wife late curate of Barkham and S. Marie at Ellines The names of the mainteiners against this complaint RObert Stirrop Customer to Quéene Marie Gilbert Stirrop Deputie to Edward Grimstone for his butlerage Maister Butler the elder searcher mistresse Tooly Margaret Bray Ioane Barker widowe mistresse Birde Bastian Man his wife and himselfe Their requests to punish and conuent certaine for example TO conuent Richarde Byrde Iayler who by euil counsell doeth animate his Prisoners of his Secte Thomas Sadler for speaking certaine wordes to Iohn Bate the Crier of the towne that it might please the Bishop to wish his Commissarie and Officiall to be vpright and diligent in their office and to appoint a Curate of abilitie to féede his Cure with Gods worde That none might be suffered to be Midwiues but such as were knowen to be Catholikes That Rafe Carleton Curate might be conuented whether by corruption of mony he hath ingrossed his booke of any that are there named and hath not receiued in déed as it is reported The miraculous preseruation of Lady Elizabeth now our most gratious Queene of England QVéene Mary before she was crowned shewed great fauour to the Lady Elizabeth and would go no whether but would haue her by the hand and send for her to dinner and supper but after shée was crowned shée neuer shewed her any such kindnesse The affliction of Lady Elizabeth our most gratious Queene but kept her selfe aloofe from her After this it happened immediatly vpon the rising of Sir Thomas Wiat that the Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney were charged with false suspition of Syr Thomas Wyats rising Wherevpon the next day after the rising of Wyat the Quéene sent for her from her house at Ashridge by thrée of her Counsellers Syr Richard Southwell Sir Edward Hastings then maister of the horse and Syr Thomas Cornwallis with their retinue and troupe of horsemen to the number of 250 who at the same time found her sore sicke in her bedde It was ten of the clocke at night before they came and they were so boisterous that being desired to stay and come in the morning to speake with her they came hastelie rushing into her Graces chamber as soone as the Gentlewoman that was to doe the message frō them to her And comming in vnto her they declared the Quéenes pleasure which was that she shoulde be at London the seuenth day of that present Moneth Adding moreouer vnto her that their Commission was such that they must néedes bring her with them either quick or dead And thereupon called for Phisitions Doctor Owen and Doctor Wendie