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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

Boots with boiling Oyl and put them upon their Legs over a soft fire Thus he tormented many but at last Francis the French King being informed of his Hellish cruelty sent to the Parliament of Provence to apprehend him who condemn him but he having notice of it fled to Arragon where a while after he was robbed of all he had by his own servants and then fell into an horrible disease unknown to the Physitians being intollerably tormented with pains all over his body so that he had not one minutes rest and no creature was able to endure him for the intollerable stink which proceeded from him nor he himself for his body was full of nasty sores and ulcers which swarmed with Vermin and rotted away from the bones by piece-meal In the midst of his torments he would in a great rage cry out Oh! who will deliver me who will rid me out of these intollerable pains which I now suffer for oppressing and tormenting those poor men endeavouring several times to kill himself but had not power and in this horrible anguish and despair he fearfully died no man being able to bury him for some time by reason of the loathsome smell proceeding from him till at last a poor man with an Iron Hook dragg'd his Carkass into a Hole he had digg'd for him During this Persecution the Bishop of Aix with some other Bishops walking with some of their Wenches through the Streets of Avignion they saw a man selling bawdy Pictures Images and Songs which they presently bought up but going a little further they found a man selling of French Bibles at which being extremely enraged they askt him how he durst be so bold to sell such Merchandize in that Town the Bookseller answered Is not the Holy Bible as good as these goodly Pictures you have bought for the Gentlewomen The Bishop of Aix said I renounce my part in Paradise if this Fellow be not a Lutheran The Attendants cryed out a Lutheran a Lutheran to the fire with him to the fire with him one giving him a blow with his Fist others pulled him by the Hair and Beard so that the poor man was all embrued in blood before he came to Prison The next day he was brought before the Judge where by the instigation of the Bishops he was burned the same day with two Bibles tyed about his Neck one before and another behind where he made a most Christian end This long and bloody Persecution of these Waldenses lasted near five hundred years in which time the Gospel spread into Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Croatia Solavonia Salmatia Bulgaria and in other places to which they were driven where they were tormented and persecuted according to the power and influence that the Pope and his Agents had over the Princes and Governours of those Countries The Albingenses were the same with the Waldenses professing the same Doctrines and Principles and differing only in name their Country being called Albi the chief Preacher among them being one Arnold from whom they were sometimes called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the Third began with them condemning them for Hereticks and Pope Innocent the Third raising a War against them calling it the Holy War giving the same Pardons and Indulgences and promising Paradise to all that would fight against the Hereticks with the same encouragement as those which went to the Holy Land against the Turks and Sarazens In this War he so thundered out Excommunications and used Temporal Arms against Reymond Earl or Prince of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and his Nobility were much astonished to see their Lord not only divested of his Possessions but led to the Church to be reconciled to it where the Popes Legate commanded the Earl to strip himself stark naked all but his Linnen Drawers they then put a Rope about his Neck and led him nine times round the Grave of one Peter an Hermit who was kill'd in that War scourging him with Rods all the while of which the Earl complaining the Legate told him That he must submit if he would be reconciled to the Pope yea he must be thus scourged before his Earls Barons Marquesses Prelates and all the people He made him likewise swear to be obedient to the Pope and Church of Rome all his life and to make irreconcileable War against the Albingenses The Legate then acts the part of a General and besieges Bezier and the Albingenses desiring to come to Terms the Legate would admit of nothing but the renouncing of their Religion and imbracing Popery which they absolutely refused upon those Conditions saying That God was able to defend them but if he would please to honour them to die for his sake they would rather displease the Pope than God Almighty In a short time the City was taken by Storm being assaulted by above an hundred thousand Papists the Enemy entring and slaying a great multitude killing all they m t without distinction the Popes Legate-bidding them kill all both Catholicks and Hereticks for the Lord knoweth who are his So that there were threescore thousand persons slain in this City the Priests and Fryars going about the Streets in the mean time with Crosses and Banners and singing Te Deum Laudamus after which they set the whole City on fire and burnt it to Ashes They marched next to a Town called Carcasson which these bloody Villains who called themselves Holy Pilgrims took by Storm likewise killing burning and destroying all before them as they had done before at Beziers They next proceeded to the City of Carcasson which was about two miles from the Town and was defended by the Earl of Pez●ers when they offered to capitulate the Legate would grant no other Conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their Baggage but all the rest both Men Women Maids and Children should come forth stark naked without any covering either of Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him but the Earl disdained such unworthy Conditions upon which the Legate assaulted the City but they that were within threw down Stones Fire Pitch Brimstone and Scalding Water from the Walls which so galled the Legates Souldiers that the Earth was covered and the Ditch filled with their dead bodies The Legate sinding Force would not avail used Policy and therefore upon pretence of Parley he perswaded the Earl to come out of the City with great Oaths and Execrations for his safe return but having him in possession they kept him Prisoner and then instantly stormed the City to the amazement of the poor Citizens who expected nothing less but there being happily discovered a Vault in the Town which went to a Castle some miles from thence the Citizens in the Evening began their Flight with their Wives and Children carrying Victuals with them only for some few days the next morning they arrived at the Castle and from thence dispersed themselves some one way some another leaving