and comfort Tentation Constancy of a boy An excellent example of an Heathen Profaness of Hereticks The destruction of the persecuting Vandals Sin the forerunner of persecution The fâ—â—st Reformers Peter Valdo Charity Popish malice Christian courage Pope Alexander raiseth persecution Godâ— Providence Persecution spreads the Gospel King of France persecutes them Many burnt The spreading of the Gospel Malicious slanders Vindication The greate encâ—ease of the Waldenses Popish rage and malice Five burnt at Collen A bloody Edict against the Waldenses They defend themselves by Arms. Valdo's Zeal and Courage Sangâ—iâ— Martyrum semen Ecclesia Dominicans instituted Inquisitors begun An. Chri. 1176· Injustice Prodigious cruelty A Knight burned A Disputation between the Popelings and the Waldenses The Popelings bafled Horrible cruelty The number of the Waldenses Their godly lives Good Pastors Persecution raised Popish cruelty In Pragela Popish malice Infants starved to death Popish cruelty Frassiniere Popish cruelty The King forbids the persecution Yet the Arch-Bishop continues it Popish malice Slanders Ja Pateneri The Arch-Bishops cruelty Gods judgement on persecutors Popish lies Gods providence Popish subtilty Barbarous crueltie A girevous persecution The Lieutenant repulsed Plain dealing Popish uncleannesse In Dauphine The weaknesse of a woman The innocency of the Waldenses Popish subtilty and injustice A speciall providence In Piedmont Love Popish malice Slanders Persecution in Piedmont Cruelty Cat. Girard Popish malice Prayer Profanenesse A just judgement A specall prouidence Gods judgement on persecutors Gods mercy Slanders Zeole and courageth Persecution renued Constancy The antiquity of the Faith Unity Zeal The first French Bibles printed One of them drowned A speciall providence The Pope stirs up persecution Courage A special providence Bar. Hector Persecution renewed Profanenesse Prudence Popish malice The German Prince interceds for them Popish malice A great persecution Humane infirmity Popish malice A speciall providence Treachery Prodigious villany A miracle of Mercy A special providence Popish subtilty Popish dissimulation and perfidiousness Fasting and Prayer A special providence Power of Prayer Profaneness A special providence A just reward Prayer A speciall providence Popish subtilty Perfidiousness Papist trechery A notable story A speciall providence Barbarous cruelty Gods judgement on persecutors Uncleannesse Popish Perfidiousness Their Ministers sent away Cruelty Barbarous cruelty Prayer in danger A League A good resolution Images demolished A speciall providence Popish subtilty A special providence Gods Providence Joy in tribulations Prayer in danger Speciall providences Thanksgiving A speciall providence Prayer The enemies every where beaten Prayer in danger A speciall providence Scorners punished Subtilty Perâ—idiousnesse The Spaniardsâ—epulsed â—epulsed Peace obtained Bar. Copin Zeal Christ best of all Tentation Constancy His exhortation to his wife and children Copin murthered Gods providence Their holy lives Their godly conversation The Pope persecutes them Popish lies Humane frailty Popish cruelty A speciall providence Barbarous cruelty Prodigious wickednesse Zeal Horrible cruelties Their totall extirpation Devilish slanders Note P. Masson martyred A cruel decree K. Francis the first Called Miâ—â—irs Barbarous cruelty Prodigious cruelty A bloody speech Gods judgement on persecutors Miniers his horrible death Gods judgement on persecutors Popish uncleannesse Profanenesse A godly Book-seller burnt Popish subtlity Popes rage against Earl Remund He goes to the Popes Legate The Earl whipt naked Beziers besieged Faith and courage Beziers stormed Barbarous cruelty Carcasson besieged Popish cruelty A brave speech Popish cruelty and unleannesse Carcasson stormed The Pilgrims repulsed with great losse Popish Profaanenesse and perfidiousness The Earl made a prisoner A speciall providence Carcasson taken Simon of Montfort made Generall Eearl of Beziers dieth The King of Arragon encourageth the Albingenses Earl Simons pride abated Prodigious cruelty Menerbe taken Courage and constancy The Castle of Termes taken Six thousand Pilgrims slain Horrible cruelty Popish subtilty The Legate dies The English help the Albingenses Popish pride Popish hypocrisie Articles against Earl Remund Earl Remund in danger His brother betrays him Tholouse besieged The Pilgrims beaten The siege raised Popish perfidiousnessâ— and cruelty Popish perfidiousnesse Subtilty Prince Lewis retires Earl Simon beaten Young Remunds successe Earl Simon honoured And disgraced A Council against the Albingenses Popish cruelty A new Army of Pilgrims Cruelty A popish brag E. Sâ—mon beaâ—en Thanksgiving Many Pilgrims slaine E. Simon slain by a woman Prince Lewis his cruelty Earl Guido slaine The Emperours cruell edict against them The Gospellers dispersed Persecuted The Gospellers encrease The King of France against them Avignion besieged A Famine in the Kings Army A dreadfull Judgement Many of them drowned The French beaten The Kâ—ng removes further from the City A plague in the French Camâ— The King of France dyeth Avâ—gnion taken by treachery The young â—ing of France persecuts them His armies beaâ—en Tholouse besieged A great Famine Popish treachery Unreasonable terms put upon the Earl of Tholouse Pope Gregories Counsells against them Persecution continued A cruell Edict against them The bones of one of them burnt A brave answer Albingenses in Spaine Persecuted and destroyed Trancavell and others defend them He prevailes exceedingly A dying woman burnt Earl Remund escapes He is forced to submit Persecution in Italy 1240. Earl Remund prospers Persecution in Millan Earl of Provence beaten A great Persecution Pope Urban Persecutes them Another Persecution A cruel Edict They increase and are persecuted Lollard Christianity brought into Bohemia Persecution begun Tyranny Persecution in Prague A speciall providence The Christians prevaile Subtilty 300. Christians slain Gods judgement on persecutors Wenceslaus reigns Ludomilla murthered Wenceslaus murthered Gods judgement on persecutors Woytich banished The Pope usurps over the Bohemians John Melicius The Pope Antichrist Melicius imprisoned M. Mathias Mathias banished John Husse Jerome 〈◊〉 Prague Popish malice and subtilty The Pope excommunicates the Bohemians Multitudes martyred Encouragment Apostacy Constancy Unnaturall cruelty Many drowned A loving wife Cruelty A Minister and others burned Profanenesse and blasphemy Martin Loquis Prodigious cruelty Some beheaded Schism Calixtines Popish subtilty Thaborites destroyed Reformation begun Popish malice A Minister racked A wicked Edict Popish cruelty Elders chosen A Synod Ordination of Ministers The Waldenses· Admonition The Waldenses persecuted The Church increaseth Popish subtilty Slanders Confession The Brethren banished Persecution Popish malice Gods judgement on persecutors Anno 1510. A cruel Edict Devillish wickednesse Tentation resisted Gods judgement on persecuâ—ors Anno. 1523. Luther Zahere an Apostate Popish lies and slanderous Persecution Two burnt A godly woman burnt Two godly men burnt Comfort in death Gods judgement on persecutors A new persecution Popish malice Charles the fifth warres against the Protestants A great persecution Persecution causeth reformation A speciall providence Popish malice Ministers persecuted A speciall providence Conversion John Augusta Popish lies and slanders A wicked Edict Two hundred Ministers banished The Baron of Schanow Jesuites first brought into Prague Maximilian Emperour Rodulphus Emperour Sin the forerunner of persecution Mathias Emperour Ferdinand
forcibly made King of Bohemia Ferdinand a Usurper Popish malice The first Artifice The second Artifice The third Artifice The fourth Artifice The States inhibited their meeting The Jesuites banished by the States An Army raised against the Bohemians Frederick chosen King of Bohemia Anno 1620. Novemb. 8 Prague taken Anno 16â—7 Popish subtilty The fifth Artifice The sixth Artifice The seventh Artifice Plundering The eight Artifice The ninth Artifice The tenth Artifice Apostacy rewarded Popish perfidiousness The eleventh Artifice The twelfth Artifice The thirteenth Artifice The fourteenth Artifice The fifteenth Artifice The sixteenth Artifice Ministers persecuted Barbarous cruelty Gods providence A speciall providence Cruelty to Ministers Prodigious cruelty Ingratitude Anno 1622. Pescinus The seventeenth Artifice Ministers charged with treason Ministers banished The eighteenth Artifice The German Ministers banished Blaspâ—emy Illiterate persons put into the places of Christs Ministers Twenty one Ministers banished Ministers charged with sedition Tentation Constancy A Minister Martyred Popish cruelty The Vice-roy Courage and Constancy Couâ—age and Constancy The nineteenth Artifice Summa Papavera The chiefest Nobles imprisoned The Nobles examined A brave speech Success no sign of a good cause Their condemnation Profane blasphemy Tentaâ—â—tâ—n resisted Crede quod habes habes Blasphemy Joy in tribulation Faith Prayer Courage The Martyrs mutual farwell The L. Schlik His faith and courage His Martyrdom The L. Wenceslaus His patience Psal. 119.92 His Martyrdom The L. Harant His message to his wife His Martyrdom Sir Casper Kaplitz His courage and constancy His Martyrâ—â—m â—roâ—â—pâ—us Dorzecki His prayer and 〈◊〉 His fiâ—elity to hâ—s Pâ—ince His Martyrdom L Frederick de Bile L. Hen. Otto His â—aith Joy unspeakable His martyrdom Dion Zervius His Martyrdom An aged man His martyrdom The Lord of Rugenia His excellent speech His martyrdom Val. Cockan His Martyrdom Toby Steffick His prayer His Martyrdom D. Jessenius A Prophecy His Martyrdom Christâ— Chober His excellent speech His Martyrdom John Shultis His Martyrdom Maxim Hostialicâ— His Martyrdom John Kutnaur Hâ—s speech to the Jesuits His speech at death His Martyrdom Sim. Sussickey Tentation His Martyrdom Nath. Wodnianskey His speech to the Jâ—suâ—â—es His counsel to his son His Martyrdom Wen. Gesbitzky His prayer His martyrdom Martin Fruin He is murthered Their goods conâ—â—scated Recantation prescribed The twentieth Artifice The Protestants beggered Their debts and money seized on The sâ—uldiers get most The one and twentieth Artifice Charles de Zerotine Another Obediâ—â— The two and twentieth Artifice Protestant Tutors banished Successe makes the enemies proud The Protestants all baniâ—â—ed False testimonies bought Protestants chiâ—dren taken from them Popish subtilty Tentation Many seduced Lord de Zerotine goeth into exile A cruel Edâ—ct Protestants wives bâ—nished from their husbands The exiles sought after The three and twentieth Artifice Laws repealed The four and twentieth Artifice Apostates proâ—moted The five and twentieth Artifice The Protestants in the silveâ— Mines had a promise of favour Popish perfidiousness Souldiers quartered upon them Don Martins cruelty The Bolislavians persecuted Constancy Apostacy Constancy Recovery Bethlem Gabor Gods providence A new persecution In Litomeric Popish subtilty Patience in persecution In Radecium Tentation resisted Popish cruelty Constancy Humane infirmity Constancy At Bidsove Popish cruelty At Zaticum Bibles burnt Don Martins cruelty Exile denied to the Protestants At Tusta Apostacy At Rokizan Popish subtilty Constancy John Foelix Barbarous cruelty Foelix escapes At Slana John Blyssa Banished At Prachatice Prodigious cruelties The twenty sixth Artifice Popish subtilty Popish profanenesse Christians stript Popish uncleannesse The twenty seventh Artifice Prodigious cruelties The twenty eighth Artifice At Minion Popish malice Death denied them Prodigious wickednesse Blasphemy Prodigious wickedness Constancy Comfort in â—fflictions Danger of Apostacy Bibles burnt Prodiges Gods judgment on Apostates Gods judgement on persecutors The Pope stirs up persecution Gods judgements on persecutors The Popish Army flies A new Army raised They fly when none pursues F. Romanes Conversion Zeale Subtilty Treachery Good counsel Note He goeth to the Emperour Is imprisoned Carried into Spaine Condemned by the Inquisitors Burned Rochus Condemned Thiâ—ty Christians condemned A wicked Oath Cacalla condemned Popish malice Malice Many burnt together The Spanish Inquisition Invented by Dominicans Subtilty Their dealing with strangers Their Familiars Sequestration Stript of all in prison Subtilâ—y How Inquisitors deal with the prisoners They proceed to the Rack Their privy parts aâ—e only covered with linnen The Jeobit Inhumane cruelty Railâ—ngs Scoffs Threats Another cruel tormenâ— The trough Divellish cruelty Torment with fire Subtilty A woman and her tow daughters and neece A Judas Perjury Flie. Their cruel prisons All pity denied them A maid whipt for shewing them favour The prisoners denied leave to sing Psalmes Their hospital Cruel mercy Their condemnation Their habits A wicked oath Degradation Hypocrisie Abominable lyes Their cruelty concealed Flattery A Lady imprisoned Their crâ—el usage oâ— her They torment her in the trough She dyed John Pontio Humane frailty Recovery His speech at death John Gonsalvo Tormented in prison with a cleft stick A Church in Sivil Some of them cast into prison A cleft stick Their death Malice Ferdinando His torments A special Providence Humane infirmity Recovery Execution Juliano Zeale A special Providence A false brother Twenty burnt Juliano's torments and constancy His death John Leon. Leon goeth towaâ—ds England Is apprehended Sent to Spaine Tormented Martyred A maâ—ds sufferings and martyrdom Christopher Losada His constancy Death Arias He turns persecutor A special Providence Arias his Reâ—covery His courage His Martyrdome Scriptures contemned Grosse ignorance Ministers honoured Aegidio chosen Bishop He is persecuted Imprisoned Gods judgement on Persecutors Released His excellent vertues Zeale He goes to the Emperour His return to Sivil His weaknesse Chosen Divinity-Lecturer A strange Providence Courage Imprisoned His death His Corps burned Nicholas Burton Godâ— Providence He is sent to Sivil Condemned John Baker Will. Burgate Will. Burges Will. Hooker Encenas Treachery Courage Constancy Francis Encenas A special Providence Faninus Humane infirmity Danger of Apostacy Recovery after his fall A prophesie A special Providence Tentation resisted Proffer of life refused Faith Comfort in death Note A special Providence Dominicus Apprehended Constancy Thanks for sufferings Galeacius Trecius Cruelty Humane infirmity Recovery Note Joy unspeakable Tentation resisted Note His education His enmity to the truth Conversion Zeale His apprehension Constancy Hâ—s Release Courage His appeâ—ring at Rome Note Hâ—s return to Bonony A special Providence He is again apprehended His Release Love to Christ Manâ—fold afflictions Constancy His Martyrdâ—me Francis Gamba Constancy Tentations â—esisted Comfort at death Algerus Joy in afflictions Note Tentation resisted John Aloysius Iames Bovellus Persecution raised by the Pope Horrible Cruelty Patience of the Saints Anthony Ricetto Tentation reâ—sisted Constancy Francis Spinola Sega Sega's Martyrdome Humane infirmity Recovery Spinola's Martyrdome An English man at Rome An heroical act His cruel torments Patience His Martyrdome Idolatry detested His going to Lisbone
Humility Zeal Prayer Grosse idolatry An heroical act His danger His speech to to the King Courage He is tortured His cruâ—l Martyrdome Constancy Gods judgment on persecutors A special Providence The Pope stirs up the Emperor to persecute the Pâ—otestants Duke of Saxony and the Lantgrave taken prisoners A cruel persecution Henry Voes John Esch. Comfort and joy in death A miracle of mercy Henry Sutphen Popish malice Some that came to catch were converted Popish subtilty and malice Courage Implacable malice He is condemned unheard Popish cruelty His Martyrdome Many drowned Miltenburg sacked A Minister condemned to be hanged Ingratitude He is hanged Peter Spengler The rising of the Anabaptists He is robbed by them His good counsel Popish cruelty A Christian speech at his death A miracle Popish cruelty False witnesses His constant death Wolfgang Scuch Idolatry reformed Popist rage He goeth to the Duke and is imprisoned He is reviled His Bible burnt His faith His Martyrdome Gods judgements on Persecutors John Huglin burned George Carpenter Christ preferred before wife and children His signe His Martyrdome Leonard Keyser Popish malice His Martyrdome A Minister worried Gods judgements on Persecutors Tentation Ignorance Her Martyrdome Popish malice Two godly men burnt Nicholas drowned Pistorius Charity His Martyrdome One hanged A Minister beheaded George Scherter A Miracle Ministers Martyrs Popish cruelty Vincit â—eritas Mr. Persival Cruelty Justus Insberg A special providence Giles Tilleman Conversion Charity Constancy Earnest Prayer Meeknâ—sse Fâ—â—ght refused Constancy Note His Martyrdome A great persecution Martin converted in his old age He is condemned His Martyrdome Two godly Virgins Burnt Constancy and courage A Miracle Andrew Thiessen Constancy Popish cruelty Joy and comfort at death Adrian Tailor and his wife Master Peter Bruly A special Providence Popish malice and cruelâ—y Peter Mioce His conversion Put into a dungeon amongst Toads Note Zeale Popish lies A godly Mininister martyrred Christopher Fabri A Traytor The people drive away the Executioner His Martyrdom Two men and their wives Blasphemy Zeal Vincit veritas Popish subtilty Courage Meaning the Emperour Nâ—te Austins courage Tentation Zeal Magdenburg besieged And delivered Hostius Zeal His letter to his wife His Martyrdome Bertrand An heroical act Courage Cruelty Barbarous cruelty Admirable patience A special Providence Zurich Thirty taken at a Sermon James Faber his excellent answer Oâ— â—urnay Godfride Courage A Minister poisoned in Lile Christian charity Robert Oguire and his 〈◊〉 carried to prison Baudizon Joy in tribulation They are examined An holy practice Fervent prayer They are tortured Robert and Baudizon condemned Popish malice Note Zeal Blasphemy Faith and courage Their Martyrdome Martin and his Mother Popish subtilty Humane frailty Recovery Joy in tribulation Faith and patience Tentation Resisted Their Martyrdome Charles Coninck Tentation resisted â—ods judgement on a Persecutor Barbarous cruelty Don Fredericks cruelty to Zutphen At Naerden Treachery The siege of Harlem A Famine The town surrendred Popish perfidiousnesse A Minister hanged Another beheaded Barbarous cruelties Valenciennes besieged Popish perfidiousnesse and cruelty John Herwin A special Providence His conversion Herwin imprisoned Zeale Courage Constancy Vincit veritas Popish malice and subtilty Flight refused Thanks for sufferings Tentation resisted Zeale Whence persecution ariseth His Martyrdome John de Boscane His cruel Martyrdome John de Buisons beheaded in prison The Church of Antwerp persecuâ—ed Bartholomews constancy The Church of Rome a glorious strumpet Scoblant John Hues Joris Coomans Joy in tribulation Faith His excellent speech Scoblants Martyrdome John Hues died in prison Courage Joris his Martyrdome Giles and John Annik A special Providence Their Martyrdome Lewis Meulin A widow Charity Her Martyrdome Christopher Gauderin His Conversion His imprisonâ—ent Vincit veritas Mans life but two days Prayer His Zeale His faith Martyrdome Admirable constancy Giles de Meyer His imprisonment His constancy Popish malice and cruelty His Martyrdome Peter Coulogue and Betkin his maid Their torments Prayer Gods judgement on a Persecutor Their Martyrdome A great persecution The Prince proscribed Joanville suborned to kill him Popish subtilty A special Providence Beltazar Gerard suborned to kill him The Prince his death Abominable villanies Magdenburg burnt Cruelties used there Cruelties at Hoxter Griphenburg Heidleberg Frankendal Saxony Pomeren Horrible cruelties Blasphemy A Minister killed with a Cat. Magdenburg Rapes and Ravishings Bazil Merchanâ—s murthered A Minister murthered The Crabbats eat infants A Comet A blazing star And two Armies Water turned to blood Three Suns Two Armies Two swords and two Armies Three Suns and thâ—ee Rainbows Trees dropt blood Blood on houses and stone-walls And sickles It rained blood Two Armies A strange tempest A fight of Jackdaws Two armies Water turned into blood A monstrous câ—â—ld Two armies Bloody bread A fish-pond turn'd to blood It rain'd blood brimstone A battel of Birds Dogs John Clark A mother encourageth her sonne Zeale His torments His martyrdome Mr. Castellane Popish hypocrisie His Martyrdome James Panane Dennis de Reux John de Cadurco A special providence Five burnt at Paris Alexand. Canus John Pointer Peter Gaudet Popish treachery John Cornor Martin Gonin Claudius Popish treachery Stephen Brune A special providence Note An excellent speech John de Beck Aymund de Lavoy Flight refused Courage His torments Prayes for his enemies His Martyrdome Francis Bribard William Husson His Martyrdome James Cobard Fourteene martyred Peter Chapot Zeale Vincit veritas Humane infiâ—mity A cruel law Aâ— Creeple martyred Zeale His Martyrdome Stephen Polliot John English Michael Michelote Faith and Courage Treachery Seven Martyrs Four Martyrs Blondel Popish malice Courage Charity Humane infirmity Recovery Hubert Florent Venote Cruelty A miracle of mercy Henry the second His Martyrdome Anne Audebert Courage and comfort at death A Tailor Admirable courage Popish pride Popish subtilty Gods judgements on persecutors Claudius Thomas Zeale Cruelty An excellent spirit Peter Bergerius An admirable example Three godly men Note Matthew Dimonet a persecutor converted Tentation resisted Simon Laloe An hangman converted Nicholas Naile Popish cruelty Peter Serre Charity Treachery Note Admirable patience Note A Judas Courage Cruelty Zeale A miracle Philber Hamlin Zeale Apostacy A Prophesie Gods judgemenâ— on an Apostate Nicholas of Jenvile Popish treachery Blind zeal Popish malice A special Providence Popish rage and cruelty Popish lyes and slanders Satans subtilty Christian wisdom Gods merciful providence Nicholas Clivet and one Granvelle Popish malice Gods judgement on persecutors Courage A Christian speech Popish malice Gods mercy Tentation resisted Tentation Humâ—ne infirmity Good counsel Recovery after a fall A special providence Gods judgement on Persecutors Du Bourg executed Popish cruelty The Church prospers under persecution A great persecution in Dauphine Popish cruelty Two Ministers beheaded Arâ—â— Ecclesiae A great conversion Popish malice Christians murthered at a Sermon Slanders A special providence Barbarous cruelty Gods judgement on Persecutors Persecution in Paris At Senlis A special providence At Chaalons Mr. Fournier Faith Popish cruelty A special Providence A special Providence His delivery His death At
his torments yet could he not hear such profane counsel without answering whereupon he cryed out We Hebrews are not so effeminate as to forsake the way of salvation wherein we walk to our old-age neither are we taught for feare of contumely which will not long endure to give others an occasion and example to sin c. Wilt thou O Tyrant esteem of us if we should yield unto thee nay thou mightst justly reprove our inconstancy Then did the souldiers by the Kings command cast him into the fire and poured stinking and loathsome liquors into his nostrils all which he patiently suffered till he was consumed in the flames Yet when nature began to fail lifting up his dazled eyes to Heaven he said Thou O God art he from whom life and salvation proceedeth Behold I die for observing thy Laws Be mercifull to this thy Nation and forsake not them whom hitherto thou hast protected in thy bosom and under the shadow of thy wings let my death end all misery c. and so he joyfully yielded up the ghost Antiochus was but more incensed hereby and therefore he caused seven Children of the Hebrews to be brought to Antioch who being young and therefore as he thought weak and unable to endure torments he presumed that either by perswasion or fear he should enforce them to forsake their Religion Then he commanded these seven together with their mother Salamona now aged to be brought before him They were of excellent beauty and worthy children of so vertuous a mother The Tyrant beholding them with a merry countenance craftily spake unto them I wish your good O admirable young men do not therefore like mad men resist my commands Avoid not only torments but death also I desire not only to exalt you to honour but to encrease your riches and possessions Contemn therefore your own superstition and embrace our Religion If you refuse this as I hope you will not I will devise all torments that by a lingring and painfull death I may consume you And to terrifie them the more he caused all sorts of Instruments for torment to be brought forth before them as Wheels Rods Hooks Racks Cauldrons Cages Gridirons c. with Engines to torment the fingers and hands as Gauntlets Auls Bellows Brazen-pots and Frying-pans c. Then said he Obey me O prudent young men for if I command that which is a sin yet do not you offend being compelled to it But these holy young men inflamed with a divine spirit contemned these torments and despised both threats and flateries denying to eat of the sacrificed Swines flesh and saying Wherefore O Tyrant dost thou persecute us that are innocent We desire to die and will till death expels life firmly keep that which God commanded and Moses taught us and therefore seek not O Tyrant to seduce us by protesting thy unfeigned love Thou lover of in justice master of cruelty deviser of iniquity the pardon thou proferrest is more painfull to us then punishments We contemn death and esteem not thy words our master Eleazer having taught us to despise them Why dost thou expect such pusillanimity in us young men when of late thou foundest such courage in an old man Thou canst not know our minds except by tearing our bodies thou searchest them out We will willingly for our God suffer any thing and expect Heaven whilst thou for thy cruelty to innocents shalt be reserved to eternal fire The Tyrant greatly moved herewith caused them to be beaten with Buls-pizels first commanding Maccabeus the eldest to be stripped and stretched out upon a Rack and his hands to be bound and so to be most cruelly beaten who so wearied his tormentors by sufferring that they rather desired to give over then he requested it Then was he put upon a Wheel and a weight hanged at his feet and so stretched round about it that his sinews and entrails brake yet all this while he called upon God and then said to the Tyrant O bloudy Tyrant who persecutest the Majesty of God I whom thou thus tormentest am no witch nor murtherer but one who dies for observing Gods Law And when the tormentors overcome with compassion willed him to submit to the Kinges pleasure he said O ye wicked ministers of Tyranny Your Wheels are not so sharp and cruel that I thereby will be forced to forsake Heaven whereon my minde is fixed Tear my flesh yea if you please rost it at the fire torture each parcel of my body with severall cruelties yet you shall not be able to force us young men to impiety As he thus spake a fire was kindled he thus racked on the Wheel was thrown into it and by flames was so burned that his bowels appeared yet was his minde unmoved and in the midst of his torments he cryed thus to his brethren O beloved brethren make me your example despise the alluring baits of this world obey God rather then this Tyrant who can if he please humble the proud and mighty and exalt the dejected Then was he taken from the fire and slain alive his tongue was pulled out of his head and he put into a frying pan and so he departed out of this life to the admiration of his enemies and the joy of his mother and brethren Then was the second brother called Aber haled by the souldiers and the Tyrant shewed him all those instruments of torment and asked him if he would eat of the sacrifice which he denying to do his hands were bound with iron chains and being hanged up thereby the skin of his body was slain from the crown of his head to his knees so that the entrails in his brest were seen Then was he cast to a cruel Libard greedily thirsting after blood but the beast smelling at him forgat his cruelty and went from him without doing him any harm This increased the Tyrants rage and Aber by his torments grew more constant crying aloud O how pleasant is that death to me which is caused by all sorts of torments for Gods sake yea the more pleasant because I know I shall be rewarded in heaven Let these torments O Tyrant satisfie thy cruelty for my pain is not increased by them but my pleasure as thou shalt find by my patience in these sufferings I am more willing to suffer then thou to punish yet my pain is less in suffering then thine by inflicting I am tormented for keeping the Law thou by Gods Justice shalt be banished from thy Regal seat yea eternal torments are prepared for thee which neither thy prophane mind is able to endure nor thy power to decline c. And so shortly after he yielded up his soul to God Then Machir the third son was brought whom all pitied and exhorted by his brothers examples to forsake his opinion and so decline the punishment but he being angry at such Counsel replied One Father begat us one Mother bore
us one Master instructed us c. Therefore no longer prolong the time in vain I came to suffer not to speak use all the Tyranny that possibly you can against my body yet have you no power over my soul. This so moved the Tyrant that he devised new torments beyond the reach of humane wit and commanding a globe to be brought he caused him to be tied about it in such sort that all his bones were put out of joint hanging one from another in a most pitifull manner yet was the holy Martyr nothing dismaid then the skin of his head and face was pulled off and then was he put upon the wheel but he could be racked no worse for all his bones were dislocated before the blood issuing from him abundantly he said We O Tyrant endure this torment for the love of God and thou the Author of such cruelty shalt be punished with everlasting pain Then was his tongue cut out and he being put into a fiery frying pan resigned his spirit unto God Next followed Judas the fourth brother whom all the people perswaded to obey the King But he said Your fire shall not separate me from the Law of God nor from my brethren To thee O Tyrant I denounce destruction but to such as believe salvation Try me thou cruel wretch and see if God will not stand by me as he did by my three brethren now in glory c. The cruel Tyrant hearing this was so inraged that he leaped down from his chaire to torment this Martyr himselfe He commanded also his tongue to be cut out to whom Judas said Thy cruelty will nothing avail thee our God needs not by voice to be awaked c. he heareth such as call upon him with their hearts and know's our thoughts afar off c. Cut out my tongue if thou please would thou wouldst so sanctifie all the parts of my body c. and think not that thou shalt long escape unpunished Then was his tongue cut out and he bound to a stake was beaten with ropes ends which torments he bore with admirable patience After which he was put upon the wheel where he ended his life and went to the rest of his brethren Then spake Achas the fift brother Behold O Tyrant I come to be punished before thou commandest me therefore hope not to alter his minde that desireth to be tormented The bloud of my innocent brethren hath condemned thee to hell I shall make up the fift that by it thy torments may be increased What offence have we committed that thou thus ragest against us c. All that thou canst alledge against us is that we honour God and live in obedience to his Laws and therefore we esteem not punishment which is an honour to us though no part of us be left untormented yet we shall be the more rewarded by God Then at the command of the Kings the executioner cast him into a brazen pot where he was prest down with his head to his feet and afterwards he sufferred all the torments inflicted on his brethren but he was so far from being discouraged that suddenly starting up he said Cruel Tyrant how great benefits dost thou though against thy will bestow upon us yea the more thou ragest the more acceptable to God shalt thou make us therefore I shall be sorry if thou shewest me any mercy by this temporall death I shall go to everlasting life And having thus finished his sufferings he died Then was Areth the sixt brother brought to whom the Tyrant proferred the choise of honour or punishment But he being grieved at this profer said O Tyrant though I be younger in years then my brethren yet the constancy of my minde is not inferiour as we have lived so we will die together in the fear of God Hasten therefore thy torments and what time thou wouldest spend in exhorting me spend it in devising torments for me Whereupon Antiochus in a rage commanded him to be tied to a pillar with his head downwards Then caused he a fire to be made at such a distance as might not burn but rost him Then he made them prick him with awles that the heat might pierce the sorer In these torments much bloud like froth gathered about his head and face yet said he O noble fight O valiant warre O strife between piety and impiety My brethren have past through their Agonies whose crown of Martyrdom is the punishment of their Persecutors I willingly follow them that as by blood I am conjoyned to them so by death I may not be separated from them Devise O Tyrant some new torment for I have overcome these already O Master of cruelty enemy of piety and persecutor of Justice we young men have conquered thy power thy fire is cold and heateth not thy weapons are bended and blunted in our bodies our God giveth us more courage to suffer then thou hast to punish c. As he thus spake they pulled out his tongue with an hot pair of tongs and lastly frying him in a frying pan he gave up the ghost There being now only the youngest brother left called Jacob he presenting himself before the Tyrant moved him to some compassion wherefore he called the Child to him and taking him aside by the hand he said By the example of thy brethren thou seest what to expect if thou disobeyest me therefore deliver thy self from these torments and I will give thee what honour my Kingdom can afford thou shalt be a Ruler Generall of my Army my Counceller c. But when this prevailed not he called his mother who coming and standing by her son the Tyrant said to her O worthy woman where now are all thy Children yet thou hast one remaining advise him therefore not to ruine himself and to leave thee childless by his obstinacy c. The mother bowing her self to the King said to her child in Hebrew that she might not be understood of others Pity and comfort thy sorrowfull mother O my son who bare thee nine moneths in my womb gave thee suck with my brests three years and with great care have brought thee up hitherto I pray thee dear son consider the heavens and earth and remember that God created them all of nothing c fear not therefore these pains and torments but imitate thy brethren and contemn death that in the day of mercy I may receive thee with thy brethren again in heaven Then did he desire to be unbound which being granted he immediately ran to the torments and coming where was a frying pan red hot he said to the King Cruel Tyrant I now know thee not only to have been cruel to my brethren but even cruelty it self Wretch that thou art who gave thee these purple robes who exalted thee to thy Kingdom Even he whom thou in us dost persecute whose servants thou tormentest and killest for which thy self
condemned and saith he We glory on the behalf of our sufferings that they had such a dedicator as he but this great Persecution like a blast did spread the Religion that it blew and having continued four years from the first rising is expired in two most shining blazes viz. in the Martyrdom of the two great Apostles Peter and Paul Peter was crucified with his head down-wards which manner of death himself made choice of and whilst he thus hung upon the Cross he saw his wife going to her Martyrdom whereupon he much rejoyced and calling her by her name he bad her remember the Lord Jesus Christ. At the same time also Paul before Nero made a confession of his faith and of the Doctrine which he taught whereupon he was condemned to be beheaded and the Emperor sent two of his Esquires Ferega and Parthemius to bring him word of his death they coming to Paul heard him instruct the people and thereupon desired him to pray for them that they might believe who told them that shortly after they should believe and be baptized then the souldiers led him out of the City to the place of execution where he prayed and then gave his neck to the sword and so was beheaded This was done in the fourteenth which was the last year of Nero. Collected out of the life of Nero Caesar Eusebius and the Book of Martyrs CHAP. VIII The second Primitive Persecution which began Anno 96. AFter the death of Nero there succeeded first Vespasian and then his son Titus in the Empire under both whom the Church had rest but Titus associating to himself his brother Flavius Domitian in the Government of the Empire This wicked Monster first slew his brother and then raised the second persecution against the Church of Christ. His pride was so great that he commanded himself to be worshiped as God and that Imaâ—es of gold and silver should be set up for his honour in the Capitoll His cruelty was unmeasurable The chiefest Nobles of the Roman Senators either upon envy or for their goods he caused to be put to death Having also heard some rumors of Christs Kingdom he was afraid as Herod had been before him and thereupon commanded all of the linage of David to be sought out and slain At last two poor Christians that came of Judas the brother of Christ according to the flesh were brought before Domitian and accused to be of the Tribe of Juda and of the line of David Then did the Emperour demand of them what stock of money and possessions they had To whom they answered that they two had not above thirty nine Acres of land out of which they payed Tribute and relieved themselves by their labour and industry withal shewing him their hard and brawny hands by reason of their labour Then did he ask them of Christ and of his Kingdom to whom they answered that Christs Kingdom was not of this world but spiritual and celestial and that he would come at the last day to judge the quick and the dead Hereupon he despised them as simple and contemptible persons and so dismissed them He punished an infinite company of Christians that were famous in the Church with exile and loss of their substance Under this persecution it was that St. John the beloved Disciple was first put into a vessel of boiling oyl and coming safe without hurt out of the same he was then banished into the Isle of Patmos Anno 97. where he continued till after the death of Domitian but was released under Pertinax At which time he returned to Ephesus where he lived till he was a hundred and twenty years old During his abode there he was requested to repaire to some place not farre off to order their Ecclesiasticall affairs and being in a certain City he beheld in the Congregation a young man mighty of body of a beautifull countenance and fervent minde whereupon calling the chief Bishop unto him he said I commend this man unto thee with great diligence in the witness here of Christ and of the Church The Bishop having received this charge and promised his faithfull diligence therein John spake the like words to him the second time also after which he returned unto Ephesus The Bishop having received this young man thus committed to his charge brought him home kept nourished instructed and Baptized him and the young man so profited under him that at last he was made the Pastor of a Congregation But having by this means more liberty then before some of his old companions began to resort unto him who first drew him forth to sumptuous and riotous banquets then inticed him to go abroad with them in the nights to rob and steal and to much other wickedness And he being of a good wit and stout courage ran like an unbridled horse to all manner of disorders and outrage And associating to himself many loose and dissolute companions he became their Head and Captain in committing all kindes of murther and felonies Not long after upon some urgent occasions St John was again sent for into those parts where having decided those controversies and dispatched those businesses for which he came meeting with the afore-mentioned Bishop he required of him the pledge which before Christ and the Congregation he had committed to his custody The Bishop herewith amazed supposing that he meant it of some money committed to him which yet he had not received not daring to contradict the Apostle he thereupon stood mute Then John perceiving that he was not understood said The young man and the soul of our brother committed to your custody I do require Whereupon the Bishop with many tears said He is dead To whom John replyed How and by what death The Bishop answered He is dead to God for he is become a wicked and vicious man and a thief and now he doth frequent these mountains with a company of thieves and villains like himself c. The Apostle rending his garments with a great lamentation said I left a good keeper of my brothers soul get me an horse and guide presently which being done he went strait to the mountains and was no sooner come thither but he was taken by the thieves that watched for their prey to whom he said I came hither for this cause Lead me to your Captain and so being brought before him the Captain all armed looked fiercely upon him and soon coming to the knowledge of him he was striken with such shame and confusion that he began to flie but the old man followed him as fast as he could crying My son why dost thou flie from thy father an armed man from one naked a young man from an old man Have pity upon me my son and feare not there is yet hope of salvation I will answer for thee to Christ I will die for thee if need be as Christ died for us I will give my life for thee Believe me Christ hath
to his bowels then basted with salt and vinegar then scraped and bemangled with sharp cutting shels that his whole body seemed to be but one wound yet afterwards through Gods goodness it was restored again whole And lastly was he burned In Alexandria Peter the Bishop and his Deacons constantly suffered Martyrdom as also many other Bishops in Egypt together with many famous and excellent men suffered about the same time A whole legion of Christian souldiers that lay at Thebes in Egypt under their Christian Col Mauritius because they refused to sacrifice to Idols were first tithed over by the Emperours command once and again and afterwards by the exhortation of Mauritius they died all together constant Martyrs The persecution raged not only in Asia and Africa but also in Italy France Spain c. in all which countries an innumerable company of Christians were martyred by sundry kindes of death In Trevers were so many Christians slain that their bloud ran like small brooks and discoloured great rivers yet this sufficed not the Tyrant but he sent abroad his horsemen to command all those which had apprehended any Christians immediately to put them to death At Collen also and in Rhetia many were martyred yea this persecution extended into our Britan where all the Christians were put to death Besides the kindes of death the punishments were so great and horrible as no tongue is able to express as whippings scourgings rackings horrible scrapings sword fire shipboats whereinto many were put and sunk into the sea Also hanging upon crosses binding some to the bodies of trees with their heads hanging downward hanging others by the middle upon gallowses till they died of hunger throwing others alive to Lions Bears Leopards wilde Buls c. Pricking others with bodkins and talons of beasts till they were almost dead In Thebaide they hanged up women naked by one of their feet the rest of their body hanging downwards with many other sorts of punishments most cruell to be thought of Some were bound to the boughs of trees and had their members torn asunder others were mangled with axes some choaked with smoak over a slow fire some had their hands ears and feet cut off others were scorched and broiled upon coals yet not to death but had the torment renued every day In Pontus the Martyrs had other horible torments inflicted on them Some had their fingers-ends under the nails thrust in with bodkins Some were sprinkled all over with boiling lead having their necessary members cut from them others suffred most filthy and intolerable torments in their bowels and privy members what the outrage of this persecution was in Alexandria Phileas a Bishop thus writeth Because saith he every man might torment the holy Martyrs as he listed some beat them with cudgels some with rods some with whips some with thonges some with cords some having there hands bound behind them were lifted upon timber-logs and with certaine instruments had their members and joints stretched out where their bodies hanging were subjected to the will of the tormentors who were commanded to afflict them with all manner of torments on their sides bellies thighs legges they scratched them with the claws of wilde beasts some were hanged but by on hand one the engine that they might feel the more grievous pulling out of the rest of their members Some were bound to pillars having no stay under their feet that wâ—th the weight of their bodies being drawn out they might feel the greater torment and these torments endured all day long the Judge commanding that they should not be let down till either by the extremity of torment or by the cold they were near death and then they were let down and haled upon the ground They devised also another greater torment for when the Christians were lamentably beaten they had a new kinde of rack wherein they lying upright were stretched by both the feet above the fourth hole with sharp shels strawed under them Others were cast down upon the pavement where they had so many torments inflicted upon them that their sufferings cannot be imagined what they were In the midst of which torments some died their enemies being confounded with their singular patience Some half dead were thrust into prisons where with their wounds and pain they ended their lives Others being cured of their wounds were again put to their choice whether they would sacrifice to the Idols and have their liberty or have the sentence of death pass upon them who did willingly chuse death for Christs sake rather then to sin against him In Nicomedia a Christian pulling down and tearing the Emperors Edict was stript and beaten till the bones appeared and then washed in salt and vinegar under which torments he died Yet notwithstanding the horribleness of these tortures the Christian Martyrs were so farre from being dismaied that they were confirmed and strengthned thereby merrily and joyfully undergoing whatsoever was inflicted upon them Eusebius saith that himself saw the cruel Persecution in Thebade where the swords of the Persecutors were blunted with the great slaughter of the Christians and they sat down with weariness to rest them whilest others took their places Yet still the Christians shewed their willingness and with courage joy and smiling received their sentâ—nce of death from the Judge and to the last gasp sang Psalms and Hymns of praise to God In Alexandria the holy Martyrs led with the love of better rewards did not only bear the menaces of the cruel souldiers wherewith they threatned them but also whatsoever torments they could devise for their destruction Yea saith Sulpitius then the Christians with more greedy desire pressed and sought for Maryrdom then now they do for Bishopricks Yet some through infirmity in this Persecution fell back for which they were excommunicated by the Church Damasus and others witness that there were slain in thirty daies seventeen thousand persons besides a great number that were condemned to the Metall-mines and quarries with the like cruelty In Alexandria were slain with axes three hundred At Collen three hundred Mauritius with his Christian legion six thousand six hundred sixty six whose story deserving perpetually to be remembred is this Maximian sent for his Mauritius with his legion of Thebane souldiers under a pretence of imploying them against his enemies When they came to Rome Marcellus the Blessed bishop laboured to confirm them in the truth to whom they promised perseverance in the faith unto the death Then they followed they Imperial army into France and when they were cowe thither Maximian offered sacrifice to the devils and called all his souldiers to the same strictly charging them to fight against his enemies and against the Christians which were enemies to his gods These Christian Thebans resolved rather to die then to sacrifice or to bear arms against the Christians wherewith the Tyrant being enraged commanded every tenth man of the legion to be put
the King to go to Masse upon pain of forfeiting their lives and goods but they answered that they could not obey such commands against the command of God Then he commanded that twelve of the Principal of them together with all their Ministers and Schoolmasters should presently yeeld up their bodies to the prisons of Turin c. They answered that they could not obey that command or appear at Turin because they should thereby endanger their lives The Parliament was so incensed at this answer that as many as they could apprehend they burnt amongst whom was Jeffery Varnegle Minister of Angrogne Anno 1557. by whose death the people that were present were much edified seeing his constancy of invocating God to the last The Protestant Princes of Germany hearing of this great Persecution interceded in their behalf to King Henry the second of France Who promised to have regard to this request of theirs and indeed they enjoyed peace afterwards till the peace was concluded betwixt the Kings of France and Spain and that the Duke of Savoy was restored to his Estate which was Anno 1559. The year after the Popes Nuntio reproved the Duke for that with all his power he had not persecuted the Waldenses and that if he did not now endeavour to reduce them to the Romish Church or to root them out his Holinesse should have cause to suspect that he was a favourer of them Hereupon the Duke presently commanded them to go to Mass upon the pain of their lives But the not obeying him he set upon them by open force and yet at the same time he caused them to be pursued by the Monks Inquisitors also So that a great Persecution was raised against the poor Christians Some were taken and burnt who shewed invincible constancy in all their torments and death To recite all the outrages cruelties and villanies practised against them would be too tedious Many fled and their houses and goods were ransacked and spoiled One of their Ministers was apprehended and put to a shamefull and cruell death but he shewed such admirable patience therein as astonished his very adversaries Some also were taken and sent to be Gally-slaves Yet some through weakness yeelded to the adversaries and were more cruelly handled then those that remained constant in the truth Three of the most cruel persecutors of these faithfull servants of Jesus Christ were first Thomas Jacomel a Monk an Apostate that had renounced the known truth and persecuted mortally and maliciously the poor Christians against his own conscience he was a whoremonger and given over to all villanies and filthy living a Sodomite c. his delight was to spoil rob and torment the captives of these Waldenses The second was a collaterall called Corbis who in the examination of the prisoners was very rigorous and burnt many of them but in the end feeling a remorse in his conscience he protested that he would meddle with them no more The third was the Provest of Justice who lay in wait in the high waies to apprehend them when they went abroad in the morning or as they went to the Market The Monks also of Pignorol vexed the Churches near about them grievously some they took prisoners and kept them in their Abbies then they assembled a company of Ruffians sending them to spoil the Churches and to take prisoners men women and childen of whom some by torments they forced to abjure others they sent to the Galleys others they burnt The gentlemen of the valley of S. Martin vexed their tenants grievously spoiling some of their goods imprisoning others and vexing them by all means Two of those gentlemen getting some Ruffians to them in the night time set upon a village called Renclaret which the Inhabitants perceiving fled into the mountains covered with snow naked and without victuals in the morning these villains took a Minister of that Valley who was coming to visit these people of Renclaret and burnt him but three nights after they of Pragela pitying their friends of Renclaret sent four hundred men against the Ruffians who fought with them and without the losse of one man put them to flight and restored their friends to their houses A year after one of these gentlemen called Truchet with a company of Ruffians arrested the Minister of Renclaret as he was at his sermon but the people were so moved at his outragious dealing especially the women that they had almost strangled Truchet and so canvased the rest of his company that they had no minde to come any more Shortly after they took another Minister as he was going to preach in a parish a mile from his house but the people hearing of it speedily pursued them and recovered their Minister again but when the villains saw that they were like to lose their prey they so wounded him that they left him for dead The Monks of Pignerol sent some Ruffians by night to the Ministers house of S. Germain who were conducted by a Traitor that knew the house and formerly had frequented it this fellow knocking at the door and the Minister knowing his voice opened the door but perceiving himself to be betrayed he fled at a back-door yet was quickly taken and sorely wounded notwithstanding which they pricked him with halberds to hasten his pace as they carried him away they also slew and hurt many others The Minister after sore imprisonment endured a cruel death with much constancy at his death the Inquisitors caused two poor women that they kept in prison to carry faggots to burn him and to say to him their Pastor Take this thou wicked Heretick in recompence of that naughty Doctrine that thou hast taught us To whom he replied Aâ— good women I have taught you well but you have learned ill In brief they so persecuted these poor people that they forced them to forsake their houses and to fly into the mountains loosing all their estates so that many that had lived well and relieved others were now fain to crave relief and succour of others The Monks with their Troops of Ruffians continued thus to molest and persecute these poor people They asked of their Ministers Whether it were not lawfull for them to defend themselves against such violence The Ministers answered that it was only they advised them to avoid blood-shed as much as might be This question being resolved they of Luserne and Angrogne sent some to aid their friends of St. Germain against the Monks In June divers of these Waldenses went out into the country to reap their harvest and in sundry places were all taken prisoners not knowing of each others calamity but God so wrought that miraculously they all escaped out of prison to the great astonishment of their adversaries At the same time also others who had been long in prison and longed for nothing but death through Gods providence were delivered after a wonderful sort In July they of Angrogne being at their
and Tailleret The lesser part went towards Villars the people seeing their enemies approaching called upon God with fervent prayer then set upon their enemies slew some hurt others and the rest fled The other company going towards Tailleret they of that place were but few in number yet making their prayers to God and commending their cause to him they set valiantly upon their enemies during which bickering they of Villars encouraged by their late success came to help their friends and set so lustily upon their enemies that they put them to flight but in the pursuit of them they fell into an ambush and were environed by their enemies yet through Gods mercy they all escaped without the losse of one man on the enemies side there were so many slain that they were laid together by whole Cart-loads Another party of the enemies going to spoil a rich mans house some of his neighbours not being above seventy set upon them put them to flight took away their Drum and recovered their booty from them Then did the Lord of Trinity send to them telling them how much the Duke and his Dutchesse favoured them and promised himselfe to mediate for them that they might live in peace But whilest by these pretences he sought to make them secure he sent part of his Army to get the hill of Tailleret and another part had already gotten the way that led to the meddow of Tour whereby the Angrognians might have been easily enclosed but they perceiving it immediatly sent some to encounter with their enemies who gat the victory pursued them to their camp and slew very many of them without the losse of one man The Lord of Trinity cunningly excused this attempt and sent to them to draw up a supplication to the Duke which was accordingly done wherein they promised to render all honour and reverence unto God according to his Word and all due obedience to the Duk c. But in the mean time Trinity grievously vexed them of Tailleret upon pretence that they had not presented themselves to treat of this agreement taking their arms from them and causing them to ask pardon on their knees But presently after news was brought them that the enemies had gotten to the top of the mountaine and had taken all the passages whereat they were sore amazed and ran with all speed to defend their wives and children some they saved but the most of their goods were already in the enemies hands who at this time did them much mischiefe Yet after this the Lord of Trinity sent word again to them that were fled that if they would return he would receive them to mercy The poor people most of them trusting to his promise returned but the next morning the enemies came to apprehend them and their Ministers besetting the place on every side Then they that were swift of foot escaped all the rest were taken yet God miraculously delivered them for an old man that could not run so fast as the other was espied by a souldier who ran with a naked sword to have slain him the old man seeing the iminent danger caught him by the legs overthrew him and drew him by the heels down the hill the souldier cryed Help help this villain will kill me hereupon his fellows ran to his rescue but in the mean time the old man escaped and the rest seeing what the old man had done though they had lost their weapons yet took heart of grass and with stones and slings drave away their enemies and thereby they all escaped The next day the souldiers went again to Tailleret robbing spoiling and carrying away all that they could find but most of the people were retired towards Villars Then did the souldiers range all about and took divers prisoners whom they used cruelly and one souldier bit off one of their ears saying I will carry the flesh of this wicked Heretick with me into my Country They found also two women the mother and the daughter in a cave whom they wounded to death and in another cave an old man of an hundred years old with his grand-daughter of eighteen years old that fed him the man they slew the maid they would have ravished who flying from them tumbled down the mountains and died About the same time there was one John Martin that made his boasts every where that if he could meet with the Minister of Angrogne he would slit his nose but shortly after a wolf met him and setting upon him bit off his nose whereupon he ran mad and died miserably A certain souldier promised the Lord of Trinity to bring to him the Minister of Tailleret and accordingly never ceased till he found him but as he was pursuing of him some out of the mountains rescued the Minister and slew the souldier with stones These souldiers were so extream abusive to women that many Papists that lived by sent their daughters into the mountains to the Waldenses to preserve their chastity Then did the Lord of Trinity promise that if they would pay him eight thousand Crowns he would with-draw his Army and be gone They being desirous of Peace sold their Cattel to raise the money but when he had received it he continued his Army there still Then did the Lord of Trinity require them to send away their Ministers till the matter were determined before the Duke or else by his Army he would force them to it whereupon by mutual consent they agreed that the Ministers should with-draw for the present till the Army was retired which was not done without great sighs and lamentations and tears At that time there fell an extraordinary snow so that the people with great difficulty were fain to make way for their Ministers to pass But the Army hearing that the Ministers were gathered together they sent out a company of harquebushers to apprehend them who came but one hour too late to have taken them Then did they search every cave house and chest to seek them whereby they robbed the poor people of all their best things Then did they beset the Ministers house of Angrogne to whom the Lord of Trinity had promised safety but it pleased God that he escaped the souldiers pursued him into the mountains but could not overtake him whereupon they plundred his house burnt his books and writings and so returned The next morning command was given to the Rulers of Angrogne within twenty four hours to deliver up their Minister or else Angrogne should be put to fire and sword They answered that they knew not where he was for the souldiers had driven him over the mountains Then did the souldiers burn houses break the mils spoil the people and do all the mischief they could and so departed The Lord of Trinity left Garisons in the Fortresses and caused the poor Waldenses to maintain them who not content with their wages pillaged and robbed all about them and
having taken fourteen men they bound them and were leading them away prisoners but their wives and children pursued them so fiercely with stones that they were glad to let their prisoners go and had much ado to save themselves Two others that they caught they hung up by the heels and hands and having tormented them almost to death at last released them for a great sum of money Another Garison in the night went to Tailleret brake in at the windows and tops of houses spoiling all and took also fourteen prisoners whom they bound two and two together and were carrying them to the Fortress but two of them getting loose so valiantly assaulted the souldiers and beat them with stones that they forced them to let go their other prisoners Yet two others they took and carried them to the Fort one was but a child whom the Captain strangled with his own hands the other was sixty years old whom they bound and took a crature that lives in horse-dung and put into his navel covering them with a dish which in a short space did eat into his belly and killed him The Waldenses were in great perplexity by reason of these Garisons but especially for the want of their Ministers whereupon they resolved to call them back yet to have preaching only in private because they would not imbitter the souldiers till their messengers returned from the Duke These messengers were cruelly handled at the Court and at last sent back with a command that they should entertain Priests to say Mass c. When this Report was made to their brethren that sent them there was wonderfull lamentation weeping and mourning Then did they send two of their Ministers to the Church of Pragela to shew them of the pitifull condition of the Churches in Piedmont and to ask their advice how to prevent the danger and in the next place they all fell to prayer and having long called upon God for counsel and direction in so great a strait they resolved upon debate that the people in Piedmont and Dauphine should joyn in a League together wherein they promised through Gods grace and assistance to maintain the pure preaching of the Gospel and administring the holy Sacraments to yeeld obedience to their superior so farre as they were commanded by the Word of God and one to be aiding and assisting to the other that none should conclude any thing touching the estate of Religion without the consent of the rest of the Vallies During this Treaty all the housholders were required to be present at Masse and such as would do it should live in peace but such as refused should be condemned to be burnt or sent to the Gallies so that the people were constrained to fly die or renounce the Gospel The first they would have chosen but could not do it by reason of the great snow Whereupon they exhorted one another saying We shall be all called for to morrow to renounce God and to return to Idolatry let us therefore make a solemn protestation that we will live and die in the confession of Gods holy Word let us in the morning hear a sermon and then cast down to the ground all the Idols and Altars and to this all agreed In the morning they put their resolutions into execution beating down the Images and casting down the Altars Then they went to Villars to do the like there but by the way they encountred with a band of souldiers who where going to spoil a village and to fetch away the inhabitants prisoners These souldiers seeing them so ill provided mocked them and discharged their guns at them but they taking courage with stones beat the souldiers pursuing them to the Fortresse Then did they go to Villars and having destroyed the Idols and Altars there they returned to besiege the fortresse demanding the prisoners that were therein The Judge with many Gentlemen came that day to enroll their names that would go to Masse but seâ—ing the resolution of the people they fled into the Castle where they were besieged for ten daies Then did the Captain of Toâ—r go with a company of souldiers thinking to raise the siege but by those which kept the passages some of them were slain the rest were driven back again Then came they back with three bands which caused a furious fight wherein many of the souldiers were slain and hurt and not one of the besiegers was hurt The Waldenses attempted often to have taken the Fortresse but without Ordinance it was impossible also the Lord of Trinity was come back with his army and the next day would have raised the siege But it pleased God that very night that the souldiers in the Castle desired leave to depart with bag and baggage which was easily granted to them and the souldiers whiâ—h before had so cruelly persecu the Ministers were now fain to request them to protect their lives and to conduct them to a place of safty which the Ministers did willingly and the souldiers were very thankfull for it that night the Fort was razed to the ground The next day the Lord of Trinity cunningly sent to them of Angrogne that if they would not aid the other they should be gently dealt with but they knowing his fraud agreed with the rest to defend their Religion with their lives and that no one should make an agreement with out the consent of the rest Then did the Lord of Trinity assay with his Army to enter into the borders of Angrogne by certaine streights but the people having raised up some breast-works valiantly defended themselves and offended their enemies Trinities souldiers being weary fresh ones were brought in their stead so that the fight endured untill night wherein many of the enemies were slain more hurt and but two of the Waldenses and so the battell ceased for the present The next day the Army marched towards Angrogne five severall waies and there were none to resist but only a few that kept the Watch who valiantly fought for a space but seeing themselves in danger to be inclosed they retreated to an high place where the combate was renued with greater fiercenesse then before The Lord of Trinity seeing the losse of many of his men sounded a retreat and went to Angrogne but the people were fled into the medow of Tour therefore he burned and spoiled all before him He also oft set fire upon the two Churches where the word used to be preached but could not burne them and so he did to the Ministers house and yet it remained whole Amongst them of Angrogne there were but two that were enemies to the word of God and they were both slain that day Then did the Lord of Trinity send some to burn Rosa but the souldiers were driven back four daies together by them that kept the passages whereupon he sent his whole Army yet they valiantly withstood them from morning till night At last a party
passing by before he was dead and hearing him implore Gods mercy kickt him on the head saying Is this dog yet living take him and cast him to the hogs Sixtly women were racked so violently that the cords pierced into their arms and legs and being then cast into prison they died there only nine of the handsomest being delievered to the fathers of the Inquisition were never heard off after Many others were delivered to the secular power to be burnt and if any interceded for them he was presently put on the rack as a favourer of Hereticks Pope Pius the fourth sent the Marquesse of Butiane promising that if he would wholly cleare Calabria of these Waldenses he would make his son a Cardinall But he was put to no great pains to do it for the Inquisitors and the Vice-roy of Naples had by sundry deaths killed all the men women and children that they could light of One of their Ministers was famished in prison Another was carried to Rome where he was condemned to be burnt The Pope and his Cardinals would needs see that pleasing spectacle But the Minister spake so many things out of Gods Word against the Pope that the Pope gnashed his teeth for anger wishing that he had been some where else And thus were these godly people wholly rooted out of Calabria CHAP. XXIII The Persecutions of the Waldenses in Provence THese came from Piedmont when their vallies were over-peopled The country of Provence at their first arrival was a desert but within few years by Gods blessing upon their labours it-abounded with Corn Wine Oil Chesnuts and other fruites There Habitations being near to Avignion many times the Popes seat they were exposed to sundry persecutions as Anno 1380. and at other times but the greatest of all began about the year 1360. in the time of King Lewis the twelfth who being informed that in Provence was a certain kind of people that lived not according to the Laws of the Church of Rome but were an accursed people committing all kindes of wickednesse and villanies He gave Commission to his Parliament in Provence to take cognizance of it and to punish them according to their demerits The Court prosecuting this order with rigour and the King hearing that diverse innocent persons were put to death he sent his Master of Requests and Confessor into Provence to finde out what kinde of persons these were who at their return certified him that all the former suggestions were untrue that they were neither Socerers nor Whoremongers but lived honestly did hurt to none caused their children to be Baptized taught them their Belief and the ten Commandments and that they carefully kept the Lords day and had the Word of God purely expounded to them Whereupon the King swore an oath That they were honester then himself and his Catholik subjects Upon this information he sent and staâ—ed the Persecution Then did the Waldenses send two of their Ministers George Morrell and Peter Masson to Oecolampadius Capito Bâ—cer and Haller to confer with them about matters of Religion and to have there advice in many things In their return Masson was apprehended at Dijon where he was condemned and put to death for a Lutheran Morrell escaped with his Letters and Papers and came safe to Provence where he much comforted and confirmed the Churches Yet all this while did the Parliament of Aix apprehend one or other of them condemning some to the fire others to the gibbet they which scaped best returned with marks in their forheads Anno Christi 1540. The inhabitants of Merindoll were summoned and some of the chief appearing for the rest they were all condemned to be burned alive their children and families to be outlawed and that the place of their habitation should be laid waste the woods cut down two hundred paces round about and so left desolate The King being informed of the rigour of this Edict and of the innocency of the people countermanded the execution of it but his Letters were suppressed and the Cardinall of Tournon obtained for a great some of money the revocation of them Anno 1545. The President of Opede proclaimed war against them both at Aix and Marseilles Divers companies of souldiers were listed and five bands of the old souldiers of Piedmont were joyned with them and presently they began to set fire on the Villages of Cabrieres Pepin c. The poor people without any resistance were slain women and their daughters ravished some great with child murthered the breasts of many women were cut off after whose death their poor infants died of famine Opede also proclaimed that on pain of death no man should give any relief or sustenance to them All their habitations were pillaged sacked and burnt and none of their persons spared but such as were reserved for the Gallies Opede comming to Merindol found none there but one simple lad who had yielded himselfe prisoner to a souldier and promised two Crowns for his ransom but Opede paid the money to the souldier and caused the lad to be shot to death then he utterly razed the Town and laid it levell with the ground Then did he march against Cabrieres and with the Cannon battered the wals There was within only about sixty poor sick Pesants who sent him word that he needed not to spend powder to batter the wals for they were ready to open the gates and quit the Country if they might but have leave with their wives and children to go to Geneva or Germany and to leave all their goods behinde them Opede entring the Town caused all the men to be brought into a field and to be cut in pieces the souldiers striving who should shew the best manhood in cutting off heads arms and legs The women he caused to be locked in a barn with much straw and so put fire to it where many women great with childe were burnt One souldier moved with pity opening a hole in the wall that some of them might come out but Opede made them to be beaten back againe into the fire with Pikes and Halberts Some of them that came forth he slew with his own hands ripping open their bellies so that their children came forth whom he trod under his feet many were fled into cellers and caves whom he caused to be dragged out had into the field stripped stark naked and then slain Others were bound by two and two together and slain by the Captains who rejoyced in their bloudy butchery Then did this Tyrant worse then Herod command one of his Captaines to go into Church into which many women children and infants were fled and to kill them all which the Captain at first refused saying that it was a cruelty unbeseeming men of warre Whereat Miniers being displeased charged him upon pain of rebellion against the King to do it The Captain fearing what might be the issue entred with his souldiers and destroyed them all sparing
neither young nor old Other souldiers that ransacked the houses found many poor persons who had hid themselves in secret places whom they flew upon crying Kill kill the souldiers without the Town killed all they could meet with so that above a thousand men women and children were slain in this place Many persons which were escaped into the mountains sent by some that had most interest in Miniers to desire him to give them leave to go whither the Lord should please to leade them with their wives and children though they had nothing but the shirts on their backs to whom he answered thaâ— he knew what he had to do he would send them to dwell in hell amongst the devils Then did he send part of his Army unto Costa which they overcame and committed there great slaughter Many of the inhabitants fled into an Orchard where the souldiers ravished many women and maidens and having kept them there a day and a night they used them so beastly that the women with childe and younger maidens died presently after Many of these Merindolians hid themselves in rocks and dark caves where some were famished others were choaked with fire and smoak set to their caves mouths Many more were the outrages and cruelties which this wicked Opede committed but the Lord found him out at last striking him with a strang kinde of bleeding at the lower parts neither was he able to void any urine so that by degrees his guts rotted within him No remedy could be found for this terrible disease worms bred in his bowels which continually gnawed him Then did he send to Arles for a famous Chyrurgion who cured him of his difficulty to make water after which desiring all to depart the room the chyrurgion in private exhorted him to repent of his former cruelty and bloud-shed telling him that this his strange bleeding was Gods just hand upon him for shedding so much innocent bloud But these words pierced the impure conscience of this wicked wretch and more troubled him then the torments of his disease so that he cryed out to lay hands on the Chirurgion as an Heretick Whereupon he conveyed himself away and returned to Arles Yet not long after he was sent for again and great promises were made for his security But when he came back he found Miniers past cure raging and casting out most horrible blasphemous words feeling a fire within him which burnt him from the navel upwards which was accompanied with extream stink of his lower parts and so he ended his wretched life In the beginning of this Persecution there was one John de Româ— a Monk who gat a Commission to examine those whom he suspected to be Hereticks whereupon he afflicted the faithfull with all kindes of cruelty Amongst other horrible torments that he used this was one he filled boots with boiling grease and put them upon their legs tying them backwards over a form and their legs hanging down over a soft fire Thus he tormented very many and in the end most cruelly put them to death Francis the French King being informed of the hellish cruelty of this wicked Monk sent to his Parliament at Provence that they should apprehend and condemn him but he being informed of it fled to Avignion where he hoped to enjoy all that wealth which so mercilesly and unjustly he had extorted from the poor Christians But shortly after he was robbed of all that he had by his own servants and then he fell sick of a most horrible and strange disease unknown to the Physitians He was intollerably tormented with pains all over his body so that no means could give him ease for one minute of an hour neither was their any man that could tarry near him no not of his nearest friends so great was the stink that came from him Then was he removed to an Hospital but the stink and infection so encreased that no man durst come near him no nor he himself was able to abide the horrible stink of his own body full of ulcers and sores and smarwing with vermine and so rotten that the flesh fell from the bones by piece-meal In these torments he often cried out in great rage O who will deliver me VVho will kill and rid me out of these intollerable paines which I know I suffer for the oppressions which I did to the poor men Oft-times he himself endeavoured to destroy himself but he had not the power In this horrible anguish and fearful despair he miserably ended his accursed life When he was dead no man would come near to bury him till at last a young novice caught hold of his stinking carcase with an iron hook and so dragged him into an hole that was made for him In the time of this Persecution the Bishop of Aix with some other Bishops and their courtizans walking along the streets of Avignion saw a man selling baudy Images and Pictures with filthy rimes and ballades annexed to them All these goodly Pictures the Bishops bought up When they had gon a little further there was a Book-seller that had set to sale certain Bibles in French which the Prelates were greatly moved at saying to him Dar'st thou be so bold as to sell such merchandise in this Town The Book-seller replied Is not the holy Bible as good as these goodly Pictures that you have bought for these gentle-women Then said the Bishop of Aix I renounce my part in Paradise if this fellow be not a Lutheran take him away to prison Then did his attendants cry out A Lutheran a Lutheran To the fire with him to the fire with him and one gave him a blow with his fist another pulled him by the hair another by the beard so that the poor man was all imbrued in bloud before he came to prison The next day he was brought before the Judge where by the instigation of the Bishops he was condemned to be burned the same day and so was carried to the fire with two Bibles about his neck one before and another behinde where he made a most Christian end The Waldenses were dispersed also into several other Countries as Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Croatia Sclavonia Grecia Philadelphia Livonia Sarmatia Bulgaria c. In all which places at one time or other they suffered persecutions concerning which there is not much left upon Record and something will be spoken again of it in other places of this book and therefore this may suffice for the present CHAP. XXIV The Persecution of the Albingenses THese were the same with the Waldenses differing only in name from their habitation in the Country of Albi. Divers of Waldo's disciples going into this Country and amongst them one Arnold from whom they were called Arnoldists laboured with so good successe that in a short time there was scarce any found that would go to Masse Pope Alexander the third was much moved to anger when he saw
years no man being suffered to come to him yet at last by the mediation of some friends he was again released and went to Ravenna where he preached the Gospel of Christ with such affections that he never spake of Jesus Christ but tears dropped from his eyes After a short time he was again cast into prison but foure persons of quality proffering to be his Bail through Gods mercy he was released after which so many flocked to him that his adversaries consulted to kill him lest his doctrine should spread further and apprehending him they sent him bound to Rome where again he was cast into prison for eighteen moneths in which time he was often assaulted sometimes with flatteries and faire promises sometimes with terrible threats but his constancy could not be shaken by either whereupon he with some others were brought forth to receive the sentence of condemnation at which time with great earnestnesse he confirmed his former doctrine affirmed the Pope to be Antichrist c. citing them to appear before the Tribunal of Christ. Being condemned and carried to the place of execution he exhorted the People to have no Saviours but Christ alone the only Mediatour betwixt God and man and so he was first hanged and then burned This was Anno Christi 1553. The year after Francis Gamba born in Lombardy having through Gods grace received the knowledge of the Gospel went to Geneva where he was much confirmed in the truth and received the Sacrament with them then returning into his own country he was apprehended and cast into prison whither many Nobles Doctors and Priests resorted to him labouring by all means to disswade him from his opinions But he disputing with them constantly affirmed that what he held was consonant to the Word of God and the evident doctrine of Jesus Christ and necessary for all men to believe if they would be saved Assuring them that rather than he would be found false to Christ and his Word he was there ready to shed his blood He was long assailed by the intreaties of his friends and threatenings of his enemies but could by no means be discouraged yea he gave thanks to God for accounting him worthy to suffer rebukes and death for the testimony of Jesus Christ and so by order of the Senate of Millain he was had forth to execution He went with a great deal of chearfulnesse and when a Crosse was brought him by a Friar he said that his mind was so replenished with joy and comfort in Christ that he needed neither his Crosse nor him then because he declared many comfortable things to the people his tongue was bored through and he was first strangled and then burnt undergoing death with admirable patience and constancy Anno 1555. There was one Algerius a Student in Padua a young man of excellent learning who having attained to the knowledge of the truth ceased not by instruction and example to inform others that he might bring them to the saving knowledge of Christ for this he was accused of heresie to the Pope by whose command he was apprehended and cast into prison at Venice where he lay long during which time he wrote an excellent letter to the afflicted Saints wherein amongst many other excellent expressions he thus writeth I cannot but impart unto you some portion of my delectations and joyes which I feel and find I have found hony in the intrals of a Lion Who will believe that in the dark dungeon I should find a Paradise of pleasure In a place of sorrow and death dwells tranquillity and hope of life· In an infernal Cave I have joy of soul where others weep I rejoyce where others shake and tremble there is strength and boldnesse c. All these things the sweet hand of the Lord doth minister to me Behold he that was once far from me is now present with me whom I could scarce feel before now I see more apparently whom once I saw afarre off I now behold near at hand whom once I hungred for he now approaches and reaches his hand to me he doth comfort me and fills me with gladness he drives away all sorrow strengthens encourageth heals refresheth and advanceth me O how good is the Lord who suffers not his servants to be tempted above their strength Oh how easie and sweet is his yoke c. learn therefore how amiable and merciful the Lord is who visiteth his servants in tentations and disdains not to keep them company in such vile and stinking dungeons c. And in conclusion he subscribes his letter From the delectable Orchard of the Leonine prison c. After this the Pope sent for him to Rome where by manifold perswasions and allurements he was tempted to desert and deny the truth which not prevailing he was adjudged to be burnt alive which death he most constantly endured to the great admiration of all that beheld him Anno 1559. John Aloysius being sent from Geneva to be a Pastor in Calabria was thence sent for by the Pope to Rome where he suffered Martyrdome Also James Bovellus a godly Minister in the same place and at the same time was sent for by the Pope by whom he was sent to Messina and there Martyred Pope Pius the fourth raised an hot persecution against the people of God in all the Territories of the Church of Rome whereby many constant Christians suffered Martyrdome Yea this persecution was so hot in the Kingdome of Naples that many Noblemen with their wives and divers others were there slain Anno 1560. A Papist writing to a Noble Lord about the cruelty shewed to some Christians hath these expressions When I think upon it I verily quake and tremble for their manner of putting to death may fitly be resembled to the slaughter of Calves and Sheep for eighty eight of them being thrust up together in one house as in a sheepfold the Executioner cometh in taketh one and blindfoldeth him and so leads him forth to a larger place adjoyning where commanding him to kneel down he cuts his throat and leaving him half dead he takes his Butchers knife and muffler all gore blood and goeth back to the rest and so leading one after another he dispatches them all How sad this spectacle was I leave to your Lordship to judge for my own part I cannot but weep to think of it neither was there any of the Spectators which seeing one to dye could endure to behold another But truly so humbly and patiently they went to their death as is almost incredible to believe All the aged Persons went to death more cheerfully the younger were something more timerous I tremble and shake to remember how the Executioner held his bloody knife between his teeth with the bloody muffler in his hand and his armes all gore blood up to the elbows going to the fold and taking every one of them one
but at last their Provision being spent they made bread of Linseed of Turnups and lived upon the flesh of horses dogs cats and such like and this also in the end failing them they were enforced to surrender the town upon composition by which they were to pay two hundred and fourty thousand florins to redeem themselves and town from spoil Don Frederick having thus got the town into his hands commanded that at the tolling of the great bell all the Bourgers and Souldiers should bring their armes into the state-house that the townsmen should go into the Cloister of Zyel the women into the Cathedral Church and the souldiers into another Church this done all the Ensigne-bearers were singled out and imprisoned and whilst the poor Bourgers were guarded in the Church the perfidious Spaniards plundered their houses The next day this bloody Don Frederick caused three hundred Walloons to be hanged and headed the next day Captain Riperda and his Lieutenant were beheaded and a godly Minister called Stembach was hanged and two hundred fourty seven souldiers were drowned in the sea of Harlem the next day a great number were executed and the day following three hundred more Souldiers and Bourgers lost their heads and with them a godly Minister called Simon Simonson presently after three of the principal men lost their heads and shortly after all the English and Scots were beheaded and to fill up this sea of blood all the wounded and sick were beheaded before the Hospital door In the mean time a Party of souldiers that lay without in a sconce were all starved to death Not long before the strong town of Valenciennes in Henault having set up the free exercise of the reformed Religion amongst them were presently besieged by an army under the Signior of Noircarmes the siege lasted about three months and the Citizens having no hope of relief at last treated and surrendred the City upon good conditions but Noircarmes being entred he kept the City gates shut for divers dayes and most perfidiously and barbarously hanged up all the French souldiers with all the Ministers and Protestant Merchants and confiscated their goods But besides these generals let us also view some particulars Anno 1560. There was in Flanders one John Herwin a souldier of a very dissolute life but God having a purpose to shew him mercy put it into his heart to go into England and accordingly he came to London in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths reigne and by Gods good Providence was entertained in a Brewers family where both master and servants feared God His Master caused him often to go to the Dutch Church where by the Ministry of the Word he first began to tast and afterwards more and more to increase in the saving knowledge of Christ. After a while he returned back into Flanders and at Furne he was presently laid wait for by the Popish Bailiffe This occasioned his removal to Honscot and yet there also the Bailiffe being informed of him went in the night with his Sergeants and apprehended him By the way they met some drunkards in the streets whereupon the Bailiffe said We have as they say many Gospellers in this town but it little appears by these disorders Herwin hearing him said Is drunkennesse a sin Master Bailiffe The Bailiffe answered what of that Herwin replyed Why then do you not commit these men to prison seeing it is your office to punish vice and to protect them that fear God To this the Bailiffe answered not In the prison Herwin behaved himself so vertuously that every one admired him Being somewhat long before he was called before the Magistrate he was much troubled at it his heart being inflamed with an holy zeal to confesse Jesus Christ before his Judges Yet many of the brethren were very fearful of him considering what his former life had been and what a novice he as yet was in the Profession of the Gospel At last he had his hearts desire being brought before the Sheriffe there a Priest was provided to dispute with him to whose questions Herwin answered with such soundnesse of judgement and modesty that it easily appeared that he had profited well in Christs school Being asked of Christs real presence in the Sacrament he answered That the highest dwelleth not in Temples made with hands c. Whereupon he admonished his Judges to examine the doctrine of the Church of Rome by the true touchstone of Gods Word whereby they might easily see how contrary it is to the Scriptures c. And having made a free Profession of his faith he craved Justice one way or other but they still urged him to recant to which he answered My faith is not built upon mans opinion but the Lord hath taught me to eschew evil and to do good Then was he returned to prison again During his imprisonment he was dangerously assaulted by some subtile and cunning Friars who alledged the sayings of diverse of the Fathers to prove their transubstantiation but he through Gods mercy holding close to the Word of Christ overcame them In prison he used to recreate himself by singing of Psalms and the people used to flock together to the prison door to hear him This so angred the Popish Clergy that they sought to hinder him from singing and for this end they caused two desperate Malefactors to be put into the same room with him but within a few dayes these Villains brake prison and escaped leaving opportunity to Herwin to escape also but he fearing that his flight might be prejudicial to other godly persons in the City upon whom it would be charged resolved rather to remain there than to flie Presently after news was brought him that sentence of death was passed upon him whereupon he thanked God for advancing him to so high an honour as to be accounted worthy to suffer for his name Testifying the inward joy which he felt in his soul by a letter that he wrote to the brethren wherein he exhorted them to constancy and perseverance in the doctrine of the truth which they had received from God Within a few dayes after he was carried forth to hear his sentence at which time the Magistrate by earnest intreaties and large promises sought to bring him to a recantation and to worship their breaden God promising that thereupon he should be presently released but Herwin refusing their offer of life upon those termes was bound and carried into a Chappel where they celebrated the Masse at which time to shew his detestation of their idolatry he turned his back winked with his eyes and stopped his eares At the elevation of the Host one asked him if Jesus Christ was not now between the Priests hands To which he answered No he is in heaven at the right hand of his Father Then was the sentence of death read against him As he was going to
peaceably in their houses others travelling upon the high wayes all without any manner of provocation given by them were suddenly destroyed In the Castle of Lisgool were about one hundred and fifty men women and children consumed with fire At the Castle of Moneah were one hundred slain altogether At the Castle of Tullah which was delivered to Mac Guire upon composition and faithful promises of faire quarter as soon as he and his entred the Court they began to strip the people and most cruelly put them to the sword murthering them all without mercy At Lissenskeah they hanged and killed above one hundred of the Scottish Protestants shewing them no more favour than they did to the English Yea the County thereabouts being well planted and peopled was in a most horrible manner quite destroyed In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone where the Protestants were more numerous their murthers were more multiplied and with greater cruelty if it were possible than in other places Mac Guire coming to the Castle of Lissenskeah desired in a friendly manner to speak with Master Middleton who admitting him in as soon as he was entred he first burned the Records of the County which were kept there then he demanded one thousand pounds which was in his custody of Sir William Balâ—ores which as soon as he had he caused Master Middleton to hear Masse and to swear that he would never alter from it and then immediately caused him his wife and children to be hanged up hanging and murthering above one hundred persons besides in that place At Portendown Bridge there were one thousand men women and children carried in several Companies and all unmercifully drowned in the River the Bridge being broken down in the midst and the people driven and forced on till they tumbled down into the water Yea in that Country there were four thousand persons drowned in several places the barbarous Papists driving on the poore soules when they had miserably stripped them unto the places of their sufferings like swine and if any were slack in their pace they pricked them forward with their swords and pikes yea to terrifie the rest they killed and wounded some and when they were cast into the river if any assayed to swimme to the Shore the Rebels stood and shot at them In one place one hundred and fourty English were taken and driven like cattel for many miles together Other companies they carried out under pretence of safe conduct thereby causing them to march chearfully till they had got them to some place fit for execution and then murthered them there One hundred and fifteen men women and children they sent with Sir Philem Onenles Passe till they had brought them to the bridge of Portendowne and then forced them all into the water and such as by swimming or other means sought to escape they either knocked them on the head and after drwowned them or else shot them to death in the water One Mistris Campbel being forced by them to the River and finding no meanes to escape their furie suddenly clasped one of the chief of them in her armes and so both tumbling into the River they were drowned together At another time one hundred and fourty Protestants being thrown in at the same place as any of them swam to the shore the bloody villaines with the butt-ends of their muskets knockt out their brains At Armagh O Cane gat together all the Protestants thereabouts pretending to conduct them to Coleraine but before they were gone a dayes journey they were all murthered and so were many others though they had protections from Sir Phileme O Neale The aged people in Armagh were carried to Charlemount and there murthered Presently after the Town of Armagh was burnt and five hundred persons of all sorts were there murthered and drowned In Killoman were fourty eight families murthered In one house twenty two Protestants were burned In Kilmore all the inhabitants were stript and massacred being two hundred families Some they set in the stocks till they confessed where their monie was and then massacred them The whole County was a common butchery where many thousands perished in a shor time by sword famine fire water and all other cruel manner of deaths that rage and malice could invent To many these bloody Villains shewed so much favour as to dispatch them presently by no means allowing them so much time as to pray Others they imprisoned in filthy Dungeons full of dirt and mire and there clapping bolts on their legs suffered them to perish at leasure One told John Cowder that they would kill him but first bid him say his prayers and when he kneeled down to pray they presently cut off his head When some others upon their knees begged but leave to pray before they were slain they would bid them bequeath their soules to the Divel others would ask them why do you desire to pray your soules are already with the Divel and so would immediately slaughter them At Casel they put all the Protestants into a loathsome Dungeon where they kept them twelve weekes in great misery Some they barbarously mangled and left them langushing upon the high wayes crying out but for so much mercy as to be dispatched out of their paine some they hanged up twice or thrice Others they buried alive Some when they were half-hanged they cast into pits covering them with a little earth where they sent out most lamentable groanes for a good while after In Queenes County an English man his wife five children and a maid were all hanged together then put into a hole the youngest child being not dead put up the hand and cried Mammie Mammie and yet without mercy they buried it alive Thomas Mason in Laugal was extreamly beaten and wounded yet his wife and some others carried him away whereupon these Villaines cruelly hacked slashed and wounded them and then dragged the said Mason into an hole and there threw stones on him with the weight whereof they kept him under there he lay languishing and groaning till his own wife to put him out of paine stopped his breath with her handkerchief At Clownes seventeen men were buried alive yet so as their pitiful cryes were heard afar off Some were deadly wounded and so hanged upon tenter-hooks Some with ropes about their necks were drawn through the water Some with ropes about their middles were drawn through woods and bogs In Castle Cumber one of these cut-throats took two boyes wounded them and hung them upon a butchers tenters Some were hanged up and taken down several times to make them confess their monie which when they had done they presently murthered them Some were hung up by the armes and then with their swords they made experiment how many blowes an English Protestant would endure ere he died Some had their bellies ript up and so were left with their guts running about their heels An ancient woman coming towards Dublin
was stript seven times in one day and they bade her go and look for her God and bid him give her cloaths again In Kilkenny they cruelly beat an English woman till they forced her into a ditch where she died then they took her child a girle of about six years old ript her belly and let out her guts One they forced to go to Masse with them yet afterwards wounded him ript his belly took out his guts and so left him alive A Scottish man they stripped and knocked on the head who afterwards coming to himself went into the Town naked Then did they again take him and hewed him all to pieces They also ript up his Wives belly so that a Child dropped out of her womb Many other women great with childe they hung up then ript their bellies and let the Infants fall out Sometimes they gave their children to be devoured of Swine and Dogs One John Stone with his son two sons in law and their wives they took and hung them all up and one of the young women being great with child they ript her belly took forth her child and used such beastly barbarous actions to her as are not fit to be mentioned At the Newry they ript up a womans belly that was great with two children throwing them to be devoured of swine Also another woman being delivered of a childe in the fields they which had formerly killed her Father and Husband killed her also with two of her children and gave the new-born infant to be devoured of Dogs In the County of Armagh they Robbed stripped and murthered abundance of Protestants whereof some they burned some they slew with the sword some they hanged and some they starved to death and meeting Mistris Howard and Mistris Frankland with six of their children and themselves both great with child with their pikes they killed and murthered them all ript open the Gentlewomens bellies took out their children and threw them into a ditch A young Scottish womans child they took by the heeles and dashed the braines out against a tree the like they did to many other children Anne Hill going with a young child on her back and four more by her side these cruel persecutors pulled the child off her back trod on it till it died stripped her self and the other four children starke naked whereby they died of cold Some others they met with hanged them up upon a Windmill and before they were half dead cut them in pieces with their Skeins Many other Protestants especially women and children they pricked and stabbed with their Skeins Forks and Swords slashing cutting and mangling them in their heads faces breasts armes and other parts yet killed them not but left them wallowing in their blood to languish starve and pine to death and when they desired them to kill them out of their paine they refused yet sometimes after a day or two they would dash out their braines with stones or clubs which they accounted as a great favour One goodwife Harvey at Kilkenny was forced to go to Masse yet afterwards together with her children was stripped and one of her daughters had her belly ripped that her intrails fell out and her self was so beaten and wounded that she hardly escaped with life The Castle of Lisgoole being set on fire by these mercilesse Papists a woman leaped out at a window to save her self from burning but they presently murthered her the next morning her child was found sucking at her breast which they murthered also And whereas many Protestants with their wives and children fled into vauls and cellars to hide themselves they were all murthered there One Jane Addis they stabbed and then putting her child of a quarter old to her breast bid it suck English bastard and so left it to perish there One Mary Barlow had her husband hanged before her face and her self with six children were all stript stark naked in frost and snow after which sheltring themselves in a Cave they had nothing to eat for three weeks but two old Calves skins which they beat with stones and so eat them hair and all her children crying to her rather to go out and be killed than to famish there In the cold weather many thousands of Protestants of all ranks ages and sexes being turned out stark naked perished of cold and hunger thousands of others were drowned cast into ditches bogs and turf-pits Multitudes were inclosed in houses which being set on fire they were burnt miserably Some that lay sick of feavors they drew out of their beds and hanged them Some men women and children they drove into boggie pits and if any of them endeavoured to get out they knockt them on the heads Some aged men and women these Barbarians enforced their own children to carry them to the river where they were drowned yea some children were compelled unnaturally to be the Executioners of their own Parents wives were forced to help to hang their own husbands and mothers to cast their own children into the water after all which themselves were murthered In Sligo they forced a young man to kill his own father and then hanged him up In another place they forced a woman to kill her husband then caused her son to kill her and then immediatly hanged the son and this they did that they might destroy both soul and body Yea such was their detestable malice against the English Protestants that they taught their children to kill English children One of these Villains wives was very angry with their souldiers because they did not bring the grease of a fat Gentlewoman whom they had slaine with them for her to make candles of The Irish women that followed the Camp egged on the men to cruelty always crying out kill them all spare neither man woman nor child They took the child of one Tkomas Straton being about twelve years old and boiled him to death in a Cauldron One Goodwife Lin and her daughter were carried into a Wood where they first hanged the mother and then the daughter in the hair of the mothers head Some women and children of the Irish meeting an English woman great with child stript her to her smock then pulled off her smock and so rent and abused her that the poor woman falling into labour both she and her child died under their hands In some places they plucked out the eyes and cut off the hands of the Protestants and so turned them out into the fields to wander up and down till they perished The very women in some places stoned the English women to death together with their children One man they shot through both his thighs then digging a hole in the ground they set him in it upright upon his feet and then filled up the hole leaving out only his head where they left him till he pined and languished to death Of another man they held his feet in the fire till he was
which I pray thee to amend with thy pen before thou readest the Book ERRATA in the general MARTYROLOGIE PAge 29 line 14 read him for them l 40 r India for Indian p 36 l 25 r whom for who p 37 l. 17. put in cease to l 21 put in to p 45 l 6 r were for was l 14 r Decree for degree p 62 l 22 r adorning for adoreing p 67 l 4 r this for his l 5 r com for cow l 8 r they for the. p 79 l 16 r that for the p 81 l 29 r stake for stalk p 84 l 41 r also for all p 94 l 28 r Torturers for tortures l 36 r Courtiers for Countries p 106 l ult put in whosoever p 114 l 37 r they for the. p 115 l 10 r was for were l 15 r Prince for Princes p 117 l 17 r which for with l 23 r belief for relief p 118 l 3 r edified for edifying p 120 l 1 r they for the p. p 121 l 25 put in whereupon p 122 l 26 r enjoyned for enjoyed p 128 l 41 r slaying for staying p 132 l 31 r children for child p 133 l 17 r receiving for receive p 135 l 32 r sixty for sixtly p 137 l 39 r opened for opening p 147 l 34 put out was p 149 l 7 r retaining for restraining p. 151 l 16 r their for they p 152 l 11 r represented for presented p 153 l 37 r approach for reproach p 154 l 1 r die for are l 31 r Bertrand for Bâ—trand p 156 l 1 r Bosnia for Bosina l 7 r when for where p. 158 l 41 r root for rout p 159 l ult r delivered for discovered p 160 l 15 r Maundy for munday p 161 l 29 r upon for of Cities for City p 163 l 5 r buried for burnt l 14 r they for the. l 29 r two for second p 164 l 1 r Catholick for Cathe p 186 l 42 r they for the. p 189 l 2 r breast for breasts l 8 r was for were p 193 l 8 r hoary for heavy p 198 l 7 put out should p 202 l 9 r were for was p 139 l 15 r this for his l 17 r for never no man r no man ever p 271 l 41 put in free p 279 l 8 put in one l 28 r sent for set p 297 l 16 r zeal for seal p 303 l 24 put in her p 304 l 13 put in took p 308 l 7 r girls for gilts l 11 r burnt for burn l 16 r goodly for godly l 30 r macerating for macecrating p 309 l 28 put in of p 334 l 3 r mouth for mouta p 351 l ult r Parisians for Persians p 375 l 18 put in brought p 378 l 9 put out and so p 383 l 21 r short for shot p 387 l 35 r leave for have p 404 l 12 r whom for where p 468 l 6 for Infections r Infractions Other literal faults are easily amended Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae Act. 14.22 1 Thes. 1.4 Lam. 3.33 34 Isa. 10.12 1 Pet. 4.17 Micha 7.9 1 Tim. 3.12 Heb. 12.7 Luk. 23.31 Praemonitus praemunitus Gen. 3.5 Gen. 4.8 Abel Noah Gen. 6.11 Gen. 9.22 Lot Isaac Jacob. Joseph Thâ— Israelites in Egypt Moses Moses and Aaron Israel in the time of the Judges Jsrael in Saul's time David 1 King 14.25 26. Judah under the Kings Asa persecutes a Prophet Michaiah Gods judgement on Persecutors Elijah Elisha Zechariah 2 Chron. 28.8 Isaiah Jer. 24.1 c. Jeremiah The 3 Children Daniel Mordecai Israel after the Captivity Nehe. 2.19 and â— 2 3 8. Nehemiah The Jews persecuted by Bagoses Prayer in times of danger Apostates Antiochus entred Jerusalem Antiochus robs the Temple Forbideth the daily sacrifice His Cruelty Christian courage The Scriptures burnt Matthias his zeal A noble Resolution Zeal The Jews murthered refusing to fight on the Sabbath day Matthias his sickness His counsel to his sons His death Apollonius slain Judas encouraged his souldiers Seron slain Antiochus his â—rpel command Fasting and prayer before the battel His exhortation to his Army A wonderfull vâ—ctory Gorgias flies Thanksgiving Prayer Lysias beaten The Temple cleansed The service of God restored The Edomites overcome The Ammonites overcome Simons victories in Galile Judas taketh Bozra Overcometh Timothy Timothy again overcome Ephron destroyed Thanksgiving for victory A miracle of mercy Vain-glory punished The Idumaeans overcome Antiochus his horrible death Gods judgemente on Persecatorâ— Antiochus Eupaâ—tor Bethsura besieged Eleazer slew and is slain by an Elephent Bethsura surrendred The Temple besieged A speciall providence Perfidiousness A just judgement Antiochus slain by Demetrius The wickednes of Apostates Bacchides sent against Judas Perjury Perfidiousness Alcimus his subtilty and cruelty Nicanor sent against Judas His subtility Judas in danger Judas forced to retreat Nicanors blasphemy A terrible battel Nicanor slain A just judgement Judas sends to the Romans A league between the Jews and Romans Bacchides sent â—gainst Judas twenty thousand Judas his resolution A terrible battel Judas slain Antiochus his cruel Edict Constancy Subtilty Courage Eleazer cruelly beaten His admirable patience His zeal His prayer at death Antiochus his subtilty The seven brethrens courage Maccabeus his torments His resolute speech His Martyrdom His speech at death Abers torments Or Leopard Hâ—s speech at death Machir brought forth His courage His torments His speech at death Judas his courage His torments His speech at death Achas his courage His torments His speech at death Areth his courage His torments His speech at death Jacob brought forth Antiochus his subtilty His mother encourageth him His noble courage His torments * Lord. His last words Salamona's zeal Her speech to her Children Her torments and death See more of this before Mat. 2.2 5 16. Gods Judgement on Persecutors Herods miserable death John Baptist beheâ—ded Mat. 14.10 Gods Judgements on Herod for it Caius Caligula Act. 4.1 17. The Apostles beaten Steven stoned Paul persecuted Act. 12.1 2. A Persecutor converted James beheaded Peter escapeth death Gods Judgement on Herod Paul and Barnabas persecuted Paul stoned Paul and Silas whipt Paul and Silas again persecuted Act. 17.5 13 14. Sosthenes beaten Paul in danger Acts 24.27 Pauls Martyrdom The Martyrdom of James His constancy in prayer Andrews martyrdom Philips Martyrdom Bartholemew Thomas Matthew Simon Zel. Judas Matthias Mark Nicanor Quinquennium Neronis Nero sets Rome on fire The Circus burnt down Nero charged it upon the Christians Raiseth the first Persecution Several kinds of torments Beastly cruelty Tertullians speech Peter and Paul martyred Domitians character He destroyes Davids seed St. John put into boiling oyl Banished into Patmos An excellent story â—f a young man Simâ—on crucified Flavia banished A cruel death Christians slandered Charged with Sedition and Rebellion and the causers of all publick Calamities Christianos ad Leones The Oath ex officio Variety of torments Burial denied them Protasius Gervasius Timothy and Dionysius martyred Trajans persecution Pliny writes in the Christians behalf
Christianity accounted superstition Tertullians speech The stock of David sought for A just reward Phocus Martyr Sulpitius Nereus and Achilleus Martyrs Adrian Emp. Alexander Herenes and Quiriâ—us martyrs Zenon Ten thousand crucified Eustachius Martyr Monstrous ingratitude Faustinus and Jobita Martyrs More Eleutherius Anthea and Symphorissa Martyrs With her seven sons Quadratus his Apology for the Christians and Aristides and Serenus Christians falsly accused An. Pi. Emp. shews them â—avour An excellent Law Polycarp martyr Germanacus Constancy Metrodorus Pionus Apollggy and Martyrdom Carpus Papilus and Agathonica Felicitas and her seven children Justin Maâ—tyas Apology and Martyrdom Malice Ptolemaus Lucius Note Concordus Persecutions in France Gods Providence Patience Divers torments Vetius Epagathus his zeal Humane frailty Christians slandered Sanctus Maturus Attalus Blandina A miracle of Mercy Tormentors wearied Note Admirable constancy A miracle of Mercy Biblides Photinus Danger of Apostacy Recovery after fals Alexander Note Blasphemy Ponticus a boy of fifteen years old Joy unspeakable Blasphemy Justin Martyr Alcibiades Clau. Apolinaris and Melito Apologize for the Christians The thundring Legion A good Edict Apollonius A just reward of treachery Vincentius Eusebius Peregrinus and Potentianus Zeal Julius Zeal Severus Emperour Christians charged with sedition and rebellion c. Leonides father of Origen Zeal Plutarch Serenus Potamiena Marcella and Rhais Bâ—silides his strange conversion Narcissus False Witnesses plagued by God Andoclus Asclepiades Irenaeus Tertullian Perpetua Felicitas Revocatus Satyrus Secundulus Zepherinus Urbanus Tiburtius Valerianus Cecilia A great Conversion Agapeâ—us a boy of fifteen years old Gods judgement on a persecutor Calepodius Pamachius Martina Maximinus Emperor Urbanus and Philip. Sectaries dangerous Note Probably it was by the terrors of his own conscience Decius Emp. Fabian Martyr A cruel Edict Alexander Martyr Babilus Peter A South-sayer stirs up a persecution Metra Martyr Quinta The Christian houses plundred Apollinia leaps into the fire Serapion Persecutors divided amongst themselves The danger of riches Zeal Apostacy Julianus Martyr and Cronion Macar Epimâ—chus Alexander Ammonarion Mercuria Dioâ—ysia A boy of fifteen years old Nemesion Humane frailty Zeal Courage Ischirion The miseries of Christians Cheremon Dionysâ—us A miracle of Mercy Flight in persecution Courage of seven souldiers Nicetas his raâ—e chastity Theodora condemned to the Stews Her strange deliverance Cruelty Agathon Two Ministers Secundianus Zeal Gods Judgement on persecutors Serapions Apostacy and Recovery Danger of Apostacy Constancy A Vision The beginning of the Novatian schism Pride the cause of schism A Synod against Novatus Aurelius Mappalicus Gods Judgement on persecutors A terrible plague The brotherly love of Christians A special Providence Cyprians consolatory letter Persecution stirred up by a Sorcerer Sin the Forerunner of persecution A Vision Christians charged as the causes of all plagues Confuted by Cyprian and Tertullian Cyprian Martyr Sixtus and his Deacons The courage and constancy of Laurence The rage of Tyrants In all these things we are more then Conquerors Dionysia banished The power of the Word of God Gods Providence The cruel torments of the Christians Priscus Malchus Alexander Zeal Three hundred Christians put into a lime-kiln Three Virgins cruelly tormented Fructuosus Valerian Emâ—peror Gods Judgement on persecutors Marinus Asyrius Satans subtilty Power of prayer Peace in the Church A special Providence Pâ—ace causeth the Church to flourish Sin the Forerunner of persecution Contention amongst Christians Pâ—ide Bibles burnt Cruel Edicts Horrible torments False Accusations of Christians Courage Humane infirmity Zeal Subtilty Constancy A miracle of Mercy Silvanus Pamphilus Tiranion Zenobius Sylvanus Peter Dorotheus Gorgonius Anthimus Dioclesian's wife Christians burnt in a Church A Christian City burnt Eustratius a Persecutor converted and martyred Peter A legion of Christians martyred Inhumane câ—uelty Cruel torments Hellish cruelty Admirable patience Courage and constancy Tormentors wearied Humane infirmity The story of Mauritius and his legion A most Christian speech Christian courage The mercies of the wicked are cruelty Gods judgements on persecutors Hypocrisie Silvanus Lucianus Peter Quirinus Cruel torments Gods judgements on persecutors A terrible famine Pestilence Charity of Christians Gods judgements on persecutors Hypocrisie Wicked Laws Cruâ—lty Theodorius Romanus's noble courage True nobility Note Blasphemy A child tormented An appeal to Christ. The childes Martyrdom Gordius Courage Flattery Constancy Menas Note Humane infirmity Fourty young gentlemen Tentaâ—ion of flattery A mother encourageth her son to die Cyrius John Athanasia Sebastian Barlaam Vitalis Constancy Agricola Vincentius Horrible cruelty Joy unspeakable Procopius Georg. Zeal Hermogenes Eulalia Zeal Tentation Eulalia Horrible cruelty Agnes Tentation Courage Faith A remarkable judgement Faith Julitta An excellent story Strength of Faith Tentation Constancy Barbara Magitâ—aâ—s stâ—r up persecution Simeon The Persion King requâ—â—ed Divine worshâ—p Usthazares Zeal Recovery after fall Tentation Repentance His Martyrdom Simeon beheaded Pusices His Martyrdom Magicians authors of persecution Simeon sisters Slanders Bâ—shops and Minâ—steâ—s persecuted Andas Hormisda Constancy Suenes Benjamin His Apostacy Devilish subtilty Christians might not study They may be in no Offices The most dangerous persecution Christâ—ans made the object of scorn Barbarous cruelty Emilianus Domitius Theodorus A miracle of Mercy Artemius Two brethren Martyrs Barbarous cruelty Marcus Arâ—thusius Courage Barbarous cruelty Cyrillus God's judgement on Persecutors Marisâ—oldly â—oldly reproveth Julian Blasphemy Devilish subtilty Christian wisdom Juventius and Maxentius Christian courage Apollo's Image broken with lightning Christians fined Athanasius driven away Courage A special providence Blasphemy Zeal Courage Note Athanasâ—us accused of sedition His miraculous deliverance His banishment and danger His miraculous deliverance He is restored for a time and again banished Christian virgins shamefully abused The Arrians cruelty B. Paul banished Subtilty An. Christi 364 Persecution raised by Valens He succeeded Julian Miletius Eusebius Pelagius An admirable story Courage Gods Providence Eighty godly Ministers burned Cruelty of hereticks Peter Cruelty The Emperour refused admonition Gods judgement â—n persecutors Bloody schismaticks Profane Schismaticks Turbulent Schismaticks Profane Schismaticks Gods Judgement on them Impure schismaticks Profane Hereticks Cruelty of Hereticks Prodigious Ministers loaden with burthens Cruelty to Infants Pampinian Hippo besieged A special providence Pride A noble Earl martyred An evil conscience Constancy Rome sacked Charity Gods providence A special Providence Moors converted Cruelty of Hereticks The Bishop of Habensa Christians murthered at a Sermon Horrible profaness Armogastes tormented A special providence Saturu's noble courage Tentation Resisted Gensericks death Manichaeans punished Eugenius chosen Bishop Envy Cruelty of Hereticks Constancy Constancy Barbarous cruelty Multitudes banished Foelix Tentation Constancy An excellent story Cruelty of Hereticks Cyprians sympathy Charity Barbarous cruelty A special providence Subtilty of Hereticks Pride of Hereticks Unjust cruelty A confession of â—aith A wicked Edict Cruâ—lty of Hereticks Devillish subtilty A wicked sentence Dionysia Impudence of Hereticks Courage She encourageth her son The benefit of good examples Slanders Tentation Courage and constancy Gods Mercy Many burned in a ship Admirable courage
Amiens Bibles burnt At Abbevilly At Meaux Abominable villanies At Troys Bibles burnt At Bar. Popish cruelty At Crant At Sens. At Auxerre At Nevers At Chastillon At Guyen At Montargis A brave answer of the Lady Rene. At Monlius At Mans. At Anger 's Bibles burnt Horrible blasphemies Popish perfidiousnesse A bloody Edict In Ligueul John de Tour. At Tours Barbarous cruelties Popish subtilty The Mother and her daughter drowned Glee Vincit veritâ—â— Joy in tribulation Tentation resisted Faith Her Martyrdome Ponteou de Mer Impudence Marliorat hanged At Valougnes Monsieur Valougnes Popish profaneness and blasphemy At Vire At Agen. At Reime At Blâ—is Blasphemy A miracle In Guillac Horrid cruelties Peter Domo Popish perfidiousnesse In Souraize Prodigious villanies Blasphemy Faith and patience Faith A special Providence Peter Roch buried quick Two crowned with thorns Janetta Calvin At Mont de Marson In Tholouse Horrible cruelties Popish perfidiousness Carcasson Popish lies At Limox Abominable villany At Nonnay Blasphemy Barbarous cruelties At Foix. At Aurange Horrible cruelties Perfidiousness At Grenoble At Cisterno At Beaune At Mascon Bonnet Bor a godly Minister Barbarous cruelty Courage and constancy His martyrdome See this more fully in the life of the Admiral at the end of this book Divellish dissimulation Sin the forerunner of persecution The Queen of Navar dieth Dissimulation The K. of Navar married The Admiral shot Dissimulation Good counsel neglected Deep dissimulation The Massacre suspected The Kings Commission shewed for it The Massacre begins Of Merlins miraculous escape see in my book of Examples The Admiral slain His head imbalmed and sent to the Pope Popish cruelty Ten thousand slain in Paris Popish lies The river died red with blood Prince of Conde's zeal and courage Divellish dissimulation Above thirty thousand massacred in three moneths The Lord de la Place hâ—s holy zeal The Lord de la Place murthered Peter Ramus murthered A dutiful and loving son Two Ministers murthered Hellish cruelty An Infant murthered At Meaux Two hundred Protestants murthered At Troys Gods Providence Prodigious wickednesse and cruelty Courage and constancy of Gods people The Massacre at Orleance A Noble Counsellor Monstrous ingratitude Blasphemy A Doctor of the Law An Apothecary A Cook The reward of Apostates The patience of the Saints Gods providence Popish malice and cruelty Three hundred and fifty murthered Francis de Bossu and his two sons The father encourageth his sons to die Prodigious cruelty Their grease is sold. The murtherers absolved At Angiers Hypocrisie A Minister murthered A godly Minister pistolled And his wife murthered At Roan six thousand murthered At Tholouse Popish subtilty And cruelty Three hundred murthered At Bourdeaux A special Providence A bloody Jesuite The Lord of Obiers murthered and a Minister An holy speech Gods providence Gods care of his people A special Providence A terrible Famine Two executed for eating part of their own daughter A remarkable story A wicked oath An admirable Providence Gods judgement on a bloody Persecutor A famine An extraordinary Providence Rochel delivered Gods judgements on Persecutors Gods judgement on the Duke of Aâ—jou see in my book of Examples The Kings sicknesse and death Anger implacable Rochel besieged Anno 1628 A terible famine Margaret Pierrone Tentation She chooses to be burnt rather than to burne her Bible Popish treachery Cruelty A Noble Gentleman murthered Christ preferred before all Protestants murthered at Church At Sondres Popish treachery A special Providence A noble Lady Courage and constancy Faith A special Providence Horrible cruelties Dominico Berto Barbarous cruelty A special providence Theophilus Messino Constancy Tentation resisted Prodigious cruelties A noble Virgin An excellent speech A wicked Edict Popish perfidiousnesse Courage and constancy Patrick Hamilton Zeale Popish subtilty His condemnation Constancy His Martyrdome Gods judgement on a persecutor David Straton Norman Gourlay Stratons conversion His prayer Tentation resisted Thomas Forret Grosse ignorance His martyrdom Jerome Russel Alexander Kennedy Humane infirmity Joy in tribulation Their condemnation and martyrdome Popish cruelty John Rogers His Character His charity A special providence Popisâ— malice A Prophesie He goeth into the West He is opposed by the Bishop The power of the Word His Prohesie accomplished His second coming to Dundee Charity He is in danger of being murthered Gods Providence He preserves the murtherer He goes to Montrosse Meditation Popish malice A Prophesie His fervent Prayer in the night A Prophesie He comes to Leith Faith and Courage Hiâ— departvre from Leith Popish malice A Prophesie He goes to Haddington John Knox See his liâ—e in my first part A Prophesie His apprehension by Bothwell Bothwels promise He is carried to Edenburgh Bothwel falsifies his promise He is carried to St. Andrews His accusation His patience His Prayer Popish subtilty He administreth the Sacrament The Cardinals feare His Prayer at death His exhortation to the People He prayes for his Persecutors A Prophesie The Cardinals pride and carnal confidence The Castle surprized Popish uncleannesse The Cardinal slain Adam Wallace His accusation The Ministers work His Martyrdome Henry Forrest Popish perfidiousnesse His Martyrdome Walter Mill. Popish uncleanness His speech at death His Martyrdome Popish malice Popish lyes The malice against the English Popish malice and cruelty Popish perfidiousnesse Prodigious cruelties Many starved and stripâ— Horrible murthers Popish perfidiousness An Irish Monster Multitudes drowned Popish treachery A just reward Prodigious cruelties They deny them liberty to pray Some buried alive Some were hung upon tenter-hooks Blasphemy Many had their bellies ript Children had their brains dashed out Many burned Some perish by famine Unnatural cruelties Children kill English children Some boiled in Cauldrons Some had their eyes pulled out Prodigious cruelties Bibles burnt Blasphemies Aposttaes murthered Constancy and Courage Gods judgements on Persecutors Popish perfidousnesse Many knocked on the head A boy murthered by his Master Berbarous cruelty and impudence Many drowned They made candles of their grease Prodigious cruelties Popish uncleannesse Their cruelty to the cattel Henry Cowel Constancy Robert Ecklin A childs constancy Childrens beastly cruelty Popish uncleannesse Monstrous câ—ueâ—ty to a boy Many burnt One hundred and fifty thousand murtheâ—red in Ulster Gods judgements on persecutors Boys and women murderers Souldiers hanged Constancy Popish perfidiousnesse Gods judgements on Persecutors Some worried with dogs The Munster Remonstrance Gods judgements on Persecutors Apparitions at Portendown Bâ—idge A Miracle An Edict in favour of the Protestants A cruel Edict The Elector Palatine intercedes for them They are cruelâ—y dealt with Gods Providence for them King of France intercede for them Popish malice Gods mercy The Duke favours them Satans malicâ— Popish subtilty prevented Courage and Constancy They are favoured but again molested They are encouraged Their prudence Satans policy Dissembling Hypocrites They are confuted Popish policy Persecution renewed Gods Providence Gods mercy The massacre of Paris A special providence The Dukes letter to draw them to Popery Their answer A cruel Edict Popish subtâ—â—ty Courage and constancy They are banished Popish subtilty They are forced to flie They are forced to flie Popish subtilty Popish subtilty Humane frailty Repentance Reason why they persecuted the Protestants A bloody Order Popish cruelty They go into banishment Constancy Popish cruelty Popish dissimulation Popish injustice Popish subtilty Popish cruelty The Protestants defend themselves Popish subtilty Barbarous cruelty Women tipt up Base cruelty Horrid cruelty Courage and Constancy Popish subtilty and perfidiousnesse A special Providence Gods Judgements on persecutors Many Irish slaine A special Providence His Charactea A special Providence