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

distinction of Age or Sex In the year 1213. near Muret a Town upon the Garronne Muret. there were slain in battle in the pursute and afterwards about two Millions of Albingenses with the King of Araagon who then took their parts In the year 1215. Fryer Conradus of Marpurg the Popes inquisitor most horribly tortured all that made profession of the Gospel or were but suspected marking them with red hot Irons and then giving them to the secular power to be burnt so that neither Noble nor Ignoble Clerks Monks Nuns Burgesses Citizens and Country people escaped the slames by the-means of this bloody Inquisitor The Town of Miromand being taken by Prince Lewis of France Miromand he destroyed there of the Albingenses for the same cause to the number of five thousand men women and children In the year 1234. many of these Albingenses being fled into Spain Spain the Pope caused a Croisado to be preached against them whereby a great Army of Pilgrims assembled together were sent by Pope Gregory against the Albingenses whom they slew with their Bishops and Teachers burnt their houses destroyed their Towns and plunderd and carried away their goods And about the same time those who retired into a fenny place on the borders of Germany were also all slain At the same time also many of them were slain and burnt in Millain and other parts of Italy beyond the Alpes In the year 1242. there were burnt in Tholouse 200. of these Albingenses Tholouse being taken in a certain Castle hard by and the year following 220. more in the same place In the year 1281. a great persecution was raised against them in Albi by one Gourdon so that they were almost all extirpated and rooted out and forced to fly for safety of their lives to all parts Albi. At the same time by the Popes Order many of the chief preachers of the Albingenses bones were dug up and burnt 20. and 30. years after they had been buried Luthers Forerunners and Cades Justification The perse cution of the Bohimians Ex-Hist Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohem The persecution of the Bohemians begun betimes even neer the year 977. by Pope Hildebrand and afterwards by Celestine continuing down to the times of Mathias of Frague 1375. and to John Hus and Jerome of Prague who were both burnt in defence of the Gospel at Constance notwithstanding the publique faith of Germany given them for their security At Cuttenburg where there are many deep Mines in the year 1420. they threw into one of them 1700. persons and into another 1038. and into ● third 1334. persons In the year 1421. at Litomeritia twenty four of the chief Citizens among whom was the Son-in-Law of the chief persecutor and Magistrate of the City were thrust into a great Tower and almost famished to death from whence being at last drawn because they would not abjure their Religion they were condemned to be all drowned in the River Albis which was accordingly done their hands and feet being bound and so thrown into the midst of the River and if the stream brought any of them to the sides of the bank they were goared to death with Iron forks and Pikes The daughter of the chief persecutor seeing she could not move her Father by her tears and prayers to save the Life of her Husband flung her self after him into the River and embracing his body perished with him and was found the next day with him fast in her Armes and were buried in one grave About the same time at Prague 4. men 4 boys and a Minister were then burnt in one fire because they administred and received the Sacrament in both kindes Many and indeed innumerable were the Murthers and torments and unheard of babarities executed both publiquely and privately on those poor wretches by those bloody Executioners About the year 1523. Martin Luther began to shine as a great light in Germany and his Doctrine to overspread those parts even to Bohemia which caused more violent persecutions wherein multitudes of Saints lost their Lives by the means of Ferdinand the first and Charles the 5th so that it wou'd be almost endless to enumerate every particular In the year 1549 there were no less then 200. Ministers banished out of this Kingdom and the Baron of Schanow because a Lutheran but under the pretence of a Conspiracy was laid upon the Rack but he magnanimously cut out his own Tongue and being asked the reason he wrote that it was lest the torments of the Rack should make him speak falsly against himself or others In the year 1617. Ferdinand the Second being obtruded upon by the Bohemians he siding with the Papists raised up a very great persecution against the Protestants which was the cause of Electing Frederick Palatine of the Rhine King of Bohemia and the cause of all those Wars and embroylments In which suffered many a godly Minister and other holy pious and harmless men by the sapistical Souldiers with that barbarous cruelty that Christian Ears cannot hear nor Tongue relate without indignation and abhorrency For some of them were stoned to death others hanged upon a beam with a soft fire made under them rosted to death others cut peace-meal And one Minister they laid on his back ramming his mouth full of Compowder set fire to it and blew his head all to peeces Another they hanged up by the privy Members being 70. years old and burnt his own books under him and at last shot him after he had endured a world of torment and pain In the year 1621. all the Ministers were banished out of Prague and out of the Kingdome of Bohemia and all the provinces thereunto belonging never more to return and made it death to harbour or conceal any one of them Also at Cuttenburg 21. Ministers were banished about the same time Anno 1624. a Popish Captain caused a Ministers hand first to be stricken off and then his head his bowels to be taken forth and wrapt in his shirt and his 4. quarters to be set on 4 stakes and his head on another At that time also 50. of the Nobility were condemned some to death some to perpetual banishment and some to perpetual Imprisonment 27. were executed some of their right hands and heads were hung upon the Tower of the Bridge who all dyed with great constancy of minde and fervency of spirit sealing to the Protestant cause with their blood whose heads were afterwards solemnly buried by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden Next came forth an Edict to banish all the Protestants and to take away the children from them that they might be bred in the Romish Religion And then another to banish all the Wives of such as were Catholicks from their Husbands unless they would turn Then they enacted that those who were not Catholicks should be prohibited all traffick and commerce with them There was hardly a City or Town that escaped their barbarous cruelties And at Prachatice

oppression till the peace of Munster and Osnaburg 1648. which put a stop to the Persecution they being forced to it by Gods bringing in the King of Sweden who over-run Germany and revived the cause of the Protestants As also in Hungary almost overthrown by so many thousand persecutions These bloody Tyrants vented their rage and fury not only in Germany but also in Hungary and other parts they committed there also the same Tragedys where they had any power and the Ministers were generally banished and put to death and the same picture of their cruelties which you have had represented to you in Germany might have been acted over again in this Kingdom but we have not room at this time for the like relation only one new sort of death read of used to a Minister in Hungary by tying about his naked body Hens Geese Ducks and Hares and so seting dogs upon them baited him to death tearing and renting his flesh till he dyed Their rage in the Low Countrys The Low Countrys Hist of the Netherlands and Sleidens Commenta or Netherlands was no less nothing but fire and fagot among them by which suffered many a worthy and Godly person of every Age and Sex as well in Holland as else where At Antwerp one Nicholas a pious holy man was bound up in a sack and so drowned In Holland Pistorius was burnt being carryed to the stake with a fools Coat on his back and also a widdow called Wendelmuta who shewed much constancy Several Ministers were beheaded among the rest one George Scherter who some time after he was beheaded his body lying on the belly turned himself on the back and crossing the right foot over the left and his right hand over the left so continued to the great admiration of the spectators and the conversion of many Several were drowned others made away in Prisons others shut up in dark and noysome places and none suffer'd to come at them fed only with bread and water till they were famish'd At Lovain several were Martyr'd some by fire others beheaded In the years 1543. and 1544. There was a very great persecution all over Flanders so that there was neither Town nor city in all the Country wherein some were not banished beheaded or condemned to perpetual Imprisonment neither was there any respect to either Age or Sex But especially at Gaunt many of the chief men were burned for Religion The like was in Brabant and Artois insomuch that 200. men and women were made away at one time some drowned some buried quick and some privily Murthered so that the hands of the hangmen begun to be tyred and weary with Executions At Delden at echlin at Dornic several were put to death among the rest two Noble Virgins sisters and one Mother and her 3. Sons who all dyed owning the Gospel and exclaming against the cruelty of the Papists At the same time they miserably punished one Bertand for trampling the host under his feet in his zeal by tormenting him thrice upon the Rack and then because he would not recant in the market place of Lornick they put a ball of ron into his mouth to keep him from speaking and then crushed his right hand betwixt two flat red hot rons till the form of his hand was changed and after that they did the like by his right foot which he enduring with admirable patience taking the Ball of iron out of his mouth they cut out his Tongue and then thrust in the Ball again then tying him with a chain about the middle with a pully hoisted him up and making a fire underneath let him down by degrees into the fire and so continued hoisting him up and letting him down till he dyed and was burnt to ashes which they cast into the River At Valence also several were executed and also at Lisle where one of the Judges pronouncing the sentence of condemnation said This day you shall go to dwell with all the Devills in hell-fire But the great instrument of ●ersecution in these Countrys was the Duke of Alva who boasted that besides those he had slain in the wars he had put into the hand of the Common Hangman to be executed within the space of six years no less than 18000. persons permitting his Soldiers to ravish honest matrons and virgins and many times causing their parents and husbands to stand by and behold it His Son Don Frederick following his Fathers Steps committed many cruelties and at Zutphen he hang'd drown'd and murther'd a great number of the inhabitants shewing infinite cruelties upon their wives and Virgins not sparing the very Infants and also in Naerden in Holland where entering the Town without resistance he committed such abominable Cruelties that never Turks Seythians or the most barbarous and inhumane Nations in the World exceeded them Here treacherously he commanded all the Burgers and chief of the inhabitants to assemble themselves together that he might acquaint them with some Orders and when they were all assembled together in the Chappell of the HOspital he commanded his Soldiers to murther them all without sparing any one The men were all slain and the women of the Town first ravished and then barbarously murthered the children and infants had their Throats out so that the whole Town was destroyed and neither man wife maid nor child young nor old spared and the Town was rased without pitty or mercy The same Don Frederick at Herlem exercised the like perfidiousness for when they had been forced to deliver up their Town through Famine having eat for hunger bread made with linseed and turneps and lived upon Horses Dogs and cats they made a composition by which they paid 240000 florins to redeem their Town from spoil yet being entred according to that wicked Principle of theirs that no faith is to be kept with Hereticks he commanded all the Towns-men to bring in their arms and to assemble themselves in the Cloyster of Zyel and all the women in the Cathedral and all the Soldiers into another Church where he made his Soldiers guard them whilst the persidious Spanyards plundred their Houses The next day he caused 300 Walloons to be hanged and beheaded and two hundred and forty seven Soldiers more to be drowned in the Mcre at Harlem The day following 300. Soldiers and Burgers lost their heads and the next day many more and several Ministers and also all the English and Scots they could finde and to fill up the Sea of blood all the sick and wounded were beheaded at the door of the Hospital And a party of Soldiers that were in an out-Sconce were all starved to death At Valenciennes they hang'd up all the French Soldiers all the Protestants and ministers they could take in the Town and consiscated all their goods which amounted to a great vallue At Antwerp they drowned one John de Boscane a Protestant in a Tub of water and because he was tall and the tub of the shortest so that they

among them it made an horrible slaughter and a bloody edict was procured by the Papists at Rome for the killing and murthering all the Protestants in those parts and which was soon and cruelly executed at Tel. Tyrane Bruse Sondres Malenco Caspano Trahen and other Towns in the Valtoline where a very great company of all Sects Ages and Conditions were as barbarously used and there murthered as in any other place and this in the year 1620. Many were drowned in the River Alba and Adda some had their Cheeks slit up to their ears some strapadoed others their mouths and ears filled with gunpowder and so fired others slash'd and cut and so miserably driven to the mountains others again flung from those high rocks into the deep valleys and so broken to peices and most of them one way or other destroy'd without any commiseration or pitty In the Marquisate of Saluces are several Churches of the Protestant Religion as Pravillem Biolts Bietone Dronier The Marquisate of Saluces and divers others who liv'd peaceably for a long time under the Government of France notwithstanding the many attempts of the apists against them but after the massacre ot Paris the Kings Letters were sent to the Governour Monsieur Biragu● to destroy them all but his prudence put a stop to it for the present only imprisoning the cheif heads of them till he had orders for their release but after this Marquisate came to the possession of the Duke of Savoy he made a cruel edict that all persons that would not within 15 days renounce their Religion and go to Mass should depart for ever out of the Marquisate giving them only two months time to remove in upon pain of Death This was published 1601. so that there was nothing to be seen all over the Country but packing up and marching away into banishment leaving their Houses Fields and Country which they had for Ages enjoy'd some retired into France beyond the Alps some to Geneva and some to the Vallies of Piemont none being suffer'd to stay but such as would submit against their Consciences to go to mass and to worship Idols but their neighbours are not free no place is exempt where ever the power of this beast reigns as we may behold in the adjoyning Vallies The poor and distressed Protestants in the Vallies of Piemont The valleys of Piemont quasi Pede montium at the foot of the mountains of the Alps have been very great sufferers by the popish Tyrany They are under the Government of the Duke of Savoy and are the offspring of the old Waldeneses and from that time professing that Religion having Evangelical Churches in the several Vallies of Angrognia Bobio Villaro Valguicharda Rora Tagliaretto La Ricca di Boneti La Torre St. Martino Dcrosa Roccapiata Lucarna St Barthelmo in all which the Inhabitants were most Protestants and had been long indulged in their Religion by the Princes of Savoy Sir Sam. Morlands Hist of the Evang Churches in the valleys of Piedmont to whom they were Subjects But in the year 1565. a cruel edict was published that all such as would not comply with the Church of Rome and go to Mass within ten days should be banished from their Country and habitation but by the intercession of the King of France and the Elector Palatine of the Rhine this Edict was recalled and they continued quiet till the year 1655 wherein the late great massacre was comitted against these poor men for their Religion Sake Though all along the Papists had by many cunning plots and contrivances endeavoured their subversion by endeavouring to stir them up to Rebellion and by planting Colledges of Emissaries amongst them which like goads in their sides still annoyed them and proved a great trouble and affliction to them always procuring some cruel and harsh edict against them by their complaints and lyes raised against them as 1602 an edict for the banishing all private and publique Protestant Schoolmasters as incendiaries and 1622. That no strangers either Ministers or Schoolmasters should be entertained among them 1634 an Edict came out that all the Protestants of Cumpiglione should be banished and 1654 the same was done against those of the vallies of Martino and Perosa These Missionary Fathers behaving themselves among them more cruelly than Turks or Barbarians But resolving to root the Protestants from among them and thorowly to do the work of their Father the Pope in the midst of winter which is very sharp in those mountains viz. 25 Jan. 1655. they procured an Order for the Banishment of all the Protestants out of the vallies of Lucerna Lucernetta St. Giovanni La Terre Bubbiana Fenite Compiglione Bercherassio and St. Secondo within three days after pubcation unless they would turn Roman Catholiks and this extended to all in general none exempted of what rank degree or condition soever And thus these poor creatures were forced in compliance to this cruel edict to fly to save their Lives and consciences in the depth of the snow and all the vallies covered with waters women with child some brought newly to Bed old women and decrepit men leaning on their staves young children crying and lamenting dragged over Ice thorow Rain Snow Waters and a 1000. inconveniences and hardships so that it would have grieved the heart of a Barbarian to have seen them leaving their goods behind them or selling them for little to the Catholicks who took no pitty of their bitter tears sighing wringing of hands knocking of breasts mourning complaining and lamenting 't was but as the bleeting of Sheep or the lowing of Kine in their ears and they rather rejoyced than any way commiserated these poor wretches They were no sooner out of their houses but they were pillaged rifled and ransack'd of all they left pulling down their houses cutting down their Trees making havock and devastation of all things and turning all into a Wilderness This cruel edict was put in execution by Gustaldo and others but this is not all they had a further design of extirpating and rooting out all Hereticks as they call these poor Protestants it is not enough to have banished these few they could have no redress at Court and all their humble Petitions and remonstrances were not heard for they had more wicked and bloody designes instigated by the Ministers of Rome who had great influence over his Royall Highness and Madam Royal. Upon the 17th of April 1655. whilst the Protestants Deputies were detained at Turin and delayed sometimes with hope of redress some Soldiers of purpose fell upon the Protestans unexpectedly who peaceably attended the issue of their petitions which begat some bustle they being but few the Protestants made some resistance whereupon many thousands got together under the Marquess of Piadessa and on the 21th of the same month began the most horrible Massacre among these poor Protestants of these Vallies as ever was heard of There was nothing to be seen thorow the Protestant