fragments and being in a merry humor would needs go dance telling their Host he must be one of their company but that he must first pull off his Stockings and Shoes to move the more nimbly in short they forced him to dance barefoot upon the sharp points of Glass which when they had continued so long as they were able to keep him on his Legs they laid him on a Bed and stripping him stark naked rolled his body from one end of the Room to the other upon the sharp Glass till his Skin was stuck full of the fragments and returning him to his bed sent for a Surgeon to take out all the pieces of Glass out of his body which was not done without frequent incisions and horrible and extream pain Another having the unwelcome company of these Villanous Souldiers and having suffered extreamly by them with the utmost constancy one of them looking earnestly on him told him he disfigured himself with letting his beard grow so long who answering That they were the cause of it who would not let him stir out of doors to go to the Barber The Dragoon replyed I can do that for you as well as your Barber telling him he must needs try his Skill upon him and so fell to work but instead of shaving him flead all the Skin off his face One of his Companions coming at the cry of this poor sufferer and seeing what he had done seemingly blamed him for it and said he was a bungler then said to his Host Come your hair wants cutting too and thereupon begins in a most cruel manner to pluck the hair Skin and all off his head and flead that as the other had done his Chin Thus making a sport and merriment of the extream sufferings of these miserable wretches By these inhumane and more than barbarous means they labour to overcome the most resolved patience and to drive people to despair and faint-heartedness by their Devilish inventions refusing to give them death which they desire and only keep them alive to torment them till they have vâ—â—â—â—isht their courage telling them The King will have obedient Subjects but neither Martyrs nor Rebels and that they have order to convert them but not to kill them Let us conclude with a prayer used by these blessed Souls in the agony of their Spirits O great God who from thy heavenly Throne dost behold all the outrages done to thy people haste thee to help us Great God whose compassions are infinite suffer thy self to be moved by our extream desolation If men be insensible of the Calamities we suffer If they be deaf to our cries not regarding our groans or supplications yet let thy Bowels O Lord be moved and affect thee on our behalf Glorious God for whose names sake we suffer all these things who knowest our innocency and weakness as well as the fury and rage of our adversaries and the small support and help we find in the World Behold we perish if thy pity do not rouze thee up to our relief It is thou art our Rock our God our Father our Deliverer We do not place our confidence in any but in thee alone Let us not be confounded because we put our must in thee Haste thee to our help make no long tarrying O Lord our God and our Redeemer Amen An Abstract of the Persecutions of the Protestants in Piedmont and Savoy in the years 1686 and 1687. NOtwithstanding a perpetual and inviolable Law was ordained and solemnly confirmed to the Protestants for the free exercise of their Religion in Piedmont by the several Dukes of Savoy in the years 1638 1649 1654 and 1655. as you read before in the Persecution of the Waldenfes yet the old Maxim of the Romish Antichristian Church That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks prevailed so much that the most solemn Oaths and Protestations were insignificant For after that bloudy Massacre in 1655 which seemed to have irrecoverably destroyed the Waldenses yet many escaped the fury of these Butchers and defended their lives with such undaunted courage that they defeated in several Rencounters a considerable party of their Enemies and by the mediation of several Protestant Princes and States a solemn Patent was granted them confirming all their priviledges forever Yet soon after the Spanish Inquisitors violated the most essential points thereof which since they only opposed by petitions and complaints their Implacable adversarys believing they could oppress them without resistance in 1663. they imployed Fire and Sword once more against them The Waldenses knowing by experience that to stand in their own defence was the only way to save themselves were constrained to take up arms and defended themselves so well that they re-established their affairs again the same year and in 1664 another solemn perpetual and irrevocable Patent was past and inrolled in the Senate but was executed with no better Faith than the former yet not absolutely broken till the year 1685 For though they had rendred the Duke of Savoy very considerable services the year before in the War of the Banditi of Mondavi Yet now the Governour of the Valleys of Piedmont published an order which forbid all Forreigners to inhabit there or stay above three days without permission under severe penalties The Waldenses had already heard of the violences used in France to compel people to change their Religion but never believed it would have been their own case till the Duke published an order Jan. 31. 1686 prohibiting the exercise of their Religion on pain of Death and confiscation of goods and commanding all their Churches to be demolished their Ministers banished and their Children to be educated in the Romish Religion under the penalties that their Parents should be sent to the Gallies containing almost the same things with the French Kings Declaration that annuals the Edict of Nantes It is impossible to express the fears grief wherewith the Waldenses were seized at the sight of an Order so surprizing so unjust and rigorous whereby they were utterly deprived of their Liberty of Conscience yet judging this order was gained by surprize they present four Petitions to the Duke of Savoy for revoking it but found no râ—â—â—ess yea saw their misfortune without remedy when they understood that the French King who had hitherto protected them had obliged the Duke to publish it and caused his own Troops to advance into Piedmont for the execution of it and therefore they resolved to defend themselves and preserve their lives from the danger that threatned them Mean time the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland being informed of this Order thought they ought not to abandon a People Persecuted for their Religion and therefore sent Ambassadors to the Duke to know the reason thereof who returned no other answer but That the ingagements wherein he had entred with France opposed the success of their Negotiation whereby he had obliged himself to extirpate all the Protestants out of his Countrey Hereupon the Waldenses
between the Pope and the Emperor whereupon the Pope cursed him and sends his Letters out against him to all the Princes of Christendom declaring that he was an accursed person and ought to be avoided and cast out of all Christian company He likewise stirred up his Subjects in Rebellion against him The Emperor then marched to Rome to chastise his Pride but the Popefled to Venice and the Venetians being required to send him to Frede ich refused it whereupon the Emperor sent his Son Otho against him with Men and Ships very well furnished but withal charged him by no means to attempt any thing against the Venetians till he himself came But the young man being full of heat and desire of glory ventured to ingage the Enemy and was by them overthrown and himself taken Prisoner Upon this misfortune the compassionate Father to release his Son from captivity and misery was forced to submit to whatever Conditions of Peace the Pope should demand whereby it was at last agreed that the Emperour should come into S. Marks Church at Venice and there kneeling down at the Popes feet he should receive Absolution and Forgiveness This the Emperour persormed and the proud Pope setting his foot upon the Emperours Neck said that verse in the Psalm Thou shalt tread upon Lions and Adders the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou trample under foot which the Pope applied to the Emperour but the Emperour answered Not to thee but to Peter this power is given The Pope replied Both to me and to Peter The Emperour fearing further quarrels durst say no more but was absolved and his Son was restored to his liberty III. Not long after this that is in the time of that famous King Henry the Second one Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury was by his extraordinary pride and insolâ—nce the occasion of very great disturbance to the King and Kingdom for the King câ—lling his Nobles and the Clergy together desired that some Clergy-men might be called to answer for some Villanies by them committed for it was proved that several persons had been murdered by their means This Thomas Besket would not consent unto without a Clause of seeing this Order which very much displeased the King but by the perswasion of his Brethren Becket afterward consented yet being incouraged by the Pope he again fell off and repented of what he had done which the more inraged the King against him This quarrel continued many years and the King was so tormented by this proud Prelate that he once passionately cryed out Will no body a venge me of this Becket These words were spoken in the Hearing of some Gentlemen who thereupon guessing at the Kings mind four of them presently went to Canterbury and finding the Archbishop in the Cathedral there they fell upon him and kill'd him upon the Stairs of the Altar every one striking him over the head with his Sword and then made their escape This Murder was charged upon the King by the Popes Legate and though the King swore that he was neither aiding nor consenting to his death yet he was forced to kiss the Legates Knee and submit to such Penance as he should appoint him one part whereof was that he should absolutely submit to the Pope in all spiritual matters And it is likewise recorded that King Henry coming out of France went to Canterbury and as soon as he was in sight of Thomas Beckets Church he got off his Horse and pulling off his Shoes and Stockins he went barefoot to Beckets Tomb the ways being so sharp and stony that his Feet bled as he passed along and when he came there every Monk in the Cloister whipt the Kings Back with a Rod which shews saith the Historian what slavery Kings and Princes were at that time brought into by the Popes Clergy The same year the City of Canterbury was almost burnt down and Beckets Church was utterly consumed This Becket was afterward Cannized for a Saint but a Popish Historian saith of him That he was worthy of death and damnation for being so obstainate against Gods Minister his King IV. King John the Son of Henry the Second was likewise made sensible of the danger of offending the Pope for in the year 1205 the King being incensed against the Clergy who possessed great Benefices and yet neglected their Charge he endeavoured to rectifie this and some other great miscarriages about Electing Bishops and several other things But the Pope fearing he would intrench upon his Privileges and Gain stirred Heaven and Earth against him Excommunicating and cursing him giving his Kingdom to the French King and stirring up his own Nobility and people against him so that the King being compassed about with Enemies on every side was forced to submit to the Pope promising to do whatever he should command him Nay the King took his Crown off his head and kneeling upon his knees in the midst of all his Lords and Barons he gave it to Pandulphus the Popes Legate saying Here I resign up the Crown of the Realm of England to the hands of Pope Innocent the Third and lay my self wholâ—â—y at his mercy and appointment Pandulphus took the Crown from King John and kept it five days and the King giving then all his Kingdoms to the Pope to be held in Farm from him and his Heirs for evermore his Crown was restered again King John engaging to pay seven hundred Marks a year for England and three hundred for Ireland half of it at Easter and half at Michaelmas as Rent for the sald Kingdoms This King John was afterward poysoned by a Monk which was judged such a Meritorious Act that the Murderer bad a Mass appointed to be said for his Soul for ever after by his Follow-Monks V Pope Celestine the Third standing upon the Sâ—irs of St. Peters Church in Rome he there received an Oath of Henry the Sixth Emperor of Germary and then had him into the Church and Anointed him and sitting in his Pontifical Chair held the Crown of Gold between his Feet and the Emperor bowing down his Head to the Popes Feet received the Crown the Empress likewise was Crowned in the same manrer The Crown being thus put on the Pope immediately kickt it off the Emperor's Head with his Foot to the ground declaring thereby that if he pleased he could depose him again Then the Cardinals took up the Crown and again put it on his Head VI. Nay to such a height did the Popes at last arrive that they governed all things Emperors and Princes have been forced to kneel and kâ—ss their Toes nay they asserted that all Kings were Slaves and in subjection to them And that all must be judged by the Pope but he by no man The Persecutions Committed by the Papists upon the Waldenses and Albingenses and other Protestants in Piedmont Savoy and the Valtoline from the Year 1160. to the Year 1656. WHen by the just Judgment of the Almighty All the world wondred after
him on the Face with his Foot whom all the Murtherers of France feared so much when he was alive Then the Duke and his bloody Train went into the Streets crying Arm Arm we have had good success and a happy beginning Let us now proceed to the rest for it is the Kings Command which words he repeated often This is the Kings Commandment this is his Will this is his express pleasure therefore courage my Fellows Then the great Bell of the Pallace which was the bloody token of the General Alarm began to ring out aloud and presently a Report was spread That the Protestants had conspired against the King Queen and Court and were just going to Execute their Design After this the Admirals head was cut off and sent to the King and Queen Mother and being by them preserved with Spices it was sent to the Pope and the Cardinal of Lorrain at Rome as a very grateful present The Pope when he first heard the News of the Massacre appointed a day of Publick Thanksgiving to God where Te Deum was sung for joy in the Church of St. Lewis He likewise Published a Bull of Pardons and extraordinary Indulgences to such as should pray for the Heavenly assistance to the King and Kingdom of France for rooting out of Hereticks The Râ—scally Rabble cut off the Hands and Privy Members of the Admiral dragging his mangled body besmeâ—â—ed with blood and filth through the Sâ—reets three days together and then hanged it by the Feet upon the Gallows All the Attendants of the King of Navarr and Prince of Conde which lay in the Kings Pallace were murdered and likewise all the Lords and Gentlemen about the Admiral 's Lodgings and among the rest his Son Teligny and then through all the City and Suburbs were the poor Protestants Massacred with all manner of Cruelties Nothing was then to be heard but the Terrible noise of Horses and Arms Guns and Pistols mingled with the doleful sad and woful Screeches and miserable complaints of Men Women and Children Rich and Poor crying for mercy to these bloody Hell-hounds howling and lamenting at their miserable Condition to be thus wretchedly murdered for they knew not what And all this intermâ—xt with the groans of the dying and the merciless shouts of the Cruel Murtherers continually crying Kill kill for the King commands it that it seemed as if Heaven and Earth had met together or as if the Heavens had rent with Thunder So that in that night and the Two next days there was slain in Paris above Ten Thousand Persons of both Sexes and all Ranks and Ages the bloody Papists not sparing the Children in the Cradle nor the Infants in their Mothers wombs insomuch that the Streets Market-place and Rivers were dyed with Blood and the Murtherers boasted that they had in a few days put an end to that Quarrel that neither Pen Paper Decrees of Justice nor open War could accomplish in Twelve years This horrid Mâ—ssacre was committed on St. Bartholomews day being the 24 of August 1571. which was the Sabbath day and is made samous for ever by the Effusion of so much precious Innocent blood as no Age nor time can parallel for there were at this time in Paris Threescore Thousand men with Pistols Poinards Swords Knives and such other Bloody Instruments who ran up and down swearing and blaspheming the Sacred Majesty of God cruelly massacring all they met So that the Streets were covered with mangled Bodies and the Gates and Doots defiled with blood the Lords and Gentlemen were Inhumanely murdered some in their Beds others on the top of their Houses and in all other places where they were found and such a multitude of dead Bodies were thrown into the River Sein that the water was dyed Red with their Blood In the Heilish Assembly wherein this bloody Massacre was concluded on it was debated whether the King of Navarr and Prince of Conde should not be destroyed with the rest the Duke of Guise pâ—euded for it but others were against it and argued how abomiâ—able it would be to destroy two young Princâ—s of 〈◊〉 blood in the Flower of their Age and one of them in the imbraces of his young Bride and the Kings own Sister and therefore it was concluded That they should be threatued violâ—â—tly with death and all manner of Torments if they would not turn Papists And thereupon the King commanded them to be brought into his presence and told them That now he had cut off all the Instruments of the late Civil Wars which he hoped would prevent future troubles for by his Command the Admiral was slain and all the rest of the Hereticks and that the like should be Executed in all other places throughout the Kingdom and that if they would now save their Lives they must turn Catholicks for he was resolved to have but one Religion in his Kingdom The King of Navarr and the Prince of Conde humbly beseeched his Majesty to Remember his Oaths Promises and solemn Vows and Protestations that they should have the free Exercise of their Religion and withal told the King That he might do as he pleased with their Bodies and Estates but their unspotted Souls were in the hands of God and that they were resolved to remain stedfast in their Religion though with the loss of their lives which answer so inraged the King that he called the Prince of Conde Rebel and the Son of a Rebellious Person horribly threatning him That if within three days he did not obey his Command he should die for it and then with a furious Countenance left them with these three Terrible Words Death Mass or the Bastile Many Gentlemen that were attendants upon them as likewise their Schoolmasters and Tutors were thrust out of the Chamber among the Murtherers that is among the Kings Guard of Switzers who stood in two Ranks with their Swords drawn ready for Blood and Cruelty These Gentlemen crying out of the Kings Oaths Promises and Fidelity were yet by the Kings Command and in his own Sight unmercifully hewen and cut in peices In this Butcherly Massacre at Paris there were above four Thousand Houses robbed and plundered and above Five Hundred Barons Knights and Gentlemen who were chief Officers in the War with abundance of Noble young Gentlemen Ladies and Gentlewomen Inhumanely murthered who little expected such a bloody Fate for they came from all parts to rejoyce in honour of the marriage of the King of Navarr and instead of Jollity and pleasures they here met with an untimely death from Bloody and Cowardly Papists who murther like Devils but dare not fight like men The King and his Considents searing that this Massacte would not end the Quarrel but rather stir up the Protestants in other places to stand upon their own defence He therefore sends Messengers by Post to all parts of the Kingdom often shifting Horses for more speed with express Commands to the Governours of all other Towns and Cities
in France to follow the Example of Paris and to destroy and kill all the Protestants which were amongst them and yet at the same time the King writes other Letters wherein he laid the fault of the murder of the Admiral and the rest upon the Duke of Guise As soon as this Command was published and that the Kings Letters came the Papists fell with all imaginable fury upon all the Protestants at Meaux Troys Orleans and other places murthering them without any manner of pity and Compassion And among the rest Monsieur De la Place President of the Court of Requests being in his house a Captain came to him and told him that the Duke of Guise had killed thâ— Admiral by the Kings appointment and many other Hugonots but however he was willing to secure him but desired to see his Gold The Lord De la Place câ—â—â—rving his Impudence asked him whether hâ— thought there were a King or no the Captain bâ—aspheming bid him go to know the Kings pleasure The Lord De la Place thinking there was danger near went from him to secure himself and the Captain thereupon plundered his House The poor Gentleman seeking shelter in three Houses for his life was denied and was at last forced to return home again where finding his wife very sorrowful he rebuked her and discourst with her of the Promises of God telling her That through many Tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of God and then calling his Family together he made an Exhortation to them went to prayer and then read a Chapter in Job with Calvins Exposition and then praying again he resolved by Gods assistance to suffer all kind of Torments rather than to fly for it Presently after the Provost of the Merchants comes to his House with many Archers and an Order to bring him to the King and would not admit of any Excuse whereupon the Lord supposed what would happen and therefore embracing his Wife he desired her never to forsake the truth of God And so going toward the Palace some Murtherers waited for him and immediately stab'd him with their Daggers so that he fell down dâ—ad and then stripping him cast his Body into the River After this there followed the like Cruclties and Murders upon the Protestants in the Cities of Lyons Tholouse Burdeauâ— Angiers where the Protestants were most barbarously killed destroyed as likewise in most other Cities and Towns so that in a few Months there were murdered above threescore Thousand Protestants in France for no other Crime but only for being Protestants Yet in the midst of these dangers it pleased God to provide some places of refuge for them as Rochel Montalbon Wismes Saucerre Privus c. whither many Protestants fled from other places In the year 1573. the Town of Saucerre was besieged by the Lord of Chastre who with his Cannon played incessâ—ntly upon the place so that the Stones Pavements and Splinters of Timber flew about continually and yet it pleased God that only one young Woman was slain thereby though sometimes the Coats Breeches and Hats of the Inhabitants were shot thorough The Siege being long there was great scarcity insomuch that the People were forced to eat Horses Asses and Mules which lasted a Month afterwards they cat all the Dogs Cats Rats Mice and Moles that they could get and then they were forced to eat Parchments Horses and Beasts-Hoofs Horns Lanthorns Hasters Girdles of Leather Herbs wild Roots and Furniture for Horses this being all spent and no bread in the City they made bread of Linseed Herbs mixt with Bran Straw Meal Powder of Nut-shells yea Slates Sewet old Ointments and other Grease served to make Pottage and therewith they likewise fryed the Excrements of Horses and Men which they eat yea the very filth in the Streets was not spared During this Extremity a labourer and his wife were put to death for cating the Head Intrails and Brains of their own Child a Girl of three years old who died with Famine having likewise dressed the rest of her body to eat at other times Those that went out of the City Walls were forced to live upon the Spriggs of Vines Black-berries Snails and Herbs and many of them were killed by the Enemy And among other lamentable Spectacles a poor man and his Wife were found dead among the Vines and two of their Children crying by them the youngest being not above Six weeks old whom a Charitable Widow took home and relieved c. Many died of this terrible Famine in their Houses and others fell down dead in the Sâ—reeâ—â— Most of the Children under Twelve years old died and most lamentable it was to see their poor Fathers and Mothers lamenting their misery and yet could not relieve them yet most of them did wondâ—rfully encourage themseâ—veâ— in Gods help and assistance as may appear by this strange Example A Boy about five years old being famisht for Hunger running along the Streets fell down for dead in the presence of his Father and Mother who wept over him and felt his Arms and Legs which were as dry as a Stick To whom the Child said Why do you weep to see me die of hunger I ask you no Bread Mother for I know you have none but since it is Gods will that I should die in this manner I must take it thankfully Had not the Hâ—ly man Lazarus Hunger have I not read it in my Bible and saying thus he yielded up his Spirit And that which preserved the rest from perishing was because there were six Cows kept alive to give Milk to some few Intants and some Horses of service reserved for extremity were killed and their flesh sold and some little Corn was brought into the Town by stealth which was sold for half a Crown a pound There died by the War but Eighty four Persons but the Famine destroyed Five Hundred and the rest were brought so low that they hardly recovered Divers voluntarily went out of the Town chusing rather death than such misery whereof some were slain and others Imprisoned and Executed And now when all humane help failed the King having sworn He would make them eat one another and the Papists threatning to Massacre them all it pleased God strangely to deliver these poor Protestants For Ambassadors coming from Poland to fetch the Duke of Anjou the Kings Brother thither whom they had chosen for their King They having notice of this terrible siege obtained by their Sollicitations that all the Towns in France which were molested for Religion should have their Liberty by which means the poor Saucerreans half dead with hunger obtained their freedom and were quietly suffered to depart with their Arms and Goods and those that would stay not to be questioned for what was past About the same time the Town of Rochel was likewise besieged the Townsmen often sallying out and divers hot skirmishes past among the rest a young Gentleman boasted with horrible blasphemies that he was one of
Hangman whether the rest of his Instruments of Torment are ready who to affright the Prisoner answers they are but he hath not brought them with him they then bid him bring them to morrow and so turning to the poor wretch which lyes in miserable pain the Inquisitors cry How now Sirrah how do you like this well consider of it against to morrow â—r else you die for what you have felt is but a flea biting to what remains behind Then the Gaoler plays the Bone-setter as well as he can three days after brings him to the Rack again when his joynts are most sore and sometimes they have another Torment with the Trough where the Person is laid with his feet higher than his head bound hand and foot in the Trough and then laying a thick Cloath over his Mouth and Nostrils they pour water thereupon with a long stream which falling from on High drives the Cloath down his Throat with miserable Torture and pain and being drawn out again from the bottom of his Throat it draws forth blood with it and seems as if it tore out his bowels They have another Torment with Fire which is no whit inferior to the former and that is by holding the Prisoners Feet over a pan of burning Charcoal and that the Fire may have the more force they baste their Feet with Lard and Bacon If after all these and divers other cruel Tortures they continue constant they are then condemned to death Then he is clothed in a Sambernetto or long Garment painted over with ugly Devils he hath on his head a high Crown'd Hat whereon a man is painted burning in the Fire with many Devils about him plying him with Fire and Faggot upon his Tongue a piece of cleft Wood is put to hinder his speaking a Cord about his neck and his hands fast tyed hehind him All things being finished they are delivered by the Inquisitors into the hands of the Magistrate who presently conveys him to Execution where several Fryars swarm about him earnestly perswading him to deny the Truth and when they cannot prevail upon him he is tyed to the Stake and in an Instant the Hangman breaks his neck without being perceived and then they report among the Common People that he recanted at his last hour and returned to the Church of Rome and therefore he felt no pain in the Fire but took his death so patiently without any motion or crying out And though by the Terrors of the Inquisition the Professors of the Gospel in Spain have been but few they having been so wickedly industrious as to crush all appearances of Truth in the bud yet in the year 1545. several Protestants at St. Lucar Valedolia Sevil and other places in Spain suffered death no less than thirty being martyred at one time and five years after divers more likewise were put to death as one Francis Romanes a Merchant De Cacalla a man of Excellent Learning and one Rochus a skilful Graver of Images who turned Protestants and died for the same also one John Pontio Gonsalvo a Priest Juliano Leon Arias Losada a Physician together with a Lady and several Women and Virgins who were burnt at several times in divers places and twenty others besides who were burnt in one Fire after they had endured all the horrid torments of the Rack the Pully the Trough the Barnacle the Twisting Cord and the rest of the barbarous Tortures and Inventions of the cursed Inquisition Nay divers English-men being betrayed by the Insinuation of wicked Informers were likewise burnt in Spain as Nicholas Burton Merchant of London was burnt at Sevil and another English-man with him and not long after two more named John Baker and William Burgate and about the same time William Burgess Master of an English Ship was burnt there likewise and one William Hooker a youth of about sixteen years old was stoned to death for the bold profession of the Truth As Portugal is but a little Kingdom and the power of the Pope and his Clergy very considerable there as well as in Spain they have wonderfully supprest the power of the Truth with their Tortures yet some have there likewise suffered for the Gospel and among others William Garaner an English-man whom they put to death with most eâ—quisite Tortures at Lisbon in the year 1552. for taking the Host out of a Cardinals hand and stamping it under his Feet He boldly asserting to the King himself That he did it out of Conscience as not being able to endure to see the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper irreverently used to so great Idolatry and although all manner of cruelty was used toward him yet he died with extraordinary Constancy singing Psalms in the Flames to the very last moment of his life The Rage and Fury of Papists in the Low-Countreys or Netherlands was no less than in other places For the Inquisition being introduced there it was accompanied with all manner of cruelty At Antwerp one Nicholas an holy good man was bound up in a Sack and drown'd In Holland a Learned Preacher called Pistorius was burnt being carryed to the Stake with a Fools Coat on his back Wendelmuta a Widow likewise suffered death with much Constancy Several Ministers were beheaded among the rest one George Scherter who after his head had been cut off for some time and his body lying on his belly he turning himself on his back and crossing his right foot over the left and his right hand over the left continued so to the great admiration of the Spectators and the Conversion of many Several were drowned others were made away in Prisons others shut up in dark and noisom places and none suffered to come at them being fed only with Bread and Water till they were famished At Lorain several were martyred some by Fire others Beheaded There was a very great Persecution all over Flanders about the year 1544. so that there was hardly a Town or City in all the Countrey wherein some were not banished beheaded or condemned to perpetual Imprisonment neither was there any respect either to Age or Sex but especially at Gaunt many of the chief Persons were burned for being Protestants and several others in Brabant and Artois insomuch that Two hundred Men and Women were cruelly destroyed at one time some of them being drowned some burned alive and some privately murdered so that the Hangman began to be tyred and wearied out with such continual Executions At the Town of Mecklin Dornick and Delden several were put to death and among the rest two Noble Virgins who were Sisters and likewise a Mother and her three Sons who all died owning the Gospel and zealously exclaiming against the Cruelty and Idolatry of the Papists And about the same time they miserably tormented one Bertrand for trampling the Host under his Feet whom they thrice put to the Rack and because he would not recant in the Manket-place of Dornick they put a Ball of Iron into his mouth
to keep him from speaking and then crushed his right hand between two flat red hot frons till the form of it was changed and then did the like by his foot which he endured with admirable patience then tying him round the waste by a Pully and making a Fire underneath they hoisted him up and down till he was burnt to Ashes which they cast into the River There were several martyred at Valence and Lisle and one of the Judges pronouncing sentence against these good People said This day you shall go to dwell with all the Devils in Hell Fire But the greatest Instrument of the Devil in those Countreys was the Duke of Alva who was sent by the King of Spain to root the Protestants out of the Low-Countreys This Duke boasted one time at his own Table That he had been diligent to root out Heresie for besides those he had slain in the Wars he had put into the hands of the Common Hangman to be Executed within the space of six years no less than Eighteen thousand Persons And to compleat this sad Catastrophe we may also remember that William of Nassaw Prince of Orange was shot by a Villain called Joanville who was encouraged by a Jacobine Fryar to do it the Rascal was thrust through with an Halbert and the Fryar was hang'd But this wound not proving mortal they hired one Gerard a Burgundian who standing behind the Pillar in a Room shot the Prince dead as he past by The Persecutions of the Papists upon the Protestants in Scotland and Ireland AS most Kingdoms in Europe felt the rage and fury of Romish Cruelty and Persecution so Scotland though in the frozen north was not insensible thereof For in the Year 1572. Mr. Patrick Hamilton of an Ancient and Honourable Family and called Abbot of Fern left Scotland and went into Germany where conversing with Luther and Melancthon he greatly increased in godly knowledge and learning and returning home he publickly Preached concerning Faith and good works and against the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Papists This so enraged James Beaton Arch bishop of St. Andrews that in the absence of the King Mr. Hamilton was seized upon by the Bishops Officers and carried to the Castle and the next day he was brought forth to Judgment and Condenmed to be Burnt for the Testimony of God The Articles charged against him were about Pilgrimages Purgatory Praying to Saints and for the Dead After Dinner the Fire was prepared which some thought was only to terrifie him but it pleased God to strengthen him against the fear of Death and so he was tied to the Stake giving his Garments to his Servant and saying thus to him These will not profit in the Fire they will profit thee After this thou canst receive no benefit by me except the Example of my Death which I pray thee to remember for though it be bitter to the Flesh and fearful before men yet it is the entrarce into eternal Life which none shall possess who deny Jesus Christ before this wicked Generation And the Fire being kindled he cried with a loud voice Lord Jesus receive my Spirit how long shall Darkness overwhelm this Realm and how long wilt thou suffer the Tyranny of these men A Fryar troubling him by crying out Turn thou Heretick call upon our Lady say Salve Regina c. he replyed Depart from me and trouble me not thou Messenger of Satan and speaking to one Campbel the chief among them he said Wicked man thou knowest the Contrary and hast confessed the contrary to me I appeal thee before the Tribunal Seat of Jesus Christ after which words he resigned up his Spirit to God and within a few days after the Fryar died in a Frenzy and Desperation The Archbishop of St. Andrews likewise called before him two Gentlemen David Straton and Mr. Normand Gomlay Mr. Straton being accused for Heresy was much troubled at it and thereupon frequented the company of Religious men and hearing that Text read He that denieth me before men or is ashamed of me in this wicked Generation I will deny him before my Father and his Holy Angels he stedfastly lift up his eyes and hands to Heaven and burst forth into these words O Lord I have been wicked and justly mayest thou withdraw thy Grace fâ—â—â—â— me but Lord for thy Mercy sake let me never deny thy Truth for fear of Death or Corporal pain Being afterwards together with Mr. Norman brought to Judgment in Holy Rood-House where the King himself was present they were both condemned to the fire and in the afternoon were first Hanged and then Burnt which they chearfully suffered There was likewise one Dean Thomas Foret who used to Preach to his Parishioners every Lords day out of the Epistles and Gospels as they came in order for which being complained of to the Bishop of Dunkeldon he reproved him for it telling him that it was too much to preach every Sunday since the People might think they ought to do so likewise and says the Bishop Is it not enough for you when you find a good Epistle and Gospel to set forth and preach the Liberty of Holy Church and let the rest alone Dean Thomas replyed That he had read them all over and knew no bad ones among them But said he when your Lordship shews me any such I will pass them by The Bishop anwered I thank God I never knew what the Old and New Testament was but go your ways and â—â—pent of these fancies ere it be too late The Dean answered My cause is good and just 〈◊〉 the presence of God and therefore 〈…〉 〈…〉 but he 〈…〉 Cardinal Beton by whom he was condemned and Burned for an Heretick The Year after Jerom Russel and Alexander Kennedy who was not above eighteen years old â—ere brought before the Archbishop and his Associates who railed upon them and called â—hem Hereticks Jerom Russel replyed This your hour and power of darkness now sit ye as judges and we are wrongfully accused but the day will come wherein our Innocency will appear â—nd ye shall see your own blindness to your everlasting confusion go forward and fulfil the measure of your Iniquity A while after they were sentenced to die and as they went to Execution Jerom comforted Kennedy saying Brother fear not greater is he that is in us than he that is in the World the pain we are to suffer is short and shall be light but our joy and consolation shall never have an end let us therefore strive to enter into our Master and Saviours Joy by the same straight way which he hath taken before us Death cannot hurt us for it is destroyed by him for whose sake we now suffer And in this manner past reason they joyfully gave up their Souls unto God in the Flaming Fire In the year 1543. Cardinal Beton coming to Edenburgh caused several Religious persons to be brought before him and when he could prove nothing else against them
ample Testimonies by their publick Writings against the many Corruptions evil Doctrines and Superstitious Worship of the Romish Church with the hazard of their Lives Honours Liberties Estates and Fortunes so that many were persecuted and some were burnt in the Reign of King Henry the second 1174. and in the Year 1380. Utred Bolton and John Ashwerly endured Persecution and a while after John Ashton Walter Bruce John Pateskul and Doctor Crump were persecuted and William Sawtree a Divine of Oxford was martyred and William Swinderly was Burnt in Smithfield In the Year 1407. William Thorp was Burnt and Laurence Redman and six others grievously persecuted In the Year 1417 the Lord Cobham was Burnt in S. Giles's Fields John Purey and Will. White and Richard White were burnt Peter Clark a Divine of Oxford for maintaining publickly the Doctrine of Wickliff was forced to flye but was taken beyond Sea his Tongue cut out then hanged and afterwards burnt Roger Ovely was hanged and Quartered In the Year 1447. Humfrey Duke of Glocester was murdered by the Papists for being a favourer of Wickliff and other Preachers of the Truth and divers others were many ways persecuted for the sake of Religion before the rising of Luther God having in all Ages raised up some to Testifie to the Truth and to maintain the purity of the Gospel And besides these Divines Learned and great men there were several other good men of a meaner quality who openly owned the Truth and suffered for the same and as the number of the professors grew greater who now began to be called Lollards so Persecution grew hotter and the Rage and Malice of the Papists increased In the Reign of King Henry the fifth 1413. Sir Roger Acton John Brown John Beverly and Thirty six more were all put to Death in St. Giles's Fields and John Claydon and Richard Turning Benedict Ulman and several others were burnt and many Imprisoned In the Reign of King Henry the sixth William Tailor one of Wickliffs followers was burnt in Smithfield Henry Web and Henry Florence were Curelly whipt and about an hundred and twenty Men and Women suffered persecution many of them were burnt William White was Martyr'd and at the same time two were burnt at Colchester Richard Hâ—veden a Citizen of London was Martyr'd for the same cause near the Town and several more severely whipt and terribly handled Thomas Baily and Richard Wiche both Ministers were burnt one in Smithfield and the other on Tower-hill In the Reign of Edward the fourth John Goose was Burnt and in Henry the sevenths Reign one Jean Boughton of Fourscore years old was burnt in Norfolk another person was Burnt in Smithfield several were likewise â—igmatized and many did penance William Tilsworth was Burnt in the Town of Amasham where they forced his own Daughter to set fire to Faggots that were to burn her Father and two Years after Thomas Bernard and John Melton and one Roberts were burnt in the same County of Buckingham Thomas Chace after many Cruel Usages and Hardships was murthered in Prison Thomas Norrice was burnt at Norwich and Lawrence Guest at Salisbury and a Woman at Chipping-Sadbury with several other persons in the Reign of King Henry the seventh In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth the Flames increased very much and abundance Suffered in every place In the Year 1511. William Sweetinâ— and John Brewster were burnt in Smithfield the same year William Carder Robert Harrison and Agnes Grebel were burnt they forcing the Husband and Daughter of the Woman to come in as Witnesses against her After this one Mr. Style with his Book of the Revelations and twenty five more were Burnt five other Persons were accused for reading an Heretical Book which contained many damnable Opinions and what should this Book be but only the Evangelists in English In the Year 1514. Richard Hun was murdered in the Lollards Tower and afterwards burnt John Brown John Stileman and Thomas Man were burnt in Smithfield Robert Cousin was burnt at Buckingham Christopher Shoemaker at Newberry Richard and Robert Bartlet and John Scrivener were likewise burnt and the Children of John Scrivener were forced to set fire to their Father for it was usual with them to compel Children to accuse their Parents and Parents their Children Husbands their Wives and Wives their Husbands Intimate Friends Brothers and Sisters to accuse one another and many Hundreds were likewise forced to recant and abjure against their Conscienecs or else be Burnt There were two things about this time that very much increased the Professors of the Gospel in England One was the appearance of Martin Luther in the World who boldly owned the Truth and loudly Declaimed against the corruptions of the Romish Church another thing was the Art of Printing which now began to be common whereby the True Religion was the more easily promulgated and Dispersed through every Countrey and in all Languages This allarum'd the Pope and his Debauched Clergy who were afraid to have their wicked Doctrines and Practices discovered to the people and thereupon they began to rage and bestir themselves raising Persecution and making Destruction and Slaughter in all places throughout the Kingdom against the Lutherans as they were now called In the Year 1519. several Protestants were apprehended at Coventry and imprisoned in filthy and nasty Dungeons six of whom were afterwards burnt Robert Silkeb and Thomas Harding were burnt shortly after One Sigal Nicholson a Stationer at Cambridge was hung up by the Privy-members for having Luthers Books in his house several likewise abjâ—â—ed and the Body of William Tracy Esq in Glocester-shire because he had left nothing for Masses for his Soul was taken out of the Grave and Burnt two Years after his Death Richard Brafield a Monk of Bury after he had been whipt and most cruelly handled in Prison and Gagged Beaten and bound and Degraded after a very shameful manner was burnt with much Cruelty in London continuing half an Hour alive in the Flames for want of Wood and when his left arm was burnt he rubbed it with his right hand and it fell down in the Fire he continued in Prayer without moving to the last moment several were imprisoned and fed with bread made of Saw-dust some were set in the stocks with Horse-leaches on their Legs â—â—d their hands so mangled with Irons that the Flesh grew higher than the Irons and with Iron Collars about their Necks nay many were racked till they were lamed John Tewsbury James Bainham Valentine Sheaf and his Wife John Bent and one Trapnel were all Burnt about the same time three were hanged in Chains for burning the Image or Rood of Dover Court John Frith Andrew Honor Thomas Benet William Tindal John Lambert William Leiton and Collins a Lawyer were burnt and Robert Packington Murdered Doctor Barns Thomas Garret William Hieron were burnt in Smithfield John Potter was murthered it Prison Robert Testwood Anthony Parker and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor About five
hundred persons in and about London either died in prison or were burnt in Smithfield In the Year 1541. Damlip Dod Saxy were Slain One Henry at Colchester Kerby and Clark at Ipswich and Bury were burnt In the Year 1546. Mistriss Ann Askew one of the Ladies belonging to Queen Katherine Parr because she would not confess any other Ladies was put upon the Rack and the Lord Chancellor himself being more Cruel he acted then the Executioner ordered her to be racked to the utmost she was afterward Burnt in Smithfield and at the same time and place were likewise Burnt Nicholas Belerrian a Minister iâ— Shropshire John Adams a Tailor and John Lacels a Gentleman belonging to King Henry the Eighth these beholding the Invincible Constancy and Patience of Mistriss Askew were thereby much incouraged in their Sufferings About the same time Sir John Blage of the Kings Privy Chamber was falsly accused to have spoken against the Mass upon which he was condemned to be burnt in Smithfield whereupon the Earl of Bedford begged his pardon of the King who Commanded it to be drawn immediately After his release Sir George coming to the King Ah my Pig said he for so he usually called him Yea said Blage if your Majesty had not been better to me than your Bishops were your Pig had been roasted before this time Presently after Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and his Confederates set forth a Cruel Proclamation in the Kings Name for abolishing the Scriptures and all other English Books that discovered the Truth to the people and having obtained this they very much rejoyced therein hoping that they had now for ever suppressed the Gospel so that it should never rise again and to strike the greater terror into mens minds they made a diligent search after the Professors of the Truth of whom they took the names of some drove away others and hereby doubted not but to attain their ends But it pleased God that in the midst of these subtil Contrivances for the destruction of his Gospel and Servants to take away King Henry the Eighth within four Months after the Proclamation and thereby all their hopes and projects were utterly disappointed King Henry the Eighth being dead his only Son Prince Edward our English Josiah ascended the Throne under whom the Protestant Religion was established and Popery and Superstition abolished for he caused all Images to be demolished and as Idolatrous to be taken out of all Churches within his Dominions the Learned mâ—n of his time he encouraged and commanded them to open and expound the Scriptures 〈◊〉 abolished the Mass and ordered the Service to be read in the English Tongue and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be administred in both kinds to the People But it pleased God in a short time to take him to himself for in the Seventh Year of his Reign and the Seventeenth Year of his Age he was taken with a lingring sickness during which time a Marriage was concluded between the Lord Guilford Dudley eldest Son to the Duke of Northumberland and the Lady Jane the Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk whose mother being then alive was Daughter to Mary King Henry the Eighths second Sister The Marriage being finisht and the King every day more sick than other so that he seemed past Recovery the Duke of Northumberland being ambitious to advance his Family perswaded the King that the Church and the True Religion would be in great danger if he did not choose a pious Successer and that it was the part of a good Prince to set aside all other respects when the Glory of God and the good of his Subjects were concerned The King partly for his great desire to have the Protestant Religion confirmed and partly for the intire love which he bore to his Cousin the Lady Jane signed Letters Patents under the Broad Seal to appoint the Lady Jane to succeed him in the Kingdom although her Title were excluded by the Lady Mary who was always a zealous Papist and the Lady Elizabeth This was afterwards confirmed by the Nobility and Chief Lawyers of the Kingdom and was subscribed to by all the Kings Council the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London who upon the Death of King Edward which happened in a short time after proclaimed the Lady Jane Queen in London and Westminster The Lady Mary being in Hartfordshire and hearing of it presently sent to the Lords of the Council commanding and requiring them to Proclaim her Queen which if they refused to do she threatned to recover her Right by force of Arms. The Lords returned answer That the Lady Jane was invested and possessed of the Crown by just Right and Title both by the Ancient Laws of the Land and by Letters Patents signed and sealed by the late King before his death and therefore they declared they would adhere to her and to none other requesting the Lady Mary that she would not upon any pretence endeavour to disturb the peace of the Kingdom promising her that if she would carry her self as a dutiful Subject they would be ready to do her any service The Lady Mary having received this answer withdrew further from the City and the Council being sensible of her stout and unquiet disposition they raised an Army which was commanded by the Duke of Northumberland The Lady Mary went into Suffolk and Norfolk gathering such aid of the Commons as she could and kept her self in Framingham Castle to whom the Suffolk men first resorted who being always forward in promoting the Gospel promised her their aid and assistance provided she would make no alteration of the Protestant Religion as it was established by her Brother King Edward To this she readily agreed and confirmed it with such Vows and Protestations that none could suspect her whereupon they joined with her and thus by the help of the Protestants she vanquished the Duke of Northumberland and his Army and was settled in the Kingdom but she soon forgot her promises for these very Suffolk men observing that Popery would be re-established they Petitioned to her to perform her word to them at which she was extreamly displeased and told them Forasmuch as you who are Members desire to rule your Head you shall one day find that Members must obey not seek to rule Yea one of the chief of these men Mr. Dob by name she caused for the Terror of others to be set in the Pillory several times and divers others that presented Supplications to her not to set up Popery she caused to be sent to prison Queen Mary being setled in the Kingdom the Lady Jane her Father the Duke of Northumberland and her Husband the Lord Guilford Dudley were soon after Beheaded and the Queen soon discovered her disaffection to the Protestant Religion by displacing all the Orthodox Bishops as Poinet Ridley Scorie Hooper Coverdale and by releasing out of the Tower Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester whom she made Lord Chancellor of England◠〈◊〉 Bonner who was
fortified themselves the best they could to prevent the entry of French Troops yet afterward the Duke published an Order that if they would voluntarily depart they should carry away what goods they pleased but without fire-arms But the Waldenses having had such woful experience of Popish Treachery and being satisfied that this Edict was nothing but a snare to intangle them resolved not to accept of it and sent the Switzer Ambassadors by whose mediation this Edict was procured their Resolutions in the matter who used all imaginable diligence to procure them more certain and advantagious conditions but were told That as long as the Waldenses were in Arms they could agree to nothing and the Protestants being perswaded that they would not disarm them but that they might the easier destroy them without trouble or resistance would by no means yield to it but resolved to defend themselves if they came to attack them The Duke of Savoy came into his Camp some days after the Edict to strike terror into the Waldenses by his presence and joining his Troops with those of France he resolved to attack the Protestants and April 22. 1686 was the day appointed The French Army commanded by Cativat Governour of Casal marched two hours before day by torch light to ingage them but found suchs stout resistance that they lost above 500 of their men with several Officers of Note the Waldenses having only two men killed but at length the force of the Enemy was so much increased that the Protestants not being able to make resistance yielded to lay down their arms and depart the Countrey according to the Edict since no time was prefixt but the French heated with their loss massacred them without distinction of Age or Sex putting all to the Sword that fell into their hands without respect to Women or Children yea old and sick people had the same treatment In another part of the Countrey the Duke himself having burnt all the houses in his way came to storm a Fort of the Waldenses who received him so warmly with their Muskets and Stones that they killed the Enemy 300 men and lost only five but being at length over-powered with number and hearing the French were coming to assist the Duke they treated with Don Gabriel the Dukes Uncle who promised positively on his part and their own that they should be absolutely pardoned if they would yield themselves to his elemency But the Waldenses making some difficulty to confide in this promise Don Gabriel sent them a note written with his own hand in the name of the Duke to this effect Lay down your arms immediately and submit your selves to his Royal Highnesses clemency in so doing assure your selves that he will pardon you and that your Persons and those of your Wives and Children shall not be touched Notwithstanding which assurance when the Waldenses laid down their Arms relying on this promise yet all that yielded were made Prisoners and carried to the City of Lucerne under pretence of being led to make their submissions to the Duke And a multitude of others who yielded upon the like deceitful promises had their lives taken away and above twelve Thousand taken Prisoners After this manner the light of the Gospel hath been extinguished in a Countrey where it hath shone so bright for so many ages the perfidiousness and treachery of the Inquisitors having triumpht over the true Faith to the extirpation thereof But for discovering what Spirit their Persecutors were of we will conclude with a few instances of the horrid outrages and Cruelties they have committed on these occasions The French Souldiers entring the Valley of St. Martin massacred many old Men Women and little Children and ravished the young Women and Maidens whom they afterward constrained to march stark naked at the head of their Army to serve for Guides yea they were so monstrously diabolical as to satiate their infamous lusts on the bodies of those they had slain They would have defloured Margaret Marande not fourteen years old and because her Parents made some opposition they inhumanely butchered them Two others they slew for refusing to comply with their Villany They put an old man into an house and burnt him in it Four Women and three Children were murthered in a Cave where they had hid themselves An ancient woman of fourscore they tumbled down a Rock for not going fast enough A great number of Women and Virgins striving to secure themselves in the Woods were dispatcht with Muskets The ways were strewed with the dead bodies of little Children cut to pieces and naked Women Massacred with Swords In the valley of St. Martin six men twenty Women and some Children surrendred themselves to the enemy upon promise of safety but the men were instantly shot to death in the presence of their Wives Some they tyed to horses tails dragged them along till they expired They hung up a blind old woman before her own house Some Souldiers having used their utmost endeavours to flea Daniel Pelâ—ne alive and not being able to pull the Skin off his Shoulders laid him on the ground with a great Stone upon his Belly where he gave up the Ghost Margaret Sabrajote being stript stark naked was run through with a dagger in several parts of her body yet before they cut her throat these Ruffians mortified her little daughter about seven months old before her face and dashed her head against the Rocks till her brains flew out A Virgin of Body was tyed stark naked Cross a Mule with her Nudities exposed to publick view and in this condition led through the Streets of Lucerne The Souldiers having found a Woman named Jaimonate in a hole in a rock on the Mountain of Carbonieres brought her to their Colonel a Savoyard who demanded how long she had been there and wherewith she sustained her self who answered she had been there eight days and that she nourished her self with a little milk of a she Goat which she took along with her At length they would force her to discover others who were hid but she protesting she knew nothing of them they put Matches to her Fingers and tyed her Feet to her Head backward and in this posture threw her down a Rock but as she stopped in falling they threw Stones and Brickbats at her till her Bowels dropt out of her Belly To pass over an inunite number of examples of barbarity of the like nature I shall close with the death of the worthy Leidet which equally deserves pity and admiration He was Minister of Prabe and had hid himself some time among the Rocks but being taken was brought to the Palace of Lucerne where the Duke of Savey then was and being carried to the Tower was put into the Stocks not being able to lye down and fed with Bread and Water They oft threatned him with death unless he would turn Catholick who replyed That though he well knew they could not put him to death with Justice since he
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