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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13422	The booke of martyrs· VVherein are set downe the names of such martyrs as suffered persecution, and laid downe theire lives for witnesse-bearing unto the Gospell of Christ Jesus; drawne downe from the primitive Church, to these later times, especially respecting such as have suffered in this land under the tyranny of Antichrist, in opposition to popish errours.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 23733; ESTC S118187	7,444	40

THE BOOKE OF MARTYRS VVherein are set downe the names of such Martyrs as suffered persecution and laid downe theire lives for witnesse-bearing unto the Gospell of CHRIST JESUS drawne downe from the Primitive Church to these later times especially respecting such as have suffered in this Land under the tyranny of Antichrist in opposition to Popish Errours LONDON Printed by I. B. 1639. A Briefe CATALOGVE of such Martyrs as suffered persecution and laid downe their lives for witnesse-bearing unto the Gospel of Christ Iesus drawne downe from the Primitive Church to these later times especially respecting such as have suffered in this Land under the tyranny of Antichrist in opposition to Popish Errors I Sing their deaths who dying made death yeeld By Scriptures sword faiths vnbatterd shield Whom Satan men or monsters could not tame Nor force them to deny their Saviours Name Evangelists that did the Gospel write Apostles and brave Martyrs that did fight Gainst death and hell and all the power of sin And boldly di'd eternall life to win Iohn Baptist by King Herod lost his head Who to the world repentance published Our blest Redeemer in his love did follow And conquered death mans sinful soule to hallow He was the death of death and he did quell The sting and power of Satan sin and hell And vnder his great standard valiantly A number numberlesse have dar'd to dye Through bondage famine slavery sword and fire Through all divised torments they aspire Victoriously to gaine th'imortall Crowne Of never ending honour and renowne Saint Steven was the third that lost his breath And for his Masters sake was ston'd to death And after him in Scripture may be read Th' Apostle Iames was brain'd and butchered Saint Marke th'Evangelist in fire did burne And Bartholmew was flead yet would not turnes Saint Andrew like a valiant champion di'd And willing on a crosse was crucifi'd Mathias Philip Peter and Saint Paul Ston'd crucifi'd beheaded Martyrs all Th' Apostles of their lives no reckoning make And think them wel spent for their Saviors sake The Tyrant Emperours in number ten Most cruell barbarous and inhumane men More Christians by their bloody meanes did slay Then for a yeere five thousand to each day And many Romish Bishops in those daies Were Martyr'd to their high Creators prayse And though each day so many thousands bleed Yet doubly more and more they daily breed As Camomile growes better being trod So death and tortures drawes more unto God Or as the Vine that 's cut and prun'd beares more In one yeere than it did in three before This bloody persecution did out-weare After Christs death the first 300. yeares Thus did the Primitive Church first indure Being Catholike Apostolike and pure Then over all the world was truely knowne That Romish Bishops claimed but their owne In their owne Dioces to be chiefe Pastor And not to be the worlds great Lord and Master And now our Britains glory will I sing From Lucius raigne the worlds first Christian King Vnto these daies of happy peacefull state A Catalogue of Martyrs I 'll relate First Vrsulae and eleven thousand with her All Virgins for Christs faith did die together Then Hengist with the Saxons hither came Who many kill'd with sword and furious flame Besides eleven hundred Monkes were kill'd At Bangor Abby all their bloods were spill'd And when the Saxons race to end was run The Danes came in and all the Kingdome won Before whose swords did many thousands fall Which on the name of Iesus Christ did call Then William Conqueror with a multitude Vnto the Normans yoake this Land subdu'd The Pope then caus'd all Priests to leave their wives To lead foule Sodomitick single lives Then afterward in second Henries raigne Was sawcie Saint Thomas Becket slaine A Popish Saint and Martyr made because He di'd a traytor to his Soveraignes Lawes King Henry and King Richard dead and gone Their brother Iohn by right ascends the throne Whom all his life the Pope of Rome did vex And with oppressions all the Realme perplex With candle booke and bell he curst and blest And Bulls and Legates did the King molest Vntill such time he on his knees fell downe And to the Pope surrendred up his Crowne At last because he durst the Pope withstand He di'd impoysoned by a Friers hand When thus by treason they had kil'd King Iohn Then the third Henry Englands Crowne put on Then England bought the Romish doctrine deare It cost her threescore thousand marks a yeare For Agnus Dei pardons Peter pence For which the Pope had all this coine from hence King Henry died then Edward tooke the sway His sonne and grandchilde England did obey The first of them call'd Long shankes conquests won Lost by Carnarvan his unhappy son Who by his Queene was in a dungeon cast Till being murder'd sadly breath'd his last Edward the third a brave victorious King Did Frenchmens pride into subjection bring Richard the second next to Raigne began Who lost more then his royall Grandsire wan Then 'gan Iohn Wiekliffe boldly to begin To preach 'gainst Antichrist that man of sin Who many troubles stoutly did abide Yet spight the Pope he naturally di'd And being dead from out his grave was turn'd And had his martyr'd bones to ashes burn'd Which ashes they did cast into a brooke Because he had the Romish faith forsooke Yet whilst the second Richard here surviv'd No Martyrs were by fire of life depriv'd Henry the fourth was in the Throne invested In whose raigne many were too much molested And William Sautre first his life did give Through flames of fire who now in heav'n doth live The next Iohn Badby in the furious flame And William Thorp but wan immortall fame Then the fifth Henry a victorious Prince The Realme of France did conquer and convince The good Lord Cobham then Oldcastle nam'd By Popish Priests an Hereticke was proclaim'd Was hang'd and burn'd by the unlawfull doome Of Satans servants slaves to hell and Rome And leaving some unnam'd Iohn Browne Esquire Iohn Beverly a Preacher di'd in fire Besides a number from the Lollards tower Racks tortures halters and the flame devoure Iohn Hus a glorious Martyr of the Lord Was in Bohemia burned for Gods Word And reverend Ierom did to Constance come From Prage and stoutly sufferd martyrdome In Smithfield one Iohn Claidon sufferd death And with him Richard Turming lost his breath At this time sixteene godly folkes in Kent The Antichristian vassalls did torment Then death cut off the fifth King Henries raigne The Crowne the sixth King Henry did obtaine And William Taylor a true zealous Priest Did passe through fire unto his Saviour Christ. Good Richard Hoveden with him William White Each unto God through fire did yeeld his sprite Duke Humphrey though no Martyr kild in 's bed And Richard Wych a Priest was burned dead Then Saint-like good King Henry was depos'd By the fourth Edward in the Tower inclos'd Then Edward fled