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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

time not above One hundred and twenty of them refused to take the Oath but turned from their Religion to Protestantism because the Queen set it up notwithstanding they in Queen Maries days had burned some hundreds because they would not bow to Popery And in the first year of her Reign a Book of Injunctions to the Clergy was published some of which are as followeth That every Holy-day throughout the year when the people had no Sermon the Priest should recite the Pater-noster the Creed and ten Commandments to the intent the people might learn the same by heart c. Item That they should keep Holy-dayes Item That the Church-Wardens at the common charge of the parishioners shall provide a comely and honest pulpit to be set in a convenient place and to be there seemly kept Some of the Articles published in the y●ar 1610 by the Arch-D●acon of Rochester Whether is your Minister a Preacher Licensed if yea then by whom Whether doth he bid Holy-days and Fasting-days Item Whether have you in your Church or Chappel a seemly Pulpit a decent Communion table with meet Clothes to cover it a Font of Stone set in the old usual place a Communion-Cup of silver with a Cover a large Surplice with Sleeves c. Some of the Articles published in t●e year 1636. 1. Whether is your Church or Chappel sufficiently repaired the Walls and Covering thereof strong and close Are the Bells unbroken and their Frames strong and safe and fit for use Are the Windows well glazed and Floors well paved and seats decent without dust in such decent manner as becomes the House of God 2. Have you a Font of stone in the ancient usual place and a decent Pulpit with a decent Cushion and a decent comely Surplice with wide sleeves for your Ministers use 3. Have you a decent Communion-table and a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff for this Table also a fair Linen Cloth And is the said Table covered therewith c. And after Queen Elizabeth in King James his time the Book of Common Prayer was confirmed by the King and then the Bishops and Clergy in England by the Kings Licence set forth Canons and Constitutions in the Church some of which are as followeth That there should be a Font of stone in every Church and Chappel according to former Constitutions Also that in all Churches there should be decent tables and covered in time of Divine Service with a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff and in the time of administration a fair linnen cloth on it and that the ten Commandments should be set up on the East end of every Church and Chappel Also that a comely and decent Pulpit should be provided in every Church and Chappel Also they set forth a Form of Prayer that they should say be●ore Sermon And that in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches he that administred the Communion on principal Feast-dayes should wear a decent Cope And when there was no Communion in Cathedral Churches they should wear Surplices and Hoods Also that the Letany should be said or sung on Wednesdays and Fridayes weekly and that Sundays and all holy-dayes should be observed Also that Ministers according to their degrees should wear decent and comely apparel to have them known to the people thereby to receive honour c. Gowns with standing-Collars and sleeves strait at hands or wide sleeves with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarsenit and square Caps also some Ministers were to wear the like apparel but no tippets Also that they should wear in their Journeys Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests cloaks with sleeves welts long buttons or cuts Also that no Ecclesiastical person should wear any Coif or wrought Night-Cap but only plain Caps of black Silk Satin or Velvet Also that in publick they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks also that they wear not any light-coloured stockins likewise that poor-beneficed Curates that could not provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns And in the time of the Long-Parliament which was ended in the year 1652. they having denied the Common-Prayer and a Directory for the publick Worship of God being set out in the year 1644 by a Synod of Priests sitting at Westminster the generality of the Prie is rather then they would leave their Benefices conformed to that power likewise and the truth being then broke forth in the people called Quakers the Priests rage was so hot against them that they joyned together and petitioned the Parliament against the spreading of the t●uth in the aforesaid people and c●lled the truth heresie and bl●sphemy In the year 1653 a Council of State was called by Oliver Cromwell unto whom the Priests cemonstrated their great willingness to conform to and in the same year a Parliament was chosen which was called the Little Pa●li●ment unto whom the Priests in several Counties presented several Petitions against the people called Quakers In the same year was Oliver Cromwell made Protector to whom the Priests were read● also to join the Priests of Cumberland e●●tioned that some present course might be prescribed for the enforcing the payment of tythes and other D●es to Munisters to which the people in these parts said they are extre●mly averse And Oliver Cromwe● upheld their interest and made an Order how they might she the people called Quakers for tythes there being no Ecclesiastical Courts to ●efor them in as it had been formerly ordained they should be sued for in no other Courts In the year 1658 Richard Cromwell was made Protector whom the priests fl●ckt to as their Rock of Defence that he whom they called in their petition their Joshua might lead them into their promised Land which indeed was but a Benefice of tythes or augmentations and they told him that the Gospel was bound up in him and so cleaved to him by flatteries as they did in all ages And on the twelfth of the eighth month 1658 the Independents made a Form of Faith in the Savoy and published it In which Form of Faith they laid down in chap. 13. that they that are united to Christ effectually called and regenerated having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christs death and resurrection are also further sanctified really and personally through the same virtue by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakned and mortified and that this sanctification is throughout in the whole man Yet in the conclusion of the same article they say That it is imperfect in this life and that there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part Note sure these peoples Faith is one with the Papists who hold a Pu●gat●ry that is a place to purge from sins after this life for the Scriptures say As the Tree falls so it lyes and as death leaves us so judgment shall

persecute the Christians out of his mility to the gods in which persecution several Bishops were put to death And at that time the Bishop of Antioch testified That sufferings made them like unto Christ who had suffered for them himself preparing a way through suffering unto eternal life About the same time did a Governor write unto the Emperor in the Christians behalf whereupon the Emperor wrote That they should seek no more of them but those they had in prison should they put to death The Fourth Persceution In the Year One hundred sixty four was the Fourth Persecution of the Christians which arose under the Emperors Ma●cus Auretius and Lucius Verus in which Polycarpus Bishop of Smy na was put to death who had been a Disciple of John and had been many years in the service of the Lord as he himself acknowledge About the same time was Julianus put to death at Rome in whose time the Christians were accused to have a fleshly conversation one with another which he marked to be lyes by their willingness to dye and thereby he coming to be converted became an Eminent Teacher of the Christians Baron Anno 164. numb 2. Enseb l.b. 4 cap. 6. At Lyons in France there did go forth a Proclamation That the Christians might not dwell in their houses nor that they must not converse in the streets nor shew their faces which being impossible for them to perform their sufferings became exceeding great and in the mean time some of the slaves gave out that the Christians lived in filthy lasciviousness among themselves In this persecution there was one Lucius put to death for reproving the Judg for putting the Christians to crueller deaths then any Transgressor The Fifth Persecution In the Year Two hundred and one did the Fifth persecution begin under the Emperor Severus which was thus in part occasioned to wit When the Emperor had a Warr and had gotten the Victory the Christians kept themselves still and quiet without making tokens of joy with I ires or May-poles or other Triumphs according to the manner of the Heathen Whereupon they accused the Christians our of envy as if they despised and hated the Emperor and the rather because the Christians would not swear by his Fortune Tertul. pag. 30.127 In those dayes it was the manner among the Christians not to go to any Comedies or Stage-playes for they understood that if they did forsake the Devil and all his works with the world that then they must forsake Comedies and Stage-Playes Moreover the Christians said We renounce your Shews as we condemn their divers Originals by the knowledg we have that they are effects of Superstition and Idolatry The Sixth Persecution In the Year Two hundred thirty seven did the Sixth Persecution under the Emperor Maximinus arise who partly out of envy to his Kinsman Alexander who had been favourable to the Christians did persecute the Christians in which Persecution there were many put to death for the Heathen in those dayes were so spightful against the Christians that when there was an Earthquale or a Storm or the like they laid the blame upon the Christians saving Their gods were angry because their honour went to nothing through the Christians This Emperor did not Reign very long therefore did this persecution cease the sooner The Seventh Persecution In the Year Two hundred fifty three did the Seventh Persecution arise under the Emperor D cius who with excessive Cruelty did persecute the Christians In this Persecution several of the Bishops were put to death and such as were the chief among the Christians did theytorture with many torments and plundered the Christians houses and that which the Plunderers did not esteem they burn'd In this Persecution many suffered Martyrdom some being burned some beheaded women as well as men some whipt to death and some Soldiers fo encouraging these Martyrs in their sufferings were put to death In this terrible Persecution several departed from the Faith for fear of the Torments yet after wards came to be restored again The Sufferings of the Christians were great under this Emperor but his days were also shortned for he had not reigned Two years but was caught in a Quag-mire where he met with a check or reproof for his Cruelty Note a particular account of the terrible T●rments is mentioned towards the end of this book The Eighth Persecution In the year Two hundred fifty nine did the Eighth Persecution arise under the Emperor Valerianus who put forth a Proclamation against the Christians wherein he forbad their Meeting and when this Proclamation or Order was not observed then did there follow a great Persecution of the Christians in which there was very many put to death and some were banished and the Christians converted some of the Heathen in the places to which they were banished But the Emperor under whom the Christians thus suffered did not go unpunished for his cruelty for he was taken Prisoner by the King of Persia who made use of him for a Foot-stool when he got upon his Horse The Ninth Persecution In the Year Two hundred seveaty three did the Ninth Persecution arise under the Emperor Aurelianus but this Persecution was not so great as the other because he was cut off by death soon after he had determined the same yet in this Persecution was Foelix Bishop of Rome put to death with several others The Tenth Persecution In the Year Three hundred and two begun the Tenth Persecution which was so great that it exceeded all that had been before it not only in Cruelty but in Continuance for it contiued Twelve years Eusebius who lived at that time writes of it at large in his Ecclesiastical History saying It was occasioned through the freedom of the Christians who were come into great Reputotion and were put in Places of Office to Rule in Countries and Cities but through their prosperity and voluptuousness brotherly love came to decrease and haughtiness and pride got up and instead of Worshipping of God an insolent Authority begun to get up in the Church of the Christians And at that time the Emperor Dioclesian gave forth a Proclamation wherein he commanded that all the Christian Churches should be pull'd down and the Holy Scriptures burned and that the Christians should be turned out of their places with other such like things After that there came another Order That they should cause the chief of the Church to offer unto Idols or else such as resisted were to be put to death and some were constrained to offer This Persecution begun as a little spark but it spread over the whole Church and the Persecution was so hot and great that the Persecutors themselves were troubled if not wearied In Syria there was so many of the Christians in hold that rheir Prisons were filled with them and with joy they went unbound to their death Eusebius writes how that many of the Christians had their Ears cut off and their Noses slit and others

the Town of Sligo all the Protestants were first robbed of their Estates then cast into Gaol and about midnight were all stript naked and were there most cruelly and barbarously murthered with Sword Axes Skeins c. some of them being Women great with Child their Infants thrust out their Arms and Legs at their Wounds after which execrable murthers they laid the dead naked Bodies of the men upon the naked Bodies of the women in a most immodest posture where they left them till the next day to be looked upon by the Irish who beheld it with great delight Also Isabel Beard great with Child hearing the lamentable crye● of those that were murthering ran out into the streets where she was murthered and the next day was sound with the Childs feet coming out of the wounds in her sides Many others were murthered in the ●ouses and streets About Dungannon were three hundred and sixteen Protestants in the like barbarous manner murthered About Charlemont above four hundred About Tyrone two hundred and six 〈◊〉 Mac Crew murthered thirty one in one morning Two young men murdered one hundred and forty poor women and children that could make no resistance An Irish woman with her own hands murthered forty five At Porterdown-Bridg were drowned above three hundred At Lawgh were drowned above two hundred In another place were drowned three hundred in one day In the Parish of Killamen there were murthered one thousand and two hundred Protestants Many young Children they out in quarters Eighteen Scottish Infants they hanged upon a Clothiers Tenter-hooks One fat man they murthered and made Candles of his Grease Another Scottish man they ript up his belly took one end of his small Guts tied it to a tree and forced him round about it till they had drawn them all out of his body saying That they would try whether a Dogs or Scottish mans Guts were the longer By the command of one called Sir Philem O Neale James Maxwel was drawn out of his Bed being sick of a Fever and murthered his Wife being in Child-birth the Child being half born they stript naked drove her about a flight shot and drowned her in the black water The like or worse they did to another English woman in the same Town O●e Watson they roasted alive A Scottish woman great with Child they ript up her Belly cut the Child out of her womb and so left it crawling on her Body One Starkey a School-Master at Armagh being above One hundred years old they stript him naked then took his two Daughters being Virgins whom they also stript naked and then forced them to lead their aged Father to a Turf-pit where they drowned them all three To one Henry Cowel a gallant Gentleman they proffered his life if he would marry one of their women or go Mass but he chose death rather then to consent to either Many of the Protestants they buried alive solacing themselves whilst they were digging down old Ditches upon them They brake the back-bone of a youth and left him in the Fields some dayes he was found having eaten the Grass round about him neither then would they kill him out-right but removed him to better pasture wherein was fulfilled that saying The tender nurci●s of the wicked are cruelty In the County of Antrim they murthered Nine hundred fifty four Protestants in one morning and afterwards about twelve hundred more in that County Near Lisnegarry they forced twenty four Protestants into a house and burnt them all Sir Philem O Neale boasted That he had slain above six hundred at Carvagh and that he had left neither man woman nor child alive in the Barony of Munterlong In other places he murthered above two thousand Persons in their houses so that many houses were filled with dead bodies Above twelve thousand were slain in the High-wayes as they fled towards Down Many dyed of Famine many dyed for want of Clothes being stript naked in a cold season Some thousands were drowned so that in the Province of Vlster there were about one hundred and fifty thousand murthered by sundry kinds of torments and deaths The Popish English were no whit inferior ye● rather exceeded the natural Irish in their cruelty against the Protestan's that lived amongst them within the Pale being not satisfied with their blood till they had seen the last drop thereof Anne Kinnard testified That fifteen Protestants being imprisoned and their Feet in the Stocks a Popish Boy being not above fourteens years old slew them all in one night with his Skein An English woman who was newly delivered of two children some of these Villains violently compelled her in her great pain and sickness to rise out of her bed and took one of the Infants that was living and dashed his brain against the stones and then threw him into the River of Barrow The like they did by many other Infants Many others they hanged up without all pity The Lord Mont Garret caused divers English Soldiers that he had taken about Kilkenny to be hanged hardly suffering them to pray before their death One Fitz Patrick an Irish Papist enticed a rich Merchant that was a Protestant to bring all his Goods to his house promising safely to keep them and to re-deliver them to him but when he had gotten them into his possession he took the Merchant and his wife and hanged them both The like he did by divers others Some Engl●sh mens heads they cut off and carried them to Kilkenny and on the Market-day set them on the Cross where many e pecially the Women stab'd cut and slashed them A poor Protestant Woman with her two Children going to Kilkenny these bloody Papists baited them with Dogs ●●abbed them with Skeins and pulled out the Guts of one of the Children whereby they died and not far off they took divers Men Women and Children and hanged them up one of the Women being great with Child they ripped up her Belly as she hanged so that the Child fell out in the Cawl alive Some after they were hanged they drew up and down till their Bowels were torn out How many thousands of Protestants wore thus inhumanely butchered by sundry kinds of deaths we cannot ascertain In the Province of Vlster we find about a hundred and fifty thousand murthered as before what the number of the slain was in the three other Provinces I find not upon Record but certainly it was very great for you have these passages in a general Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in the Province of Munster And thus in part you have heard of the merciless cruelties which the bloody Papists exercised towards the Protestants Let us now consider at least some of God's Judgments upon the Irish whereby he hath not left the Innocent blood of his Servants to be altogether unrevenged These bloody Papists themselves confessed That the Ghosts of d●vers of the Protestants which they had drowned at Portendown-Bridg were daily seen to walk upon the River sometimes

find us And in chap. 23 they laid it down as part of their Faith That it was a sin to refuse an Oath being lawfully imposed by authority So are in the same path as the Papists and other apostates from the Truth are in for Christ said Swear not at all Mat. 5. And the Apostle James sad Above all things my Brethren swear not c. Jam. 5. And then after Richard Cromwell the Long-Parliament sate again under whose time the Priests were in great fear they should have lost their Tythes and Maintenance that they some of them got in Arms but being routed they petitioned the Parliament for pardon and by their subtilty got them to establish their Tythes and then they were quiet And when the King came in and the Common-Prayer Book was again set up how many of these Priests turned in the Nation is well known in the Countrys and some of them cryed They would preach in a Surplice or a Fools Coat rather then the Gospel should not be preached Here you may see the Turn-Coat Priests which minded more their Benefice then the Gospel CHAP. XXVI A Relation of some of the Cruelties inflicted on the Christians by the Heathen AND these called Papists have acted their Cruelties upon Christians like unto their Fathers the old persecuting Roman Heathens who acted many such Cruelties as follow though they profess Christianity in words yet the actions of the young Romans are like the old who have in their actions denied Christ who saith Love 〈◊〉 ●ther One was wrackt upon a Wheel and beat with a Bulls-p●●●●● One hanged and her skin fleyed off One bound about a Globe and her skin fleyed off her head and face One had his tongue cut out One broken in a Mortar One bound to a Pillar his head downward and 〈…〉 One fryed 〈…〉 The Mother 〈…〉 Some 〈…〉 Some bound to Axel-trees and so burned Some thrown to Lyons Beasts and Tygers One put into a Caldron of boyling Oyl Some Christians crucified with their heads downwards Some gored upon stakes one end fastned in the ground the other end coming out of their mouths Some tossed upon the horns of wild Bulls Some Women stript and hung by the hair of the head and scourged Some Christians brains beaten out with Clubs Some broiled upon Gridirons some beheaded with the sword Some burned at Stakes Some thrown down from Rocks and broken to pieces Some prest to death with great weights of Lead Some stoned to death some hanged upon Gibbets Some Christians hung up by the heels and choaked with smoak Some had sharp Reeds thrust under their nails and other parts of their bodies Some hung upon trees by the middle until they dyed of hunger Some hung up by one hand with Weights of Lead at their heals Some roasted upon Spits by a soft fire Some naked women hung up by one Legg upon Trees till they dyed Some had all their flesh torn with claws of wild Beasts Some were hewn in pieces with swords Some were sawn asunder in the middle Some hid their naked bodies annointed with Honey and then hung up in Baskers to be devoured of Wasps and Flyes Some Ministers loaden with great burdens and prickt forward with swords and spears Some tyed by the feet and haled thorough rough places till they were torn in pieces Womens bellies ript open and Barley put into them and so devoured by Swine A Ship set on fire with fourscore Ministers in it Some Christians cut in pieces from the Fundament Some had stinking Water Vinegar and Grease poured down their hroats Some smothered in Caves on the Mountains some racked until their bowels brake out Some Womens bellies ript up and their children trodden underfoot Two and two tyed together and slain Some had their bowels pulled out and put into a Bason Fourscore slain and their Quarters set on stakes thirty miles together Some murthered at the time and place of their Worship Some had Boots of Oyl put on their legs over a small fire This was invented by a Monk Some had their heads miserably torn with Gunpowder put into their mouths and fired Some thrown out at windows upon spears Some their bellies burnt till their bowels fell out Some their ears and cheeks cut off and holes burnt in divers p●●ts of their bodies Some had their mouths slit up to their Ears Some had their Eyes bored out A Minister had Hens and Geese tyed about his body and was torn with Dogs Some were tormented in a Trough A Minister tormented by a Cat on his belly Somehad their Faces plained Some had their Arms cut off Some had Noses and Ears cut off to make Hatbands Some had their Eyes twisted out with Cords Some had Corns drawn through their Arms and Legs Some cast into Dungeons amongst Frogs and Toads Some were let down with a Pulley into the fire by degrees Some had their hearts pulled out which the Papists 〈…〉 〈◊〉 teeth 〈◊〉 had their their throats cut with Butchers Knives other 〈…〉 〈…〉 with Axes Some had their Breasts and Noses pluckt off with red hot Pincher●● A Smith had his brains beat out on an Anvil with a Hammer Some had their right hands and feet crushed between red hot Irons Some were hanged up by one foot and their heads and breasts in the water Some were torn in pieces by Horses Some hung upon Tenterhooks Some had their Infants cut out of their Wombs and thrown to dogs and swine Some were set in the ground up to the Chin to be starved to death Some were pistolled to death Some thrown down from Bridges into Rivers Some burned with straw tyed about them to cover their nakednesse Some buryed alive A woman and her daughter hanged in their hair CHAP. XXVII An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in IRELAND by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the Year 1642. VVHen their Plots were ripe for Execution we find their first proceedings against the English various some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them others murdering men women and children without mercy all resolving universally to root out all the Protestants out of Ireland so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestants that they would not so much as endure the found of their language The Irish when the Massacre began perswaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them and they would secure them and hereby they got abundance peaceably into their 〈◊〉 whereof they cheated the Protestants refusing to restore them again yet so confident were the Protestants at first of them that they gave them Inventories of all they had and d●gged up their best things that were hidden in the ground and deposited them in their custody They also got much into their hands by fair promises deep Oaths and Engagments That if they would deliver them their Goods they would suffer them with their Wives and Children quietly to depart the Country and when they had got all they could