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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44363	The Spirit of Christ, and the spirit of the Apostles and the spirit of the martyrs is arisen, which beareth testimony against swearing and oaths, for which the martyrs suffered in the time of the ten persecutions and some since, which we also, the people of God called Quakers, do suffer for, as many thousands have done, for keeping the commands of Christ who saith, swear not at all and also, here you may see such martyrs as could not put off their hat or bonnet to the Pope, nor his legate, and as example of one martyr that could not give sureties, being innocent, so that you may see in this book following, to swear not at all, nor to take oaths, nor to deny putting off the hat or bonnet, nor to deny giving sureties being innocent is no new thing, which is proved out of the Scriptures and book of martyrs / published by Ellis Hooks.	Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2662; ESTC R4402	20,779	30

should be required or exacted of any head or chief Bishop for any cause or by any power Anno 255. Bishop Cranmer refused to swear to Lady Anne Great Vol. pag. 1698. and also he saith That he was Judge of no mans Conscience but his own and that every man should give an account of his own and not of another man's Anno 1556. The Arch-Bishop said Great Vol. pag. 696. There 's no Master of Divinity in England so great if he hold this Opinion before me but I 'le punish him as I 'le do thee except thou wilt swear as I will charge thee The Clerk said Wilt thou submit to the Ordinance and lay thy hand on the Book Thorp said I heard a Master of Divinity say That in such a case it is all one to touch a Book and to swear by a Book And Chrysostom proves him worthy of great blame that bringeth a Book to swear upon And it must needs follow that he is more to ●●●●e that sweareth upon that Book Dr. Martin said Vol. 3. pag. 910 911. That Elizabeth Young refused to swear upon the four Evangelists before a Judge for I my self M. Hussy have had her before us four times could not bring her to swear Dr. Martin Thou Rebel and traitorly Whore thou shalt be wrackt handled thou shalt be made an Example to all traitorly Whore-Hereticks and thou shalt be made to swear by the four Evangelists Eliz. I will not swear I know my duty by God's Word Vol. 3. pag. 753. to God and to the Queen Also Thomas Rowland said If he did curse and swear then he was worthy to be beaten Bish Vol. 3. pag. 401. Bonner swore By my Faith to the Lord Mayor upon Robert Smith's Examination the last time Rob. Smith at this word which the Bishop coupled with an Oath came in and taking him in the manner said It is written Ye must not swear Then Bish Bonner pointed to the Mayor and called him Master Controller and threatned him In the dayes of Edward the Fourth Vol. 1. pag. ●56 three men were condemned to death for denying the Pope's Supremacy Men that make Oaths contrary to the Command of Christ who is the Son of God whom God sent into the World to give a Law to the People who is the Law-giver Them that transgress his Commands by making Oaths which break them again at their pleasure As instance the Pope absolved the French King from his Oath which he had made to the Emperour Blandina a woman Vol. 2. pag. 24. and Ponticus a youth of fifteen years old Martyrs could not be forced to swear with all the wicked Cruelty of the Tormentors Vol. 1. p. 62. neither sparing the age of the Childe nor the sect of the Woman but put them to all the punishment and pain they could devise and often-times would have forced them to swear yet were not able to compel them as instance some as followeth After her cruel Whippings she was brought to the common Scaffold and there thrown down to be torn with wild beasts in the face of the People Being brought the seco●●●ime to the Scaffold suffered all kind of Torments as though hitherto they had suffered nothing at all they striving for the Crown suffered again more Scourgings the trying of Wild-beasts and what else ever the frantick people cryed for and willed above all the rest they brought the Iron Chair in which their bodies being set they were so scorched as on a Grid-iron fryed on the coals which savoured with the savour of the frying among the people and yet for all that the Tormentors ceased not but worked more fierce and mad to overcome the patience of the Saints being made all the whole day a spectacle unto the world in place and stead of Games and Sights which was wont to be exhibed to the people And Blandina being brought forth again was fastened to a stake and cast to the ravenous beasts to be devoured and whilst she seems to hang as it were upon a Cross by the fervency of her Prayer might comfort the rest of the Saints in which Agony she suffered all for the Glory of Christ and when they saw no Wild-beasts would come nigh her thus hanging she was taken down and cast again into Prison Then Blandina and Ponticus the Child were brought out every day to see the punishment of their fellows that they might be compelled thereby to swear and delivered then to Wild-beasts and Torments upon Grid-irons at length she was put into a Net and thrown to a Wild Bull and when she had been sufficiently gored and wounded with the Horns of the same beast felt nothing of all that chanced to her for the great hope and consolation she had in Christ and heavenly things and was thus slain insomuch that the very Heathen men themselves confessed that there was never Woman put to death of them that suffered so much as this Woman did And after that Ponticus the young youth had suffered all the Torments and Pains he gave up the ghost who could never be compelled to swear by all the Torments and Inventions of the Heathen Oh! what have our Christians lost that compel Oaths to Christians seeing that so many suffered so many cruel Tortures and Torments before they would swear and throw away the Command of Christ our Saviour which saith they should not swear So refusing to swear is no new thing Concerning the Hat BIrry was committed by the High Commissioners and removed by Habeas Corpus into the Kings-Bench They returned the Writ with a Certificate That they did commit him for certain Causes Ecclesiastical which general Cause the Court did disallow They certified another time That it was for Irreverent Carriage and Saucy Speeches to Dr. Newman The Court also disallowed of that Cause Birry put in Bail to appear de die in diem and was discharged It was then holden That if Birry did not put off his Hat to him or give him the Wall that the same were not sufficient Causes to commit him Mich. 3. Jac. B. R. Birries Case Hughes Repr fol. 147. In Henry the Eight's dayes Vol. 2. pag. 569. Hen. 8ths dayes the Burning and Martyrdom of Kerby As they had him out of Prison to burn him he went on foot and as he went he met with them going Processioning but he would not bow his Cap nor Knee and the Officers being much offended at him one took a stick of a Faggot when he was tied to the Stake and struck him that he sunk down Dr. Ridley Acts Monuments Vol. 2. pag. 1595. in Q. Maries days when he was examined before the Bishop of Lincoln when he heard the Cardinal named and the Pope's Holiness put on his Cap before the Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop said That neither he nor the Lords in respect of their own persons did look for Cap or Knee but that they did represent such Persons the Cardinals Grace Legate to