for non other myracle but that onelye they perseuer faythfull to the ende Mathe. x. And neuer denye his verite afore men Luce. xii For that worthye vyctorye of the synnefull worlde standethe in the inuyncyblenesse of fayth and not in myracles and wonders as those waueringe wittes suppose i. Ioan. v. Ryght wonderfullye wyl this apere in the. ii myghtye conflyctes here after folowynge whych the faytfull seruaunt of Iesu Anne Askewe a gentylwoman verye yonge dayntye and tender had with that outragynge Synagoge in her ii examynacions about the xxv yeare of her age whom she sent abroade by her owne hand writynge The handelynges of her other iii. companyons shall be shewed in other seuerall treatyses at layser For the glorye and greate power of the lorde so manifestlye aperynge in hys elect vessels maye not nowe perysh at al handes be vnthankefullye neglected but be spred the worlde ouer as we le in Latyne as English to the perpetuall in famye of so willfully cruel and spyghtfull tyrauntes Nothynge at all shall it terryfye vs nor yet in anie point lete vs of our purpose that our bokes are nowe in Englande condempned and brente by the Byshoppes and prestes with their frantick affinite the great Antichristes vpholders whyche seke by all practises possyble to turne ouer the kynges most noble and godlye interpryse But it wyll from hens forth occasyon vs to set fourth in the Latine also that afore we wrote onlie in the English and so make theyr spirytuall wyckednesse and treason knowne moche farther of What auayled it Ioakim to burne Hieremies proyhecye by the vngracyouse counsell of his prelates Hiere xxxvi Either yet Antiochus to set fyre on the other scriptures i. Macha i. After the Apostles were brought afore the counsell and strayghtlye cōmaunded to cease from preachynge they preached moch more thā afore Acto iiii In most terrible persecucions of the primatiue churche were the examynacions answers tormentes and deathes of the constaunt martyrs written and sente abroade all the whole worlde ouer as testyfyeth Eusebius Cesariensis in his ecclesyastyck hystorye Their coppyes haboūde yet euery where Great slaughter burnynge hath bene here in Englande for Iohan wycleues bokes euer sens the yeare of our lorde M. CCC LXXXII Yet haue not one of them throughlye perysheth I haue at thys houre the tytles of a C. and XLIIII of them which are many more in nombre For some of thē vndre one title comprehendeth ii bokes some iii. some iiii Yea one of them contayneth xii I thinke not the contrary but ere the worlde be at a full ende God wyll so gloryfye that twentye tymes condempned heretyke execrated cursed spitted and spatled at that al your popish writers before hys tyme and after wyll be reckned but vyle swyne heardes to hym for the good fauer he bare to Chrystes holye Gospell A very madnesse is it to stryue agaynst God whā he wyll haue the longe hydden inyquytees knowne As the godlye wyse man Gamaliel sayd Acto v. If this enterpryse that is now taken agaynst yow be of God ye shal neuer be able with all your tirannouse practyses to dyssolue it Now concernynge that blessed woman Anne Askewe which latelye suffered the tyrannye of this world for right wisnesse sake In Lyncolneshyre was she borne of a verye auncyent and noble stocke Sir William Askewe a worthy knyght beynge her father But no worthynesse in the fleshe neyther yet anye worldlye noblenesse auaileth to god warde afore whome is no acceptacyon of persone Actorum x. Onlye is it faythe with his true loue and feare which maketh vs the accepte noble and worthye chyldren vnto God Ioan. i. Whereof by hys gyfte she had wonderfull habundaunce Soch a wone was she as was Lydia the purple sellar whose harte the lorde opened by the godlye preachynge of Paule at Thiatira Acto xvi For dylygent hede gaue she to his worde whan it was ones taught wythoute supersticion would no lōgar be a false worshipper or ydolatour after the wicked scole of Antichrist But became frō thens forth a true worshipper worshipping her lorde God whych is a sprete not breade in sprete in veryte accordinge to the worde of his Ioan. iiii The Gospell of Christ bare she in her harte as ded the holye mayde Cecilia neuer after ceased frō the study therof nor frō godlye cōmunycacion prayer tyll she was clerlie by most cruel tormentes taken from thys wretched worlde By her do I here dere fryndes in the Lord as ded the faithfull Bretherne in Fraunce at the cities of Lions and Vicuna by a lyke faythfull yonge woman called Blandina Whyche was there put to deathe with iii. myghtye companyons more amonge other as thys was for her Christē beleue about the yeare of our lorde C. and. lxx in the primatiue sprynge of their Christyanyte They wrote vnto their Bretherne in the landes of Asia Phrygia verye farre of her mightie stronge sufferinges for Christes faith which the knewe nothing of afore I write here vnto yow in Englād the double processe of this noble woman wherof ye are not ignoraunt for so moch as it was there so manyfestly done amonge yow Coupled I haue these ii examples togither bycause I fynde them in so manye pointes agree Blandina was yonge and tender So was Anne Askewe also But that which was fraile of nature in thē both Christ made most stronge by hys grace Blandina had iii. ernest companions in Christ. Maturus Sanctes and Attalus so feruently faythfull as her selfe So had Anne Askewe iii. fyre fellowes a gentylman called Iohan Lassels her instructour a preste and a tayler called Iohan Adlam men in Chrystes veryte vnto the ende most cōstaunt With Blādina were in preson to the nombre of x. whych denyed the truthe and were clerelie forsakē of God for it How manye fell frō Christ besydes Crome Shaxton whan Anne Askewe stode faste by hym I am vncerteyne But I counsell them as saynte Iohan counselled the Laodycyanes in the myserable estate they are now in to hye them through tryed golde of Christ least they perysh all togither Apoca. iii. If they had not styll remayned in that chauncell whome Christe commaunded Iohan in no wyse to measure Apoc. ii They had neuer so shamefullye blasphemed lyke as Bedas also toucheth in hys former prophecye Prompt was Blandina and of most lustye corage in renderynge her lyfe for the lyberte of her faythe No lesse lyuelye and quyck was Anne Askewe in all her enprisoninges and tormētes Great was the loue Blandina had to Christ. No lesse was the loue of Anne Askewe Blandina neuer faynted in torment No more ded Anne Askewe in sprete whan she was so terrybly racked of the chaūceller and Ryche that the strynges of her armes and eyes were peryshed Blādina deryded the cruelte of the tyrauntes So ded Anne Askewe
The first examinaciō of Anne Askewe latelye martired in Smythfelde by the Romyshe popes vpholders wyth the Elucydacyon of Iohan Bale Psame cxvi The veryte of the Lorde endureth for euer Anne Askewe stode fast by thys veryte of God to the ende ¶ Fauoure is disceytfull bewtye is a vayne thynge But a woman that feareth the Lorde is worthye to be praysed She openeth her mouthe to wysdome and in her language is the law of grace Prouerb xxxi Iohan Bale to the Chrysten readers AMonge other mooste syngular offyces dylygent reader which the lord hath appointed to be done in the ernest sprete of Helyas by the forerōners of hys lattre aperaunce this is one verye specyall to be noted They shall turne the hartes of their auncient elders into the chyldren Mala. iiii And the vnbeleuers of theyr tyme to the wysdome of those ryghteouse fathers as ded Iohan Baptyste afore hys fyrste commyng Luce. i. That is say the Bedas cap. lxviii de temporum ratione the fayth and feruent zele of the prophetes and Apostles shal they plant in their hartes whych shal in those dayes lyue and be among men conuersaunt than wyl breake fourth sayth he as a verye true prophete such horryble persecucyon as wyl fyrst of all take from the worlde those myghtye helyases by triumphaunt martyrdom to the terryfyenge of other in the same faythe of whom some shal becom through that occasion most gloryouse martyrs vnto Christ also some very wycked Apostataes forsaking his lyuely doctrine For by the seyd Bedas testymony in the begynnyng of the same chaptre two most certayne sygnes shall we thā haue that the lattre iudgement daye is at hande The returne of Israels remnaunt vnto theyr lord God and the horryble persecucion of Antichrist Conferre with this treated scripture and former prophecye of that vertuous man Bedas the worldes alteracyon now with the terrible turmoilynges of our tyme. And as in a mooste clere myrrour ye shal well perceyue them at this present to be in moost quick workynge And as concernynge the Israelytes or Iewes I haue bothe seane and knowne of them in Germanye mooste faythfull Christen beleuers Neyther is it in the prophecye Osee. iii. that they shoulde at that daye be all conuerted no more than they were at Iohan Baptystes preachynge Luce. i. For as Esaye reporteth thoughe the posteryte of Iacob be as the see sande innumerable yet shall but a remnaunte of them conuerte than vnto theyr lorde God Esaie x. And thoughe the Lorde hathe syfted that howse of Israell as brused corne in a syffe amonge all other nacyons Amos. ix Yet shal not that remnaunt of theirs peryshe but at that daye be saued throughe the onelye electyon of grace Romano xi Nowe concernynge the afore seyd foreronners in this most wonderful change of the worlde before the latter ende therof I thynke within thys realme of Englande besydes other nacions abroade the sprete of Helyas was not all a slepe in good Wyllam Tydall Robarte Barnes suche other more whome Antychristes vyolence hathe sent hens in fyre to heauen as Helyas went afore in the fyrye charet iiii Regum ii These turned the hartes of the fathers into the chyldren suche tyme as they toke from a greate nombre of oure nacyon by theyr Godlye preachynges and wrytynges the corrupted beleue of the pope his mastery workers which were no fathers but cruel robbers destroyers Ioā x. reducynge thē agayn to the true faithe of Abraham and Peter Gene. xv and Math. xvi The pure beleue in Christes birthe and passion which Adam and Noe sucked out of the first promes of God Iacob and Moses out of the seconde Dauid and the prophetes out of the thirde and so fourthe the Apostles fathers oute of the other scriptures so firmelye planted they in the consciences of manye that no cruell kynde of deathe coulde auerte thē from it As we haue for example their constaunt discyples and now stronge witnesses of Iesus Christ Iohan Lassels and Anne Askewe with theyr other ii companions verye gloryous martyrs afore God what thoughe they be not so afore the wronge iudgynge eyes of the world whom the bloudye remnaunte of Antechrist put vnto mooste cruell deathe in Smythfelde at London in the yeare of our lorde M.D.XLVI in Iulye Yf they be onely as was Iohan Baptyst great afore the Lorde by the holye scriptures allowaunce which are strongelye adourned with the graces of hys sprete as faythe force vnderstandynge wisdome pacyence loue long sufferaunce and suche lyfe I dare boldelye afferme these iiii myghty wytnesses also to be the same so well as the martirs of the primatyue or Apostles churche For so strongelye had these those vertues as they and so boldelye obiected their bodyes to the deathe for the vndefyled Christen beleue agaynst the malygnaūt Synagoge of Sathan as euer ded they for no tyrannye admyttynge any create or corruptyble substaunce for theyr eternal lyuynge god Yf their blynd babyes to proue them vnlyke do obiect agaynst me the myracles shewed at theyr deathes more than at these as that vnfaythfull generacyon is euer desyerous of wonders Math. xii I wold but knowe of thē what myracles were shewed whan Iohā Baptystes head was cut of in the preson Marci vi and whan Iames the Apostle was byheaded at Hierusalem Acto xii These ii were excellent afore God what though they were but miserable wretches light fellowes sedycyouse heretykes busye knaues lowsye beggers in the syght of noble king Herode and hys honorable counsell of prelates For had not rochettes and side gownes bene at hande haplye they had not so lyghtlye dyed Yf they allege Steuen to maynteyne theyr purpose that he at his deathe behelde heauen open I aske of thē againe what they were whiche se it more than his own persone Sure I am that their wycked predecessours there presente se it not For they stopped theyr eares whan he tolde them therof Actoru vii Yf they yet bringe fourth the other hystoryes of Apostles and martyrs I answere them that all they are of no suche autorite as these here afore The popes martyrs in dede were moche fuller of myracles than euer were Christes as hys selfe tolde vs they shulde be so Mathey xxiiii Yet wrought fryre Forest Iohā Fisher Thomas More no miracles what though manye be nowe regestred in theyr lyues and legendes by the fryres of Fraunce Italye and Spayne Besydes that Iohan Cochleus hathe writtē of them ad Paulum Pōtificem ad regem Henricum and also in theyr defence against doctor Sampson With that Erasmus ded also ad Huttenū P. M. ad Basparem Agrippam Albertus Pighius Riuius Fichardus a great sort more And as for the holye mayd of kēt with Doctor Bocking though they wrought great wonders by theyr lyfe yet apered non at their deathes Of hys owne chosen martyrs Christ loketh
sayth he to those thynges which are laied Here against that of these mē Neuerthelesse he helde hys peace Mar. xiiii But whan he was ones throughly compelled by the name of the lyuynge God to speake and hadde vttered a verye fewe wordes he toke him at suche aduauntage though they were the eternall veryte as he was able through thē to procure hys death Matth. xxvi lyke as thys bloudye Bishopp Bonner of the same wycked generacion dyd at the lattre by thys faythful woman Anne Askewe Thirdelye my lorde layed vnto my charge that I shulde saye that the Masse was ydolatrye I answered hym No I sayde not so Howbeyt I sayde the quest dyd aske me whether pryuate Masses dyd releue sowles departed or no Vnto whome than I answered O Lorde what ydolatrye is thys that we shulde rather beleue in pryuate masses than in the helthsome deathe of the dere sonne of God Than sayde my lorde agayne What an answere was that Thoughe it were but meane sayd I yet was it good ynough for the question Iohan Bale About the lattre dayes of Iohan wycleue in the yeare of our lorde a M.CCC LXXXII as Henrye Spenser than Bishopp of Norwich was with a great nombre of English warryours besieginge the Towne of Hypers in Flaunders in the quarell of pope Vrbanus the. vi The vessels of perdycyon or verye organes of Sathan the iiii orders of beggynge fryres preached all Englande ouer that that moste holye father of theirs had lyberallye opened the wele of mercye and graunted cleane remyssyon to all them that wolde eyther fyghte or geue anye thynge towardes the mayntenaunce of those warres in the quarell of holye churche agaynst scysmatykes and heretikes For than was thys matter of their popyshe Masse in great controuersye lyke as it is now More ouer thei promised by vertue of hys great pardons to sende the sowles departed to heauen And diuerse of them sayd they had seane thē flye vp out of the churche yeardes from their graues thydre warde Thys moste deuilishe blasphemie wyth suche other lyke prouoked the sayde Iohan wycleue the verye organe of God and vessell of the holy Ghost not onlye to replye than agaynste them at Oxforde in the open scooles but also to wryte a greate nombre of bookes agaynst that pestylente popyshe kyngedome of theyrs lyke as Martyn Luther hath done also in our tyme wyth many other godly men And lyke as those false prophetes the frires dyd than attribute vnto the popes pardons the remyssyon of synnes the deliueraunce from dāpnacyon and the fre enteraunce of heauē whych peculyarly belongeth to the precyouse payment of Christes bloud i. Petri i. i. Io. i. So do these false anoynted or blasphemouse Byshoppes and prestes now attrybute them agayne vnto theyr pryuate and publique Masses the popes owne wares as prowlynge and pelferynge as the pardons with no lesse blasphemye The deuylysshenes of this newe doctrine of theyrs shall be refelled in my bokes agaynst fryre Peryn and Wynchestre and therfore I wrytte the lesse here Anne Askewe Then I tolde my Lorde that there was a prest whyche dyd heare what I sayde there before my lord Mayre them with that the chaunceller answered which was the same prest So she spake it in veri dede saith he before my lord the Mayre me Then were there certen prestes as doctor Standyshe other which tempted me moche to knowe my mynde And I answered them alwayes thus That I haue sayd to my lorde of London I haue sayde Iohan Bale By thys ye may se that the Byshoppes haue euery wher their watchmē lest the kynges offycers shulde do anye thynge contrarye to their bloudie behoue This Chauncellour wolde not haue thus answered hardely so agreablye to her tale had it not bene to theyr aduauntage agaynste her as here after wyll apere Marke here the fashyon of these temptynge serpentes Standysh and hys fellowes And tel me if they be not lyke vnto those vypers whelpes whyche came to Iohans Baptym Mathei iii. and to Christe Iesus preachynge Luce. xi I thynke ye shall fynde them the same generacion Anne Askewe And then doctor Standyshe desyered my lorde to byd me say my mynde concernyng that same text of S. Paule I answered that it was agaynste saynt Paules lernynge that I beynge a woman shulde interprete the scriptures specyallye wher so many wyse lerned men were Iohan Bale It is not yet halfe a score of yeares ago sens thys blasphemouse Idyote Standyshe compared in a lewde sermon of his the dere pryce of our redempcion or precyouse blode of Christ to the bloud of a fylthy swyne lyke himselfe a swyne And for hys good doyng he is now becomen a dawe a doctor I shuld saye of the popes dyuynyte and a scolasticall interpretour of the scriptures to his behoue Here wold the swynysh gētylman haue proued both that S. Steuen dyed an heretyke and S. Paule a scysmatyke for teachynge that God dwelleth not in tēples made with handes Act vii xvii if he might haue reasōe◠out the matter with thys woman But she toke a swyne for a swyne and wold laye no pearles afore hym as Christe had charged her afore Mathei vii For all their interrogacions are now about the temple and the temple wares Matthei xxvi Anne Askewe Then my lorde of London sayde he was infourmed that one shulde aske of me yf I woulde receyue the Sacramente at Easter and I made a mocke of it Then I desyred that myne accuser myghte come fourth whyche my lorde wolde not But he sayde agayne vnto me I sente one to geue yow good counsell and at the first worde ye called him papyste That I denied not for I perceyued he was no lesse yet made I non answere vnto it Iohan Bale No confortable scriptures nor yet anye thynge to the sowles consolacyon maye come oute of the mouthe of these spirytuall fathers But dogges rhetorycke and curres curtesye narrynges brawlynges and quarellynges Whan she was in the myddes of thē she myght wele haue sayd wyth Dauid Delyuer me lord from the quarelouse dealynges of men that I maye kepe thy cōmaundemētes I deale with the thynge that is lawfull and ryght O geue me not ouer to these oppressers lette not these proud quarellers do me wronge Psal. cxviii But among all these quarellynges her accusers myght not be seane whych were the grounders of them Anne Askewe Then he rebuked me and saide that I shoulde reporte that there were bente agaynste me thre score prestes at Lyncolne In dede quothe I I sayde so For my fryndes tolde me yf I dyd come to Lyncolne the prestes woulde assaulte me and put me to greate trouble as therof they had made theyr boast And whan I hearde it I wente thyder in dede not beynge afrayed because I knewe my matter to be good More ouer I remayned there vi
the olde canonysed martirs which in the popes Englysh churche haue had so many solempnitees seruices and sensinges Manye haue also moste desperatly recanted through their most wicked persuacions and threttenynges in whose vaine recantacioÌ„s are both to be seane theyr blasphemyes agaynste God and manyfest treasons agaynste their kinge Now in conferrynge these martyrs the olde with the newe and the popes with Christes I seclude first of all the Brytayne churche or the primatiue churche of thys realme which neuer had autoryte of the Romishe pope Her martirs in dede were agreable to that Chryste spake a fore in the Gospell concernyng his martyrs wherby we shulde knowe theÌ„ as we euydentlye finde in the liues of Emerita kinge Lucyes syster Amphibalus Albanus Aaron Iulius Dionothus soche other I sende yow forthe saith he as shâ—pe amonge wolues MeÌ„ shall delyuer ye vp in their counsels sinagoges Ye shall be brought before rulers and kinges and be hated of all men in a maner for my names sake Mathei x. Caste not afore in your mindes what answere to make For I in that houre shal gyue ye both vtteraunce and wisdome which al your aduersaries shall not be hable to withstande Luce xxi They shall excommunycate yow or condeÌ„pne yow for heretikes Yea they shall bring yow in soch hate of the world that who so euer killeth yow will thynke he doth God great good seruyce And thys shall they do bycause they knowe rightly neither father nor yet me Iohan. xvi Manye other lyke sentences left the lorde Iesus Christ in his holie Gospell that we shulde alwayes by theÌ„ discerne hys true martyrs froÌ„ the popes Mahomettes couÌ„terfet martyrs In EnglaÌ„de here sens the first plaÌ„tacion of the popes Englysh churche by Augustine other Romish moÌ„kes of Benettes supersticioÌ„ ii kindes of martyrs hath bene One of monasterye buylders and chaunterye founders whom the temporall princes secular magystrates haue dyuerslie done to death sumtyme for disobedience and sumtyme for manifest treason as we haue of Wallenus of Crowland Thomas of LaÌ„castre Rycharde Scrope Becket soch other The ymages of these haue bene set vp in their teÌ„ples lyke the olde Gods of the paganes haue had theyr vigyls holy dayes ringinges sacrifisiÌ„ges caÌ„dels offeriÌ„ges feastiÌ„ges moch a do besides as they had The other sort were preachers of the Gospell or poore teachers therof iÌ„ corners whaÌ„ the persecucioÌ„ was soche that it myght not be taught abroade And these poore sowles or true seruauntes of God were put to deathe by the holy spirituall fathers Byshoppes prestes monkes chanons fryers for heresye lollerye they saye These Christen martyrs were neuer soleÌ„pnysed of them No they had not so moch as a peny dirge or a grote masse of Requiem no more thaÌ„ had Iohan Baptyst and Steuen amonge the Iewes But they haue bene holden for condempned heretykes euer sens Who euer hearde anye goodnesse yet reported of Dionothus with his M. CC. companyous whom Augustyne can sed to be slayne at Westchestre in hys churches begynnynge bycause they wolde not preache as he dyd apoynt theÌ„ nor baptyse after the Romysh maner neyther yet hallow the Eastre feast as they dyd Many a blessed creature both men womeÌ„ haue bene breÌ„t sens Iohan Wycleues tyme a fore for onlye disclosynge the pharysees yokes teachynge the Gospels liberte And theÌ„ haue that bawdye bloudie Synagoge of SathaÌ„ dyffamed blasphemed condeÌ„pned execrated cursed to hell as most detestable heretykes and dogges Wher as if they were of Christ they ought in case they were their haters or enemies to suffre theÌ„ to saye wele of them to do them good to praye for them Math. v. Luce. vi not thus to vse more tyrannie ouer them than euer dyd Saracene Turke TirauÌ„t or deuyll A great dyfference is there of the martyrs whom they make from the martyrs whom they canonyse Of them whom they dampne from them whom they worshypp yea so great a difference or dyuersyte betwine them if ye marke them wele as is betwyxt golde and dyrt or light and darkenesse The martyrs whose deathes they haue procured by all ages of theyr bloud-thursty church harkned vnto Christ healde of ryghtousnesse and sought their lorde God in sprete Esa. li but the martyrs for the most part whom they haue with so manye latyne wawlynges torches candell burnynges magnyfyed in their temples harkened to the pope healde of hys vnrightousnesse sought out hys superstycyouse ydolatryes In the conferrynge of their olde canonysed martyrs with our newly condempned martyrs here Anne Askewe and her other iii. companyons with soche like their difference will be moch more easelie perceiued First lete vs beginne with Thomas Becket which was so gloryouse a martyr and precyouse aduocate of theirs that they made his bloude equal with Christes bloude and desyred to clime to heauen therby Manie wonderful miracles coulde that mitred patrone of theirs do in those dayes whan the monkes had fryre Bakons bokes and knew the bestowynge of fryre BoÌ„gaies mystes but now he can do none at al. Thys Becket in all hys floryshynge doynges harkened to the pope defended his pompouse kingedome supported his churches excesse wretchedlye dyed for the synnefull lybertees of the same Anne Askew her sort gaue diligeÌ„t hede to their lorde Iesus Christ soughte the kingedome of heauen in daylye repentaunce mightelye detested all ydolatrouse worshippynges in conclusyon suffered moste tryumphaunt deathe for the same CoÌ„cernynge other martyrs As Wenefrid otherwyse called Boniface an Englysh moÌ„ke archebyshopp of Magunce was slaine coÌ„firminge neophytes or professynge his newlie baptysed brode to the Romysh popes obedieÌ„ce There was fouÌ„de aboute hym a casket full of rellickes or dead meÌ„nis bones whaÌ„ he was put to death in the year of our lorde vii c. lv Anne Askewe here felyshyp had none other rellyckes aboute theÌ„ whaÌ„ they stode at the stake to be brent in Smythfelde but a bundell of the sacred scriptures inclosed in their hartes and redye to be vttered aganist Antichristes ydolatries Saynt Clare of Orchestre contemninge lawfull marryage made hym selfe an ydel prest was by headed in his owne gardene by procurimente of a womaÌ„ S. ClitaÌ„ke of Southwales was in like case stabbed in with a dagger bycause a yonge maiden loued him The only true honoure of God was it no worldlye cause that Anne Askewe her companye dyed for Saynt Edwyne being wel armed was slayne in battayle at Hatfelde in the North and S. Edwarde rydynge a Huntinge in the forest of Warham in the weast was killed vpon hys horse in drinkinge a cuppe of wine And all thys was done for the kyngedomes of thys worlde The martyrdome of Anne Askewe and her Bretherne was neyther in battelinge nor huntynge rydynge nor drynkynge but in that ryght course which Christ prescribed vnto his
dyscyples vnder the cruell Byshoppes for his onlye glorye Saynet Cadocke of Cowbridge a Bysshop was pearced through with a speare as he stode at his Masse at one of the clocke at after non bicause he wolde be of the ordre of martyrs Saynte Elphege archebishopp of Caunterburye was stoned to deathe of the Danes bycause he wolde not pase them thre M. Marke in the yeare of our lorde M. xii Of soch martyrs moch doubted Lāfrancus which suceeded him in that office about a iiii score years after and disputed therof with Anselmus The cause of Anne Askewe and her companions was neither madnesse nor moneye but the onlie sekinge of their lord God righte As Sainte Indract with other deuoute pilgrimes of Rome laie in bed in their inne at Shapwyck by Blastenbury their throtes were cut in the night for moneie which was reckened to be in their pylgrymes scryppes Saynt Iuthware a virgine was behedded also for layenge fresh chese or cruddes whether ye will to her brestes The cause of Anne Askewe and her other fellowes conferred with Christes scriptures semeth a farre other matter Hewalde the blacke and Hewalde the whyght ii Englysh mōkes goynge frō place to place with cruettes chalyce and superaltare to do their daylye sacrifices were done to deathe in Frislande by the bowers of the contrey for teachynge a straunge relygyon and are worshypped at Coleyne for martyrs For bearynge about Christes testament which is most heauenlye treasure and for spredynge the wholsom doctrine therof was Anne Askewe and her sort brēt by the prestes procuremēt yet are they no honour for it Osytha runnynge awaye frome her husbande by the intysement of ii monkes became a professed nonne and was murthered of the Danes Wenefryda by counsell of a prest dysdaynouslye refusynge the marryage of a prynce chrystened lost her head for it Maxentia also played a parte not al vnlyke to thys Soch pylde popysh martyrdomes compared to the martyrdome of Anne Askewe and her faythful companye is as is rustye yron compared to pure syluer S. William of Rochestre a Scotte leauynge both wife houshold ydly to trudge on pylgrymage was strycken in the heade wyth an axe of his owne companyon by the waye Saynte Thomas of Douer a monke was suche a wone as was slayne of the frenche men for hydynge the churches iewels crosses chalyces copes No such light corruptible vanytees were they that Anne Askewe her constaunt bretherne dyed for but for the precyouse veryte of God Yonge S. Wyllyam of Norwych yonge S Robert of Burye yonge S. Hugh of Lyncolne yōge S. Melor of Cornewayle yōg s. Kenelme of Glocestre yonge S. Eldrede of Rāsaye his brother wyth soch other lyke were but verye babes they saye were martyred of the Iewes of other enemyes Wherfore their martyrdomes shal be but babysh in cōparysō of these the verite hauing by thē so smal furtheraūce Foillanus his iii. bretherne goynge homeward in the nyghte after they had well banketed wyth S. Gertrude her nonnes were killed in a wod of one murtherer and their horses solde in the next market towne Iustinanus S. Dauyes ghostlye father in Wales was slayne in a gardene of hys iii. monkes bycause he compelled them to do more laboure than he wolde do hys selfe After Kilianus was come home frome Rome he was murthered in his selle wyth other holye pylgrymes by a woman as they laye there a slepe in the nyght Saynt Vrsula also and her she pylgrymes with theyr chaplaynes nurses and suckyng babes were but homely handeled at Coleyne of the hunnes and pietes if that legende be true as they were commynge homewardes from Rome Compare me Anne Askewe and her condempned companye wyth these clowted canonysed solempnysed sensed matrensed and massed martyrs and tell me by the Gosples trial whyche of them seme moste Christenlyke martyres Yea brynge saynte Edmound of Burye saynt Fremūd of Dunstable saynt Ethelbert of Herforde S. Oswalde of Glocestre saynte Oswyne of Tynmoth and Saynte Wynstane of Euesham whych are the best of the Englyshe martyres to the touche stone of Goddes worde and ye shall fynde theyr martyrdomes and causes full vnlyke to theyrs whome the Byshoppes murther now apace in Englande In all these Englysh martyrs reherced here afore ye shall fynde verye fewe coloures or yet tokens that Christ sayd his martyrs shuld be knowne by on lesse ye take pylgrimages pōpes rellyckes women battels hūtynges ydelnes monkeryes moneye treasure worldlye kingdomes contēpt of marryage superstycyōs suche other vanitees for thē And than wyll I saye and not lye in it that ye are moch better ouerseane thā lerned in the scriptures of God as youre olde blynde bludderynge predecessours hath bene Ye wyll axe me here if I reckē Englāde thā all barrē of Christē martyrs Naye marry do I not For I knowe it hathe had good store sēs the popes faith came first into Englande to the Gospels obscuracyō though their names be not knowne to al mē Greate tyrānye was shewed by the heythnysh emprours kynges at the fyrst preachynge of the Gospel in the primatyue churche of the brytaynes by the cruel callynge on of the pagane prestes But nothinge lyke to that hath bene shewed sēs in the Englysh church by the spiritual tyraūt of Rome his mytred termagaūtes at the prouocacyō of theyr oyled swylbolles blīd Baalamites For they most cruellye brēt those innocētes whych dyd but only read the testamēt of God in their mother runge do not yet repente them of that myschefe but contynewe therin Yf ye marke wel these ii examinaciōs of Anne Askewe ye shal fynde in her in her other iii. cōmpaniōs besydes other whō the Byshoppes in our tyme afore hath brēt the expresse tokēs that Christ sealeth his martyrs wt. Thei apered as shepe amonge wolues They were throwne in strōg presō They were brought forth into coūsels synagoges Their answeres were out of gods spret as herin apereth not out of their own They were reuyled mocked stocked racked execrated condempned and murthered as is sayde afore By a spiritualte also as he promised they shuld be Mat. xxiii and xxiiii Yea those spiritual tyrauntes besydes theyr mortal malyce vpō the innocent bodyes haue most blasphemouslye vttered in theyr spyghtful sermons and writynges that their sowles are dampned as is to be seane in the bokes of winchestre and Peryn But let them be ware lest they dampne not theyr own wretched soules For ful sure we are by Christes stronge promes Luce. xii That theyr sowles they can not harme wyth all theyr popes blacke curses Ful swetelye rest they now in the peace of God where theyr slaunderous and malyciouse iudgementes can not hurte them at al Sapi. iii. Lette those Epycures pygges dampne them with as manye blasphemouse
Askewe My faythe breuelye wrytten to the kynges grace I Anne Askewe of good memorye although God hath geuen me the breade of aduersyte and the water of trouble yet not so moche as my synnes haue deserued desyre thys to be knowne to your grace That for as moche as I am by the lawe condempned for an euyll doer Here I take heauen and earthe to recorde that I shall dye in my innocencye And accordynge to that I haue sayde firste and wyll saye laste I vtterlye abhorre and detest all heresyes And as concernynge the supper of the Lorde I beleue so moche as Christe hathe sayde therin Whyche he confyrmed wyth hys mooste blessed bloude I beleue also so moch as he wylled me to folowe and beleue and so moch as the catholycke churche of hym dothe teache For I wyll not forsake the commaundemente of hys holye lyppes But loke what God hath charged me wyth his mouth that haue I shutte vp in my hart And thus breuely I ende for lack of lernynge Anne Askewe Iohan Bale In thys she dyschargethe her selfe to the worlde agaynst all wrongefull accusations iudgemētes of heresye what though it be not accepted to that blynde worlde vnto whome the lorde sayde by hys prophete Your thoughtes are not my thoughtes neither yet are your wayes my wayes But so farre as the heuēs are hyer than the earthe so farre do my wayes excede youres my thoughtes yours Esa. lv Heresye is not to dyssent frō the churche of Rome in the doctryne of fayth as Lāfrācus in his boke de Eucharistia aduersus Berengariū Thomas waldē in his worke of sermōs Ser. xxi Dyffyneth it But heresy is a voluntarye dyssētyng frō the veryte of the scriptures of God and also a blasphemous deprauyng of them for the wretched bellyes sake to mayntene the pompes of thys worlde Thus is it dyffyned of S. Hierome in cōmentariis Hiere S. Augustyne and Isidorus agreynge to the same Cōsidre thā whether he be the thefe that sytteth vpō the bēche or he that standeth at the barre The popyshe clergye that condempneth or the innocent that is condempned Athanasius in hys boke de fuga aduersus Arrianos calleth them the heretykes whyche seketh to have the Christē beleuers murthered as dyd the sayd Arryanes Thys godlye woman hyr innocencye to clere laboureth not here to an inferiour membre of the realme but to the heade therof the kynges owne persone Whome she beleueth to be the hygh minister of God the father of the lande and vpholder of the people Sapi. vi that he might faythfullye and rightlye iudge her cause But who can thynke that euer it came before hym Not I for my part Anne Askewe The effect of my examynacyon and handelynge sens my departure from New gate On twesday I was sēt from new gate to the sygne of the crowne where as mastre Ryche and the Byshoppe of London wyth all their power flatterynge wordes wente aboute to persuade me from God But I dyde not exteme their glosynge pretenses Then came there to me Nicolas Shaxton and counselled me to recāt as he had done Then I sayde to hym that it hade bene good for hym neuer to haue bene borne with manye other lyke wordes Iohan Bale Afer that Chryst had ones ouercommen Sathan in the desert where he had fasted longe tyme Math. iiii We reade not in the scriptures that he was moch assaulted or vexed of the worlde the fleshe and the fyende whyche are reckened the common enemyes of man But yet we fynde in the Gospell that these iii. ghostlye enemyes the prelates the prestes and the lawers or the Byshoppes pharysees and scrybes neuer lefte hym afterwarde tyl they had throughlye procured hys deathe Marke it I desyre yow if it be here anye otherwyse with his dere membre What other enemyes tempteth here Anne Askewe thā the Byshop of London mastre Ryche and doctor Shaxton besydes the great Caiphas of Winchestre with his spightfull I shulde saye spyrytuall table or who els procureth her deathe Ye wyll thynke parauenture concerning mastre Ryche that though he be an enemye yet is he no spirytuall enemye bycause he is not anointed with the popes grese But than are ye moch deceyued For it is the sprete of blasphemye auaryce and malyce and not the oyle that maketh them spirytuall And where as they are anointed in the hande with oyle he is in the hart anointed with the sprete of Mammon betraynge with Iudas at the Bishoppes malycyouse callynge on the poore innocente sowles for moneye or at the least for ambycyouse fauer O Shaxton I speake now vnto the I thynke in the voice of God What deuyll by wytched the to playe this most blasphemouse part as to become of a faythfull teacher a temptynge sprete Was it not ynough that thou and soch as thou art had forsakē your lorde God and troden hys veryte most vnreuerentlye vndre your fete but with soch feates as this is thou must yet procure the a more deper or double dāpnaciō Ryghtlie sayd this true seruaunt of God that it had bene better for the and thy fellowes that ye neuer had bene borne Ye were called of God to a mooste blessyd offyce If ye had bene worthye that vacacyon as ye are but swyne Mathei vii ye hade perseuered faythfull and constaunte to the ende Mathei x. and so haue worthelye receyued the crowne therof Apoca. ii But the loue of your beastlye fleshe hath verye farre in yow ouer wayed the loue of the lorde Iesus Chryste Ye now shew what ye are in dede euen wauerynge reedes with euerye blast moued Luce vii Yea verye faynte harted cowardes and hypocrytes Apo. iii. Ye abyde not in the shepe folde as true shepeherdes but ye flee lyke hyrelynges Iohan. x. Had ye bene builded vpon the harde rocke as ye were on the fyckle sande Math. vii neither Romish stoodes nor Englysh wyndes hade ouerthrowne yow But now loke onlie after your deseruinge for this terrible iudgement of God For them saith S. Paule whiche volūtarylye blaspheme the truthe after they haue receyued the Gospell in fayth and in the holye Ghost remayneth no expyacyon of synne but the fearfull iudgement of hell fyre For a mocke haue they made of the sonne of God Hebrew vi and x. Anne Askewe Then mastre Riche sent me to the tower where I remayned tyll thre of the clocke Then came Ryche and one of the counsell chargynge me vpon my obedyence to shewe vnto them if I knewe man or woman of my secte My answere was that I knewe none Then they asked me of my ladye of Sothfolke my lady of Suffer my ladye of Hertforde my ladye Dennye and my ladye Fizwyllyams I sayde if I shulde pronounce any thynge agaynste them that I were not hable to proue it Iohan bale Neuer was there soche turmoylynge on the earthe as is now
with Marye Marthaes syster soch a sure part haue she chosen as wyll not be takē awaye from her Luce. x. Anne Askewe There be some do saye that I denye the Eucharistie or sacramēt of thankes geuynge But those people do vntrulye reporte of me For I both saye and beleue it that yf yt were ordered lyke as Christe instytuted it and left it a mooste syngular conforte it were vnto vs all But as concernynge your Masse as it is now vsed in our daies I do saye beleue it to be the mooste abhomynable ydoll that is in the worlde For my God wil not be eatē with tethe neyther yet dyeth he agayne And vpō these wordes that I haue now spoken wyll I suffer deathe Iohan Bale All the workes of God and ordinaunces of Christ she reuerenlye admytted as grounded matters of Christen beleue But the Romysh popes creatures wolde she in no case allowe to stande vp checke mate with them The Masse whych is in all poyntes of that fylthye Antychristes creacyon toke she for the moste execreable ydoll vpon earth And rightly For non other is the chylde to be reckened than was hys father afore hym be he man or beast The whelpe of a dogge is non other than a dogge whan he cometh ones to his age Ydolles sayth Dauid are lyke them that make them So are they also whych put theyr trust in them Psalme cxiii An ydoll doth zacharye call that proude slaughterouse shepehearde zacharye xi Who then can denye hys prodigiouse ordynaunces to be the same What other is the worke of an ydolatrouse worker than an execrable ydoll And loke what propertees anye ydoll hathe hadde or feates hath wrought yet sens the worldes begynnyng the popes prodygyouse Masse hath had and wrought the same with manye conueyaunces more Of popes hath it receyued disgisynges instrumentes blessynges turnynges and legerdemaynes wyth manye straunge obseruacyons borowed of the Iewes and paganes olde sacryfyces besydes pardons for delyueraunce of sowles Of monkes haue it gotten a purgatorye after manye straunge apparycyōs wyth a longe ladder from thens to scale heauen with It hathe obtayned also to be a remedye for all dyseases both in man and beast wyth innumerable superstycyons els Of vnyuersytes and their doctours haue it cawte all the subtyltees and crafty lernynges of the prophane phylosophers to be defended by as is to be seane in the workes of their sentencioners lyke as I haue shewed in the mysteri of iniquyte fo xxxiii It serueth all wytches in theyr wytchery all sorcerers charmers inchaunters dreamers sothsayers necromansers coniures crosse dyggers deuyll raysers myracle doers doggeleches and bawdes For wythout a Masse they can not well worke theyr feates The lawers lyke wyse whiche seke in Westmynstre hawle to get most moneye by falschede can neyther be well wythoute it It vpholdeth vayne glory pryde ambycyon auaryce glottonye slouthe ydelnesse hypocresye heresye tyrannye and all other deuylyshnesse besydes It maynteyneth the spirytuall souldiers of Antichriste in all superfluouse lyuynge and wanton lecherouse lustes with the chaste occupyenges of Sodome and Gomor What other ghostly frutes it hathe I shall more largelye shewe in my boke called The myracles of the Masse against Perine Perchaunce some deuout Masse hearers wyl laye for the holynes therof that it contayneth bothe pystle and Gospell Truelye that Epystle and that Gospell maye well haue a name of lyfe as S. Iohan saythe of the church of Sardis Apoca. z. Yet is it in that offyce of massynge nō other than the dead or mortyfienge letter ii Cor. iii. For the sprete that shuld quycken is clerely taken from it So that nothyng els therof remayneth to the common people but a dead noyse and an ydle sounde as it is now in the Romysh lāguage Who can saye but it was the scripture that Sathan alleged vnto Christ vpon the pynnacle of the temple Mat iiii Yet remayneth it there styll after his vngracyous handelynge therof as a false crafty suggestyon a deuylyshe erroure or a shylde of hys wyckednes wyll do euermore Where are the names of God of his Angels of his sayntes more ryfe than among witches charmers inchaūters sorcerers Yet can ye not saye that they are amōge thē to anye mānes saluacyon as they wolde be in ryght handelynge What it is that seruethe an ydoll lette godly wyse men coniecture whyche are not all ygnorraunt howe the Angel became a deuyll Anne Askewe O Lorde I haue more enemyes now than ther be heares on my heade Yet lorde lette them neuer ouercome me with vayne wordes But fyghte thou lorde in my stede For on the cast I my care With al the spyght they can ymagine thei fal vpō me which amthipore creature Yet swete lorde let me not set by thē which ar against the. For in that is my whole delight Iohan Bale O blessed woman and vndoubted cytyzen of heauen Truthe it is that thou hast had manye aduersaryes yea and a far greatter nombre of them than thou hast here reckened And the more thou hast had the greatter is nowe thy vyctorye in Christ. The great bodye of the Beast thou hast had to enemye whiche cōprehendeth the malignaunt muster of Sathā on the one syde the earthly worshyppers of his blasphemous beastlines on the other syde Daniel xi Apoc. xi i. whose nōbre is as the sande of the sec infynite Apo. xx But consydre agayne what fryndeshyp thou hast gotten for it on the other part Thou hast now to frinde for thy faythefull perseueraunce agaynst those ydoll mongers the sempyternall trynyte the father the sonne the holye Gost. Ioā xiiii With the gloryouse multitude of Angels the patriarkes Prophetes Aposteles Martyrs wyth all the electnōbre from righteous Abel hytherto Thou hast also here vpō earthe euermore shall haue the fauer of all thē which haue not bowed to that fylthy Beaste whose names are regestred in the boke of life Apo. xxi And as for thy vngodlye cruell enemyes as dust in the wynde the lorde wyll scattre them from the face of the earth be they neuer so stowte and many Psal. i. Anne Askewe And Lorde I hartelye desyre of the that thou wylte of thy mooste mercyfull goodnesse forgeue them that vyolence whyche they do and haue done vnto me Open also thou theyr blynde hartes that they maye hereafter do that thynge in thy syghte whych is onely acceptable before the. And to sette fourthe thy veryte a ryghte wythoute all vayne fantasyes of synnefull men So be it O Lorde so be it By me Anne Askewe Iohan Bale Afore here she confesseth with Dauid that on God she had caste her care and that in him was all her hartes delyght Psa. lx She desyred hym also neuer to fayle herin to is harde cōdicte but strōglye to assist her and in no case to
stones Acto vii Lete beastlie blinde babbyllers and bawdes with their charmynge chaplaynes than prate at large out of theyr malycyouse sprete and ydle braynes We haue in habundaunce the veryte of Gods worde and promes to proue them both saued and gloryfyed in Christe For God euer preserueth them which trust in him Psal. xvi All that call vpon hys holye name are saued Iobel ii What reasonable man will thynke that they can be loste whyche haue their lorde God more dere than their owne lyues No man shall be hable sayth Christ to plucke my shepe out of my handes but I wyll geue theÌ„ eternall lyfe Ioan. x. Beleue sayth Paule to the iayler at Philippos on the lorde Iesus Christ and thou shall be saued thy whole howsholde Acto xvi They that seme in the sight of the vnwyse to go into destruccyon do rest in the peace of God and are replenished with immortalite Sapien. iii. With other in numerable scriptures to the praise of God whose name be glorified worlde without ende Amen FINIS God saue the kynge Thus endeth the lattre conflict of Anne Askewe latelye done to deathe by the Romysh popes malycyouse remnaunt and now canonysed in the preciouse bloude of the lorde Iesus Chryste Imprynted at Marpurg in the lande of Hessen 16 die Ianuary anno 1.5.4.7 Bedes prophecy 2. sortes 2. sygnes Israelytes preachers Tyndale Barnes The fathers Martyrs Christen martyrs Breade myracles rochettes Steuen Legendes Forest. Fysher More Writers Christen martirs Anne Askewe Goddes power Bokes coÌ„dempned Latyne God wyll be knowne Iohan Wlcleues bokes Canonise Gamaliel Anne Askewe True nobylyte Lydia Cecilia Blandina Anne Askewe Companions RecaÌ„ters Tryed Golde The chauncell Corage Rakced Burned Beastes ShaxtoÌ„ Graces Sprete Hygh stomacke Mother Asshes Autors Not all deed Weakenesse Martyrs Example Sprites Christofer dare Reallye The boxe Temples Accusers Masses Goddes worde The prest Iudas Sacryfyces Thevi of Iohan. ConfessioÌ„ Prestes The kynges boke Pharysees The spyrite A prest mockers A serpent ryseth Masses pryuate Druydes For sowles The prestes receyuynge Mayre Bonner IgnorauÌ„ce Wynchester Peryn Diuisio Guimundus Waldenus Algerus Christus Fayth Nota. Women Scripture women Women Englyshe women Walter hunte Preson Christ troden on the hele A prest Iudas The sacramente Shrifte Prechers ConfessyoÌ„ Practise hypocryte preachers The hostâ— A fallynge God Wynchestre Peryn An Idolle Lyke olde Gossyppes Dronckennesse hypocrite Howsell Spirituallye A whore Dogges Baylynge antichryst The beast Examples A custome The chauÌ„celler Fayth in Christe Tyrannye Wylye Wylye Subtyle A wolfe Foxes A prest A thefe Iudas Herode A false lyar O traiter A tyraunt Murtherers Egles More laÌ„bes to deuoure Lyke the deuyll Archedeacon A lyar Iudas Iohan. Frith Bokes coÌ„dempned Bokes brent Her fryndes Cayphas Practise Sathan Tempter Cayphas Enemyes Surgerye Counsell A murtherer Botches Gathered store Sinon cast Bowgittes Antichrist a sore heresye Prestes Breade Steuen Beastes The boxe Honorius Eua reclusa Bostius Iudases Temples A teÌ„pter scripture practyses Christ. In Gods stede Temples Arystotle Dons Fewe wordes Sylence Bonner Priuate Masses Henrye Spenser Frires Masses Iohan Wycleue Pardons Druydes Perin Chaunceler StaÌ„dyshe Watchemen Vypers I tempter StaÌ„dyshe Doctor Swyne Accuser Dogges rhetoryck Quarellers Thre score prestes Prestes Lordshyp Hypocresi Wonders I prest Occupyenge Scripture Folowers Lordships possessioÌ„s Marryage He wryteth Worshyp thâ— beaste Holye lecherye papystyck Canonysed lecheri Priapystes Scripture Vnsuffycient The pope Fauer Falshede Flatterye catholyck â— woman Catholick FroÌ„ oyle Weston Layte Sodomytes Manye delayes Pharao Practyse Knauery spirituall With prestes TyrauÌ„tes Practyse Subtylte Byshoppes KyngedoÌ„ of God Popes kyngedom A change Polycye No felde â–ª Counsel Sylence Perryn take hede Germanes Peryns sermons Wynchestre modestie Oke groue CoÌ„scyeÌ„ce Hate them ExaÌ„ples Wycleue and huse Sprete Waues Pray and obeye Abhorre Wryters notaireye Martyrs Sufferers Bernardus Barnes other RecaÌ„ters Brytayne churche Christ. 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