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A38426	England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ...		1682 (1682)	Wing E3036; ESTC R2702	130,582	188

the Persecutions of Papal Authority there were several who by the purer Light of the Gospel had discovered the great errours and many Abominations of that Church increasing in England that durst withstand the wickedness of the Priests Monks and Fryers and by writing and preaching oppose their wicked Actions and horrible doings and shew them to the World for which they were sure to run the risque of cruel and barbarous usage from their Hands suffer for a good Conscience adhering to the Doctrine of the Apostles and their Successors in the Primitive Times before the many Corruptions that now overwhelm the Romish Church were crept in amon● them These may be called dissenters from the●● erronious Doctrines vicious Lives and evil prac●●ces Among these in the time of King Edward th● third may be accounted the Author of the Plo●●mans Complaint though he was not known whi●● little Treatise put the Monks and Fryers in●o a Rage it so plainly laying open all their wickednes●● and evil practices The Persecutions of Armachan●● and the abominable errours and abuses of their D●ctrines This did but whet the Rage of these e●●l men and though they could not shew it to the Author of that wholsom Treatise they expresse● i● against his writing what they could and ●ad he been known his Life had been in danger The next that publickly owned the Pure light of the Gospel in those dark daies of blind Superstit●on and error was Richard Fitzrafe known by the name of Armichanus being by King Edward the 3d made Archdeacon of Litchfeild and then Commis●●● to the University of Oxford where he was bred ●●der Bakenthorp and lastly Arch-Bishop of Arm●●● in Ireland He preached in London openly aga●nst the Fryers for which he was cited to appear before Pope Innocent the 6th which he did and there to the death most valiantly opposed the Corruptions Crept into the Church both by preaching and writing being several ways persecuted by them He dyed in Avignion after 7 years banishment from his Native Country About this time in King Edw. the 3d's Reign and about the year 1367. That plotting and state co●founding Order of the Jesuites began to be know● in the world in the 5th year of Pope Vrban the 5●● and the Papal Clergy in England being grown ●o odious to the laity through their vicious Lives a●● evil Manners the Lords in Parliament desired the King that the great Offices of the Crown which were usually executed by the Clergy might be t●ken from them which accordingly were removed and put into the Hands of the Temporal Lords This K. also by Parliament holden in the 27th and 38th years of his Reign by statutes made the Popes Supremacy in England was much abated his Jurisdiction in this Realm much lessened and his Papal power restrained causing all Controversies in Law either Spiritual or Temporal to be determined in the Kings Courts and that if any one should appeal or Consent to an appellation made to the Court of Rome should incur the writ of Premunire being put out of the K's Protection Loss of Lands goods imprisonment during the Kings pleasure This begot or rather increased the Hatred of the Romanists against the Kings of England studying their ruin and overthrow for the setting up their arbitrary Papal Jurisdiction in this Land And about this time a certain Hermit disputed in St. Pauls against the Doctrine of the Sacrament for which they imprisoned him and kept him in hold till he dyed It is also to be observ'd that in the 5th year of the said King Ed. the 3d at a Parliament holden at Westminster the 24th April 1376. a Bill was preferred against the Usurpations of the Pope in England attributing thereunto all the Plagues Murrains Famines and Poverty that had invaded the Land and required a redress of many Grievances and incroachments of his usurpations rehearsing many particulars so that the Tyranny and usurpation of Rome was grown in those days intolerable and would now be much more so since they after this shewed an implacabl● Rage against their opposers and all such who professed the purer Light of the Gospel or found fault with their erronious Doctrines and wicked Lives But the most eminent Light by God raised up in those daies and appearing bright and shining above the rest detecting the foul errors of the Romish Church was the famous John Wickliff from whom his followers dissenting from the Church of Rome were called Wickliffians whose story I shall give you in Brief In the reign of King Edir the 3d and much about the year of our Lord 1371. this Wickliff flowrished He was a Publick Reader of Divinity in the University of Oxford and reputed among them all for a great Clerk and man of learning and parts a deep Schoolman and well studied in the points of Divinity and also of Philos●phy of all kinds And with his strong Arguments and sound reasoning he confounded his opposers and made his very enemies acknowledge his abilities He was a man in great esteem of that valiant and prudent Prince●●ing Edward being by him sent with Commission joyned with other Lords and Ambassadors into I●aly to treat with he Popes Legats concerning affairs betwixt the King and the P●pe The Chief business was that the Bishop of Rome should no more intermeddle in the Distribution of Benefices within his Kingdom but that all B●sh●ps that were under his Dominion should enjoy their former and ancient Liberty and be confirmed of their Metropolitans as had been in the Ancient times This set the Pope and P●pish Clergy a raging and Wickliff being in this Matter n● small obstacle to them Confounding them with h●s learned Arguments so that they term'd him He●●ick as they still do all that stick fast to the rules of the holy Scriptures to the purer Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles they set themselves against him and endeavoured their utmost to ruine him Those days wherein he lived were daies of thick E●●p●●● Darkness and gross Ignorance and the people only retained the name of Christians having nothing of the nature of Christ in them or following his Example in any thing They were Id●latrous and taught by their P●iests to worship nothing but what they saw Images and Cracifixes and indeed there was scarce any thing they saw that they did not worship as Reliques of Saints Consecrated Beads A●●us Dei's and such trumpery The Doctrine and Office of Christ was utterly unknown to the people no● the use of the Law and benefit of the Scriptures the power and efficacy of the Holy Ghost Free Grace Justification by Faith Remission of Sins and the like were never treated of Lear●ing and Divinity was utterly unknown to the Priests and preaching fryers and those among them who seemed learned were meer Sophisters studying Aquinas and Scotus instead of St. Peter and Paul and led the blind and ignorant people into superstition Ceremonies and human Traditions which they taught i●stead of the Scripture in which

Reformation begun by King Ed. 6th The next year being 1547 King Henry dyed and the Church of God had a respite by the reign of the most pious King Edward the 6th who begun the Reformation and fully extirpated Popery out of his Land all whose daies the Gospel flourished and the Church of Christ was established and he with singular constancy maintained Religion but his reign being but short continuing but six years and eight Months and Queen Mary his sister a strong Papist succeeding the blessed Reformation was thrown down Popery again set up and fire and flame enkindled in all places thorow this Kingdom by the means of the Popish Clergy who most cruelly handled all those who professed the Gospel of Christ being a far greater and smarter persecution than any that went before which shall be God willing the subject of our Third and last part of the Popish Cruelties exercised upon the Bodys of Protestants dissenters from them or such as professed the true Gospel of Christ or any ways opposed their Idolatry and Superstition Queen Mary Comes to the Crown The third Part. In which you have a brief of all or most of the Martyrs who suffered for the Gospel by the bloody tyrannie Rage and persecution of the Church of Rome in this Kingdom under the Reign of Queen Mary IT is not our part to give you the History of Queen Marys coming to the Crown which was by blood nor of her falsifying all her Oathes promises and declarations before she obtained it that she would not alter the Religion begun by her Father and established by her brother being reformed according to the Gospel rules nor how soon she broke them and reestablished the Papal Tyranny in this kingdom after it had been abolished by the Kings aforesaid but as we began we shall as briefly as we can and with all truth and sincerity with plainness and without flourishes of st●●e give you an account of the Martyrs and bloody ●●rsecutions which fell upon all those who made ●●●fession of the Gospel or dissented from the ●●●●sh superstition in the Reign of this papist●● 〈◊〉 influenced by the Popes chief bloody 〈…〉 Gardner and Bonner Bishops of 〈◊〉 and London Queen Mary began her reign 1553. in th● first year and begining of her Reign she released 〈◊〉 the Popish Bishops out of prison and all those w●●● professed the Reformation were put into prison 〈◊〉 a very great number among whom was Archbisho● Cranmer Mr. Bradford Ridley Rogers Coverdal Bisho● of Exceter Hooper Bishop of Worcester Mr. Ver●●● Mr. Beacon Mr. Latimer and several other emint●● preachers were all imprisoned for the Gospel th● Statutes of Prem●nire repealed Altars and Mass●● set up all people dissenting from the Rom●sh Religi●●● without distinction persecuted for Judg Hales 〈◊〉 upright Honest man who tho of a contrary Relig●on had opposed the disinheriting Queen Mary f●● being a Popish successor to the endangering his Life was cast into the Mashalsea where with ill usage t● grew desperat and lost his senses and when he wa● released thorow melancholly made himself away by drowning The Lady Jane Grey and her H●band were beheaded in the second year of 〈◊〉 Reign for tho they suffer'd as civil Criminals being Protestants we only mention them and it is observed that Judg Morg●n who gave sentence o● this Lady fell suddenly after mad still crying out o● the Lady Jane till he dyed The Bishop of Winch●ster had likewise at the same time a design of takeing away the life of the Lady Elizabeth but God preserv'd her for his Glory and the comfort of his Church frustrating all the wicked designs of he Popish Enemies Cranmer Ridley and Latimer Condemned In the year 1554 the Archbishop Cranmer D● R dly Bishop of London and the learned Mr. Huge Latimer were taken out of the Tower and sent to O●ford to dispure the poynts of their Religion there which they did for several days with great learning and proof but however they were on the 20th of April Condemned for Hereticks and no members of the Church for maintaining Heretical opinions After sentence thus pronounced upon them by the Commissioners who sat at St. Mary's the Archbishop said From this your Judgment and sentence I ●●peal to the just Ju●gment of God Almighty trusting 〈◊〉 be present with him in Heaven for whose presence in ●●e Altar I am thus Condemned Then said Dr. Ridley ●●ltho I be not of your company yet doubt I not but my ●ame is written in another place whither this sentence ●ill send us sooner than we should by the Course of Na●ure have come Then Mr. Latimer said I thank God ●●st heartily that he hath prolonged my Life to this end ●hat I may in this case glorifie God by that kind of Death Then Dr. Weston said to them If you goe to Heaven ●n this faith then I will never come thither After ●heir sentence these good men were separated one ●rom another and sent to several prisons Tho these men were thus condemned yet there were others who got the start of Martyrdom before them and therefore we shall treat of them in their order ●s they dyed and first of all we shall briefly relate the Martyrdom of Mr. John Rogers vicar of St. Pulthers and Reader of St. Pauls in London The Martyrdom of Mr. Rogers Mr. John R●gers a Martyr and servant of God was brought up in the Universitie of Cambridge where he profited much in humane Learning from which place he was called and chosen by the Merchants Adventurers to be their Chaplain to their Factory at Antwerp in Brabant where he lived in great content and with singular piety for many years in which time he assisted Mr. Tindale and Mr. Coverdale in the translation of the Bible into English and by the Conversation of these men he came to great knowledge of the Gospel and perceiving the abominable errours superstition and Idolatry of the Church of Rome he utterly forsook it and shook off the yoak of Popery Therefore Marrying a Wife by whom he had ten Children he removed to Wittenberg in Saxony where he increased in godly Learning and got the knowledge of the Dutch Tongue so perfectly that a Congregation was committed to his charge in which Ministry he diligently and faithfully served for many years until such time that it pleased God King Edward the 6th came to the Crown and made the Reformation in England banishing popery thence he then desiring to se● his native Country returned into England was by Bishop Ridley Bishop of London made one of the Prebends of St. Pauls and was by the Dean and Chapter chosen Reader of the Divinity lesion there in which capacity he continued till Quee● Mary came to the Crown banishing the Gospel and the true Religion brought again the Popish Idolatry into the Land After this Queen was come to London this Mr. Rogers being appointed to preach a● Pauls Cross he there openly maintained the Doctrine of Christ as