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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

Nicholas Belerrian a Minister in Shrop-shire John Adams a Taylor and John Lacels a Gentleman belonging to King Henry the Eighth these beholding the Invincible Constancy and patience of Mistriss Askew were thereby much incouraged in their Sufferings About the same time Sir John Blage of the Kings Privy Chamber was falsly accused to have spoken against the Mass upon which he was condemned to be burnt in Smithfield whereupon the Earl of Bedford begged his pardon of the King who Commanded it to be drawn immediately After his release Sir George coming to the King Ah my Pig said he for so he usually called him Yea said Blage if your Majesty had not been better to me than your Bishops were your Pig had been roasted before this time Presently after Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and his Confederates set forth a Cruel Proclamation in the Kings Name for abolishing the Scriptures and all other English Books that discovered the truth to the people and having obtained this they very much rejoyced therein hoping that they had now for ever suppressed the Gospel so that it should never rise again and to strike the greater terror into mens minds they made a diligent search after the Professors of the Truth of whom they took the Names of some drove away others and hereby doubted not but to attain their ends But it pleased God that in the midst of these subtil Contrivances for the destruction of his Gospel and Servants to take away King Henry the Eighth within four Months after the Proclamation and thereby all their hopes and projects were utterly disappointed King Henry the Eighth being dead his only Son Prince Edward our English Josiah ascended the Throne under whom the Protestant Religion was established and Popery and Superstition abolished for he caused all Images to be demolished and as Idolatrous to be taken out of all Churches within his Dominions the Learned men of his time he encouraged and commanded them to open and expound the Scriptures he abolished the Mass and ordered the Service to be read in the English Tongue and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be administred in both kinds to the People But it pleased God in a short time to take him to himself for in the Seventh Year of his Reign and the seventeenth Year of his age he was taken with a lingring sickness during which time a Marriage was concluded between the Lord Guilford Dudley eldest Son to the Duke of Northumbereand and the Lady Jane the Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk whose mother being then alive was Daughter to Marry King Henry the Eighth's second Sister The Marriage being finisht and the King every day more sick than other so that he seemed past Recovery the Duke of Northumberland being ambitious to advance his Family perswaded the King that the Church and the True Religion would be in great danger if he did not chuse a pious Successor and that it was the part of a good Prince to set aside all other respects when the Glory of God and the good of his Subjects were concerned The King partly for his great desire to have the Protestant Religion confirmed and partly for the intire love which he bore to his Cousin the Lady Jane signed Letters Patents under the Broad Seal to appoint the Lady Jane to succeed him in the Kingdom although her Title were excluded by the Lady Mary who was alwaies a zealous Papist and the Lady Elizabeth This was afterwards confirmed by the Nobility and Chief Lawyers of the Kingdom and was subscribed to by all the Kings Council the Lord Maior and Aldermen of Lndon who upon the Death of King Edward which happened in a short time after proclaimed the Lady Jane Queen in London and Westminster The Lady Mary being in Hartford-shire and hearing of it presently sent to the Lords of the Council commanding and requiring them to Proclaim her Queen which if they refused to do she threatned to recover her Right by force of Arms. The Lords returned answer That the Lady Jane was invested and possessed of the Crown by just Right and Title both by the Ancient Laws of the Land and by Letters Patents signed and sealed by the late King before his death and therefore they declared they would adhere to her and to none other requesting the Lady Mary that she would not upon any pretence endeavour to disturb the peace of the Kingdom promising her that if she would carry her self as a dutifull Subject they would be ready to do her any service The Lady Mary having received this answer withdrew further from the City and the Council being sensible of her stout and unquiet disposition they raised an Army which was commanded by the Duke of Northumberland The Lady Mary went into Suffolk and Norfolk gathering such aid of the Commons as she could and kept her self in Framingham Castle to whom the Suffolk men first resorted who being alwayes forward in promoting the Gospel promised her their aid and assistance provided she would make no alteration of the Protestant Religion as it was established by her Brother King Edward To this she readily agreed and confirmed it with such Vows and Ptotestations that none could suspect her whereupon they joined with her and thus by the help of the Protestants she vanquished the Duke of Northumberland and his Army and was settled in the Kingdom but she soon forgot her promises for these very Suffolk men observing that Popery would be re-established they Petitioned to her to perform her word to them at which she was extreamly displeased and told them Forasmuch as you who are Members desire to rule your Head you shall one day find that Members must obey not se k to rule Yea one of the chief of these men Mr. Dob by name she caused for the Terror of others to be set in the Pillory several times and divers others that presented Supplications to her not to set up Popery she caused to be sent to prison Queen Mary being settled in the Kingdom the Lady Jane her Father the Duke of Northumberland and her Husband the Lord Guilford Dudley were soon after Beheaded and the Queen soon discovered her disaffection to the Protestant Religion by displacing all the Orthodox Bishops as Poinet Ridley Scorie Hooper Coverdale and by releasing out of the Tower Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester whom she made Lord Chancellor of England and Bonner who was made Bishop of London Then the Queen publisht a Proclamation that she was resolved to observe and maintain the Catholick Religion wherein she was bred up requiring all her Subjects quietly to embrace the same A while after this Bonner and Gardiner begun a cruel and bloody persecution upon the Protestants and made them fall in heaps For Mr. Hooper Mr. Rogers Mr. Taylor Mr. Bradford Mr. Saunders all famous men were condemned and burned for Heresie In the year 1555. Thomas Tomkins whose hand B. Bonner burnt in prison to try his constancy was afterward burnt in Smithfield

Boots with boiling Oyl and put them upon their Legs over a soft fire Thus he tormented many but at last Francis the French King being informed of his Hellish cruelty sent to the Parliament of Provence to apprehend him who condemn him but he having notice of it fled to Arragon where a while after he was robbed of all he had by his own servants and then fell into an horrible disease unknown to the Physitians being intollerably tormented with pains all over his body so that he had not one minutes rest and no creature was able to endure him for the intollerable stink which proceeded from him nor he himself for his body was full of nasty sores and ulcers which swarmed with Vermin and rotted away from the bones by piece-meal In the midst of his torments he would in a great rage cry out Oh! who will deliver me who will rid me out of these intollerable pains which I now suffer for oppressing and tormenting those poor men endeavouring several times to kill himself but had not power and in this horrible anguish and despair he fearfully died no man being able to bury him for some time by reason of the loathsome smell proceeding from him till at last a poor man with an Iron Hook dragg'd his Carkass into a Hole he had digg'd for him During this Persecution the Bishop of Aix with some other Bishops walking with some of their Wenches through the Streets of Avignion they saw a man selling bawdy Pictures Images and Songs which they presently bought up but going a little further they found a man selling of French Bibles at which being extremely enraged they askt him how he durst be so bold to sell such Merchandize in that Town the Bookseller answered Is not the Holy Bible as good as these goodly Pictures you have bought for the Gentlewomen The Bishop of Aix said I renounce my part in Paradise if this Fellow be not a Lutheran The Attendants cryed out a Lutheran a Lutheran to the fire with him to the fire with him one giving him a blow with his Fist others pulled him by the Hair and Beard so that the poor man was all embrued in blood before he came to Prison The next day he was brought before the Judge where by the instigation of the Bishops he was burned the same day with two Bibles tyed about his Neck one before and another behind where he made a most Christian end This long and bloody Persecution of these Waldenses lasted near five hundred years in which time the Gospel spread into Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Croatia Solavonia Salmatia Bulgaria and in other places to which they were driven where they were tormented and persecuted according to the power and influence that the Pope and his Agents had over the Princes and Governours of those Countries The Albingenses were the same with the Waldenses professing the same Doctrines and Principles and differing only in name their Country being called Albi the chief Preacher among them being one Arnold from whom they were sometimes called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the Third began with them condemning them for Hereticks and Pope Innocent the Third raising a War against them calling it the Holy War giving the same Pardons and Indulgences and promising Paradise to all that would fight against the Hereticks with the same encouragement as those which went to the Holy Land against the Turks and Sarazens In this War he so thundered out Excommunications and used Temporal Arms against Reymond Earl or Prince of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and his Nobility were much astonished to see their Lord not only divested of his Possessions but led to the Church to be reconciled to it where the Popes Legate commanded the Earl to strip himself stark naked all but his Linnen Drawers they then put a Rope about his Neck and led him nine times round the Grave of one Peter an Hermit who was kill'd in that War scourging him with Rods all the while of which the Earl complaining the Legate told him That he must submit if he would be reconciled to the Pope yea he must be thus scourged before his Earls Barons Marquesses Prelates and all the people He made him likewise swear to be obedient to the Pope and Church of Rome all his life and to make irreconcileable War against the Albingenses The Legate then acts the part of a General and besieges Bezier and the Albingenses desiring to come to Terms the Legate would admit of nothing but the renouncing of their Religion and imbracing Popery which they absolutely refused upon those Conditions saying That God was able to defend them but if he would please to honour them to die for his sake they would rather displease the Pope than God Almighty In a short time the City was taken by Storm being assaulted by above an hundred thousand Papists the Enemy entring and slaying a great multitude killing all they m t without distinction the Popes Legate-bidding them kill all both Catholicks and Hereticks for the Lord knoweth who are his So that there were threescore thousand persons slain in this City the Priests and Fryars going about the Streets in the mean time with Crosses and Banners and singing Te Deum Laudamus after which they set the whole City on fire and burnt it to Ashes They marched next to a Town called Carcasson which these bloody Villains who called themselves Holy Pilgrims took by Storm likewise killing burning and destroying all before them as they had done before at Beziers They next proceeded to the City of Carcasson which was about two miles from the Town and was defended by the Earl of Pez●ers when they offered to capitulate the Legate would grant no other Conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their Baggage but all the rest both Men Women Maids and Children should come forth stark naked without any covering either of Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him but the Earl disdained such unworthy Conditions upon which the Legate assaulted the City but they that were within threw down Stones Fire Pitch Brimstone and Scalding Water from the Walls which so galled the Legates Souldiers that the Earth was covered and the Ditch filled with their dead bodies The Legate sinding Force would not avail used Policy and therefore upon pretence of Parley he perswaded the Earl to come out of the City with great Oaths and Execrations for his safe return but having him in possession they kept him Prisoner and then instantly stormed the City to the amazement of the poor Citizens who expected nothing less but there being happily discovered a Vault in the Town which went to a Castle some miles from thence the Citizens in the Evening began their Flight with their Wives and Children carrying Victuals with them only for some few days the next morning they arrived at the Castle and from thence dispersed themselves some one way some another leaving

up further to clear and unmask this detestable and bloody Conspiracy Dr. Oats was resolved as much as in him lay to prevent their Traiterous designs upon his Majesties Life though he endangered his own thereby since he observed that all their Contrivances were ripe and there only wanted the Fatal Blow to destroy the life of his Sacred Majesty and the Religion and Liberties of these three Kingdoms And whereas Father Whitebread the Provincial of the Jesuits had engaged Dr. Oats before his last return into England to assassinate and murder Israel Tongue Doctor of Divinity because he had translated a Book Intituled The Jesuits Morals and had promised him Fifty pound as a reward for the same Dr. Oats after his coming over became acquainted with Dr. Tongue and finding him to be a person of Trust and Integrity he gave him an Account of his Assassination and likewise some Heads of the Plot in General After which they both seriously Consulted together of the best methods for making this necessary Discovery since they were sure to meet with great opposition therein At last they concluded to acquaint Mr. Christopher Kirby therewith as a person whom for his Loyalty Courage and zeal for the Safety of his Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion they judged very fit and capable to assist them and therefore on Monday August 12. 1678. Dr. Tongue shewed Mr. Kirby Forty three Articles drawn up in writing desiring him that without making any other Person acquainted therewith he would discover the same to the King And Mr. Kirby very generously undertook the same and accordingly the next morning in St. James's Park he humbly acquainted his Majesty That his Enemies had a Design against his Life and humbly beseeched his Majesty to use all Caution for he did not know but he might be in danger in that very walk But his Majesty armed with his Native goodness and Innocency seemed more surprized with the Strangeness of the News than with the apprehension of the danger and only asked How that could be To which Mr. Kirby replyed That it might be by being shot at And gave a particular account that there were two men Grove and Pickering by name that watched an opportunity to shoot his Majesty and that another Person was hired to Poyson him His Majesty ordered further Scrutiny should be made into the business and a while after Doctor Oats having written fair Copies of his Informations upon the 28. of September 1678. went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and made Oath of the truth and reality thereof Sir Edmundbury desiring to keep a Copy of the Informations himself as having never before perused them which it may be was the occasion of his horrid Murther which soon after followed The Plot in General seemed to be by Fire and Sword to subvert and destroy the Protestant Religion and established Government of these three Kingdoms and to reduce them to Popery The chief Conspirators being Innocent 11 th now Pope who in The Congregation for propagating the Faith held about Decemb. 1677. and consisting of about 350. Persons Declared All His Majesties Dominions to be part of St. Peters Patrimony as forfeited to the Holy See for the Heresie of the Prince and People and to be disposed of as he should think fit And our English Cardinal Howard was appointed by the Pope to take Possession of England in his Name who was likewise made Archbishop of Canterbury and other Popish Priests were made Bishops in England all the present Bishops being designed to be removed from their Dignities Johannes Paulus de Oliva Father General of the Jesuits was to give Directions to the Provincial of the Jesuits in London how to manage their Affairs Mounsieur le Chese a Jesuit Confessor to the French King was likewise concerned with whom Edward Coleman held correspondence Also Strange and Whitebread Provincials of the Jesuits and the Benedictine Monks of the Savoy were in this cursed Conspiracy and the Jesuits and Seminary Priests of whom there were at that time in England about Eighteen Hundred Divers Lay Persons of Quality were drawn in who were to command Forces and to execute the Great Offices of the Realm as the Lord Arundel of Warder was appointed Lord Chancellour of England the Lord Powis Lord Treasurer Sir William Godolphin Lord Privy Seal Edward Coleman Secretary of State and for the Military part Lord Bellasis to be Lord General Lord Peters Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ratcliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Richard Langhorn Advocate General who had Commissions sent them from Paulus de Oliva and directed from Rome to Mr. Langhorn This was so great and glorious a work that the chiefest of the Romish Clergy through Europe were engaged therein so that it cannot be said to be the Act or Contrivance of any few particular Persons but The unanimous undertaking of their whole Church and so to their everlasting Infamy ought to be Recorded Now as to the Means whereby this was to be accomplished the first and chief was By Murdering his Sacred Majesty which was to be accomplisht either by Pistolling of him wherein Pickering and Grove were ingaged or by Stabbing and this to be done by Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks or four Irish Ruffians Or lastly by Poysoning for which Money was payd to the Undertaker 2. Another means was by firing London Westminster and the parts adjacent and likewise other Cities and great Towns in England immediately upon the Murder of his Majesty 3. By a General Massacre to which purpose they had designed to raise an Army which was to consist of Fifty Thousand men to be Listed in and about London The Officers to be all Resolute Papists and for the most part French and Irish and these they gave out were enough to cut the Throats of One Hundred Thousand Protestants especially being taken upon a Surprize when the Militia of London was undisciplined and unprovided Care was taken likewise about securing Ireland and Scotland to their Interest Great sums of Money were provided for the necessary charge of this mighty undertaking and it was discoursed that the Jesuits in England had purchased a great Estate per Annum for that purpose and that they had a great Stock in ready Money and were to receive Eleven thousand Crowns from Rome Ten thousand pound from Spain and Ten thousand from France besides several other very considerable summs for promoting this vast design And this is a brief Abstract of this bloody and Hellish Popish Plot abundance of other particulars being omitted whereby it appears that this Horrid Plot is hardly to be parallel'd in any History considering that without any provocation so many Thousand Protestants were designed for slaughter destruction and Murder only to advance and promote the Holy Catholick Religion as they falsly call that Chaos of Blasphemy and Cruelty Presently after this Remarkable discovery happened the murther of that worthy Magistrate Sir Edmondbury Godfry who as is before related having taken the