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A22076	The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe lately martyred in Smythfelde, by the Romysh popes vpholders, with the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale.	Askew, Anne, 1521-1546.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1546 (1546)	STC 848; ESTC S100286	39,105	120

inuyncyblenesse of faythe and not in my racles and wonders as those wauerynge wittes suppose 1. Ioan. 5. Ryght wonderfullye wyll thys apere in the ij myghtye conflyctes here after folowynge whych the faythfull seruaunt of Iesu Anue Askewe a gentylwoman verye yonge dayntye and tender had with that outragynge Synagoge in her ij examynacyons about the xxv yeare of her age whom she sent abroade by her owne hande writynge The handelynges of her other iij. companyons shall be shewed in other seuerall treatyses at layser For the glorye and great power of the lorde so many festlye aperynge in hys elect vessels maye not now perysh at all handes be vnthankefullye neglected but be spred the worlde ouer as we le in Latyne as Englysh to the perpetuall in famye of so wyll fullye cruell and spyght full tyrauntes Nothynge at all shall it terryfye vs nor yet in anye poynt lett vs of our purpose that our bokes are now in Englande condempned and brent by the Byshoppes and prestes with their frantyck affynyte the great Antichristes vpholders whych seke by all practyses possyble to turne ouer the kynges most no ble and godlye enterpryse But it wyll from hens forth occasyon vs to set fourth in the Latyne also that afore we wrote onlye in the Englysh and so make their spirytuall wyckednesse and treason knowne moche farther of What auayled it Ioakim to burne Bieremyes proyhecye by the vngracyouse counsell of hys prelates Hiere 36. Eyther yet An tiochus to set fyre on the other scriptures 1. Macha 1. After the Apostles were brought afo re the counsell and strayghilye cōmaunded to cease from preachynge they preached moche more than afore Acto 4. In most terryble persecucyons of the pryma tyue churche were the examynacyons answers tormentes and deathes of the constaunt martyrs written and sent a broade all the whole worlde ouer as testyfyeth Eusebius Cesariensis in hys ecclesyastyck hystorye Their coppyes habounde yet euerye where Great slaugh ter 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 peryshed I haue at thys houre the tytles of a C. and XLIIII of them whych are manye more in nombre For some of them vndre one tytle com prehendeth ii bokes some iij. some iiij Yea one of them contayneth xij I thynke not the contrarye but ere the worlde be at a full ende God wyll so gloryfye that twentye tymes condempned heretyke execrated cursed spytted and spat led at that all your popysh writers before hys tyme and after wyll be reckened but vyle swyneheardes to hym for the good fauer he bare to Christes holye Gospell A verye madnesse is it to stryue agaynst God whan he wyll haue the lon ge hydden inyquytees knowne As the godlye wyse man Gamaliel sayd Acto 5. If thys enterpryse that is now taken agaynst yow be of God ye shall neuer be able with all your tyrannouse practyses to dyssolue it Now concernynge that blessed woman Anne Askewe whych latelye suffered the tyrannye of thys worlde for ryght wisnesse sake In Lyncolne shyre was she borne of a verye auncyent and noble stocke Sir Wyllyam Askewe a worthye knyght beynge her father But no worthynesse in the flesh neyther yet anye worldlye noblenesse anayleth to god warde afore whome is no acceptacyon of persone Actorum 10. Onlye is it faythe with hys true loue and feare whych maketh vs the accept noble and worthye chyldren vnto God Ioan. 1. Wherof by hys gyft she had wonderfull habundaunce Soch a won was she as was Lydia the purple sellar whose har te the lorde opened by the godlye prea chynge of Paule at Thyatira Acto 16. for dylygent hede gaue she to hys wor de whan it was ones taught without su perstycyon wolde no lōgar be a false worshypper orydolatour after the wycfed scole of Antichrist But became frō thensfourth a true worshypper worshyp pyng her lorde God whych is a sprete not breade in sprete in veryte accordynge to that worde of hys Ioan. 4. The Gospell of Christ bare she in her harte asded the holye mayde Cecilia neuer after ceased frō the stodye therof nor frō godlye cōmunycacyon prayer tyll she was clerlye by most cruell tormentes ta ken from thys wretched worlde By her do There dere fryndes in the lorde as ded the faythfull Bretherne in fraunce at the cyties of Lyons and Vienna by a lyke faythfull yonge woman called Blandina Whych was there put to deathe with in myghtye companyons more amonge other as thys was for her Christē beleue about the yeare of our lorde C. and LXX in the prymatyue sprynge of their Christyanyte They wrote vnto their Bretherne in the landes of Asia Phrygia verye farre of her myghtye stronge suffe rynges for Christes fayth whych they kne we nothynge of afore I write here vnto in Englande the double processe of thy● noble woman wherof ye are not ignoraunt for so moche as it was there so manyfestlye done amonge yow Coupled I haue these ij examples togyther bycau se I fynde them in so manye poyntes agree Blandina was yonge and tender So was Anne Askewe also But that whych was frayle of nature in thē both Christ made most stronge by hys grace Blandina had iij. ernest companyons in Christ Maturus Sanctes and Attalus so feruentlye faythfull as her selfe So had Anne Askewe iij. fyre fellawes a gentylman called Iohan Lassels her instructour a pres●e and a tayler called Iohan Adlam men in Christes veryte vnto the ende most cōstaunt With Blā dina were in preson to the nombre of x. whych renyed the truthe and were clerelye forsaken of God for it Howmanye fell frō Christ besydes Crome and Shaxton whan Anne Askewe stode fast by hym I am vncerteyne But I counsell them as saynt Iohan counselled the Laodycyanes in the myserable estate they are now in to bye them through tryed golde of Christ least they perysh all togyther Apoca. 3. If they had not styll remayned in that chauncell whome Christ commaunded Iohan in no wyse to measure Apoca. 11. They had neuer so shamefullye blasphemed lyke as Bedas also toucheth in hys former propheeye Prompt was Blandina and of most Iustye corage in renderynge her lyfe for the lyberte of her faythe No lesse lyuelye and quyck was Anne Askewe in all her enprysonynges 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 Wrysleye the chaunceller and Ryche that the stryn ges of her armes and eyes were peryshed Blandina deryded the cruelte of the tyrauntes So ded Anne Askewe the mad nesse of the Byshoppes and their speche men Reade burnynge plates of yron and of brasse had

The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe latelye martyred in Ginythfelde by the Romysh popes vpholders with the Elucydacyon of Iohan Bale Psalme 116. The veryte of the lorde endureth for euer Anne Astewe stode 〈…〉 God to the 〈◊〉 Iohan Bale to the Christen readers AMonge other most syngular offyces dylygent reader whych the lorde hath appoynted to be done in the ernest sprete of Belyas by the forerō ners of hys la●tre aperaunce thys is one verye specyall to be noted They shall turne the hartes of their anncyēt elders into the chyldrē Mala. 4. And the vnbe Ieuers of their tyme to the wysdome of those ryghrouse fathers as ded Iohan Baptyst afore hys first cōmynge Luce 1. That is sayth Bedas ca. 68. de temporum ratione the faythe and feruent zele of the prophetes and Vpostles shall they plant in their hartes whych shall in tho se dayes lyne and be amonge men conuer saunt than wyll breake fourth sayth he as a verye true prophete soche horryble persecucyon as wyll first of all take from the worlde those myghtye heliases by tryumphaunt martyrdome to the terryfyenge of other in the same fayth of whom some shall becom through that occasyon most gloryouse martyrs vnto Christ also some verye wycked Aposta taes for sakynge hys lyuelye doctryne For by the seyd Bedas testymonye in the begynnynge 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 their lorde God and the horryble persecucyon of Antichrist Conferre with thys treated scripture and former prophecye of that vertuouse man Bedas the worldes alteracyon now with the terryble turmoylyng●s of our tyme. And as in a most clere myrrour ye shall wele perceyue them at thys present to be in most quyck workynge And as concernynge the Israelytes or Iewes I haue both seane and knowne of them in Germanye most faythfull Christen beleuers Neyther is it in the prophecye Osee 3. that they shuld at that daye be all conuerted no more than they were at Iohan Baptystes preachynge Luce 1. For as Esaye reporteth though the posteryte of Iacob be as the see sande innumerable yet shall but a remnaunt of them conuert than vnto their lorde God Esaie 10. And though the lorde hath syfted that howse of Israel as broused corne in a syffe amonge all other nacyons Amos 9. Yet shall not that remnaunt of theirs perysh but at that daye be saued through the onlye eleccyon of grace Romano 11. Now concernynge the afore seyd forerōners in thys most wonderfull change of the worlde before the lattre ende therof I thynke within thys realme of Englande besydes other nacyons abroade the sprete of Belyas was not all a slepe in good Wyllyam Tyndale Robert Barnes soche other more whome Antichristes vyolence hath sent hens in fyre to heauen as Belyas went afore in the frerye charett 4. Regum 2. These turned the hartes of the fathers into the chyldren soche tyme as they toke from a great nombre of our nacyon by their godlye preachynges and writynges the corrupted beleue of the pope hys mastrye workers whych were no fathers but cruell robbers de stroyers Ioā 10. reducynge thē agayn to the true faythe of Abraham and Peter Gene. 15. and Math. 16. The pure beleue in Christes birthe and passyon wh●ch 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 fourth the Apostles and fathers out 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 dyscyples and now stronge witnesses of Iesus Christ Iohan Lassels and Anne Askewe with their other ij com panyons verye gloryouse martyrs afore God what though they be not so afore the wronge iudgynge eyes of the worlde whom the bloudye remnaunt of Antichrist put vnto most cruell deathe in Smythfelde at London in the yeare of our lorde M. D. XLVI in Iulye If they be onlye as was Iohan Baptyst great afore the lorde by the holye scriptures allowaunce whych are strongelye adourned with the graces of hys sprete as faythe force vnderstandynge wysdome pacyence loue longe susseraun ce and soche lyke I dare boldelye afferme these 4. myghtye witnesses also to be the same so well as the martyrs of the prymatyue 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 malygnan̄t Synagoge of Sathan as euer ded they for no tyrannye admyttynge anye create or corruptyble substaunce for their eternall lyuynge god If their blynde babyes to proue them vnlyke do obiect agaynst me the myracles shewed at their deathes more than at these as that vnfaythfull generacyon is euer desyerouse of wonders Math. 12. I wolde but knowe of thē what myracles were shewed whan Iohan Baptystes head was cut of in the preson Marci 6. and whan Iames the Apostle was byheaded at Hierusalem Aero 12. These 2. were excellent afore God what though they were but myserable wretches lyght fellawes sedycyouse heretykes busye knaues and lowsye beggers in the syght of noble kyng Herode and hys honorable counsell of prelates For had not rochettes and syde gownes bene at hande haplye they had not so lyghtlye dyed If they allege Steuen to maynteyne their purpose that he at hys deathe behelde beauen open I aske of thē agayne what they were whych se it more than hys owne persone Sure I am that their wycked predecessours there present se it not For they stopped their cares whan he tolde them therof Actorum 7. If they yet brynge fourth the other hystoryes of Apostles and martyrs I answere them that all they are of no soche autoryte 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 Mathei 24. Yet wrought fryre Forest Iohan Fisher and Thomas More no myra cles what though manye be now rege stred in their lyues and legendes by the fryres of Fraunce Italye and Spayne Besydes that Iohan Cochleus hath written of them ad Paulum Pōtificem ad regem Henricum and also in their defence agaynst doctor Sampson With that Erasmus ded also ad Hutrenū P. M. ad Gasparem Agrippam Albertus Pighius Riuius Fichardus a great sort more And as for the holye mayde of ●ēt with Doctor Bockynge though they wrought great wonders by their lyfe yet aperednon at their deathes Of hys owne chosen martyrs Christ loketh for non other myracle but that onlye they perseuer faythfull to the ende Math. 10. And neuer denye hys veryte afore men Luce 12. For that worthye vyctorye of the synncfull worlde standeth in the