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A44364	The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.	Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2663A; ESTC R224173	399,190	375

Then said the King commit thy self unto the hands of God and not unto mine Lambort I commend my Soul unto the hands of God but my Body I wholly yield and Submit unto your clemency Then said the King if you do commit your self unto my Judgment you must die for I will not be a patron to Hereticks and so caused the Sentence of Death to be read against him Shortly a●●er he was had to Smithfield and there burnt in the midst of the Flames he cryed unto the people in these words None but Christ none bu● Christ and so ended his life The aforesaid six Articles being consented unto and concluded by the King and Parliament the Bishops caused further to be enacted that whosoever denyed Transubstantiation or whosoever should be Alders Comforters Counsellors Consentors and A bettors therein should be adjudged Hereticks That every such Offender should have and suffer Judgment Execution and pain of death by way of burning without any Abjuration benefit of the Clergy or Sanctuary and should forfeit to the King all their Land and Tenements Goods and Chattels as in Cases of high Treason And for all such as did preach teach uphold maintain or defend any thing contrary to the five last Articles should be adjudged as Fellons and lose both life and goods as in the Case of Fellony When these Articles were in debate in the Parliament house Doctor Cranmer in favour to the Professors of the Truth earnestly disputed in defence of the Truth against them but notwithstanding all his opposition the Act was past By reason of these fix Articles a great Number were apprehended in London and other Places so that all the prisons in London were too little to hold them and many were imprisoned in Halls Amongst whem was one John Porter of London John Porter died in Prison who for reading to people in a Bible was sent for by Bonner and sharply reproved Porter answered he trusted he had no way offended contrary to the Law thereby Bonner charged him for making expositions upon the Text and for gathering Multitudes about him this Porter denyed yet did Bonner send him to Newgate where he was miserably Loaden with Irons both hands and legs with a great Collor of Iron about his neck whereby he was fastned to the Wall in the Dungeon after a while he sent for a Kinsman of his who by bribing the Keeper obtained that he was put amongst Thieves and Murtherers but Porter hearing and seeing their Wickedness exhorted them to amendment of life giving them good instructions for this he was complained of and carried down into the lowest Dungeon where he was so cruelly oppressed with Bolts and Irons that within few daies after he was found dead In the year 1544. One Robert Testwood living at Windsor being a favourer of the Lutherans Robert Testwood Martyr and seeing People licking and kissing a white Alablaster Image that stood behind the high Altar at which his Zeal was so stirred that with a Key that he had in his hand he struck off the Images nose saying see good People what it is it cannot help it self how then would you have it help you The noise hereof being spred abroad one Simonds a Lawyer took up the Nose and said one day it should be a dear Nose to Testwood And further upon a day whereon every one was to carry a Relick in procession Testwood amongst others had Beckets Rochet proferred him but he pusht it from him saying if they gave it him he would wipe his Tayle with it These doings so offended the Clergy that they said he was a Heretick and would roast a Fagot one day for this geer but notwithstanding their Threats he lived in quiet till the death of the Lord Cromwell and till Winchester had insinuated into the affections of the King and wholly ruled at which time Testwood being sick in bed was fetched out and cast into Prison together with one Anthony Person John Marbeck and Henry Filmer and after a while they were all brought forth to Judgment be fore Doctor Capon ●i●●op of Salsbury and others Testwoods Indictment was for that when the Priest lifted up the Sacrament he said what wilt thou lift it up so high what yet higher take heed that thou let him not fall As also that at such times when the Sacrament was lifted up he used to look down on his Book or another way that he might not see the Sacrament whereupon he said Whereon did he look that marked me so well Marry quoth the Kings Attorney he could not be better Occupied then to mark such Hereticks The Prisoners being Condemned they spent the greatest part of the night before their Execution in prayer that the Lord would strengthen them and enable them with stedfast Faith and power to go through their Exercise About this time there rose a great Persecution in Callice in France which was then under Englands power Persecution in Callice there was at one time twelve persons Imprisoned for their Religion but the Lord Cromwell so called hearing of it wrote immediately to the Commissioners in Callice in the Kings Name requiring that the Hereticks with their Accusers should be sent over into England forthwith the Commissioners loading them with Chains sent them over as soon as Cromwell heard they were arrived he sent for them to his House and smiling upon them said Go your ways to the Fleet and Submit your selves Prisoners there and be of good cheer for if God give me life you shall shortly go home with as much honesty as ye came with shame But it pleased God that shortly after this Cromwell was beheaded so that the poor men then had no hope but in the Providence of their Heavenly Father who comforted them in their deep Troubles that as their Afflictions abounded their joyes and consolations abounded much more for when all hope was past the Lord Audley Chancellor of England sent for them and without any further examination discharged them of their Imprisonment In the year 1541. The King sent out a Commission for apprehending of such as offended against the six Articles and when the Commissioners sat● at Mercers-Chapple being such as were chosen on purpose they enquired not only for such as offended against the six Articles but of such as came seldom to Church as it s called and received not the holy Bread and Water so that they indicted above five hundred persons most of which had either died in Prison or been burnt in Smithfield but that the King being informed by the Lord Audley that they were indicted of malice granted them his Pardon Richard Meekins Martyr bein● a Boy of fifteen years old About the same time one Richard Meekins a boy of fifteen years old was accused for spaking some words against the Sacrament of the Altar and when the first Jury would not find the indictment against him they were soundly ratled by the Bishop of London and another Jury impannelled that found it

Rich and the Bishop of London used all their power by flattering words to perswade her from God but they prevailed not with her one Nicholas Shaxton counselled her to recant as he had done she told him it had been good for him he had never been born then Rich sent her to the Tower to be racked where first he and one of the Councel examined her telling of her that the King was informed that if she would she could name a great number of her Sect she answered that the King was as well deceived in that as he was in other Matters The manner of her Racking was thus she was first lead down into a Dungeon where the Lievtenant of the Tower commanded the Goaler to pinch her with the Rack which being done so much as he thought sufficient he went about to take her down but Wristley the Chancellor not contented that she was loosed so soon confessing nothing but lay still and did not cry commanded the Lievtenant to strain her on the Rack again which because he denyed to do tendering the weakness of the Woman the Chancellor threatened him he would signifie his disobedience to the King Then Rich and the Chanceller took pains to Rack her themselves till she was near dead first asking her whether she was with Child to whom she answered you ●hall not need to spare for that but do your wills upon me and so quietly and patiently praying unto the Lord she abode their Tyranny till her Bones and Joynts were almost pluckt assunder after she was loosed from the Rack she swooned but they recovered her again and she was carried away in a Chair to a house and laid in a bed with weary and painful Bones the Chancellor sent her word that if she would leave her Opinion she should want for nothing if she would not she should be forthwith sent to Newgate and so be burned she sent him word again that she would rather die then break her Faith The Prayer of Anne Askew before her Death O Lord I have more Enemies now then there be Hairs on my Head yet Lord let them never overcome me with vain words but fight thou Lord in my stead for on thee cast I my Care with all the spite they can imagine they fall upon me which am thy poor Creature yet Lord let me not set by them which are against me for in thee is my whole delight and Lord I heartily desire of thee that thou wilt of thy most merciful Goodness forgive them that Violence which they do and have done unto me open also thou their blind Hearts that they may hereafter do that thing in thy Sight which is only acceptable before thee and to set forth thy Truth aright without all vain Fantasie of sinful men So be it O Lord so be it The day of her Execution being appointed she was brought into Smithfield in a Chair because she could not go on her feet by means of her great Torments when she was brought to the stake she was tied by the middle with a Chain that held up her Body and so encompassed with the Flames of Fire as a blessed Sacrifice unto God she resigned up her life in the Year 1546. leaving behind her a singular example of Christian-Constancy for all men to follow there was at the same time three others burnt with her in Smithfield After the death of this Woman the Ponish Clergy consulted together how they might further proceed to keep the Truth under and down and to that end obtained another Proclamation in the Kings name for the abolishing the Scriptures in English and all other English Books which might give any light to the People which made sore work and caused Persecution for a time but it was not long that it continued by reason of the Kings death which was shortly after But before there be a full Conclusion of the Transactions in this Kings reign its necessary a short Account be given of the rise and fall of Thom is Cromwel of whom mention is made before especially seeing he was a man so Zealous for Reformation of both Church and Common-wealth He was born at Putney his Father being a Smith as is before related in his youthful dayes it is said he had little regard to God and Religion but travelled beyond Seas and for a time was there a Souldier at length getting the New Testament in English by often reading in it he began to be touched and something opened in his understanding and coming into England again Cardinal Woolsey entertained him in his service where after some yoars remaining he was preferred to be Solicitor to the Cardinal After the fall of Cardinal Woolsey he was by the Master of the Roles preferred to the King who had then to do against the Pope as a fit person to be imployed by him and being brought to the King at his Garden in Westminster where he possessed the King that his Authority was abused by the Clergy and by being sworn to the Pope they had run themselves into a Premunire and that now the King had an Opertunity to inrich himself To this the King gave ear and liked well his advice and admited him into his service and sent him to the Convocation-house amongst the Bishops where he made a Speech to this effect that in asmuch as they had sworn to the Pope contrary to their Fealty due to the King they had forfeited all their Goods Chattels Lands Possessions to the King c. This amazed the Bishops at first but after a little pause they began to shrink and before they could be quit of the Premunire by Act of Parliament it cost them to the King no less then One hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty pounds After this Cromwel grew greatly in favour with the King and was made one of his Privy Council and Master of the Rolls and afterwards Knight of the Garter and Earl of Essex and now being come into such Authority and seeing the Superstition Blindness Hypocrisie and Idolatry of the Monks and Fryars and Papists whose filthy stink did breath up a most pestiferous fume as Matthew Paris said in the like case of Rome Wherefore Cromwel like a Champion was raised up to root them up which while the King favoured him he prosecuted with effect as before is related but when the Popish Bishops saw the Popes power abolished out of England they never gave over using all their uttmost Endeavours and Politick Contrivances till they had laid a Plaister to his Wounded Head It would be too long to recite what benefit this Cromwel by his Prudence and Zeal wrought in a little time for the publick good what good Orders he established what Wickedness and Vices he suppressed what Corruptions he reformed what Abuses he brought to light and Popish Idolatry and Images he suppressed One called The Rood of Grace wherein a man stood inclosed with a hundred Wyres within the Rood to make the Image goggle its Eyes

in their Breast wrought upon their Habit in memorial of the Star that did appear at the time that Christ was born at Bethlchem There was saith the History so many Sects of Monks Fryars and Nuns Balaus in appendice at this time upon a suddain started up in England that the Common-wealth was so oppressed and exhausted by them that it was not able to satisfie their exorbitant and greedy desires The Monks years since Christ 1170 called Praemonstratenses descended down from Heaven as they themselves brag in the Bishopwrick of Lodan at a place which they call Praemonstratum Bruscius Polidor the Author of this order was Northbertus a Priest born in Lorrain who patcht up an order or rule for his New-begotten Monks out of Augustines rule which was afterwards approved and confirmed by Pope Calixtus the second they wear a long white Cloath Coat open before and a Lynnen Surplice over and over that along white Cloak a Corner Cap or Hat when they go abroad of the same colour and underneath all Dublets Breeches Linnen-Shirts Shoes and white Stokins these Monks have Lands and Revenues to maintain themselves and are Rich wheresoever they live this Sect began about the year 1170. and had Abbyes in England but at this time I hope there is not one English man of that Sect. About this time appeared first in England the Order of Crutched-Fryars years since Christ 2244 this order is more Antient then all the former Orders if the Reader will believe them for they say that Clitus Peters Disciple and the third Bishop of Rome after him was warned by an Angel to build for him an House to entertain all those that fled thither for the Christian Religion sake which he with all speed performed so that in a short time many godly men repaired thither and were entertained who for many years after bare a Cross in their hands in memorial of the Death of Christ A thing unlike to be true that Clitus should be warned by a Angel to build an House for a company of lazy Fryars to entertain all those that fled to Rome for the Christian Religion sake whereas the very names of Monks or Fryars was not then or many hundred years after either known or heard of in the Church of God and withal the Persecution was then so great in Rome that the Saints themselves were constrained to forsake the City Matth. West Monast Balaus and therefore it is not creditable that Christians should fly thither for relief Pope Pius commanded these Fryars to wear a Sky-coloured Habit but now this Order wears a Cross of red Cloath or Scarlet fixed to their Habit on their Breast and wear black these Fryars do likewise live by their Lands and Revenues they had a Monastery heretofore at Tower-hill which is now put to a better use being built up into Tenements In the time of Pope Innocent the third the Trinitarian Fryars began to shew themselves to the World one Johannes Matta and one Felix Anchorita who lived a Solitary life in France were warned in their sleep as they report to repair to Rome to the Pope and to seek for a place of him to build a Cloister and this Pope as they say was warned in a Vision to entertain them which he did and ordained that they should wear a white Habit with a red and Sky-coloured Cross wrought on their Breast in the same their charge was to go and gather Money to redeem Christians that were Captives under the Turks and were called Monks of the Redemption of Captives but instead of Redeeming Captives they purchased Lands with the Money they gathered so that the Captives if they had no reward from Christ for suffering for his sake they were like to have no Redemption from these Fryars Bridget of Sweethland being a Widdow did institute an Order of Fryars and Nuns and coming her self to Rome Sebellicus Enne 9. l. 4. Polydor l 7. c. 4. obtained of Pope Urban the fifth a Confirmation of the same Order or Institution that both Sex should live together in one Cloister having a Wall between them and that the Nuns should lie in the uppermost Chambers and the Fryars underneath them The next is the Minorite Fryars they wear a morish-coloured Habit and never eat Flesh Butter or Cheese but feed on the best Fish and Oyle the finest Bread and purest Wine the best Spices Fruit Herbs and Roots that they can buy for their Money they had a Cloister built for them at Barkhamsted in England in the Year 1257. The Mendicant or Begging Fryars do wear a long white Coat of Cloath down to their heels all loose with a Cowle or Hood of the same when they are in their Cloisters but when they go abroad they wear another black Coat over the other with another Cowle both their Coats are then bound close to their Bodies with a broad leather Girdle or Belt which Girdle is a very holy thing if they may be believed for they call it Saint Austins Girdle and many Lame people do wear it for pure devotion sake looking upon it to have some singular Virtue in it this leather Belt is given to none but those that are special good Benefactors and such as pay dearly for it which brings them in no small benefit The next is the Carmelite Fryars their first appearance in the word was in the year 1270. that is Fryars of the Order of the blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel at first they were ordained to wear a party-coloured Habit white and red made in the form of a man the which they then dreamed to be like unto that which Elias did use to wear but afterwards Pope Honorius forbid them to wear that Habit as being not well befitting their Profession and therefore a black long habit and a Cowle was given them and over that a long white Robe or Cloak as best agreeing with Virginity Another sort is the Franciscan or Gray Fryars of whom it is said They would not touch any Money and made a show as if they abstained from all Flesh and did eat nothing but raw Herbs and Roots and did wear Wooden Clogs instead of Shoes railing against other Fryars who Possessed Money and eat Meat wore Shoes and Stokings c. But these did not long persevere in this Austere life but their delight was to fare delitiously and to cram their Guts with the best Dainties There is a sort of these Franciscans called Penitentiarian these wear no Linnen as they say neither Doublet Breeches nor Hose but only a little pair of Linnen Drawers to save their skin from their course habit instead of Shoes they wear wooden Clogs which are under their Feet bound over with Leather Straps their habit is made of a very course Cloath and close before reaching down to their heels with a Cowle close to their head made of the same and also a gray Rope made of hair full of knots instead of a Girdle about