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A33309	A generall martyrologie containing a collection of all the greatest persecutions which have befallen the church of Christ from the creation to our present times, both in England and other nations : whereunto are added two and twenty lives of English modern divines ... : as also the life of the heroical Admiral of France slain in the partisan massacre and of Joane Queen of Navar poisoned a little before / by Sa. Clarke.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1640 (1640)	Wing C4514; ESTC R24836	495,876	474

of thorns till they were torn in pieces and these newly converted Moors he caused their naked bodies to be haled backwards and forwards thorow bushes and brambles and others of them to be tied to wild beasts and so to be rent in sunder the poor Christians saying thus each to other O brother pray for me God hath fulfilled our desire O this is the way to the kingdom of heaven Genserick further raging against the Orthodox sent one Proculus into the Zeugian Province to dispoil all the Churches of their Ornaments and the Ministers of their books that thereby they might be disabled to holy services which command was executed with all rigour and whereas the Bishop of Habensa refused to deliver them up he was expelled the City and all men at great penalty were forbidden to harbour him so that being above eighty years old he lay naked for a long time under the open skie About Easter when the Christians were met together in a Church to celebrate the remembrance of Christs Resurrection the Arrians with a great power of armed men set upon this innocent company who with their naked swords slew many The Minister that was preaching they shot through the throat with an arrow and such of them as escaped death were by the command of the King executed by sundry kinds of torments In other places when the Christians were administring the Sacrament the Hereticks rushed in amongst them taking the bread and wine and trampling them under their profane feet Then did Genserick command that none but Arrians should bear any office either about himself or his children And a Bishop called Armogastes they took and first nipped his fore-head and legs with bow-strings then did they hang him up by one foot with his head downward yet did he seem to all men as if he slept in a feather-bed which so enraged Theoderick the Kings son that he commanded him to be beheaded but some about him disswaded him from it because said they he will be accounted a Martyr Then was he banished to dig in Mynes yet afterwards he was sent for again and made a Cow-heard near to Carthage that he might be a continual object of scorn There was also one Saturus a noble man eminent for holiness whom the Tyrant much laboured to draw to the Arrian profession but he refusing the King told him that if he presently consented not he should forfeit his house and goods that his Children and slaves should be sould and his wife should be given to the Camel-driver Yet no menaces could shake his faith His wife hearing of her doom went to her husband as he was praying with her garments rent her hair disheveled her Children at her heels and a sucking infant in her hands whom she cast at her husbands feet and took him about the knees saying Have compassion O my sweetest of me thy poor wife and of these thy Children look upon them let them not be made slaves let not me be yoaked to a base Marriage c. that which thou art required to do thou dost it not willingly but by constraint and therefore it will not be laid to thy charge He gave her an answer in the words of Job Thou speakest like a foolish woman thou actest the devils part if thou lovest thy husband thou wouldst never seek to draw him to sin which will procure the second death I am resolved therefore as my Lord commands me to forsake wife children lands house c. that I may be his Disciple and accordingly he was dispoiled of all and turned out a begging yet all were forbidden to harbour him Genserick having reigned thirty seven years and three moneths died Genserick being dead his son Hunrick succeeded him who at first was more moderate to the Christians insomuch as they began to hold their meetings as before time The Manichaean Hereticks he sought out and though most of them were of his own Religion yet he burnt some and banished others At the request of the Emperour Zeno and Placidia his wife he suffered the Church of Carthage to chuse their own Bishop having been destitute of one for twenty four years Then they chose Eugenius an humble holy and charitable man whose fame increasing the Arrian Bishops much envied him and put into the Kings head to forbid him to preach and not to suffer any to enter into the Church that were attired after the manner of the Vandals To which command Eugenius thus answered The house of God is free for all those which enter no man may drive forth The King being incensed with this answer placed tortures at the Church door who when they espied any man or woman in a Vandals habit about to go into the Church clapping flesh-hooks on their heads and twisting them in their hair with a strong twitch they pulled off hair scalp and all whereby some lost their eies and some their lives The women besides these torments they carried thorow the streets to be made a publick laughing-stock yet could they not force them to altar their Religion Then did Hunrick ordain that none of his Countries which dissented from his Religion should receive their ordinary pensions and salaries Then did he send many of them who had been delicately brought up to Utica in the parching heat of the sun to dig the land for corn yet they went cheerfully and comforted themselves in the Lord. Then did he command that no man should be a Knight or bear any publick office except he turned Arrian whereupon very many with invincible courage forsook their honours and offices rather then their faith Many Virgins he caused to be proved by the Midwives in a most shamefull manner hanging them up from the ground with mighty weights at their feet and putting to their sides breasts back and bellies red hot plates of iron to compell them to confess that their Bishops and Ministers lay with them that so he might from thence have an occasion to persecute them Many of these died under the pain and others remained lame and crooked all their lives after yet would they not confess any such thing Then did he banish into the wilderness of Bishops Ministers Deacons and other Members of Christ four thousand nine hundred seventy six some of them being lame with the gout others blind with age Amongst whom also was Foelix Bishop of Abiris possessed with a dead palsie and therefore unable either to go or ride which the cruel King being informed of and requested that he might be suffered to stay he answered if he be not able to ride let wild bulls be coupled to drag him to the place appointed So that they were fain to carry him on a Mules back across as if he had been a sack Then were all these holy Confessors brought to the City of Sicca where the Moors were to receive them and transport them thence to

lands yet seeming very fertil fit for corn wine oyl and chestnuts and that the hils were fit for cattel and to furnish them with fuell and timber they came therefore to the Lords of those places to treate with them touching their abode there The Lords received them lovingly agreed to orders much for the advantage of these new inhabitants agreed about rents tenths tolls penalties c. and so assigned to them certain parts of the Countrey Then did they return to their parents shewing how it fared with them and so receive what they pleased to bestow upon them and many of them marrying they returned into Calabria where they built some Towns and Cities as St Xist la Garde c. The Lords of those Countries thought themselves happy in that they had met with such good subjects as peopled their waste lands and made them to abound with all manner of fruits but principally because they were honest men and of good conscience yeelding all those duties and honours which they could expect from good subjects Only the Priests complained of them that they lived not after their religion made not their children Priests and Nuns loved not Tapers Masses c. that they adorned not their Churches with Images went not on Pilgrimage c. Hereupon the Lords feared that if the Pope should take notice that so near his Seat there were people that contemned his Laws they might chance to lose their subiects They therefore perswaded the Priest to be silent since in other things they shewed themselves honest men inriched the Country yea and the Priests themselves by their Tithes These Lords also stopped the mouths of their neighbours who exceedingly murmured because by no means they could draw them into alliance with them and because all that they had prospered exceedingly They were wise and temperate not given to drinking dancing swearing c. and living in a Country where the inhabitants were given to all manner of wickednesse they were as precious stones in a common sink Thus they were preserved in peace by their Lords till Anno 1560. At which time these Waldenses resolving to make a publick profession of their Religion sent for two Ministers from Geneva who did much establish the exercise of Religion amongst them Pope Pius the fourth hearing of this presently concluded their utter ruine and extirpation giving the same in charge to Cardinal Alexandrino a violent man who chose two Monks Inquisitors of his own humour and sent them first to begin with the inhabitants of St. Xist There they assembled the people gave them good words promising that they should receive no violence if they would accept of such Teachers as the Bishops should appoint which if they refused they would lose their lives goods and honors and would be condemned for Hereticks And further to prove them they appointed a Mass to be sung but the people with their wives and children presently quit their houses and fled into the woods From thence the Monks went to la Garde where they caused the Town-gates to be locked and the people to be assembled telling them that they of St. Xist had adjured their Religion and went to Mass c. promising that if they would do the like no man should injure them These poor people believing what was told them were content to do what they would have them but when they heard that their friends of St. Xist refused to go to Mass and were fled into the woods they were exceedingly grieved at their own revolt and resolved with their wives and children to go to their brethren In the meane time the Monks sent two companies of souldiers after them of St. Xist who ran after them as after wilde beasts crying kill kill and so slew divers but such as could get to the top of the mountain called to the souldiers beseeched them to have pity on them their wives and children telling them that they had been inoffensive in their conversations c. yet if they would not suffer them to continue in their habitations that at least they would license them to depart either by sea or land that they might retire themselves whether the Lord should be pleased to conduct them beseeching them also for Gods sake not to force them to defend themselves But this more enraged the souldiers who presently violently assaulted them Then did they so defend themselves that by Gods assistance they slew the greatest part of the souldiers and put the rest to flight Hereupon the Inquisitors wrote to the Viceroy of Naples speedily to send some Companies of souldiers to apprehend the Hereticks of St. Xist and la Garde whereby he should do a work very pleasing to the Pope and meritorious for himself Then did the Viceroy come himself with his Troops in the mean time the Waldensian women came home to seek for food for their husbands and children that were in the woods The Viceroy proclaimed through all Naples that all such banished persons as would come to fight against the Hereticks of St. Xist should be pardoned all their offences Whereupon great numbers resorted to him and were conducted to the woods where they chased these poor people slaying some wounding others the rest fled into caves where most of them died of famine Then were they of la Garde cited before the Inquisitor and many fair Promises were made unto them if they would appeare but contrary thereunto thirty of them were apprehended and put to the rack One Charlin was racked with such violence that his bowels brake out of his belly and all to extort from him a confession that in the night the candles being put out they committed whoredome and abominable incest yet would he never confesse any such wickednesse Another with extreame pain upon the rack promised to go to Masse the Inquisitor seeing that he had shewed such weaknesse urged him to confesse the forementioned wickednesse which because he refused he left him eight hours together upon the rack yet could he not get from his mouth so foul a slander Another was stripped stark naked whipt with rods of iron drawn through the streets and burnt with firebrands One of his sons was killed with knives Another thrown down from an high Tower because he would not kisse a Crucifix Another was condemned to be burnt alive and as he went to the fire he threw to the ground a Crucifix which the executioner had fastened to his hands whereupon they covered him all over with pitch and so burnt him The Inquisitor Panza cut the throats of eighty as butchers do their sheep's then causing them to be divided into four quarters he set up stakes for the space of thirty miles and appointed a quarter to be fastned to every stake Four of the principall men of la Gard he caused to be hanged Another young man because he would not confesse himself to a Priest was thrown from an high tower The Vice-roy