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A67835	A breviary of the later persecutions of the professors of the gospel of Christ Jesus, under the Romish and antichristian prelats through Christendome, from the time of John VVickliff in the year of God 1371. to the raign of Queen Elizabeth of England, and the reformation of religion in Scotland: and of the cruell persecutions of the Christians under the Turkish emperors, with some memorable occurrences that fell out in these times through diverse realmes & countreys; collected out of the ecclesisticall history and book of martyrs, by Mr. Robert Young.	Young, Robert, fl. 1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing Y74; ESTC R218050	154,001	241

Bohemians notwithstanding these cruel Articles contemning the vain de-devices of those Prelats and Fathers of the Counsell ceased not to proceed in their League and purpose begun joyning themselves more strongly together And first of all these Bohemians partly for the love of John Hus and Jerome their country men partly for the hatred of their Malignant Papistry assembling together agreed to celebrate a solemn memoriall of the Death of John Hus and Jerome decreeing the same to be beholden and celebrat yearly this done they suppressed diverse Monastries Pharisaical temples and idolatrous Phanes beginning first with the great Monastry of the Black-Friers 8. miles from Prage driving away the wicked and vicious Priests and Monks out of them or compelling them unto a better order whereupon ensued great troubles Wars and Bloodsheds between the Pope Sigismund the Emperor on the one hand and the Bohemians on the other Immediatly after the death of Wenceslaus arose Zisca a Noble man and being sore grieved with the death of John Hus and Jerome of Prage he minded to revenge the injuries which the Counsell had done greatly to the dishonour of the Kingdom of Bohem upon their complices and adherents hee gathered together a number of men of Warre and subverted the Monastries and idolatrous temples pulling down and breaking in pieces the Image and Idols driving away the Monks and Priests which hee said were kept up in their closters like Swyn in their styes to be fatted c. He gathered together about fourty thousand men many battels were foughten beween him and the Emperor Zisca having but one eye before lost the other in Battell yet for all that he would not forsake his Army but still took the charge of them As the Emperor with the whole power of Germany was busied on the one side against the Bohemians So Martin the Pope was as much occupied on the other side who about the same time directed forth a terrible Bull full of all poyson to all Bishops and Archbishop● against all such as took any part or side with Wickliff John Hus Jerome or with their Doctrine and opinions At this time the Bohemians wrote a fruitfull and Christian exhortation to the Kings and Princes to stir them up to the zeal of the Gospel Zisca being now sick and near his death being demanded what place he would be buried hee answered and commanded his skin to bee plucked off from his dead Carcase and the flesh to be casten unto the fowels and beasts and that a Drum should be made of his skin which they should use in their battels affirming that as soon as their enemies should hear the sound of that Drum they would not abide but take their flight Hee was a valiant Captain of the Bohemians he was eleven times victor in the field he was a severe punisher of the pride and avarice of the Clergy After Zisca was dead their was great fear sorrow and lamentation in the Army the Souldiers accusing fortune which gave over such an invincible Captain to be overcome with Death immediatly there was a division in the Host the one part choosing Procopius Magnus to be their captain the other part saying that there was none could be found worthy to succeed Zisca whereupon they choosing out certain to serve the Wars named themselves Orphans and albeit that oftentimes there was division between them yet whensoever any foraign power came towards them they joyned their Powers together in one Camp and defended themselves and prevailed mightily against their enemies These things thus done the Emperor sent for the Nobles of Bohem which went unto him into a town of Hungary called Posonium in the bo●ders of Austria upon the banks of the River Dannubius but they would not enter into the Town but remain without in their Tents whether as the Emperor going out unto them communed with them as touching His right and Title and recovering of his Fathers kingdom promising if there were any cause which did alienat the Bohemians minds from him that he would take away all the occasion thereof They made answer that he had made war upon them without cause and that he had suffered their countreymen contrary to his promise to be burnt at Constance not being heard and the Kingdom to be contumeliously interdicted and the Nobles of Bohemia to be condemned by the Church of Rome as Hereticks and that he should think the force and power of the Bohemians not to be so small but that they would provide for their own honour whereunto the Emperor answered very gently and offered them a General Counsel wherein they might declare their innocency if they would submit themselves to the judgement of the Universall Church But the Bohemians which were now become valiant victors in Arms would not now be overcome with words and so nothing being finally concluded the Emperor returned home Then Pope Martine perceiving the Gospel to encrease daily more and more sent the Cardinal of Winchester an Englishman born of a Noble House into Germany to move them unto War against the Bohemians whereunto also the Emperor did assist him There was three Armies provided In the first Army were the Duke of Saxonie and the lower Cities The second Army which was gathered of the Franconians was under the conduct of the Marquesse of Brandeburg The third Army was led by Otho the Archbishop of Trevers whom the Rhenenses the Bavarians and the Imperiall Cities of Snevia followed These Armies entering into Bohemia into three severall parts after they were passed the Wood they joyned together pitched before Misia this City which was taken from the Papists the night before before they went any further they were determined to recover but when as news came to the Host how the Protestants had gathered an Army and came with all speed towards them they fled before they saw their enemies leaving behind them their Warlike Engines with a great prey In end there was a Counsell h●●den at Basil which went to the Bohemians that they should send their Ambassadours which should shew a reason of their Faith promising a safe conduct to go and come and free liberty to speak what they would An Ambassage of three hundred Horses was sent unto Basil they compeared before the Counsel and being heard they were demanded in what point they did disagree from the Church of Rome they proponed four Articles First they affirmed that all such as would be saved ought of necessity to receive the Communion of the Last Supper under the kindes of Bread and Wine The second Article they affirmed all civill rule and dominion to be forbidden unto the Clergy by the Law of God The third Article that the Preaching of the Word of God is free for all men and in all places The fourth Article as touching open crimes and offences which are in no wayes to be suffered for the avoiding of greater evill Some were chosen by the Bohemians and some by the Counsel to consider the Articles and to dispute them

also apprehended for religion into the temple of St. Mary at Rome either to revoke or to be burned There sate on them six Cardinals in high seats beside the Judge before whom preached a dominick-Frier which cruelly inveying against the poor prisoners incensed the Cardinalls with all the vehemency he might to their condemnation the poor man stood holding a burning Taper in their hands of whom some for fear of death revolted But this Doctor Mollius with a weaver of Perusium remained constant Then Mollius began an earnest sermon in the Italian tongue wherein he confirmed the articles of faith by the sacred Scriptures declaring also that the Pope was not the successor of Peter but Antichrist and his sectaries do figure the whore of Babylon Moreover he cited them up to the tribunal seat of Christ and they being replenished with anger condemned him with the weaver to the fire and commanded them to be had away So were they carried incontinent to the camp or field called Florianum where they remained chearfull and constant first the weaver was hanged Mollius then willing the hangman to execute his office likewise upon him began to exhort the people to beware of idolatry and to have no other Saviour but Christ alone for he only is the Mediator between God and man and so also he was hanged commending his soul to God and afterward laid in the fire and burned The people having diverse judgments upon him some said he died an heretick some said he was a good man Furthermore in the same citie of Rome and about the same time in the Monastery of St. Augustine were found two monks in their Celles with their tongues and heads cut off only for rebuking the immoderat and outragious excesse of the Cardinals Such was the cruelty then of the malignant adversaries In Pope Pius the fourth his time was hot persecution in all the territories of the church of Rome against them which were suspected for Lutherans whereupon insued great trouble and persecution in the Kingdom of Naples in such cruel sort that many Noble Men with their wives and others are reported there to bee slain in Calabria beyond Naples in Italy likewise the same time suffered a great number of Christs welbeloved Saints both old and young put together in one house to the number of 88. persons all which one after another were taken out of the house and so being laid upon the Butchers stall like the sheep in the shambless with one bloody knife were all killed in order a spectacle most tragicall for all posterity to remember and almost incredible to believe beside also a great number condemned Now to return again to the Isse of Brittain to England and Scotland and to take a view of the affairs of the Churches there And first to begin with England In the reign of King Henry the eight at Coventree there were seven apprehended and burnt for the gospell of Christ to wit Mistresse Smith widow Robert Hatchers a Shoemaker Wrigsham a glover Lansdale a Hosier Archer a shoemaker Hawkings a shoemaker Thomas band shoemaker The principal cause of the apprehension and burning of these persons was for teaching their children and family the Lords prayer and ten commandments in English the children were sent for to the Gray-friers in Coventree before the Warden of the said Friers called Frier-Stafford who straitly examining them of their beliefe and what Heresie their Fathers had taught them charged them upon pain of suffering such death as their Fathers should in no wayes to medle any more with the Lords prayer the Creed and the ten Commandments in English Thomas Harding dwelling at Che●ham in the County of Euchingham with Alice his Wife was first abjured by Wi●●am Smith Bishop of Lincoln with diverse others moe which the same time were taken and compelled some to beat Faggots some were burned in the check with hotirons some condemned to perpetual prison some threstinto Monasteries and spoyled clean of all their goods some compelled to make pilgrimage to the great Block otherwise called our Lady in Lincoln some to one part some to another Harding for reading upon English boo●s waa condemned for rel●pse to be burned to ashes and was burnt being of the age of threescore years Many simple people in the Diosie of Lincoln were vexed afflicted and persecuted for then Religion the Son was compelled to testifie against the Father the Father against the son the wife against the Husband and the husband against the wife the sister against the brother A Brief Discourse concerning the story and Life of Thomas Volsey la●e Cardinal of York wherein is to be seen and noted the express Image of the proud vain glorious Church of Rome how fare it differeth from the true Church of Jesus Christ. THis Cardinall Volsey and the Popes Legat of Rome was so puft up in pride that he thought himself equal with the King And when hee had said Masse he made Dukes and Earies to serve him of Wine with a say taken and to hold the basen at the Lavatories Furthermore as he was Ambassadour sent to the Emperor at Eruxels he had over with him the great Seal of England and was served with his Servitours kneeling on their knees and many Noble men of England waiting upon him to the great admiration of all the Germans that beheld it such was his monstruous pomp and pride That glorious Cardinal in his tragicall doings did exceed so far all measure of a good subject that he became more like a Prince then a priest for although the King bare the sword he bare the strok making in a manner the whole Realm to bend at his beck and to dance after his pipe Such practises and fetches he had that when he had well stored his own Coffers first he fetched the greatest part of the Kings Treasure out of the Realm in twelve great barrels full of gold and silver to serve the Popes wars And as his avaritious mind was never satisfied in getting so his restlesse head was so busie rufling in publick matters that he never ceased before he had set both England France Flanders Spain and Italy together by the ears for his pride and avarice he was hated of all men At what time Pope Clement was taken prisoner Cardinal Volsey wrote tot he Emperor to make him Pope but when he returned an answer wherein he was not pleased he waxed furious mad and sought all means to displease the Emperor writeing very sharply unto him many minacing letters that if he would not make him Pope he would make such a ruffling between christian Princes as was not this hundreth years before to make the Emperor repent year though it should cost the whole Realm of England Whereupon the Emperor answering biddeth him look well about him lest through his doings and atempts he might bring the matter in that case that it should cost him the Realm of England indeed The King finding himself deluded by Cardinal Campegius and Cardinal