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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40369	Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]; Actes and monuments. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; N. T., M.A.T.C.C.	1677 (1677)	Wing F2042; ESTC R10453	85,156	250

the Souldiers in Paris charged to be in Arms at a watch-word so that within three days 10000 of them were slain besides many other in the days following in Paris and the Persecution in other places in a Months time compleated the number of 30000 aforesaid which News being sent to the Pope he solemnly gave thanks for it as a mercy and the French King also did the like and the Messenger of the News had 1000 Crowns for his News but the poor Protestants were much troubled of whom some turned others fled and all had been destroyed had not those in Rochel by God's mercy been courageous and resolved to be stedfast and fight for the Faith which being known the French King besiegeth it and chargeth all his Nobles and Gentry on pain of great punishment to besiege it which was done with great vigour by the whole Force of France and also of the Duke of Anjou Duke of Alanson Navarre and Condee which Forces assaulted it seven times and were resisted so that they lost 122 Captains and at last the Duke of Anjou being made King of Polony which News coming to the Camp they rejoiced whereat the new King treated with them of Rochel and finding them not unconformable made peace with them and prevailed with the French King by Edict to let them have peace and the liberty of Religion in that and other Cities 1573. Vol. 3. p. 1028 to 1030. D D DOrotheus and Gorgoneus persons of Dioclesian's Privy Chamber seeing the sad Torments inflicted on Peter their Houshold Companion said to Dioclesian Why O Emperour do you punish in Peter that Opinion which is in all of us Why is this accounted in him an offence that we all confess we are of that Faith Religion and Iudgment that he is of Wherefore he commanded them to be brought forth and to be tormented almost with like pains to Peter's and afterwards to be hanged Vol. 1. p. 101 102. Iohn Diazius a Spaniard was murthered 1546. by his Brother Alphonsus Diazius who hired a Man with an Hatchet to cleave his own Brother's head as he was reading some Letters under a pretence sent to him by his Brother who was by when the fact was done and forth with fled with the Murtherer But he being the Popes Lawyer and procuring his Companion in Rome on purpose to murther his Brother being a Protestant escaped punishment Vol. 2. p. 109. Dennis a French Martyr 1528. burnt at Melda for saying the Mass is a plain denying of the death of Christ he was wont to have always in his mouth the words of Christ He that denyeth me before men him also will I deny before my Father and to muse on the same earnestly He was burnt with a slow fire and did abide much torment Vol. 2. p. 128. Adam Damlip alias George Bucker a great Papist in his Travels at Rome seeing the great profaneness and impiety of that place where he expected so much goodness loathed Popery and at Calice reforming he preached against it and was at length sentenced to death When the News was told him by the Jaylor of the Marshalsee in London on a Saturday night that on Monday he must for Calice and suffer there he did eat his Supper chearfully insomuch that some asked him how he could do it being to dye so soon to whom he said Ah Masters do you think that I have been God's Prisoner so long in the Marshalsee and have not learned to dye Yes yes and I doubt not but God will strengthen me therein He was at Calice the next Saturday following hanged drawn and quartered as a Traytor in King Henry the Eighth's time And his greatest Enemy who at his death said he would not depart till he did see his heart out one Sir Ralph Ellerken was soon after slain amongst others by the French and his Enemies cutting off his Privy Members cut his heart out of his body which cruelty they did to none other of the company and may be looked on as a just judgment of God on him who so desired to see Damlip's heart Vol. 2. p. 564 565. Iohn Denley a Gentleman of Maidstone in Kent burnt for the Gospel's sake at Uxbridge August 8. 1555. who in the flames sang a Psalm whereat Dr. Story caused one to throw a Faggot at him which hurting his Face did cause him to lay both his hands on it and to leave singing whereupon the Doctor said to him that flung the Faggot You have spoiled a good old Song but Mr. Denley being yet in the flame put abroad his hands again and sang yielding up his spirit into the hands of God Vol. 3. p. 390. Alice Driver a Suffolk Woman and a Labourers Wife persecuted for the Gospel of Christ said that Quen Mary for her persecuting the Saints of God was like Iezebel for which she had her Ears cut off presently which she suffered joyfully and said she thought her self happy that she was counted worthy to suffer any thing for the Name of Christ. Being examined by several Doctors she reasoned with them so and silenced them all She perceiving which said Have ye no more to say God be thanked you be not able to resist the Spirit of God in a poor weak woman I was never brought up at the University but often drave the Plow before my Father yet in the defence of Gods Truth and in the Cause of my Master Christ by his Grace I will set Foot to Foot against any of you in the maintenance of the same and if I had a thousand lives they should all go for the payment of it She being at Stake and a Chain put about her Neck to bind her with she said Here is a goodly Neck-kerchief Blessed be God for it She was burned November 4. 1558. Vol. 3. p. 886 887 888. Iohn Davis a School-boy of twelve years of age was because he had a Bible and had written some things against the Papists betrayed by his Aunt one Mrs. Iohnson in Worcester 1546. with whom he lived and he was imprisoned from August 14. till 7. days before Easter with Fetters and Bolts and one perswading him from burning advised him first to try the Candle who holding his Finger and the other holding a Candle under it a good space he cryed not felt no pain nor was his Finger scorched He was afterwards arraigned and should have been punished with death but that King Henry the 8 th dyed and the Law was thereby out of force Vol. 3. p. 919 920. E E EUlalia a Virgin of Noble Parentage in Eremita a City in Portugal of twelve years of age refusing great Marriages and Dowries being a Christian joined her self with Gods Children under the 10 th Persecution and being kept close by her Parents lest she should hasten her own death she by Night stole out and ran to the Judgment Seat and cryed out I am a Christian an Enemy to your devilish Sacrifices I spurn your Idols all under my Feet I confess God

1527. of Christ who being extremely beloved had many importuning her to recant but she would not and amongst the rest a certain Noble Matron communing with her perswaded her to keep silence and to think silently in her heart what she believed that she might prolong her days To whom she said Ah you know not what you say it is written Rom. 10. with the heart we believe to Righteousness and with the tongue we confess to salvation And thus she remained stedfast and firm in her Confession and was November 20. condemned to be burnt to ashes which sentence she took mildly and quietly And being at the place of Execution a Monk brought her a blind Cross willing her to kiss it and worship her God to whom she said I worship no wooden God but only that God which is in Heaven And so with a merry and joyful countenance she embraced the Stake and by an ardent prayer commended her self to the hands of God Vol. 2. p. 115. Waldenses began 1200 years after Christ and were so called from Waldo who first instructed them and they delivered their Doctrine from Father to Son successively They had indeed divers Names according to the places where they lived In the Northern parts they were called Lollards about Lyons in France they were called Pauperes de Lugduno in Flanders Terraelupins of a desart where Wolves did haunt in Dolphine Chugnards by way of despite because they lived harbourless They taught at first in Caves of the Earth and in the night for fear of Persecution and were a people fearing God living uprightly and justly yet they suffered much Persecution especially in Merindol and Calabria whither they came from Piedmont Vallies and though those places were desarts yet were they by them so cultivated that they proved very fruitful Vol. 2. p. 185 186. They were charitable to the poor hospitable to strangers and were known by these marks they would not swear nor name the Devil were true to their promise and would not take an Oath unless in judgment or in making some solemn Covenant nor would they in any company talk of dishonest matters but whenever they heard wanton or swearing talk they presently departed out of that Company and also they always prayed before they went to any business and opposed generally Images crossing and other Popish Fooleries as was testified by their very Enemies and their neighbouring Inhabitants to the French King Vol. 2. p. 193. They were also called Albigenses from the place where they frequented in Tolouse and Merindolians from Merindol a place of Provence in France which with Cabriles were laid waste burned and rased their Inhabitants cut asunder and their Women and Maids ravished those with Child cut open by one Iohn Minerius Lord of Opede at the command of Francis the French King April 12. 1545. Vol. 2. p. 196 to page 200. Their Principles were these 1. One God the Creator of all things 2. The Son the onely Mediator and Advocate of all Mankind 3. The Holy Ghost the Comforter and Instructer of all truth 4. They acknowledged the Church to be the Fellowship of the Elect of God whereof Iesus Christ is the Head 5. They allow'd the Ministers of the Church wishing such as did not their duty were removed 6. Magistrates they granted to be ordained of God to defend the good and to punish the transgressors and that they ought to the Magistrate love and tribute and that none herein was exempted They acknowledged Baptism to be an outward and visible sign representing to us the Renewing of the Spirit and mortifying of the members 8. They confessed the Lord's Supper to be a Thanksgiving and a memorial of the benefits received through Christ. 9. Matrimony they esteemed holy instituted of God and inhibited to no Man 10. Good works they observed and thought them to be practised of all Men as Scripture teaches 11. False Doctrine leading from the true worship of God ought to be eschew'd 12. The order and rule of their Faith was the old and new Testament protesting they believed all contained in the Apostolique Creed Vol. 2. p. 200. They at they burying of their Dead used to accompany the dead to the grave reverently with a sufficient company and made Exhortation out of the word of God to the Living and to comfort the Parents and Friends of the party deceased and to admonish all Men diligently to prepare for death Vol. 2. p. 203. They were much persecuted by Henry the Ninth French King and often delivered miraculously in Angrogne Lusern and other places Valleys of Piedmont till 1559. when a peace being made between France and Spain those Valleys were as due given to the Duke of Savoy who entreated these Waldenses gently till by the Pope and his Legates he was instigated to persecute them which was very severely and cruelly done Vol. 2. p. 204 205. They were persecuted in all their places and one called The Lord of Trinity and one Trunchet were their great enemies The Waldenses used to go and pray before Battel and after Battel gave thanks and though they were but few in number and without armour only by Slings and stones and a few Harquebusses they so amazed and put to flight their Enemies often that they flying said God fought for them And at last though after much misery and cruelty they had a peace brought them by the Lord of Raconis from the Duke of Savoy which was obtained by the Mediation of his Dutchess Vol. 2. p. 218 219 220 222. So much of the Waldenses Rise and Actions Vol. 1. p. 299. George Wisehart a Scotchman burnt March 1. 1546. being condemned by David Beton Archbishop of St. Andrews although he answered all the Articles he was accused of Who going to the Stake sat down on his knees and rose again saying three times O thou Saviour of the World have mercy on me Father of Heaven I commend my Spirit into thy holy hands And then turning to the People he said I desire you not to be offended with the word of God for which I suffer and exhorted them to embrace it and to continue stedfast For which saith he I suffer this day not sorrowfully but with a glad heart and mind Consider and behold my visage ye shall not see me change my colour this grim fire I fear not and so I pray you to do if any persecution befal you I know that my Soul shall sup with Christ for whom I suffer this within these six hours in Heaven Then pray'd he for his Enemies saying Father I beseech thee to forgive them that have ignorantly or of evil mind forged any lies upon me I freely forgive them with all my heart and I beseech Christ to forgive them who this day condemned me to death And being to be hang'd on a Gibbet and so burn'd the Executioner begg'd his pardon whom he kissed saying There is a token that I forgive thee do thine Office And so he was burnt Vol. 2. p. 618 620