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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07225	Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.; Actes and monuments	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Mason, Thomas, 1580-1619?	1615 (1615)	STC 17622; ESTC S114403	588,758	444

sicke and died and one Maister Simonds the Commissary commanded straightly that she should not be bur●ed in any Christian buriall Wherevpon her friends were faine to bury her vnder a mote side Mother Benet THis old woman likewise was persecuted from Whetherset by the aforesaid Mendlesam because she would not goe vnto the Masse and other beggerly ceremonies and returning home secretly vnto her house shee dyed most ioifully but Sir Iohn Tyrill and the said Maister Simonds Commissionary would not let her be buried in the Church-yard but her graue was made by the high-way side Her husband would say vnto her that if shee had been sparing they might haue been worth a hundred markes more then they were She would answere O man be content I cannot barrell my Butter and keepe my Cheese in the Chamber to waite a great price and let the poore want and so displease God but let vs be rich in good workes so shall we please God and haue all good things giuen vs. William Harris Richard Day and Christian George THe twenty sixe day of May these were burned at Colchester in Essex when they were brought vnto the stake and had ioyfully and feruently made their prayers the fire was set vnto them in the midst of the fire they triumphantly praised God The same Christian Eagles Husband had another Wise named Anne which likewise suffered for the truth with the aforesaid thirteene at Strat●ord the Bow after he married another Wife and they both were laid in prison for the truth where they remained vntill the death of Queene Marie and were deliuered by Queene Elizabeth Henry Pond Reynald Estland Robert Southam Mathew Richarby Iohn Floyd Iohn Holiday Roger Holand THe twenty seauen of Iune these with others to the number of forty Men and Women were assembled together in a field by Islington at Prayer and meditating vpon the word of God at length the Constable of Islington with sixe or seauen others came vnto them and bad them deliuer their Bookes and bad them stand and not depart then they were carried vnto Sir Roger Cholmeley by the way all sauing two and twenty escaped which were sent to Newgate where word was sent to them by Alexander the Kéeper that if they would heare Masse they should all bee deliuered seauen of them escaped though not without much trouble and two to wit Mathew Withers and Thomas Tyler died the rest were burned as before They answered that they were not at Church since Lattine seruice was deuised becau●e it was against the Word of GOD and that Idolatry was committed in créeping to the Crosse and because the Churches were furnished with Idols and because they beléeued the Sacrament of the Altar to be an Idoll and because the Customes Rites and Ceremonies of the Church then vsed are not agréeable vnto Gods word They said that they beléeued that no Priest had power to remit si●s and that those that knéele vnto the Sacrament and worship it commit Idolatry Reynald Estland refused to be sworne to answer alleadging that to end a strife an oath is lawfull but to begin a strife an oath is not lawfull thus they standing vnto their answeres and refusing to acknowledge the Doctrine of the Romish Church they were all together condemned The aforesaid Roger Holand was a Merchant Taylor of London he was sometime Prentice vnto one Maister Kempton at the Blacke Boy in Watling-stréete In his prentiship hee was a Papist and very licentious and hauing plaid away thirty pounds of his Maisters Money he purposed to haue conueyed himselfe beyond Sea but a religious Maid in the house vnderstanding his minde lent him thirty pounds to saue his credit and made him premise her to refuse all leud and wilde company and all swearing and ●iba●ory talke and to leaue Papistry and to resort euery day vnto the Lecture of Alhollowes and to the Sermon of Paules euery Sunday and to cast away all his Papistry Bookes and to pray to God for remission of sinnes and grace to feare and breake his lawes and then shall God kéepe thée and send thée they harts desire Halfe a yeare after God wrote such a changing in this man that he was become an earnest professor of the truth and detested all Papistry and euill company then he repayred vnto Lancashire vnto his Father and brought diuers good Bookes with him and bestowed them vpon his friends so that his father and others began to ●ast the Gospell and to detest the Masse Idolatry and superstition and his father giuing him a stocke of Money he maried the aforesaid Maid called Elizabeth and hauing a childe by her in the first yeare of Quéen Mary he caused Maister Rose to baptise his Child in his house and being ●one into the Country to conuey away the Child that the Papists should not haue it in their annointing hands hee was bewrayed and Bonner caused his goods to be seased vpon and vsed his wife most cruelly after this he remained closely in the Citty vntill he was taken as before When hee came before Bonner who was acquainted with his friends and for his friends sake and his he perswaded him what he could to Papistry and a Kinsman of his standing by said I thanke your good Lordship your Honor meaneth good vnto my Cozen I pray God he haue grace to follow your councell Holand Sir you craue of God you cannot tell what I beseech God to open your eye● to sée the light of his word Then the Bishop and others perswaded him to submit himselfe vnto my Lord before he were entred into the Booke of contempt Holand I neuer meant but to submit my selfe vnto the Magistrate as I learne of Saint Paul in the 13. to the Romaines Chedsey I sée you are not an Anabaptist Holand The Papists and the Anabaptists agrée in this point not to submit themselues vnto any other Prince or Magistrate then those that must first bee sworne to maintaine them and their doings Bonner I perceiue you will not be rul'd by any good councell for any thing that either I or your friends or any other can say Holand I may say vnto you my Lord as Saint Paul said vnto Foelix and to the Iewes It is not vnknowne vnto my Maister vnto whom I was Prentise that I was of your blind Religion vntill the latter end of King Edwa●ds raigne hauing that liberty vnder your auriculer confession that I made no conscience to sinne but trusted in the Priests absolution and hee for money did some pennance for me which after I had giuen I cared no more what offence I had done no more the Priest cared after he had got my money whether hee fasted with Bread and Water for me or no so I accounted Letchery swearing and other vices no offtence of danger as long as I could for my Money haue them absolued I so frailty obserued●y our Rules of Religion that I would haue Ashes vppon Ashwednesday though I had vsed neuer so much wickednesse at night and