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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

they spilled daily in fighting against Christ and his Gospel He suffered at Paris Vol. 1. p. 133. Noblemen 100 and others of Alsatia were burned and martyred the 1212. year of Christ under Pope Henricus 3. for holding every day was free for eating Flesh so it be done soberly and that they did wickedly who restrained Priests from their lawful Wives Vol. 1. pag. 336. Iohn Noyes a Shoe-maker of Laxfield in Suffolk burned 1557. in September when he came to the place of Execution he kneeled down and sang the 50 th Psalm and being bound at the Stake he said Fear not them that kill the Body but fear him that can kill both Body and Soul and cast it into everlasting fire And seeing his Sister weeping he desired her not to weep for him but for her sins Having a Faggot thrown at him he kissed it and said Blessed be the time that ever I was born to come to this And in the fire he said Lord have mercy upon me Christ have mercy upon me Son of David have mercy upon me He wrote a Letter to his Wife containing nothing but consolation from Texts of Scripture and bidding her farewell he desired his Wife and Children to leave worldly care and see that they were diligent to pray Vol. 3. p. 850 851 852. Nichaise of Tombe born in Tournay martyred for the Gospel being condemned he said Praised be God At the Stake he said Lord they have hated me without a cause and prayed thus Eternal Father have pity and compassion on me according as thou hast promised to all that ask the same of thee in thy Sons Name And so he continued praying until his last gasp Additions to Vol. 3. of the Massacre in France and Flanders p. 33. O O ORigen at 17 Years old wrote to his Father Leonides to encourage him to suffer martyrdom under the fifth Persecution began the 205. Year of Christ. He wrote about 7000 Volumes as much as 7 Notaries and as many Women could pen. Vol. 2. p. 70. Cicely Ormes Wife of Edward Ormes a Worsted-Weaver in Norwich was burnt September 23. 1557. at Norwich She was an ignorant simple Woman yet zealous in the Lord's cause and being threatned by the Chancellor of Norwich she said He should not be so desirous of her sinful flesh as she would by God's grace be content to give it in so good a quarrel Being condemned at the Stake she pray'd and repeated her Faith and then said to the People I would not have you think that I believe to be saved in that I offer my self here unto death for Christ 's cause but I believe to be saved by the death of Christ 's passion and this my death is and shall be a witness of my Faith unto you all Good People as many as believe of you I pray you pray for me And then she coming to the Stake she kissed it and said Welcome sweet Cross of Christ and so was bound to it and in the fire she said My Soul doth magnifie the Lord and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour and so she yielded up her Life Vol. 3. p. 833. Robert Oguier of the City Lile in Flanders his Wife and two Sons Bardicon and Martin were apprehended 1556. and first the Father and Bardicon suffer'd who upon examination confessed their Faith and Bardicon being apprehended as he went said O Lord assist us with thy Grace not onely to be prisoners for thy sake but so as to seal with our bloods thy Truth And told the Emperor's Commissioners the tenour of their prayers in their Meetings for God's glory and the Empires and Emperors felicity And then he and his Father submitted themselves to the Judges while Martin his Brother chose to accompany his Mother who was still detained in Prison And these two were by their Judges condemned to be burnt which sentence being past they returned to Prison rejoycing that the Lord had honoured them to enroll them amongst the number of Martyrs The day of Execution being told them they blessed God who delivering their Bodies out of Prison would receive their Souls into his Kingdom The Father being advised to pity his Soul said You see what pity I have of it when for the Name of Christ I willingly abandon my Body to the fire hoping to day to be with him in Paradise At the Stake he and his Son sang the 16. Psalm and being chained the Son said to his Father Be of good comfort the worst will be past by and by And often repeated these words O God Father Everlasting accept the Sacrifice of our Bodys for thy wel-beloved Son Jesus Christ 's sake And lifting his Eyes to Heaven he spoke to his Father saying O Father behold I see the Heavens open and millions of Angels ready to receive us rejoycing to see us thus witnessing our truth in the view of the World Father let us be glad and rejoyce for the joyes of Heaven are set before us Fire being kindled he oft repeated to his Father thus Yet a little while and we shall enter into the Heavenly Mansions And their last words were Jesus Christ thou Son of God into thy Hands we commend our Spirits And within 8 dayes the Mother Iane Oguier and Martin her Son were brought forth but in Prison Iane by the Papists was perswaded to recant and to endeavour her Son's return to Popery who hearing of it said to her Oh Mother what have you done have you denyed him that redeemed you What evil hath he done you that you should requite him with so great an injury Ah good God! that I should live to see this day which pierceth my heart And his Mother hearing his words and seeing his tears began to renew her strength in the Lord and with tears cry'd Father of mercies be merciful to me miserable sinner and cover my transgressions under the Righteousness of thy Blessed Son Lord enable me to stand to my first Confession and to abide stedfast in it to my last breath And when the Papists came to her again she said Avoid Satan get thee behind me for hence forth thou hast neither part nor portion in me I will by the help of my God stand to my Confession and if I may not sign it with Ink I will seal it with my Blood And so she and her Son were condemned to be burnt and their ashes to be cast into air who rejoyced at the Sentence and accounted it a day of Triumph over their Enemies and Martin being profer'd an hundred pound if he would recant said He would not lose an Eternal Kingdom for it Addition to Vol. 3. of Massacres of France pag. 1. to 5. P P PHilip the Apostle after he had much laboured amongst the Barbarous Nations in preaching the Word of Salvation to them at length he suffer'd in Hierapolis a City of Phrygia being there crucified and stoned to death where also he was buried and his Daughters with him Vol. 1. pag. 42 43. Peter the

24. 1554. where his right hand was cut off he not shewing any sense of pain and at last burning in the Fire he cryed out O thou Son of God have mercy on me O thou Son of God receive my Soul and dyed by much torment his lower part being burnt when his upper part was untouched by reason of want of Fuel Vol. 3. p. 243 244. 246. Elizabeth Folkes an Essex Maid being imprisoned and condemned for the Gospel kneeled down and lifting up her hands prayed to God and praised him that ever she was born to see that most blessed day that the Lord would count her worthy to suffer for the Testimony of Christ and Lord said she if it be thy Will forgive them that have done this against me for they know not what they do and going to the Stake at Colchester August 2. 1557. and the People not permitting her to give her Petticoat to her Mother who was present and kist her at the Stake and exhorted her to be strong in the Lord she threw away the Coat saying Farewel all the World farewel Faith farewel Hope and then taking hold of the Stake she said Welcome Love She was burned with five more who all clapped their hands for joy in the flames Vol. 3. p. 832. Iohn Frith being in the Tower as an Heretick because he held against Transubstantiation And being afterwards sent for to Croydon by my Lord of Canterbury Cranmer in King Henry the 8 th's time the Lords Men who were sent for him advised him to submit to the Bishops and Doctors opinion to whom Frith said My Conscience is such that in any wise I neither may nor can for any worldly respect without danger of damnation start aside from that true knowledge though I should presently lose twenty lives if I had so many The Servants still endeavouring to save him contrived how he might fly and so escape which they imparted to him To whom he said Should you leave me I would surely follow you should you bring the Bishops news ye had lost Frith I would bring them news I had found him and brought him again for though before I was taken I being at liberty fled to make use of my liberty yet I being taken cannot fly but run from God and should then be worthy of a thousand Hells And so he went chearfully to the Bishops at Croydon and there disputed the Point and after was sent to Bishop Stokesteys the Bishop of London's Consistory and soon after was burnt Vol. 3. p. 990 991 992. See more of Frith p. 59. of this Book G G GErmanicus a young devout Man being by the Proconsul of Antoninus Verus in the 4 th Persecution perswaded to favour himself being in the flower of his age he would not be allured but constantly and boldly and of his own accord provoked the Beasts to come upon him to devour him to be delivered the more speedily out of this wretched Life Vol. 1. p. 57. Gordius a Centurion of Caesaria in the 10 th Persecution willingly exiled himself till a publick Feast of Mars was celebrated and much People was assembled and then appearing in the Theatre cryed out I am found of them that sought me not And being examined by the Sheriff he said I came hither to publish that I set nothing by your Decrees against Christian Religion but I profess Christ to be my hope and safety Hereupon he was scourged and he said It would be an hindrance to him if he could not suffer divers torments for Christ. And having more torments tryed on him he sang The Lord is my helper I will not fear the thing that Man can do unto me I will fear no evil because thou Lord art with me After this being with prayers and entreaties dealt with he derided the madness of the Magistrates who being thereby incensed condemned him And he being much importuned by divers acquaintance to deny Christ with Tongue and to keep his Conscience to himself he said My Tongue which by the goodness of God I have cannot be brought to deny the Author of it And to those who wept for him and by tears importuned him to save himself he said Weep not I pray for me but weep for the Enemies of God which always make war against the Christians who prepare for these a fire and purchase to themselves Hell fire but molest not I pray my setled mind truly I am ready to suffer for the Name of Christ a thousand deaths if need were Vol. 1. p. 117. Iohn Goose in the time of King Edward the 4 th being to be burnt desired of the Sheriff somewhat to eat and he did eat as if he had been towards no manner of danger saying I eat now a good and competent Dinner for I shall pass a little sharp shower ere I go to Supper And having dined he gave thanks and desired that he might be shortly led to the place where he should yield up his Spirit to God and was burned on Tower-Hill in August 1473. Vol. 1. p. 939. Lawrence Ghest in King Henry the Seventh's days being to be burnt at Salisbury and having his Wife and seven Children shewn him and his Wife desiring him to favour himself he desired her to be content and not to be a block in his way for he was in a good course running toward the mark of his salvation and so he was burned Vol. 1. p. 1012. Galeasius Trecius an Italian burned at Aus Pompeia in Italy 1551. for professing the Gospel He having professed it a while and then by the perswasion of Friends denying it felt great sorrow and as he declared never greater in all his life but recovering by the grace of God he longed for a time to evidence his return by confession of his Faith again affirming he never felt more joy of heart than when by Papists examined nor more sorrow than when he recanted declaring that death was much more sweet to him with the testimony of the truth than life with the least denyal of the truth and loss of a good conscience And being imprisoned he could not be prevailed with to recant but confirmed his first Faith and burned Vol. 2. p. 167 168. Franciscus Gamba an Italian burn'd at Comun 1554. being accused for an Heretick and importuned to recant he defended his Doctrine by manifest Scriptures and proved his Opinions to be the true Doctrine of Christ and rather than he would deny them he was ready to stand to the effusion of his blood And being long and often assailed by his Friends to recant he could not be expugned but gave thanks to God that he was made worthy to suffer the rebukes of the world and civil death for the testimony of his Son and so went chearfully to death And when at his death the Fryars held a Cross before him he said that his mind was so replenished with joy and comfort in Christ that he needed not them nor their Cross And declaring many comfortable things to