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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

and Disport but being resolved in the midst and heat of the Battel to live and dye amongst you all to lay down for my God and for my Kingdom and for my People my Honour and my Blood even in the dust I know I have the Body but of a weak and feeble Woman yet I have the Heart and Courage of a King and of a King of England too and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the Borders of my Kingdom to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me I my self will take up Arms I my self will be your General Judg and Rewarder of every one of your Virtues in the Field I know that already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and Crowns and we do assure you in the Word of a Prince they shall be duly paid you In the mean time my Lievtenant General Leicester shall be in my stead than whom never Prince commanded a more Noble or worthy Subject not doubting but by your obedience to your General by your concord in the Camp and Valour in the Field we shall shortly obtain a Famous Victory over these Enemies of my God of my Kingdom and of my People A Prayer for the Morning BLessed and Glorious Lord God thy Mercies are Infinite and thy long suff ring and patience is exc eding great else had not I poor wretched miserable sinner been spared so long considering my manifold provocations a-against thee Blessed be thy Name that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve me the night past and that thou hast once more vouchsafed me the Light of the morning O Lord preserve me this day and keep me in all my ways give unto me the repose of a quiet Conscience and the clear Light of the Gospel Turn mine eyes away from Vanity and strengthen me in thy ways Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King Bind up his soul in the bundle of Life and let no weapon form'd against him prosper Preserve thy Church and the True Protestant Religion and discover more and more the snares of death and Popish Treachery and let us never fall into the hands of those men whose mercyes are cruel Bless my Relations kindred and friends and all others whom I am bound to pray for All which I humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen A Prayer for the Evening MOst Gracious God and merciful Father I wretched sinner do beseech thee to look upon me with the eyes of thy mercy and let thy Holy Spirit work in me such a serious Repentance as that I may with Tears lament my sins past with grief of heart be humbled for my sins present and with all my endeavours resist them for the time to come And now O Lord I bless thee for my health food and raiment and that thou hast defended me this day now past from all dangers and Perils and as thou hast ordained the day for man to Travel in and the night for him to take his rest so I beseech thee sanctify unto me this Nights rest that being refreshed with moderate sleep I may be the better enabled to serve thee and 〈…〉 in the profession of thy True Religion and 〈…〉 Gracious Soveraign preserve him as the Apple 〈…〉 hide him under the sha low of thy wings 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 with shame and let them never prevail against him Protect thy Church and these Kingdom from Popery Superstition and Idolatry and unite our hearts in the profession of the True Religon which thine own right hand hath planted amongst us Bless the whole People of this Land and be merciful to all our Kinsfolks Families and Neighbours These and all other blessings we beg of thee for the sake of Jesus Christ in whose blessed Name and words we further pray Our Father c. Grace before meat LOrd lift up our hearts to look unto thee for a blessing upon our meats that we may comfortably use thy Creatures as pledges of thy Favour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After meat AS thou hast filled our Bodies O Lord with thy good Creatures far above our desert so be pleased to endue our Souls with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Before meat MOst gracious God and Loving Father we humbly beseech thee to forgive us all our Sins and Bless thy good Creatures provided for us and give us Grace to receive them as from thine hand and to use them soberly as in thy sight to thy Glory and our Comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen After meat ETernal Thanks and Praise be ascribed unto thee O Blessed Lord who hast opened thy hand at this time and made us partakers of thy Benefits Lord let us never cease to Offer unto thee the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS

mean time great Triumphs were preparing for the marriage of the Kings Sister and Daughter and the day being come He spent all the morning in Examining matters against Du Bourg and some others charged with the same Doctrines intending to glut his Eyes with their Execution and then went to Dinner After Dinner the King ran at Tilt near the Prison where Du Bourg was and brake many Spears against the Count Montgomery and others and all thinking he had done enough desired him to give over with praise But the King being inflamed with their Commendations would needs run another course with Count Montgomery who upon his knees beg'd his Majesty pardon but the King being resolved commanded him to do it upon his Allegiance Montogomery being compel'd addrest himself to it and the King and he meeting broke their Spears and the Kings Helmet falling down at the same Instant one of the Splinters of Montgomeries Spear entred just into his right eye and so pierced his head that his brains were perished which wound being incurable he dyed thereof within Eleven days after whereby his great hopes of seeing the Death of Du Bourg were frustrated And the Execution of Du Bourg was deferr'd for six Months longer all which time persevering constantly in the truth he was first degraded and then accompanied with six or seven hundred Horse and Foot well armed he was guarded to Execution being first hang'd and then burnt to Ashes At Amiens in France all the Bibles Testaments and Psalm Books were burnt the Ministers Pulpit and several Men and Women At Abbevilla they slew the Lord of Harcourt and dragg'd some along the Streets with their faces in the Kennel At Meux above Four Hundred Religious Citizens were slain the Women and Maids were openly ravished in the Streets and market-places Men VVomen and Children were Massacred the very Popish Priests themselves slaying divers with their own hands At a place called Bar the same if not worse Villanies were committed for the Papists pull'd out the hearts of these poor Protestants and most barbarously gnawed them with their Teeth rejoycing that they tasted of an Hugonots heart At another place seven Hundred Protestants were inhumanely massacred and their naked Bodies thrown into the River Their Houses and Church being likewise plundred and Burnt At Angies they murthered a Godly Minister and many others and finding a Fair Bible guilt they hung it upon an Halbert and carried it in procession blasphemously crying Behold Truth hanged the Truth of the Hugonots The Truth of all the Devils behold the Mighty God behold the Everlasting God will speak and when they came to the Bridge they threw it into the River crying lowder Behold the Truth of all the Devils drown'd At Tours an hundred and forty were murdered and cast into the River and neither Man VVoman nor Child spared nay the President of the City being only suspected to be a Favourer of the Protestants was first beaten with Staves then script to his shirt hang'd up by one Foot his Head in the water up to the Breast and whilst he was yet alive they ript up his Belly pluckt out his Guts threw them into the River and sticking his heart on a Lance they carried it about saying This is the Heart of the President of the Hugonots A Poor VVoman whose Husband was a while before drown'd having a young Infant sucking at her Breasts and a beautiful Daughter of about sixteen years old in her hand these bloody Villains drove them to a River and taking the Daughter aside some of the Rascals endeavoured to seduce her to Popery and one of them who was finer then the rest promised to marry her so that the poor Maid began to doubt which her Mother who was just going to be thrown into the River perceiving she earnestly exhorted her Daughter to persist in the Truth whereupon the Daughter cryed out I will live and dye with my Mother whom I know to be a Virtuous Woman and as for your Threats and promises I regard them not do with me what you please Before the Mother was quite drowned the Daughter was likewise thrown in who making toward her Mother they mutually embraced each other and so yielded up their Souls into the hands of God In the same City of Yours there was a very Religious Woman who being brought before the Captain she there gave an Account of her Faith which she confirmed by Scripture insomuch that the Fryers who discoursed with her could not return any answer but only told her That she was in a damnable condition It seems so indeed said she being in your hands And being then committed to prison she declared her mind freely and comforted the other Protestant Prisoners she was afterward condemn'd to be hang'd and the Rope being put about her neck she kneeled down praising and magnifying the name of God in shewing her so much mercy as by that death to deliver her out of this wretched world and that she was so far honoured as to dye for the Truth and to wear Gods Livery as she reckoned the halter to be she then brake her fast with the rest of the Company and exhorted them to be of good courage and to trust in the free mercy of God to the end As she went to Execution one of her kindred brought her own little Children to see her and perswaded her to recant and save her life to provide for these Innocent Babes This was a very great Temptation and wrought so upon her Motherly Affection as drew plenty of Tears from her Eyes But a while after refusing her former Courage and Constancy she said I love my Children dearly yet neither for love to them nor for any thing else in this World will I renounce my God or his Truth God will be a Father to these my Children and will provide better for them then I could have done and therefore to his Providence and protection I commend and leave them After which she went cheerfully to the place of Execution and having there prayed to and praised God she quietly resigned up her Spirit to him A while after the City of Roan was besieged and two of the Forts taken wherein they put all the Protestants to the Sword and the Queen Mother being at the Siege she led the young King Charles the Ninth who was then but twelve years old to shew him the Naked Bodies of several poor Women who weltred in their Blood At last the City was taken wherein all sorts of monstrous Cruelties were used massacring all they met with and divers English and Scotch Souldiers were hanged and the Sick and wounded were cast into the River In Valogues divers Persons of good Quality were massacred and among the rest a Godly Minister whose body they stripped and with many scoffs and scorns dragged it about the House and at last bringing it into a Room where he used to preach they kickt and spurn'd his Corps saying Now pray to God and preach if thou

place in the Sea where the Boats parting asunder the Person immediately sunk into the Sea and was drowned notwithstanding which divers good Christians met together and had a Minister who preached the Gospel and Administred the Sacrament to them but some false brethren creeping in among them betrayed them upon which many of them were apprehended and cast into the Sea others were imprisoned at Rome till they dyed Among others who were condemned to be drowned at Venice there was one Seignior Anthony Ricetto To whom after his condemnation his son of about Twelve years of Age came and with Tears beseeched his Father to recant for the saving of his own Life and that he himself might not be left fartherless To whom his Father answered A good Christian is bound to forgo Children goods yea and Life it self for the maintenance of Gods Honour and Glory for which cause said he I am now resolved with Gods assistance to lay down my Life When he came to the place where he was to suffer the Stone and Chain were fastned to him whereupon lifting up his Eyes to Heaven he said Father forgive them they know not what they do Lord Jesus into thy hands I do commend my Spirit And so he ended his Life in the Sea A while after one Francis Spinola was apprehended and committed to Prison and being called before the Inquisitors he boldly reproved the Popes Legate and the other Judges in that c ntrary to their Consciences they persecuted the Truth of God and told them they were the Off-spring of the Pharisees c. Whereupon he had sentence passed upon him That he should be drown'd as an Heretick to whom he answered I am no Heretick but the Servant of Jesus Christ At which words the Popes Legate bid him be silent and told him That he lyed The night after he was conveyed into the Sea and there drowned blessing and praising God with invincible Constancy In the year 1595 There was a young English Protestant at Rome who going into a Church and seeing their gross Idolatry he was so moved that he could not indure the sight of those impieties and therefore as the Procession passed by him he stept to him that bare the Host and Sacrament and plucking it out of his hands threw it on the Ground saying ye wretched Idolaters do ye fall down to a Morsel of Bread This so provoked the People that they were like to have torn him in Pieces but he escaped death and was sent to Prison and complaint thereof being made to Pope Clement the Eight he was so inraged that he commanded him to be burnt the same day but his Cardinals advised to have him kept in Prison and Examined with Exquisite Tortures who set him on This they accordingly practiced tormenting him with the utmost severity but could get nothing from him but these words Such was the will of God Then was he adjudged to be led from the Capitol naked to his middle and to wear on his head the form of a Devil his breeches to be painted over with Flames of Fire and so to be carryed all about the City and then burnt alive This was Executed upon him and as he passed through the Streets he was mocked and derided of the People but he prayed fervently to God and at last uttered something against the debauched Lives of the Cardinals which so inraged them that they gagged him When he came before the Church where he threw down the Idol his Right hand was cut off by the Hangman and set upon a Pole in the Cart to which he was tyed Then two Tormentors with flaming Torches scorcht and burnt his Flesh all the way so that his body was all over blistred and bloody having no part free but his head then was he taken from the Cart and went himself to the stake kissing the Chains that should bind him The Fryars urged him to worship an Idol but he turned away his Face and shew'd his Detestation of it and when the Fire seized on him he bowed his head and quietly resigned up his Spirit to God The same year there was an Ancient Religious man that had layn long in the Inquisition who was at last brought forth and condemned after which the Fryars brought a Crucifix to him importuning him to kiss and adore it He seeing their Importunity said to them If you take not this Idol out of my sight I shall spit upon it The Fryars hearing this sent him away immediately to the Fire where with great Courage and Constancy he resigned up his Spirit to God Of the Spanish Inquisition Since mention is often made of the Spanish Inquisition It may not be amiss to give a brief Account of the Original and Practice thereof Ferdinando and Isabella King and Queen of Spain having expelled the Moors or Turks out of the Kingdom of Granada who had inhabited there Seven Hundred Seventy Eight years they res lved to Reform Religion and granted the Conquered Moors Liberty to continue there and enjoy their Goods if they would turn Christians and because there were many Jews that had likewise continued there ever since Titus conquered Jerusalem they had also leave to remain there upon the same Conditions but all that refused were commanded presently to go out of Spain Yet afterwards observing that those who staid were only Christians in name and had submitted meerly to save their Estates instead of providing Religious men who with Gentleness and meekness might instruct and reduce them from their Errors they by the advice of the Dominican Fryars erected a Court of Inquisition whereby the poor wretches instead of Instruction were robbed of all their Estates and either put to most cruel deaths or else suffered intolerable whippings and other Tortures and spent the rest of their lives in shame and misery neither was this only Inflicted upon such as blasphemed Christ but for observing the least Jewish or Moorish Ceremony or holding the smallest Error in the Christian Religion But this Holy Inquisition as they call it which was first erected against Jews and Moors was afterwards turned against the faithful Servants of Jesus Christ and for suppressing the Gospel and the True Professors thereof and thus you have briefly the Original of it let us a little observe the Method of their proceeding therein As soon as Information is given against any Person they do not presently cite the party to appear before them but send one of their Informers who taking opportunity to meet with him usually greets him thus Sir I was yesterday by Accident at my Lords Inquisitors who said than they had occasion to speak with you about certain Affairs and therefore they command me to summon you to appear before them to morrow at such an Hour The party not daring to refuse goes to the place and sends in word That he is come to attend them and being called in the Inquisitors ask him What suit he hath to them And when he Answers That he is