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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

Redman and six others grievously persecuted In the Year 1417. the Lord Cobham was Burnt in St. Giles Fields John Purey and Will. White and Richard White were burnt Peter Clark a Divine of Oxford for maintaining publickly the Doctrine of Wicklif was forced to fly but was taken beyond Sea his Tongue cut out then hanged and afterwards burnt Roger Ovely was hanged and Quartered In the Year 1447. Humfery Duke of Glocester was murdered by the Papists for being a favourer of Wicklif and other Preachers of the Truth and divers others were many ways persecuted for the sake of Religion before the rising of Luther God having in all Ages raised up some to Testifie to the Truth and to maintain the purity of the Gospel And besides these Divines Learned and great men there were several other good men of a meaner quality who openly owned the Truth and suffered for the same and as the number of the professors grew greater who now began to be called Lollards so Persecution grew hotter and the Rage and Malice of the Papists increased In the Reign of King Henry the fifth 1413. Sir Roger Acton John Brown John Beverly and Thirty six more were all put to Death in St. Giles Fields and John Claydon and Richard Turning Benedict Vlman and several others were burnt and many Imprisoned In the Reign of King Henry the sixt William Tailor one of Wickliffs followers was burnt in Smithfield Henry Web and Henry Florence were Cruelly whipt and about an hundred and twenty men and Women suffered persecution many of them were burnt William White was Martyr'd and at the same time two were burnt at Colchester Richard Hoveden a Citizen of London was Martyr'd for the same cause near the Town and several more severely whipt and terribly handled Thomas Baily and Richard Wiche both Ministers were burnt one in Smithfield and the other on Tower-hill In the Reign of Edward the fourth John Goose was Burnt and in H nry the sevenths Regn one Jean Boughton of Fourscore years old was burnt in Norfolk another person was Burnt in Smithfield several were likewise stigmatized and many did penance William Tilsworth was Burnt in the Town of Anasham where they forced his own Daughter to set fire to Faggots that were to Burn her Father and two Years after Thomas Bernard and John Melton and one Roberts were Burnt in the same County of Buckingham Thomas Chace after many Cruel Usages and hardships was Murthered in Prison Thomas Norris was burnt at Norwich and Lawrence Guest at Salisbury and a Woman at Chipping Sadbury with several other persons in the Reign of King Henry the seventh In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth the Flames increased very much and abundance Suffered in every place In the Year 1511. Willam Sweeting and John B ewster were burnt in Smithfield the same year William Carder Robert Harrison and Agnes Grebel were burnt they forcing the Husband and Daughter of the Woman to come in as Witnesses against her After this one Mr. Style with his Book of the Revelations and twenty five more were Burnt five other Persons were accused for reading an Heretical Book which contained many Damnable Opinions and what should this Book be but only the Evangelists in English In the Year 1514. Richard Hun was murdered in the Lollards Tower and afterwards burnt John Brown John Stileman and Thomas Man were burnt in Smithfield Robert Cousin was Burnt at Buckingham Christopher Shoemaker at Newberry Richard and Robert Bartlet and John Scrivener were likewise burnt and the Children of John Scrivener were forced to set fire to their Father For it was usual with them to compell Children to accuse their Parents and Parents their Children Husbands their Wives and Wives their Husbands Intimate Friends Brothers and Sisters to accuse one another and many Hundreds were likewise forced to recant and abjure against their Consciencies or else be Burnt There were two things about this time that very much increased the professors of the Gospel in England One was the appearance of Martin Luther in the World who boldly owned the Truth and loudly Declaimed against the corruptions of the Romish Church Another thing was the Art of Printing which now began to be common whereby the True Religion was the more easily promulgated and Dispersed through every Countrey and in all Languages This Allarum'd the Pope and his Debauched Clergy who were afraid to have their wicked Doctrines and Practices discovered to the people and thereupon they began to rage and bestir themselves raising Persecution and making destruction and Slaughter in all places throughout the Kingdom against the Lutherans as they were now called In the Year 1519. several Protestans were apprehended at Coventry and imprisoned in filthy and nasty Dungeons six of whom were afterwards burnt Robbert Silkeb and Thomas Harding were burnt shortly after One Sigal Nicholson a Stationer at Cambridge was hung up by the Privy-members for having Luther's Books in his House several likewise abjured and the Body of William Tracy Esq in Glocester-shire because he had left nothing for Masses for his Soul was taken out of the Grave and Burnt two Years after his Death Richard Brafield a Monk of Bury after he had been whipt and most Cruelly handled in Prison and Gagged Beaten and bound and Degraded after a very shamefull manner was Burnt with much Cruelty in London continuing half an Hour alive in the Flames for want of Wood and when his left arm was burnt he rubbed it with his right hand and it fell down in the Fire he continued in Prayer without moving to the last moment several were imprisoned and fed with Bread made of Saw-dust some were set in the Stocks with Horse-leaches on their Legs and their hands so manacled with Irons that the Flesh grew higher than the Irons and with Iron Collars about their Necks and many were Racked till they were Lamed John Tewsbury James Bainham Valentine Sheafe and his Wife John Bent and one Trapnel were all Burnt about the same time three were hanged in Chains for Burning the Image or Rood of Dover Court John Frith Andrew Honor Thomas Bennet William Tindall John Lambert William Leiton and Collins a Lawyer were burnt and Robert Packington Murdered Doctor Barns Thomas Garret William Hieron were burnt in Smithfield John Potter was murthered in Prison Robert Testwood Anthony Parker and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor About five hundred persons in and about London either dyed in prison or were burnt in Smithfield In the Year 1541. Damlip Dod Sary were Slain One Henry at Colchester Kerby and Clark at Ipswich and Bury were burnt In the Year 1546. Mistris Ann Askew one of the Ladies belonging to Queen Katherine Parr because she would not confess any other Ladies was put upon the Rack and the Lord Chancellor himself being more Cruel he acted then the Executioner ordered her to be wracked to the utmost she was afterward Burnt in Smithfield and at the same time and place were likewise Burnt

Son of Joseph Which was the Son of Mat-ta-thi-as which was the Son of A-mos which was the Son of Na-um which was the Son of E-li which was the Son of Nag-ge which was the Son of Ma-ath which was the Son of Mat-ta-thi-as which was the Son of Se-me-i which was the Son of Jo-seph which was the Son of Ju-da Which was the Son of Jo-an-na which was the Son of Rhe-sa which was the Son of Zo-ro-ba-bel which was the Son of Sa-la-thiel which was the Son of Ne-ri which was the Son of Mel-chi which was the Son of Ad-di which was the Son of Co-sam which was the Son of El-mo-dam which was the Son of Er. Which was the Son of Jo-se which was ehe Son of Eli-e-zer which was the Son of Jo-rim which was the Son of Mat-that which was the Son of Le-vi Which was the Son of Ma-thu-sa-la which was the Son of E-noch which was the Son of Ja-red which was the Son of Ma-le-l●-el which was the Son of Cai-nan which was the Son of E-nos which was the Son of Seth which was the Son of Ad-am which was the Son of God St. Matthew Chap. 24. AND Iesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name Saying I am Christ and shall deceive many and ye shall hear of Wars and Rumors of VVars see that ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet For Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be Famines and Pestilences and Earthquakes in divers places All these are the beginning of Sorrows Then shall they deliver you up to be Afflicted and shall Kill you and ye shall be hated of all Nations for my Names Sake And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another And many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many And because Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold But he that endureth unto the end shall be Saved VVhen ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the Holy place who so readeth let him understand Then let them that be in Judea Flee unto the Mountains For then shall be great Tribulation such as was not since the Beginning of the VVorld to this time no nor never shall be and except those days should be shortned there should be no Flesh Saved but for the Elects sake those daies shall be shortned Then if any Man shall say unto you lo here is Christ or lo there believe it not for there shall arise false Christs False Prophets and shall shew great Signs and VVonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Beloved I have told you before PSALM 74. Great God of Gods forget not those Who thee Reproachfully Despise Remember Lord the Blasphemies Cast on thee by Frantick Foes O! to the wicked Multitude Surrender not thy Turtle Dove Nor from thy tender care remove The Poor by pow'rful Wrong persu'd Thy Covenant bound by Oath Maintain For Darkness overspreads the Face Of all the Land in every place Destruction Rape and Slaughter Reign Let not th' Opprest return with shame But Crown thee with Deserv'd Applause O Patronize thy proper cause Remember Fools Revile thy name O! Let their Sorrows never cease Who blast thee with their Calumnies The Tumults of their Pride who rise Against thee every day Increase The Protestant Instructed and the Errors of Popery Discovered Question WHat ought to be the great Design of all Men in this World Answ So to Serve and Honour God in this Life that we may for ever enjoy eternal happiness in the World to come Quest This indeed is the Interest of every man but since there are so many Religions in the World which of these do you profess Answ The Christian Religion which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and which is commonly called the Protestant Reformed Religion Quest Why is it called the Protestant Religion Answ It is called the Protestant Religion from a solemn Protestation of several Princes and Cities of Germany against the errors and Usurpations of the Roman Church but yet it is no new Doctrine brought into the VVorld but the truth of Christianity Confessed Asserted and purged from the Corruptions of Popery and hath the very same grounds to prove the Truth thereof which the Christian Religion it self hath Quest How do you prove that the Protestant Religion professed at this day is the pure and Ancient Christian Religion Answ 1. Because of its exact Conformity to the Scriptures and the genuine and clear sense thereof 2. In that the Protestant Religion is the very same and exactly agrees with the Faith of the Christian Church in the first three hundred years after the death of our Saviour 3. From the confession of the Papists themselves who own that there have been some in all Ages even in the darkest times of Popery who have Owned Asserted and Died in Defence of the same Doctrines which we now profess as the Waldenses Albingenses Berengatians and others Quest Hath not the Romish Church the Decrees Canons Councils and the Pope himself as their Head to prove the Truth and Certainty of their Religion Answ Though they boast very much of Infallibility yet 1. They never were agreed nor are ever like to agree who this Infallible Judge is whether in a General Council or the Pope himself 2. They have no Rational Certainty of what they believe since they willfully neglect the Holy Scriptures and with a Biind Obedience intrust their Souls with those Men whose Credit and Testimony a Man would hardly trust with a Sum of Money without better Security 3. They have no Bible nor other Authentick Record to prove their Religion but a Mass of dead Traditions that have no Voice nor Sound to be understood untill the Romish Clergy put a sense upon them So that a Man can hardly embrace Popery except he first turn Atheist yea quit all his Religion and Reason at once Quest But do not the Papists damn all the World but themselves confidently affirming that Rome is the Catholick Apostolick Church out of which there is no salvation Answ Their confidence is not at all to be wondred at since it is one of the greatest Arguments they use to prove the most ridiculous Assertions but that the Romish Church can have no possible claim to their being only saved is unanswerable from these Arguments 1. Because we know of no Church which consisteth of all Christians Subjected to one Humane Head nor do we read that our Subjection to the Pope is made a condition of Salvation 2. It is evident that in the Apostles time and for divers Ages since there was a Christian Catholick Church which had no dependence upon the See of Rome 3. There are a greater number in the World who embrace

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