As touching the civile state and administration...as well as in this Churche of England, as also of the whole Churche of Rome

Wherin first commeth to our handes a turbulent tragedie and a fierce contention...(Christ wylling) more manifestly shall appeare

But before we come to these alterations...I will leave them unto the righteous revengement of the Lord

where unto let us now heere adioine the story of one John Browne... seaven yeares before in the daies of King Henry the 7

As it is the property of Satan...a Bill exhibited and denounced in the Parliament house

and worthely reputed and taken...beyng clapt in the Lolardes tower, shortly after, at the earnest instigation of one

was brought before the Byshop at hys manour of Fulham...the Crowner of London, so geven up and signed

of Robert Johnson and his wife, of John Spalding belringer...Whiche testimonies and depositions

as they be manifest, so far the tediousness thereof...whiche followeth in these wordes

After that the xxiiii had geven up their verdict...Wherefore to returne agayne to the purpose of our story intermitted

Wherefore to returne agayne to the purpose of our storye intermitted... ther brent in Smithfield at one fire, the xviii of October, in 1511

Christopher Shoemaker, Martyr...unless hee be blessed with better grace by tyme to repent

Doctour Colet. Much about this tyme, or not past 11 yeres before...25 Octob. an 1400

Here beginneth the reformation of the Church...wee shall finde the number of an hundred years expired

Also in his 48 Epistle he semeth...Philip Melancthon in his Apologie cap. De votis monast. testifieth of one John Hilton

Long it were to induce here all prophecies...they should be vanquished and overthrowen for ever

To this may be adioyned, whiche in certeine Chronicles...alteration of the Sea of Rome

as is most certeinely testified and recorded by divers...to this whiche God hathe styrred up in Germanie

The consideration wher of allured to him mervously...and also many notable personages

As Luther was thus occupied in Germanie...also to Germanie through the meanes of

In the number of whom was Erasmus, whom the...And thus much, by the way, concernyng the iudgement of Erasmus

Nowe to returne and to entreate...The Actes and doynges of M. Luther, before the Emperour, at the citie of Wormes

Martin Luther thus being dismissed of the Emperour...and to his successors forever

Shortly after this, within the compasse of the same yeare...in the number of a hundreth, wherof certeine specialities here follow

A complaint for selling remission of sinnes for money...with a whole flood of all mischiefes, etc.

There with many other burthens and grevances moe...herein the Pope neither geveth eare nor aunswere

And thus having discoursed such matters...the wordes of Melancthon be these

Frederic prince Electour...and of their league and confederation first began amongest them

These thinges thus hetherto discoursed, whiche fully...As the tyme proceded, and dissension about Religion encreased,

When the Senate and people of Berne...the first day of September an. 1527

From the first begynnyng of this whole booke...owne stories, and Martyrs here in England

The next yeare after the burnyng of those ii. Christian martyrs... Rabus, Crispinus and other

About the same tyme many other godly persons and...Lord. 1524. EX Pantal. et Crisps.

It would fill an other volume to comprehende the Acts...domesticall matters here done at home

Wolfgangus Schuch, a Germane in Lotharing, martyr...Ex Ludov. Rabo et Pantal.

Wendelmuta Widow and Martyr...the immortal crowne in heavan an. 1527. Ex Pantal

A Preface to the Table folowyng....Ex elegia cuiusdam viri docti in Pant.

And here ceasyng with this persecution in Germanie...persecution, the Lord so permittyng

A Table of such Martyrs, as for the Cause of Religion, suffered in Spayne...and also doth now testifie that he then saw

Now it remayneth further...in the sayd countrey of Calabria, beyond Neaples, in Italy

Besides these godly Italian Martyrs, in this Table...there was great reasonyng and disputation concernyng the same

but also many other of the Chiefest Counsellers...There was never such crueltie and tyranny seen before

But the enemyes suddenly came upon them...When he had destroyed Merindoll he layd siege to

In token of this ioly victorie, the Popes Officers...then to dwell in hell among the divels

All whiche may more fully be understand by the records...their descent and offspring from the Waldenses

The historye of the persecutions and warres agaynst...amonge the Turkes, in this wise as followeth

Havyng thus comprehended the troubles...The ende of the seventh booke