fect of a sentence deliuered in iustice, by maister deane and the curates the xiiii. day of the moneth of Iuly, in the yeare afore said, in the which they haue bene aproued heretickes.
After which sentence pronounced, the sayde women did appeale vnto the kyng and quene and theyr honourable counsell, saying that agaynst reason and right they wer condemned, & for that cause they made their appeale: notwithstanding they coulde not bee hearde, but were deliuered by the said bailif, to the king & Quenes officers, to see the execution done on
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At the tyme that the sayd good poore women were burning in the fyrye flames aboute them, the wombe of the sayde Paratine, shee beyng great with childe, brake with the heate of the sayd fyre, and thereby issued foorthe of her bodye a goodlye man chylde,MarginaliaAn horrible example of cruelty.which was taken vp, and handled by the cruell tormentours, and after they threw most spightfullye the same chylde into the fyre agayne, wher it was burned with the sely Mother, Gra?dmother, and Aunt, very pitifully to behold.
[Back to Top]Oh cruel papistes, that euer suche a foule murther vpon earth should be c?mitted. The Lorde hym selfe wyll reuenge it no doubt, to your perpetual shame, although in this world neither the complaint was greatlye regarded, nor the cause condingly pondered, nor the cruel murther as yet reuenged. &c.
Thus these three good and godly women with the poore Infant, ended theyr lyues, vniustly condemned, and cruellye murthered by the bloudy, furious, and fyrye Papistes. And for so much peraduenture as the story, for the horrible straungenes of the fact, wyl be hardly beleued of some, but rather thoughte to bee foreged, or els amplified of vs: therfore for the
[Back to Top]discharge of our credit herein, be it notified and knowen to the Readers hereof, that here is nothing in this present history set forth, otherwise then hath bene faythfullye related, yea and penned of the Garnsey men them selues, and the brother to the sayd twoo systers,
Foxe must have beeen working in haste in the 1563 edition because, while he had a copy of Mathieu Cauches's petition, he got confused and stated that Mathieu was the brother of Massy and Gilbert, whereas the petition clearly states that he was the brother of Catherine Cauches (and thus the uncle of Massy and Gilbert). He corrected this error in the errata of the 1563 edition, but left it uncorrected in subsequent editions.
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