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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Henry. 8. A Table of Martyrs which suffered in Germanie.
A Table of the names and causes of such Martyrs, which gaue their lius for the testimonie of the Gospell in Germanie, Fraunce, Spaine, Italy, and other foreine countreys, since Luthers tyme: In which Table first is conteyned within the first space betwene the lines, the persecutours, next the Martyrs, and thyrdly the causes.
¶ The Martyrs of Germanie.
¶ Of diuers whiche suffered in Germanie for the witnes of the Gospell, partly some rehearsall is made before, as of Voes, and Esch, of Sutphen, Iohn Castellane, Pet. Spengler, with a certeine godly Minister, and an other symple man of the countrey mentioned in Oecolampadius: Also of them in Diethmar and Prage, of M. George of Hala, Gaspar Tambert, Georgius of Vienna, Wolfgangus Schuch, Iohn Huglius, George Carpenter, Leonard Keyser, Wendelmuta, P. Flistede, Adol. Clarebach. and other moe. The residue folow in order of this Table here to be shewed.
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MarginaliaNicholas of Antwerpe, Martyr.Charles the Em- perour. Two ser- uauntes of a But- cher dyd apprehēd | One Ni- cholas of Ant- werpe. At Ant- werpe. An. 1524. | The Curate of Melza by Ant- werpe, had vsed to preache to a great number of people without the towne. The Emperour hea- ryng thereof, gaue leaue to take the vppermost garment of all thē that came to heare, and offred 30. gilders who so would take the priest. Afterward, when the people were gathered, & the Cu rate not there, this Nicolas step- ped vp in his place and prea- ched. Wherfore he beyng appre- hended by these ij. seruauntes of a Butcher, was put in a sacke & drowned by the Crane at Ant- werpe.1524. |
MarginaliaIoannes Pistorius, Martyr.Margarete, daughter of Maximi lian, prin- ces of Hol land. M. Mon- tane. M. Rose- munde. M. Anchu- sanus In- quisitors. M. Ioduc9 Loueryng, Vicare of Mechlin. | Ioan. Pi- storius, a learned mā of Hol land, and partly of kinne to Eras. Ro- terod. 1524. | The story of Pistorius is largely set forth by Gnapheus. First he was a priest, then he maried: af- ter that hee preached, commyng from Wittenberge. He spake a- gainst the Masse and pardons, and agaynst the subtile abuses of priestes. He was cōmitted vnto prison with x. malefactors, whō he did comfort, and to one beyng halfe naked and in daunger of colde, he gaue his gowne. His fa ther visiting him in prison, did not disuade him, but bad him be constant. At last he was con demned, and disgraded, hauyng a fooles coate put vpon hym. His felow prisoners at his death song Te Deum. Cōming to the stake he gaue his necke willingly to the band, wherwith he was first strā gled, and then burned, saying at his death: O death, where is thy victorye?Marginalia1. Cor. 15. |
MarginaliaMathias Weibell, Martyr.Sebastiā Braite- stein, Ab- bot. | Mathias Weibell Scholema- ster. In Sueuia. An. 1525. | For saying somewhat agaynste the Abbots first Masse, and a- gaynst carying about the reli- ques, through the procuremēt of the Abbot, he was hanged by Campidonum in Sueuia. |
MarginaliaA Priest, Martyr.Certeine noble mē, after the cōmotion of the coū treymen in Ger- manie. | A cer- teine god- ly priest. An. 1525. | This priest beyng commaunded to come and geue good counsaile to 16. coūtreymē that should be beheaded, afterward was bid, him self, to knele downe to haue his head cut of, no cause nor con- demnation further being laid a- gaynst him, but onely of mere hatred against the Gospell. Ex Ioan. Gastio. |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaGeorge Sherrer, Martyr. Ex Mat. Flac. Illyrico.The name of the per- secutour appeareth not in the storye. | George Scher- rer. At Rastat, by Saltze- burge. An. 1528. | After that this George had instructed the people in know- ledge of the Gospell in Rastat, x. myles distant from Saltze- burge, he was accused of his ad- uersaries, and put in prison, where he wrote a cōfeßion of his faith, which Mathias Jlliricus hath set out with his whole story. He was cōdemned to be burned a lyue: but meanes was made, that first his head should be cut of, & his body afterward be cast into the fire. Going toward his death he said, crying aloud: That you may know (sayd he) that I die a true Christian, I will geue you a manifest signe, and so he did by the power of the lord: For when his head was takē of from his shoulders, the body fallyng vppon his belly, so continued the space while one might well eate an egge. After that, softly it tur- ned it selfe vpon the backe, and |
MarginaliaA straunge miracle of God in manuesting hys Gospell.
¶ The Martyrs of Germanie.
Commentary on the Woodcuts
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CloseIn a series of examples of continental martyrs, for which he drew on Flacius Illyricus, Foxe included the story of George Scherrer of Salzburg, noteworthy for the strange miracle that proved his fidelity. Having been granted the mercy of beheading before burning, he promised to give a sign of his true faith. The small woodcut (possibly from an outside source, since it is unusual in size and style) shows the marvel. After the beheading, those present saw in slow motion (taking as long as one might to eat an egg) the decapitated body turn over and cross the right leg over the left.
crossed the right foote ouer the left, and the right hand ouer the left. At the sight whereof they which saw it were in a great meruel. The Magistrates whiche before had appoynted to haue burned the body after his beheadyng, seyng this miracle, would not burne it, but bu- ried it with other Christiā mens bodies, and many by the same example were moued to bel- eue the Gospell. Thus God is able to manifest the truth of hys Gospell, in the middest of persecutiō, who is to be blessed for euer. Amen. |
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