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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.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaPersecution in Gaunt and Bruzels. Ex Frācisco. Encenate.Friers & Priestes of Flaun ders. | Great per- secution in Gaūt and other partes of Flaūders At Gaunt. An. 1543. 1544. | As Charles the Emperour did lye in Gaunt, the Friers and Doctors there obteyned that the Edict made agaynst the Luthe- ranes might be read opēly twise a yeare. Whiche beyng obteined, great persecutiō folowed, so that there was no Citie nor towne in all Flaunders, wherein some ei- ther were not expulsed, or hea- ded, or condemned to perpetuall prison, or had not their goods con fiscate: neither was there any re- specte of age or sexe. At Gaunt especiallye, many there were of the head men, whiche for re- ligion sake were burned. Afterwarde the Emperour cōmyng to Bruzels, there was |
terrible slaughter and persecution of Gods people, namely in Brabant, Hennegow, and Artoys, the horrour and cruel- tie wherof is almost incredible: In somuch that at one tyme as good as ij. hūdreth men and wemē together, were brought out of the coūtrey about, into the Citie, of whom some were drowned, some buried quicke, some priuely made away, o- thers sent to perpetuall prison: wherby all prisons and towers there about were replenished with prisoners & cap- tiues, and the handes of the hangemē tyred with slaying & | ||
killing, to the great sorow of all them, whiche knew the Gos- pell, beyng now compelled either to deny the same, or to con- firme it with their bloude. The storye hereof is at large set forth by Frauncis. Encenas, a notable learned mā, who also him self was prisoner the same tyme at Bruzels: whose boke writtē in latin, I my self haue sene & read, remaining in the hands of Iohn Oporine at Basill. |
MarginaliaMartyn Hœurblocke, Martyr.Francis- can Fri- ers of Gaunt. | Marti- nus Hœ- urbloc, Fishmon- ger. At Gaunt. An. 1545. | This Martin euer almost to his latter age, was a man much geuen to all wicked and fleshly life, so long as he continued a fo- lower of the Popes superstition and Idolatrie. Afterwarde (as God hath alwayes his callyng) through the occasion of a Sermō of his parish Priest, beginning to tast some working of grace, and repentaunce of his former lyfe, went out of Gaunt for the space of iij. monethes, seking the com- pany of godly Christians, such as hee heard to vse the readyng of the Scriptures: by whō he beyng more groundly instrusted, retur- ned agayne to the Citie of Gaūt, where all his neighbours first be ganne to meruell at the sodeyne chaūge of this mā. The Francis- canes, which knew him before so |
beneficiall vnto thē, now seing him so altered frō their wayes & superstitiō, and seyng him to visite the captiues in prison, to cōforte thē in persecutiō, & to cōfirme thē in the word of God which went to the fire, cōspired against him: wherby he was detected, and layd in bandes. After that, with sharpe & greuous tormentes they would haue cōstreyned him to vtter other of the same religion. To whom thus he aūswered, that if they could proue by the Scripture, that hys detectyng and accusing of his brethrē, whō they would afflict with the like tormentes, were not against the secōd Table of Gods law, thē he would not refuse to preferre the honour of God before the safegard of his brethren. Then the Friers examined him in the Sacrament, asking him why he was so earnest, to haue it in both kindes, seing (said they) it is but a naked Sacra- ment, as you say. To whom he aunswered, that the elementes therof were naked, but the Sacrament was not naked, for |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
so much as the sayd elementes of bread and wyne, beyng re- ceaued after the institutiō of Christ, do now make a Sacra- ment, and a mysticall representation of the Lordes body, cō- municatyng him selfe with our soules. And as touchyng the receauing in both kindes, because it is the institution of the Lorde, who is he (sayd Martin) that dare alter the same? Then was he brought before the counsaile of Flaūders. The causes laid agaynst him, were the Sacramēt, Purgatory, & prayng for the dead: for the which he was condemned and burned at Gaunt, in Verle place, all his goods beyng confis- cate. As he stode at the stake, a Fraunciscane Frier sayd to him: Martin, vnles thou doest turne, thou shalt go from this fier, to euerlastyng fier. It is not in you, sayd Martine a- gayne, to iudge. For this the Friers after were so hated, that many bylles and rimes were set forth in diuers places agaynst them. Ex Pantal. |
MarginaliaNicholas Vāpoule, Iohn de Brucke & his wife, Martyrs.The coū. sayle of Flaūders | Nicolas Vāpoule Iohn de Brucke and his wife. At Gaunt. An. 1545. | The next day after the bur- ning of Martin aforesaid, which was 9. of May, these iij. also were burned for the same causes like- wise, for the which the other was condēned & burned the day be- fore, but onely that the woman was buried alyue. All whiche tooke their Martyrdome ioyfull ly and with much cherefulnes. |
| MarginaliaMary and Vrsula, ij. virgins, Martyrs. A miraculous work of God in the dead bodyes of these two virgins. | Vrsula. Maria, Virgins of noble stocke. At Delden An. 1545. | Delden is a towne in lower Germany, iij. myles from Dauen trie, where these ij. virgins of noble parentage were burned. Who after diligent frequentyng of Churches and Sermons, beyng instructed in the worde of the lord, defended, that, seyng the be nefite of our saluatiō cōmeth one- ly by our fayth in Christ, all the other marchaūdise of the Pope, whiche he vseth to sell to the peo ple for money w,as nedeles. First Mary beyng the younger, was put to the fire, where she prayed |
ardently for her enemyes, commendyng her soule to God. At whose constancie the Iudges did greatly meruell. Thē they exhorted Vrsula to turne, or if she would not, at least that she would require to be headed. To whom she said, that she was giltie of no errour, nor defended any thyng, but which was cōsonant to the scripture, in which she trusted to perseuere vnto the end. And as touching the kind of punish- ment, she sayd, she feared not the fire, but rather would fo- low the example of her deare sister, that went before. This was meruelous, that the executioners could in no wise con- sume their bodyes with fire, but left them whole lying vpon the ground whyte: which certeine good Christians priuyly tooke vp in the night and buryed. Thus God many tymes, sheweth his power in the middest of tribulations. Ex Lud. Rab. Pantal. &c. |
MarginaliaAndrewe Thießen, & his wife. Nicholas and Fraūces Thiessen their sonnes, Martyrs.The Per son of S. Cathe- rins. Doctour Tapert9. William Clerickē, ruler of Mechlin. | Andreas Thiessen. Cathari- na, his wife. Nicolas Thiessen. Fraūces Thiessen. brethren. At Mech- lin. An. 1545. | Andrewe Thiessen Citizen of Mechlin, of his wife Cathe- rine, had iij. sonnes & a daugh- ter, whom he instructed diligēt- ly in the doctrine of the Gospell, and despised the doynges of Po- pery. Wherfore, being hated and persecuted of the Friers and Priestes there, he went into Eng land and there dyed. Fraunces and Nicolas his two sonnes went to Germany to study. Returning againe to their mother and sister and younger brother, by dili- gent instructiō, brought them to the right knowledge of Gods gos- |
pell,