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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. Hen. 8. A Table of Martyrs which suffered in Germanie.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaThe Fryers confounded.with a Doctour which was their Warden, came to talke with them. Nicolas standyng in the middest of them, beyng asked what he was, and whether he would: aunswered them perfectly to all their questions, and moreouer so confounded the Friers, that they went away ashamed, saying that he had a deuill, and crying: to the fire with him Lutherane. As they continued looking still for the day of their execu- tion, it came in the rulers mindes to aske of Nicolas in what house he was loged, when he came to Bergis. Nicolas sayd he had neuer bene there hefore, and therfore beyng a straun- ger he could not tell the name of the house. When Nicolas would cōfesse nothing, Duke Ariscotus came to Barbara Ni cholas his wife, to know where they were loged at Bergis, promising many fayre wordes of deliuery, if she would tell. MarginaliaBarbara reuolted. Gods punishment vpon persecutours.She being a weake and a timerous womā, vttered all. By the occasion wherof great persecution folowed, and many were apprehended. Where this is to bee noted, that shortlye, euen vpon the same, the sonne of the sayd Duke Arscotus, was slayne and buried the same day, when Augustinus was bur- MarginaliaNicholas condemned.ned. To bee shorte, Nicolas shortlye after was brought before the Iudges and there cōdemned to be burned to ashes. At which sentēce geuing Nicholas blessed the Lord, whiche had counted him worthye to bee a witnes in the cause of his deare & welbeloued sonne. Going to the place of executiō, he was commaunded to speake nothing to the people, or els he should haue a balle of wood thrust in his nouth. Beyng at the stake & seyng a great multitude about him, forgetting his si- lēce promised, he cryed with a loude voyce: O Charles, Char- les, how long shall thy hart be hardened? and with that, one of the souldiours gaue him a blow. Thē said Nicolas agayne: Ah miserable people, thou art not worthy to whō the worde of God should be preached. And thus he spake as they were bynding him to the stake. The Friers came out with their old song, crying, that he had a deuill. To whom Nicolas spake the verse of the Psalme: Departe from me all ye wicked, for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weapyng. And thus this holy martyr paciently taking his death, commended vp his spirite vnto God in the midest of the fire. Ex Lud. Rab. Pantal. et alijs. |
| MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Marion. | Marion wife of Austen, aboue mē- tioned. At Bergis in Henne- gow. An. 1549. | After the Martyrdome of thys M. Nicolas, Marion the wife of Austen was called for. With whom they had much talke a- bout the maner & state of Ge- neua, asking her how the Sacra- mētes were administred there, & whether she had celebrated there the Lordes Supper. To whō she aunswered, that the Sacraments there were celebrated after the Lordes institution, of the which she was no celebrater, but a par- taker. The sentence of her condē- nation was this, that she should be interred quicke. Whē she was |
MarginaliaMarion buried quicke.let downe to the graue, knelyng vpon her knees, she desired the Lord to helpe her, and before she shoulde bee throwen downe, she desired her face might bee couered with a napkin or some linen cloth. Who beyng so couered and the earth throwen vpon her face and her body, the hangman stā ped vpon her with his feete, till her breath was past. Ibidē. |
The watchmē or souldi- ours of Bellimōt | Augu- stine the husbād of Marion. | Ye heard before how Austen escaped before at the taking of Nicolas and the ij. wemen. Af- ter this he gaue him selfe to sell spices and other pedlary ware, frō place to place. Who at length comming to the towne of Belli- mont in Hennegow, there was knowen and detected to the ma- gistrate. Wherof he hauing some intelligence before, left his ware and ran away. And seyng more- |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
At Belli- mont in Hēnegow. An. 1549. | ouer the house beset about with harnessed men, where he was ho sted, he began to be more afeard & hid him self in a bushe: for he was very timorous, and a weake spirited mā. But the houre being come, whiche the Lord had ap- pointed for him, it happened that certeine stāding vpon the town wall, whiche might well see him go into the thicket or bushe, gaue knowledge therof to the souldi- | |
MarginaliaAugustine agayne taken.ours, whiche folowed him to the bushe and tooke him. Being taken, he was had to Bergis, the head towne of Hennegow, where he being examined, valiantly standing to the defence of his doctrine, aūswered his aduersaries with great boldnes. MarginaliaExample of Gods goodnes in strengthening the weake harted.Wherin here is to be noted and marueiled to see the woorke of the Lord, how this mā being before of nature so timorous, now was so strenghthened with Gods grace, that he nothyng feared the force of all his enemies. Amōg other, came to him the Warden of the Gray Friers, with a long oration, persua- dyng him to relent or els he should be dāned in hell fire perpe tually. To whom Austen aunswering agayne, said: proue that whiche you say, by the authoritie of Gods woorde, that a mā may beleue you. You say much, but you proue nothing, rather like a doctour of lyes, then of truth. &c. At last he be- yng there cōdemned to be burned at Bellimont, was brought to the Inne where he should take horse: where was a certain Gentlemā a straūger, who drinking to him in a cup of wine, desired him to haue pitie vppon him selfe, and if he would not fauour his life, yet that he would fauour his owne soule. To whom said Austen, after he had thanked him for his good will, what care I haue (said he) of my soule, you may see by this, that I had rather geue my body to be burned, then to do that thyng, that were agaynst my conscience. When he was come to the towne of Bellimont, where he should be burned, the same day there was a great buriall of the Duke Arisco- tus his sonne, whiche was slaine a litle before (as is before touched:) by the occasion wherof many nobles and Gentlemē were there present, whiche hearyng of this Austen came to him and talked with him. When the day came of his martyr MarginaliaThe death and Martyrdome of Austen.dome, the people beyng offended at his constancie, cryed out to haue him drawē at an horse tayle, to the place of burnyng: but the Lord would not suffer that. In fine, beyng tyed to the stake & fier set vnto him, hartely he prayed to the Lord, and so in the fire paciently departed. Ex Crisp. & aliis. |
MarginaliaEx Ioan. Sled. li. 22.The names of the perse- cutours be not expres sed in the storye. | A certain woman of Aus- purge. At Aus- purge. An. 1550. | At Auspurge a certeine wo- man there dwellyng, seyng a priest to cary the hoste to a sicke person with Taper light (as the manner is) asked of him what he ment so to go with can- dell light at noone day? For this she was apprehended, and in great daunger, had it not bene for the earnest sute and prayer of the wemen of that Citie, and at the interceßion of Mary the Emperours sister. Ex Ioan. Sled lib. 22. |
| MarginaliaTwo Virgins, martyrs. | Two Vir- gines. | In the Dioces of Bamberge ij. maides were led out to slaughter whiche they susteined with pa- cient hartes, and cherefull coūte- naunces. They had garlandes of Straw put on their heads. Wher vpon one comfortyng the other going to their Martyrdom: seing Christ (sayd she) for vs bare a crown of thorne, why should we sticke to beare a crown of straw? No doubt but the Lord will ren der to vs agayne better then |
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