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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. |
MarginaliaBertrand thrise tormented.them in that quarell. Then was he thrise put to the pyne b?ke, torm?ted most miserably, to vtter his setters on: which he would neuer do. Then proceded they to the sentence, more like tyrannes then Christen m?. By the tenour of which sen- tence, this was his punishm?t: First he was draw? fr? the ca-MarginaliaThe miserable & tragicall handling of Bertrand. stle of Dornic, to the market place, hauing a balle of yron put in his mouth. Then he was set vpon a stage, where his rightMarginaliaThe ryght hand & foote of Bertrand pressed of, with hoate yrons. hand, wherwith he tooke the hoste, was crushed and pressed betwene two hoate yrons, with sharpe yron edges firye redde, till the forme and fashion of his hand was mishaped. In lyke maner they brought other like yrons for his right fote, made fire hoate, whereinto, of his own accorde, he put his foote, to suffer as his hand had done before, with meruelous constan- cie and firmenes of minde. That done, they tooke the balle of MarginaliaThe tonge of Bertrand cut of.yron out of his mouth, and cut of his toung, who notwithstan dyng, with continuall crying, ceased not to call vppon God: wherby the hartes of the people were greatly moued: Wher- uppon the tormentours thrust in the yron balle into hys mouth agayne. From thence they brought him downe to the lower stage, he going to the same no lesse chearefully & quiet ly, th? if no part of his body had bene hurt. There his leggesMarginaliaThe burnyng and Martyrdome of Bertrand. and his handes were bo?d behynd him with an yron cheyne goyng about his body, & so he was let down flat vp? the fire: wh? the foresaid gouernour there st?ding by & loking pon, caused to be let vp agayne, and so downe and vp agayne, till at last the whole body was spent to ashes, which he comma? ded to be cast into the riuer. Wh? this was done, the Chapell where this Massegod was so entreated, was lockte vp, and the bord wherupon the Priest stode, was burnt: the marble stone wherup? the hoste did light, was brok? in peeces. And finally for somuch as the sayd Bertrand had receaued his do ctrine at Wesell, commaundement was geuen, that no per- son, out of that countrey should go to Wesell, or there occupy, vnder incurryng the daunger of the Emperours Placard. Ex Crisp. Pantal. et Adriano. |
| MarginaliaTrouble in Bohemia. | Two hun- dreth Mi- nisters of Bohe- mia. An. 1555. | The same yeare two hun- dreth Ministers and Preachers of the Gospell, were banished out of Bohemia, for preachyng a- gaynst the superstition of the Bi- shop of Rome, and extollyng the glory of Christ. Ex C?ment. Ioan. Sled. lib. 25. |
| MarginaliaPersecution in Locarne. | The Prea chers of Locarne. | Locarne is a place beyond the Alpes, yet subiect to the Helue- tians. When these also had recea ued the Gospell, and the fiue Pa ges of the Heluetians aboue m?- tioned, were not well pleased therewith, but would haue them punished, and great contention was among the Helueti?s about the same, it was concluded at l?gth, that the Ministers should be exiled: Whom the Tygurines did receaue. Ex Pant. |
| MarginaliaFraunces Warlut, Alexander Dayken, Martyrs. | Frances Warlut. Alexan- der Day- ken. | After these ij. good men being borne in the lower partes of Ger manie, had bene conuersaunt in diuers reformed Churches in other countreys, at last for con- science sake, they returned home agayne to do good in their owne co?trey of Dornic, & therabout. So vppon a tyme, as the people there resorted to a backe field or woode without the Citie, with a certaine preacher to heare the word of God and to pray, the ad- uersaries hauyng therof some in- telligence, so pursued them, that |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
At Dornic. An. 1562. | they tooke of them aboue 30. of whom these two, among the rest, were apprehended, and thinking no lesse but that they shoulde be burned, they beganne to singe Psalmes. At length beyng broughte foorth, firste one, th? the other, they were both be- headed. And where the iudges had entended to quarter their bodies, and to set them vp by the hye wayes, yet was it so proui- ded, God working in the hartes of the people, that they were both committed to sepulture. Ex Lud Rab. |
MarginaliaThe father with hys two sonnes and hys daughter, Martyred.Earle of Lalain. | Gillotus Viuer. Iames Fa- ber, his fa- ther in lawe. Michaell Faber, s?ne of Iames. Anna wife of Gillot9, and daugh ter of Iames Fa- ber. | These in the cause of Gos pell suffred at Palence. Iames Faber being an olde m? sayd: that although he could not aunswere or satisfie them in rea sonyng, yet he would constantly abide in the truth of the Gospell. Anna hys daughter beyng with child, was respited: after she was deliuered, she folowed her husband and father in the lyke Martyrdome. |
| MarginaliaMichella, wife of Iames Clerke, Martyr. Thys Iames Clerke before was burned. | Michella Caig- noucle. At Vall?ce An. 1550. | Michella, wife of Iames Clerke, whiche was before bur- ned, when she was offered to be maryed, and to be caryed out of the countrey to some reformed Churche, refused so to do, but would abyde the aduenture of her vocation, and so was con- demned with Gillotus to be bur ned. Ex Crisp. |
| MarginaliaGodfride a Tayler, Martyr. | Godfri dus Ha- melle. At Dornic An. 1552. | This Godfride a Tayler, was tak? & c?demned at Dornic or Tournay. Wh? they had c?d?ned him by the name of an hereticke, Nay (sayd he) not an hereticke, but a serua?t of Iesus Christ vn- profitable. When the hangman went about to strangle hym to diminishe his punishment, he re- fused it, saying that he would a- byde the sentence that the Iudges had geuen. Ex eod. |
Besides these Germanes aboue specified, a great number there was both in the hyer, and lower co?treys of Germanie, which were secret lye drowned, or buryed, or otherwise in prison made away, whose names although they be not know? to vs, yet they are registred in the boke of lyfe. Furthermore, in the Dutch boke of A- drian, diuers other be n?bred in the Catalogue of these Germane Martyrs, which likewise suf fered in diuers places of the lower co?trey: the names of certein wherof be these. At Bergis or Berghen in Hennegow, were burnt in the yere of our Lorde. 1555. Iohn Malo, Damian Wi- | |
MarginaliaDiuers in the lower countreyes Martyred.Iohn Malo, Damian Witroke, Weldrewe Carlier, Iohn Porceau. Iulian. van den Swerde, Adrian Lopphen. Bawdwyne. | trocke, Waldrew Carlier buried quicke, Iohn Porceau. At Aste suffered also one Iulian. an. 1541. and Adrian Lopphen. an. 1555. At Brusels an. 1559. one Baw- dwine beheaded. An other called |
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