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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 the Frenche Martyrs.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
to Lyons, where he remained in prison x. monethes. From thence he was reuersed to Ville Franche, where he was con- demned, degraded, and burned. The Articles wherupon hee was condemned, were for the Masse, the Sacrament, auri- cular confeßion, Purgatorye, the virgine Mary, and the Popes supremacie. He suffered in the yeare of our Lorde. 1553. Septemb. xi. In his martyrdome such pacience and fortitude God gaue, that when hee was halfe burned, yet he neuer ceased holdyng vp his handes to heauen, and callyng vpon the Lord, to the great admiration of them that looked on. Ex Ioan. Crisp. |
MarginaliaLudouicke Marsac. Michaell Gerard. Steuen Granot. Martyrs.The kynges Lieute- naunt at Lyons. The Of- ficiall. The Fri- ers. | Ludoui- cus Mar- sacus. Michaell Gerard, his cosin. Steuen Granot, Carpēter. At Lyons. an. 1553. | At Lyons the same yeare, these iij. also were apprehended and sacrificed. Ludouicus had bene of the order of the Dimilā- ces, whiche serued the king in his warres. Afterward comming to Geneua, he was trained vp in the knowledge and doctrine of the Lord. Vpon diuers Articles hee was examined, as Inuocation of Sainctes, & of the virgin Mary: frewill, Merites, & good works: auricular confeßiō: fasting: the Lordes Supper. In his second ex- amination, they inquired of him, and also of the other ij. touchyng vowes, the Sacramentes, the Masse, and the Vicar of Christ: In all whiche Articles, because his and their iudgement dissen- ted frō the doctrine of the Popes Churche, they were condemned. The aunsweres of Marsac to the Articles, are to be sene at large in the booke of the French mar- tyrs set out by Iohn Crispine. |
MarginaliaThe blasphemies of the Papistes.The Lieutenaunt, among other blasphemies, had these wordes: Of the iiij. Euangelistes, but ij. were pure, Mathew and John. The other ij. Marke and Luke, were but gatherers out of the other. The Epistles of S. Paule, but that the Doctors of the Churche had authorised them, he would otherwise esteme no better, then the fables of Æsope. MarginaliaNote what opiniō the Papistes haue of the lawe of God, when it standeth not with their lawe.Item, the sayd Lieutenaunt sayd to M. Copes mayde: speaking somwhat of the law, cursed be the God of that law. When the sentence of condemnation was geuen agaynst these iij. they were so glad therof, that they went out praising God, & singing Psalmes. VVhich troubled the Judges sore, to see them so litle to esteme their death: in somuch that the Lieutenaunt caused them to be made to hold their peace, say ing: shall these vile abiectes so vaunte them selues against the whole state of the realme? Thē as Marsac was goyng to a corner by, to praye, one of the souldiours woulde not suffer him. To whom he sayd: that litle time which we haue, will you not geue vs to praye? With that the souldiour beyng astonished, went his way. As they should be brought out of prison, to the stake, the hangman tyed a rope about the neckes of the other two. Marsac seyng him selfe to bee spared because of his order and degree, called by the way to the Lieutenaunt, that hee might also haue one of the precious cheines about his necke, in honour of his Lord. The whiche beyng graunted, so were these iij. blessed martyrs committed to the fire, where they with meke pacience, yelded vp their lyues to the handes of the Lord, in testimonie of his Gospell. Ex Crisp. Pantal. |
MarginaliaMatth. Dymonet, Martyr.The Lieute- naunt of Lyons. | Matthe9 Dymone tus, mar- chaunt. | This Marchaunt first liued a vicious and detestable life, full of much corruptiō and filthines. He was also a secret enemie, and a searcher out of good men, whē and where they conuented toge- ther. VVho beyng called notwith |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
Primaci9 Officiall. Buathe- rius. Of- ficiall. Orus. In quisitor. | At Lyons. an. 1553. | standyng, by the grace of God, to the knowledge and sauour of his worde, shortly after was ta- ken by the Lieutenaunt and Buatherius the Officiall, in his owne house at Lyons, and so af- ter a litle examination, was sent to prison. Beyng examined by the Inquisitor and the Officials, he refused to yelde any aunswere to them, knowyng no authoritie they had vpon hym, but onely to the Lieutenaunt. |
His aunsweres were, that he beleued all that the holy vni- uersall church of Christ did truly beleue, & all the Articles of the Crede. To the Article of the holy Catholicke Church, being bid to adde also, romanā, that is, the church of Rome: that he refused. Aduocates he knewe none, but Christ alone. Purgatory he knew none, but the Crosse & paßiō of the Lābe, which purgeth the sinnes of all the world. True confeßion he sayd, ought to be made not to the priest once a yere, but euery day to God, & to such whō we haue offended. The eating of the flesh & bloud of Christ, he toke to be spirituall: and the Sacramēt of the flesh & bloud of Christ, to be eatē with the mouth, and that Sacramēt to be bread and wyne vnder the name and significatiō of the body and bloud of Christ. The masse not to be instituted of Christ, being a thyng cōtrary to hys word & will. For the head of the Church, he knew none but onely Christ. Beyng in prison he had great cōflictes with the infirmitie of his owne flesh, but especially with the tem- tation of his parentes, brethren, and kinsfolkes, and the so- row of his mother: neuertheles the Lord so aßisted him, that he endured to the ende. At his burnyng he spake much to the people, and was heard with great attention. Hee suffered xv. of July. an. 1553. Ex Crisp. |
MarginaliaWilliam Neel, Martyr.Legoux the deane Ilierēsis. M. Symō Vigor, the Peni- tentiarie of Eu- reux. | William Neel an Austen Frier. At Eureux In Fraūce. an. 1553. | Henr. Pantal. Lib. 9. and Crisp. & Adrian, maketh men- tion also of one William Neel, a Frier Augustin, who suffered in much like sorte, the same yeare, and was burned at Eureux in Fraūce. The occasiō of his trouble rose firste, for the rebuking the vicious demeanure of the priests there, and of the Deane named Legoux, for the which the deane caused him to be sent to Eureux to the prison of the Bishop. The story of this William Neel, with his aunsweres to their Articles obiected, is to bee read more at large, in the ix. booke of Panta- lion and others. |
The Bai liffe or stuard of the Citie Dyion. | Symon Laloe. At Dyion. an. 1553. | Symon Laloe a Spectacle ma- ker, commyng from Geneua into Fraunce for certain busines, was layd hande of, by the Bailiffe of Dyion. Three thinges were de- maunded of him. I. Where he dwelt. 2. What was his fayth. 3. What felowes he knew of his re- ligion. His dwelling, he said, was at Geneua. His religiō was such, as was then vsed at Geneua. As for his felowes, he sayd, he knew none, but onely them of the same Citie of Geneua, where his dwel- lyng was. When they could get of |
him no other aunswere but this, with all their racking and tormentes: they proceded to his sentence, and pursued the exe- cution of the same, whiche was xxi. of Nouēb. an. 1553. The executioner, who was named Iames Siluester, seyng |
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