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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 the Frenche Martyrs.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaSimon Laloe, Martyr. The executioner conuerted.the great faith and constancie of that heauenly martyr, was so compuncted with repentaunce, and fell in such dispayre of him selfe, that they had much ado, with all the promises of the Gospell, to recouer any comfort in him. At last, through the mercy of Christ, he was comforted, and conuerted, and so he with all his familie, remoued to the Churche of Geneua. Ex Ioan. Crisp. |
| MarginaliaNicholas Nayle, Martyr. | Nicolas Nayle. At Paris. an. 1553. | This Nicolas a Shomaker, comming to Paris, with certein ferdels of bokes, was there appre hended. Who stoutly persistyng in confeßing the truth, was tried with sundry tormentes, to vtter what felowes he had besides, of his profession, so cruelly, that his MarginaliaTormētes.body was dissolued almost one ioynt from an other: but so con- stant hee was in hys silence, that he woulde expresse none. As they brought hym to the stake, first they put a gagge or a peece of woode in his mouth, whiche they bound with cordes to the hinder part of his head, so hard, that his mouth on both |
sides, gushed out of bloud, & disfigured his face monstrously. By the way, they passed by an hospital, where they willed him to worship the picture of S. Mary standyng at the gate. But he turned his backe as well as he could, & would not. For the whiche, the blinde people were so greued, that they would haue fallen vpon him. After he was brought to the fire, they so smered his body with fatte and brimstone, that at the first taking of the fire, all his skinne was parched, and the inward partes not touched. With that, the cordes brast, which were about his mouth, wherby his voyce was heard in the mydest of the flame, praysing of the Lord, and so the blessed martyr departed. Ex Ioan. Crisp. |
MarginaliaPeter Serre, Martyr.A womā of To- louse. The Of- ficiall of the By- shop of Tolouse. The In- quisitor, & Chaun celour of the By- shop of Coze- ran. | Peter Serre. About To louse. an. 1553. | Peter Serre first was a priest, thē chaūging his religion he wēt to Geneua, and learned the sho- makers craft, and so liued. Af- terward, vpon a singular loue, he came to his brother at Tolouse, to the intent to do him good. His brother had a wife, whiche was not well pleased with his religion and cōmyng. She in secret coun- saile, told an other womā, one of her neighbours, of this. VVhat doth she, but goeth to the Offi- ciall, and maketh him pryuye of all. The Officiall thinking to for slacke no tyme, taking counsaile with his felowes, laid handes vp pon this Peter, and brought him before the Inquisitor. To whom he made such a declaratiō of his faith, that hee semed to reduce the Inquisitor to some felyng of conscience, and began to instruct him in the principles of true reli gion. Notwithstandyng, all this helped not, but that he was con- demned by the said Chauncelor, to be degraded, and committed to the secular iudge. The iudge inquiring of what occupation he was, he said, that of late he was a shomaker. Whereby the Judge vnderstandyng that he had bene of some other facultie before, re- quired, what it was. He sayd, that he had bene of an other fa- |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaPriestcrafte a vyle & a filthye arte.cultie before, but hee was ashamed to vtter it, or to remem- ber it, beyng the worst and most vilest science of all other in the whole world besides. The Judge and the people supposing that he had bene some thiefe, or cut purse, inquired to know what it was. But he for shame and sorow, stopped his mouth, & would not declare it. At last, through their importunate clamour, hee was constreyned to declare the truth, and sayd, that he had bene a Priest. The Iudge hereupon was so mo- ued, that he condemned him, first enioyning hym in his condemnation, to aske the king forgeuenes, then iudged hym to haue his tongue cut of, and so to be burned. From this sentence, he appealed to the Parlament of Tolouse: not for that he thought therby to saue his life, but because he was enioyned to aske the king forgeuenes, whom he had neuer offended. Also because he was iudged to haue his tongue cut of, wherewith he would prayse his God. Notwithstandyng by the sentence of that Parlament, he was likewise condem- ned to be burnt: onely he was pardoned for asking forgeuenes of the king, and the cuttyng of his tongue, so that hee would say nothyng agaynst their religion. As he went to burning, he passed by the college of S. Mar tiall, where he was byd to honour the picture of the virgine MarginaliaConstancie notable.standyng at the gate. VVhiche, because he refused, the Iudge commaunded his tongue to be cut of, and so beyng put to the fire, he stoode so quyet, loking vp to heauen all the tyme of his burnyng, as though he had felt nothyng, brynging such admiratiō to the people, that one of the Parlamēt sayd, that way not to be best, to bryng the Lutherians to the fire: for that would do more hurt, then good. Ex Ioan. Crispi. |
MarginaliaSteuen King, Pet. Denoche, Martyrs.The go- uernor of Marches | Steuen Kyng. Petrus Deno- cheus. At Char- tres. An. 1553. | Steuē King, after he had bene at Strausburgh a while, returned agayn into his coūtrey, dwellyng in a town bearing the name of S. George, not far frō Chauffours, where he serued in the place of a Notarie, and had vnder him, a Clerke named Peter Denoche, who also had bene at Geneua, and was there zelous in instru- ctyng the ignoraunt, and rebu- king blasphemous swerers, & o- ther offenders. These ij. were not long together, but they were sus- pected both of Lutheranisme: and so were apprehended by the Gouernour of the Marches, or Marshall, and so were caryed to |
Chartres: Where after their constant confeßion vppon their examination made, they were enclosed in prison, and there susteined long and tedious endurance. During the which meane time, Steuen King made many worthy songes and sonets in the prayse of the Lorde, whereby to recreate his spirite in that doulfull captiuitie. At length, when after long persuasions & fayre promises of the Bishop and of other, they could not be reuoked frō the doctrine of their confeßiō, they were condemned. From that condemnation, they ap- pealed to the Court of Paris. But the counsaile there confir- myng their former sentence, returned them agayne to Char- tres, from whence they came, where they were both executed with cruell punishment of fire. Ex hist. Gallic. per Ioan. Crispi. |
Priestes of Bur- ges. | Antoni9 Magnus or Mag- næus. | Antonius Magne, was sent by the fiue whiche were in prison at Lyons, aboue mentioned, and by other also that were in capti- uitie at Paris, vnto Geneua, to commende them to their prayers vnto God, for them. Who after certain busines there dispatched, returned agayne into Fraunce, and there within iii. houres of his commyng, was betrayed and |
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