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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.
| Persecuters. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
ing, we byd sinne, the flesh, the world, and the deuill fare well for euer: with wh? neuer we shall haue to do hereafter. Di- uers other wordes they spake besides, whiche the people did heare and note. At last, when the tormentor came to smere them with brymstone and gunpouder: Goe to, sayd Filio- lus, salt on, salt on the rotten and stynsling flesh. Finally, as the flame came burstyng vp to their faces, they persistyng con stant in the fire, gaue vp their lyues, and finished their mar- tyrdome. Ex Ioan. Crisp. Ex Henr. Pantal. & alijs. |
MarginaliaDenys Vayre, priest, and Martyr.William L?gloys, vnder Shriffe. Ioh. L?g- loys, the kynges Procu- rator. | Dionysi9 Vayre. At Rhoan. an. 1554. | In the same yeare suffered at Rhoan, Denis Vayre. Who first leauyng his popishe priesthode, went to Geneua, where he lear- ned the arte of booke byndyng, and brought many tymes, bookes into Fraunce. After that, in the reigne of K. Edward vi. he came to Gerzey, and there was mini- ster, and preached. After the death of king Edward, the tyme not seruyng him to tary, thin- king to returne agayne to Ge- neua, hee came into Normandie with his bokes, into a town cal- led Fuellie: Where as he goyng out to hyre a carte, Willi? L?- loys, with Iohn Langloys his bro ther, came in, & stayd his bokes, & him also which had the custo- |
die of th?. Denys, albeit he might haue escaped, yet hearyng the keper of his bookes to be in trouble, came and presentyng him selfe, was committed, the other was deliuered. First, af- ter two monethes and a halfe imprisonment, he was char- ged to bee a spye, because hee came out of Englande. Then from that prison, hee was remoued to the Bishops pri- son, and then to Rhoan: where sentence was geuen, that he should be burned aliue, & thrise lifted vp & let down agayn into the fire. After the sent?ce geu?, they threatned him with many terrible tormentes, vnles he would disclose such as hee knew of that side. To whom hee aunswered, that the sounder part of all Fraunce, and of the Senate, was of that religion: notwithstanding he would vtter no mans name vnto them. And as for their torm?tes, he said, he passed not: for if he were killed with racking, th? he should not fele the burnyng of the fire. When they saw him so litle to passe for their tormentes, they left that, and proceded to his burnyng: and first they put a Crosse in his handes, whiche he would not hold. Then because he, c?myng by the Image of the virgin Mary, would not adore the same, they cryed, cut out his tongue: and so they cast him into the fire, where he should bee thrise taken vp: but the flame went so hye, that the hangman beyng not able to come neare him, cried to the people standing by, to helpe: and so did the officers with their staues, lay vp? the people, to helpe the tormentors, but neuer a man would styrre. And thys was the end and martyrdome of that blessed Denys. Ex Henr. Pantal. lib. 10. |
MarginaliaA Marchaunt hanged for iesting agaynst the Friers.? There was a riche marchaunt of Paris, who sayd in ieste to the Friers of S. Frances: you weare a rope about your bo- dies, because S. Frances once should haue bene h?ged, & the pope redemed him vp? that c?dition, that all his life after, he should weare a rope. Vp? this, the Franciscan Friers of Pa- ris caused him to be apprehended and layd in prison, and so iudgement passed vpon him, that he should bee hanged: but he to saue his life, was contented to recant, and so dyd. The Friers hearyng of his recantation, commended him, saying, if he continued so, he should be saued, and so calling vpon the officers, caused them to make hast to the gallowes, to hange him vp, while he was yet in a good way (sayd they) least hee fall agayne. And so was this marchant, notwithstandyng his recantation, hanged, for iestyng agaynst the Friers. Ex Pan tal. lib. 7. |
To this marcha?t, may also be adioyned the brother of Ta- mer, who wh? he had before professed the truth of the gospell, |
| Persecuters. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaThe iudgementes of God.and afterward by the counsaile and instruction of his bro- ther, was remoued from the same, fell in desperation and such sorow of mynde, that he hanged him selfe. Ex Ioan. Manlio in Dictis Phil. Melanct. 
Close'Ex Ioan. Manlio in dictis Phil.' - i.e. Johannes Manlius' book, commonly known as 'De dictis Philippi Melancthonis' - in reality Locorum Communium Collectanea, a Joh. Manilo, pleraque ex lectionibus Ph. Melancthonis excerpta (Basil: 1563). |
| MarginaliaThomas Galbergne, Martyr. | Thomas Galber- gne, a co- uerlet ma- ker.At Tour- nay. an. 1554. | This Thomas had copyed out certaine spirituall songes out of a booke in Geneua, whiche he brought with him to Tournay, and sent the same to one of his fellowes. Thys booke beyng e- spied, hee was called for of the Iustice, and examined of the booke, whcih he sayd conteyned nothyng but that was agre- ing to the Scripture, and that he would st?d by. Then he was had to the Castell, & after xix. dayes, was brought to the towne house, and there adiudged to the fire, whereunto hee went cherefully, singing Psalmes. As he was in the flame, the warden of the Fri ers stode crying: Turne Thomas, |
Thomas, yet it is tyme: remember him that came at the last houre. To whom he cryed out of the flame agayn with a loud voyce, and I trust to be one of that sort: and so callyng vp- on the name of the Lorde, gaue vp his spirite. Ex Crisp. lib 4. MarginaliaNich. Paule, Martyr.Adde also to this, one Nicolas Paul beheaded at Gaunt. These two should haue bene placed among the Dutche Mar tyrs in the Table before. |
MarginaliaRichard Feurus, Martyr.Latrun- culator or vnder Marshall, or exami- ner of Dolphe- nie. The Lieute- naunt. His At- turney. Hys Scribe. | Richard Feurus a goldsmith At Lyons. An. 1554. | Feurus a Goldsmith borne at Rhoan, first beyng in England and in London, there receaued the tast and knowledge of Gods word, as in his own epistle he re- cordeth. Th? he went to Geneua, where he remayned ix. or x. yeres. From thence returning to Lyons, there was apprehended, and condemned. Then he appea- led to the hye Court of Pairs, through the motion of his fr?des. Where in the way, as he was led to Paris he was mette by certein whom he knew not, and by them taken from his kepers, and so set at libertie whiche was. an. 1551. After that, continuyng at Ge neua, about the space of 3. yeares, he came vpon busines, to the pro |
uince of Dolphenie, and there as he found fault with the grace sayd in Latine, hee was detected and taken in his Inne in the night, by the vndermarshall, or him whiche had the examination of malefactors. The next daye he was sent to the Iustice: from him to the Bishop. Who riddyng their handes of him, then was he brought to the Lieutena?t, who sent his Aduocate, with a Notarie, to him in the pri- son, to examine him of his faith. The whole proces of his exa MarginaliaThe examination of Rich. Feurus.minations, with his aduersaries & the Friers, in his story de- scribed, is long. The principall contentes come to this effect. | ||
The Inquisitor.MarginaliaThis Inquisitor was the Aduocate which the Lieutenant sent with the Notarie. Doest thou beleue the Churche of Rome? The Martyr. No, I do beleue the Catholicke & vniuersall Church. Inquisitor. What Catholicke Churche is that? The Martyr. MarginaliaThe church.The congregation, or communion of Christians. Inquisitor. What congregation is that, or of wh? doth it consist? The Martyr. It c?sisteth in the number of Gods elect, whom God hath chosen to be the members of his sonne Iesu Christ, |
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