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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. |
MarginaliaCountie Palatine maketh intercession to the French king, for the Christian prisoners.The same tyme also, came letters from the Countie Pala- tine Electour, tendyng to the same end, to sollicite the king for them. The king standyng the same tyme, in great nede of the Germanes, for his warres, was contented at least, that they should procede more gently with them, and so the fire for that tyme, ceased. Most of them were sent to Abbayes, where they were kept at the charge of the Priours, to be con- strained to be present at the seruice of Idolatrye, especiallye the younge scholers: of whom some shronke backe, other beyng more losly kept, escaped away. The most part were brought before the Officiall, to make their confeßion, and to receaue absolution ordinary. Diuers made their confeßion ambiguous and doubtfull. &c. Ex Ioan. Crisp. lib. 6. Ex Pantal. lib. xi. |
| MarginaliaRene Sean, Iohn Almaricke, dyed in prison. | René Seau. Iohn Al- maricke. At Paris. An. 1558. | These ij. yong men were also of the companie aboue specified, and were in prison, where they susteined such crueltie, being racked almost to death, that Almaricke, could not go when, he was called to the Court, to be iudged: and beyng vppon the racke, he rebuked their crueltie, and spake so frely, as though hee had felt no griefe (and as they sayd which came to visite him) hee testified vnto them, that hee felt no dolour, so long as hee was vpon it. Both these dyed in pri- son, continuyng still firme and constant in the pure confession of Christes Churche. Ibidem. |
MarginaliaIohn Bordell, Mathewe Vermeil. Pet. Burdon, Martyrs.Villegai- gnon, a French captaine. | Ioh. Bor- dell. Mathew Vermeil. Peter Burdon. Andrew de Fou. At the coū trey of Bre sill. an. 1558. | Mention is made in the French story, of one Villegaignō, Lieutenant for the Frēche king, who made a viage into the land of Bresill, with certeine Frenche shyppes, and tooke an Jland nere to the same adioyning, and made therin a fortres. After they had bene there a while, Villegaignon, for lacke of victualles (as he pre- MarginaliaHe sent them farre enough, because they should neuer returne, pretending that he lacked victuall, but the cause was religion.tended) sent certeine of them a- way in a shyppe, to the Riuer of Plate, toward the Pole Antar- ticke, a thousand myles of: in the whiche shyppe were these foure here mencioned: Who forsaking their shyppe by occasion of tem- pest, were caryed backe agayne, and so came to the land of Bre- sill, and afterward to their owne countreymē. Villegaignon beyng much aggreued therat, first char |
ged them with departyng without his leaue. Moreouer, being terrified in his minde with false suspicion, and vayne dreames, fearyng and dreamyng least they had bene sent as priuye spyes, by the Bresillians, because they came from thē, and had bene frendly interteined of thē: he began to deuise how he might put thē to death vnder some colour of treason: but the cause was religion: For albeit hee had some tyme bene a professour of the Gospell, yet afterwarde growyng in some dignitie, he fell to bee an Apostata, and a cruell persecutour of his fellowes. But when no proofe nor con- iecture probable could be found to serue his cruell purpose, he knowyng them to be earnest Protestantes, drew out cer- taine Articles of religion for them to aunswere: and so, in- trapping them vpon their confeßion, he layd them in yrons and in prison, & secretly with one executour and his page, he toke one after an other, begīning with Iohn Bordell, & first brought him to the toppe of a rocke, and there being halfe strangled, without any iudgement, threw him into the |
| Persecuters. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
sea, & after the like maner, ordered also the rest. Of whō iij. were thus cruelly murdered and drowned: to wit, Iohn Bor- dell, Mat. Vermeil, and Peter Burdon. The fourth, which was Andrew de Fou, he caused by manifold alluremēts, som- what to incline to his sayinges, & so he escaped that daūger, not without great offence takē of a great part of the French- men in that countrey. Ex Crisp. lib. 6. & Ex Comment. Gallic. de statu Religionis & Reipub. |
MarginaliaGeffrey Varagle, Martyr.The kynges Lieute- naunt. | Geffrey Varagle. At Thurin, in Pied- mont. an. 1558. | In the same yeare. 1558. suf- fered also Geffrey Varagle prea- cher in the Valley of Angroigne, at the towne of Thurin in Pied- mont, who first was a mōke and sayd Masse the space of xxvij. yeares. Afterward returnyng frō Busque, toward Angroigne, to preach, as he had vsed before to do, sent by the Ministers of Geneua, and other faithfull bre- thren: was apprehended in the towne of Barges, and brought before the kinges Lieutenaunt: Where he was questioned with, touchyng diuers Articles of religiō, as of Iustificatiō, workes of supererogation, frewill, prede- stination, confeßion, satisfactiō, Indulgences, Images, purgatory, The pope. &c. Wherunto he aun swered agayne in writyng, with |
such learning and reason, alleaging agaynst the Popes owne distinctions, namely Distinct. 19. cap. Dominus. Distinct. 21. cap. In nono. Dist. 21. cap. omnes. & cap. Sacrosancta, that as the storye reporteth, the court of Thurin meruelyng at his learnyng, condemned him more for reproche of shame, then vpon true opinion grounded of Iudgement. When he was brought to the place of execution, the people whiche stoode by, and heard him speake, declared openly, that they saw no cause, why he should dye. A certaine old companion of his, a Priest, calling him by his name M. Geffrey, desired him to cōuert frō his opinions. To whom he paciently aunswered againe, desiring him, that he would cō- uerte from hys condition. And thus after he had made his prayer vnto God, and had forgeuen his Executioner, and all his enemies, he was first strangled, and then burned. In the foresayd storye, relation is made moreouer, concerning the MarginaliaThe report of a Doue flying about the fire.sayd Geffrey, that at the time of his burning, a doue was seene (as was crediblye reported of many) flying and flutte- ring diuers times, about the fire, testifying (as was thought) the innocencie of this holy Martyr of the Lorde. But the storye addeth, that vpon such thinges, we must not staye, and so concludeth he the Martyrdome of this blessed man. Ex Crips. Lib. 6. Pag. 897. |
MarginaliaBenet Romian, Martyr.Lante- aume Blanc. De Lau- ris, Coū- seller and sonne in lawe, to Miners Lord of Opede, the cruell persecu- ter. Antho- nie Re- ueste, the Lieute- naunt. | Benet Romian, a Mer- cer, or Haber- dasher. | The lamentable story of Be- net Romian, is described at large, among other French Mar tyrs, by Iohn Crispine printer: the brief recitall wherof, here fo- loweth. This Benet hauing wife and children at Geneua, to get his lyuing, vsed to go about the conntrey with certaine merce- rye ware, hauing cunning also a- mōg other things, how to dresse Coralles. As he was commyng toward Marseille, and passed by the towne Draguignā, he hap pened vpon one of the like facu- ltie, named Lanteaume Blanc. Who beyng desirous to haue of his Corals, and could not agree for the price, also knowyng that |
he was