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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 Spanishe Martyrs.
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borne of the deuill, beyng the enemie of Iesus Christ, transfer ring to him self Gods honour: and which moreouer beyng incited by the deuill, turned all thinges vp side down, & cor- rupted the sinceritie of Christes religion, partly by his false pretences begilyng, partly by his extreme crueltie destroying the poore flocke of Christ. &c. With the like boldnes he vtte red his minde likewise agaynst the Masse, and Purgatorie. MarginaliaThe popes crowne & the Fryers bellies, are not to be touched.The Friers could suffer him meanely well to speake, till hee came to the Pope, and began to speake agaynst his dignitie, and their profite: then could they abyde no longer, but thun- dred agaynst him woordes full of crueltie and terrour. As they were burnyng of his bookes, and began also to cast the new testament into the fire, Frances seyng that, began to thunder out agaynst them againe. The Spanyardes then sup- posing him not to be in his right senses, conueyed him into a MarginaliaFrances brought in to prison.Tower six myles distant frō Antwerpe, where he was detei- ned in a depe caue, or dungeon, with much miserie, the space of viij. monethes. In whiche tyme of his imprisonment, ma- ny graue, and discrete persons came to visite him, exhortyng him, that he would chaunge his opinion, and to speake more modestly. Frances aunswered agayne, that he mainteined no opiniō erronious, or hereticall: and if he semed to be somwhat vehement with the Friers, that was to be ascribed not to him so much, as to their own importunitie: hereafter he would MarginaliaSan Romane deliuered out of prison.frame him selfe more temperatly. Wherupon the Spaniardes thinking him better come to him selfe, discharged him out of prison. Which was about the time when the Emperour was in his councell at Ratisbone. an. 1541. San Romane thus being freed out of prison, came to An- twerpe, where he remained about xx. dayes. From thence he MarginaliaFrances Dryander.went to Louane, vnto a certeine frende of his, named Fran- ciscus Dryander (who also afterward dyed a Martyr) with whō he had much conferēce, about diuers matters of religiō: who gaue him counsaile not to alter the state of his vocatiō, beyng called to be a marchaunt, whiche state he might exer- cise with a good conscience, and do much good. And as tou- chyng religiō, his coūsaile was that he should saye or doe no- thyng, for fauour of men, wherby the glory of God should be diminished: but so, that he required notwithstandyng in the same, a sound and a right iudgement, conformed to the rule of Gods worde, lest it might chaunce to him, as it doth to many, who beyng caryed with an inconsiderate zeale, leaue their vocations, and while they thinke to do good, and to edi- fie, they destroy, and do harme, and cast them selues nedeles into daunger. It is God (sayd he) that hath the care of his Churche, and will stirre vp faithfull ministers for the same: neither doth he care for such, whiche rashely intrude them selues, into that function without any callyng. This aduertisement of Dryander, Frances did willingly accept, promising hereafter to moderate him selfe more consi- deratly. But this promise was shortly broken, as you shall heare. For paßing from Dryander, he went to Ratisbone, and there hauyng time and oportunitie conueniēt to speake MarginaliaThe bolde speaking of San Romane to the Emperour.to the Emperour, he stepped boldly vnto him, besechyng hym to deliuer his countrey and subiectes of Spayne, frō false reli- gion, and to restore agayne the sinceritie of Christes doctrine, declaryng and protestyng that the Princes and Protestātes of Germanie, were in the truer part, and that the religion of Spayne beyng drowned in ignoraunce and blindnes, was greatly dissonant from the true and perfect worde of God, with many other wordes perteinyng to the same effect. The MarginaliaThe Emperours gentle aunswere.Emperour all this while, gaue him gentle hearing, signifying that he would consider vpon the matter, and so do therin, as he trusted should be for the best. This quyet aunswere of the Emperour, ministred to him no litle encouragement of better hope, albeit he might perceaue there in the Citie, many exam ples to the contrary, yet all that discouraged not him, but he went the second, & also the third time, vnto the Emperour: Who quietly agayne so aunswered him as before. And yet this our Frances not satisfied in his minde, sought with a greater ardencie the fourth time, to speake to the Emperour, but hee was repulsed by certain of the Spanyardes about the Emperour, who incontinent with out all further hearyng or aduising the cause, would haue throwē hym headlōg into the |
| Persecuters. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
ryuer of Danubius, had not the Emperour stayd them, and willed him to be iudged by the lawes of the Empire. By which cōmaundement of the Emperour, he was reserued, & deteined with other malefactors, in bādes, till the Emperour MarginaliaFrances San Romane brought into Spaine.toke his viage into Aphrike Then Frances, with other cap- tiues folowing the Court, after that the Emperour was come into Spayne, was there deliuered to the Inquisitors: by whō he was layd in a darke prison vnder the ground. Oft and ma- ny tymes he was called for to examination, where he suffered great iniuries and contumelies, but euer remained in his con- science firme and vnmoueable. The Articles wherupon he stoode, and for whiche he was condemned, were these. | ||
MarginaliaThe articles of San Romane.That life and saluation in the sight of God, commeth to no man by his own strength, workes, or merites: but onely by the free mercy of God, in the bloud and Sacri- fice of his sonne our mediatour. That the Sacrifice of the Masse, whiche the Papistes do recounte auayleable, Ex opere operato, for remission of sinne, both to the quicke & dead, is horrible blasphemie. That auricular confession, with the numberyng vp of sinnes, that Satisfaction, Purgatory, Pardons, Inuoca tion of Saintes, worshippyng of Images, be mere blas- phemie agaynst the liuyng God. Item, that the bloud of Christ is prophaned and iniu- ried in the same aforesayd. |
After the Inquisitours perceaued, that by no meanes he coulde bee reclamed from his assertions, they proceeded at laste, to the sentence, condemnyng him to be burned for an MarginaliaBarabas deliuered, & Christ taken.hereticke. Many other malefactors were brought also with him to the place of execution, but all they were pardoned and dismissed: he onely for the Gospell, beyng odious to the whole world, was taken and burned. As he was led to the place of sufferyng, they put vpon him a Miter of paper, paynted full of deuils, after the Spanishe guise. Furthermore, as he was brought out of the Citie gate to be burned, there stode a wooden Crosse by the way, wherun- to Frances was required to do homage. Whiche he refused, MarginaliaThe maner of Christians is not to worship woode.aunsweryng, that the maner of Christians is not to worship woode, and he was (sayd he) a Christiā. Hereupō arose great clamor among the vulgare people, for that he denied to wor- ship the wooden Crosse. But this was turned incontinent in- to a miracle. Such was the blynd rudenes of that people, that MarginaliaA great Spanishe miracle.they did impute this to the diuine vertue, as geuen to that Crosse from heauen, for that it would not suffer it selfe to be worshipped of an hereticke: and immediatly, for the opinion of that great miracle, the multitude with their swordes, dyd hewe it in peeces, euery man thinking him selfe happy, that might cary away some chyppe or fragment of the sayd Crosse. When he was come to the place, where he should suffer, the Friers were busie about him, to haue him recant: but he MarginaliaFrances constant to the death.continued euer firme. As he was layd vpon the heape of woode, and the fire kindled about him, he began a litle, at the felyng of the fire, to lyft vp his head toward heauen. Whiche whē the Inquisitors perceaued, hoping that he would recant his doctrine, they caused hym to be takē frō the fire. But whē they perceaued nothyng lesse in him, the aduersaries beyng MarginaliaThe death and Martyrdome of Frances San Romane.frustrate of their expectation, willed him to be throwen in agayne, and so was he immediatly dispatched. After that the Martyrdome of this blessed man was thus MarginaliaThe Inquisitors of Spaine take Christes office to iudge the quicke and the dead.cōsummate, the Inquisitors proclamed opēly that he was dā- ned in hell, and that none should pray for him: yea and that all were heretickes, who soeuer doubted of his damnation. Neuertheles certaine of the Emperours souldiours gathered of his ashes. Also the Englishe Ambassadour procured a por tion of his bones to be brought vnto him, knowyng right- well that he dyed a Martyr. Yet this could not be so secretly done, but it came to the eares of the Inquisitors and of the Emperour. Wherfore the souldiours goyng in great daun- ger of life, were committed to prison. Neither did the Am- bassadour him selfe escape cleare from the daunger of the MarginaliaThe Englishe Ambassadour banished the Spanishe court.Popes scourge: For he was vpō the same, sequestred from the Court & cōmaūded to be absent for a space. And thus much concernyng the notable Martyrdome of this blessed San Ro- mane. Ex Franc. Encena. Hispano, teste occulato. |
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