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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 Italian Martyrs.
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gates. There were then iiij. men of great authoritie, who beyng styrred vp of God, had pitie vppon him, and bailed him out of prison. Of whom, one of the sayd sureties tooke the sayd Mollius home, to instructe his children in the doctrine of religion, and good letters. Furthermore, at the fame of this man, such a concourse of people came to see him, that the aduersaries began to cōsult with thē selues, to kill hym, lest his doctrine should disparse farther abroad, to the detriment of the Churche of Rome. Whereupon com- maundement was sent to the Popes Legate, to lay hands vpō him, and to send him vp fast bound to Rome. Where againe, MarginaliaMollius the fourth tyme imprisoned.nowe the fourth tyme, hee was imprisoned in the Castle of Nome, and there continued 18. monethes, beyng greatly as- saulted, sometymes with flattering promises, sometymes with terrible threates, to geue ouer his opinion, but his buildyng could not be shakē, for it was groūded vpō a sure rocke. Thus Doct. Mollius beyng constant in the defence of Christes Gospell, was brought, with certeine other men (whiche were also apprehended for religion) into the Temple of S. Mary (called De Minerua) the 5. day of Septemb. in. 1553. ey- ther there to reuoke, or to be burned. There sat vpon thē vi. Cardinals in high seates, beside the Iudge: before whō prea- ched a Dominicke frier, which cruelly inuehing agaynst the poore prisoners, incensed the Cardinals, with all the vehe- mencie he might, to their condemnatiō. The poore men stode holdyng a burnyng taper in their handes: Of whom some for MarginaliaThe constancie of Doctor Mollius & of the Weauer.feare of death, reuolted. But this Doctour Mollius, with a Weauer of Perusium, remained constant. Then Mollius began an earnest Sermon in the Italian tongue, wherein he confirmed the articles of the faith, by the sacrate Scriptures, declaring also that the pope was not the successor of Peter, but Antichrist: and that his sectaries doe figure the Whore of MarginaliaDoct. Mollius citeth the pope to the Tribunall Seate of Christ.Babylō. Moreouer he cited thē vp to the Tribunall Seate of Christ, & threw away the burning taper frō him. Wherupon they beyng replinished with anger, condemned him with the Weauer, to the fire, and commaunded them to be had away. So were they caryed incontinent to the campe or fielde called Florianum, where they remained cherefull and constant. MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Doct. Mollius and the Weauer.First the Weauer was hanged. Mollius then willing the hangman to execute his office likewise vpon him, began to exhort the people to beware of Idolatrie, & to haue no other Sauiours but Christ alone: for he onely is the mediatour be- twene God and man. And so was he also hanged commen- dyng his soule to God, and afterward layd in the fire and bur ned. The people hauyng diuers iudgementes vpon him, some sayd he dyed an hereticke, some sayd he was a good man. Ex Henr. Pantal. lib. 19. an. 1543. |
| MarginaliaTwo Augustine Mōkes, Martyrs. | Two monkes of the house of S. Austen in Rome At Rome. an. 1554. | Furthermore, in the same Ci- tie of Rome, and about the same tyme, in the Monastery of S. Austen, were found ij. monkes in their Celles with their tōgues, and their heades cut of, onely for rebuking the immoderate and outragious excesse of the Cardi- nals, as wytnesseth Manlius. Such was the crueltie then of the malignant aduersaries. Ex Iohan. Manl. in dictis Phil. Melanct. |
MarginaliaFranciscus Gamba, Martyr.The Se- nate of Millain. | Fran- ciscus Gamba. | Frances Gamba, borne in the Citie of Brixia in Lombardie, after he had receaued the know- ledge of the Gospell, went to Ge- neua, to conferre about certeine necessary affaires, with them that were wise and learned in that Churche, which was about the tyme, when the Lordes Sup- per there was administred at Pē tecoste: Who there also at the |
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At the Ci- tie of Co- mum in the dioces of Millain. an. 1554. | same tyme, did cōmunicate with them. Afterward in his retur- nyng home, as he was paßyng o- uer the Lake of Come, he was ta- ken, and brought to Come, and there committed to warde. Du- ryng the tyme of whiche inpri- sonment, diuers and sondry, as well nobles, as other, with Do- ctors also, especially Priestes and monkes, resorted vnto him, labo- ring by all maner of meanes, and most fayre promises, to reduce MarginaliaThe blinde iudgement of the world in Gods matters.hym from his opinions: whiche semed to some but phantasies cō- ming of some humore, to some | |
they semed vncatholicke or hereticall. But he constantly dis- putyng with them by the manifest Scriptures, declared the opinions whiche he defended, not to be any vayne speculati- ons or imaginary phantasies of mans dotyng brayne, but the pure veritie of God, and the euident doctrine of Christ Ie- sus expressed in his word, necessarie for all men to beleue, and also to maintaine vnto death: and therfore, for his part, ra- ther then he would be found false to Christ, and his word, he was there ready, not to denye, but to stād to Christes Gospell, to the effusion of his bloud. Thus when he could in no wise, be reclamed from the doctrine of truth, letters came from the Senate of Millain, that he should be executed with death. Which execution, as they of Comum were about to prepare, in the meane while came other letters from Genua, written by the Emperours Ambassadour, and other nobles of Mil- lain, by the whiche letters his death was delayed for a tyme, till at length, other letters were sent from the Senate agayne of Millain, requiryng execution of the sentence. Neuerthe- les, throughe intercession of his frendes, one weekes respite more was graunted him, to proue whether he might be wōne agayne to the Popes Churche, that is to say, loste from God. Thus he beyng mightly and long assayled both by frendes, & by enemies terrified, yet by no persuasions would be expug- MarginaliaPacience in persecution.ned, but gaue thankes to God, that he was made worthy to suffer the rebukes of this world, & cruell death, for the testi- monie of his sonne, and so went he cherefully vnto his death. Then came certeine Franciscan Friers to him, to heare hys confession, whiche he refused. Also they brought in their handes, a Crosse for him to behold, to kepe him from despera- tion, at the felyng of the fire. But his minde (he sayd) was so replenished with ioy and comfort in Christ, that he neded neither their Crosse, nor them. After this, as he was decla- ring many comfortable things to the people, of the fruition of those heauenly ioyes aboue, whiche God hath prepared for MarginaliaFrances Gamba his tonge bored through.his, because he should speake no more to the people, his tongue was bored through, and so immediatly beyng tyed to the stake, there was stangled till hee was dead, euery man there geuyng testimonie, which saw his constancie, that he dyed a good man. Ex Epistola cuiusdam Nobilis Comensis apud Henr. Pantal. lib. 10. & Cælium. |
MarginaliaPomponius Algerius, Martyr.Pope Paulus the iiij. | Pompo- nius Al- gerius. | Pōponius Algerius borne in Capua, a young man of great learnyng, was student in the Vni uersitie of Padua, where hee not beyng able to conceale and kepe close, the veritie of Christes Gos pell, whiche he learned by the heauēly teaching of Gods grace, ceased not both by doctrine and example of lyfe, to informe as many as hee could, in the same doctrine, and to bryng them to Christ. For the whiche hee was accused of heresie, to Pope Pau- lus the fourth. Who sendyng im- mediatly to the Magistrates of |
Venice,