Marginalia1558.hearyng the Inquisitour cast out a word, that it should be needefull for hym to talke with the prisoner, and beyng thereupon more then halfe persuaded, that at the length they ment good fayth, did so, and repayred thether about the euenyng. MarginaliaIohn Fronton imprisoned by þ^e Spanish Inquisitors for asking hys owne goods.Immediatly vppon hys commyng, the Iayler was forthwith charged with hym, to shut hym vp close in such a certaine prison, where they appoynted hym.

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The partie hopyng at the first that he had bene called for about some other matter, and seyng him selfe contrary to hys expectation, cast into a darke dungeon, perceaued at the length that the world went with hym farre otherwise then he supposed it would haue done. But within two or three dayes after, he was brought forth into the Court, where he began to demaunde his goods: and because it was a deuise that well serued their turne, without any more circumstāce they bad him say his Aue Maria. The partie began & said it after this maner: Aue Maria gratia plena dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, & benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus. Amen.  

MarginaliaIohn Fronton iudged an hereticke for not adding to Aue Maria, more then the Scripture hath.The same was written word by word as he spake it: and without any more talke of claiming his goodes because it was booteles, they cōmaund hym to prison agayne, and enter an action agaynst hym as an hereticke, forasmuch as he dyd not say hys Aue Maria after the Romish fashion, but ended it very suspiciously, for he should haue added moreouer: Sancta Maria mater dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus,   by abbreuiatyng wherof, it was euident enough (sayd they) that he dyd not allow the mediation of Saintes.

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MarginaliaA quarell picked against the English Marchāt, to spoyle him of hys goods.Thus they picked a quarell to detaine him in prison a longer season, and afferwardes brought him forth into their Stage disguised after their maner: where sentence was geuē that he should lose all the goodes which he sued for, though they were not his own, and besides this, suffer a yeares imprisonment.

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MarginaliaAn other English man burnt in Spaine.  

AT what tyme this blessed Martyr of Christ suffered, which was the yeare of our Lord, 1560. December. 22. there suffered also an other Englishman, with other 13. one of thē beyng a Nunne, an other a Frier, both constant in the Lord. MarginaliaRead afore pag. 1062.Of which 13. read before, pag. 1062.

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MarginaliaI. Baker, William Burgate, Martyrs in Spaine.IOhn Baker and William Burgate, both Englishmen, in Cales, in the countrey of Spayne, were apprehended, and in the Citie of Siuill burned the second day of Nouember.

MarginaliaMarke Burges burnt in Lushborne.MArke Burges an Englishman, Master of an English Shyp called the Minion, was burned in Lushborne, a Citie in Portingall. an. 1560.

MarginaliaW. Hoker stoned to death in Siuill.William Hoker a young man, about the age of 16. yeares, being an Englishmā, was stoned to death of certaine yoūg men there in the City of Siuill, for the confession of hys fayth. an. 1560.

But of these and such other Actes and matters past in Spayne, because they fell not within the compasse of Queenes Maryes reigne, but since her tyme, an other place shall serue hereafter (þ^e Lord willing) to entreate more at large of the same, when we come to the yeares and reigne of the Queene that now is, where we haue more conueniently to inferre not onely of these matters of the Martyrs (wherof somewhat also hath bene touched before, pag. 1062. but also of the whole Inqui-

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sition of Spayne, and Plackard of Flaunders, with the tragicall tumultes and troubles happenyng within the last memorie of these our latter dayes, accordyng as it shall please the mercy of the Lord to enable our endeuour with grace and space to the accomplishment therof.

MarginaliaA chapter concerning such as were scourged for religion.ANd thus through the merciful assistance and fauourable ayde of Christ our Sauiour, thou hast as in a general Register (good Reader) the story collected, if not of all, yet of the most part, or at least, not many I trust omitted, of such good saints and Martyrs as haue lost their lyues, and giuen their bloud, or died in prison for þ^e testimony of Christes true doctrine and Sacramentes, from the time of the cruell StatuteMarginaliaOf this Statute, read before pag. 624. first giuen out by K. Henr. 4. Ex officio. pag. 624. vnto this present tyme, and especially vnder the reigne of Q. Mary. Now after thys bloudy slaughter of Gods good Saintes and seruauntes thus ended and discoursed, let vs procede (by the good pleasure of the Lord) somewhat likewise to entreat of such as for the same cause of Religion haue bene, although not put to death,  

yet whipped and scourged by the aduersaries of Gods word, first begynnyng with Richard Wilmot, and Thomas Farefaxe, who about the tyme of Anne Ascue, were pitifully rent and tormēted with scourges and stripes for their faithfull standyng to Christ and to his truth, as by the story and examinatiō both of the sayd Richard Wilmot, and of Thomas Farefaxe now followyng, may appeare.

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MarginaliaThe scourging of Richard Wilmot, and Tho. Fayrefaxe.AFter the first recantation of Doct. Crome for his Sermon which he made the fift Sonday in Lent at S. Thomas Acons, beyng the Mercers Chappell, his Sermon was on the Epistle of the same day, written in the x. chap. to þ^e Hebrues,MarginaliaD. Cromes Sermon. wherin he proued very learnedly by the same place of Scripture and others, that Christ was the onely and sufficient sacrifice vnto God the father, for the sinnes of the whole world, and that there was no more sacrifice to be offered for sinne by the Priestes, for as much as Christ had offered his body on the crosse, and shed his bloud for the sinnes of the people, and that once for all. For the which Sermon he was apprehended of Boner, and brought before Steuen Gardiner and other of the Counsell, where he promised to recant his doctrine at Paules crosse, the second Sonday after Easter. MarginaliaD. Cromes recantation.And accordingly, he was there and preached, Boner with all his Doctours sittyng before hym: but he so preached & handled his matter, that he rather verified his former saying, then denyed any part of that which he before had preached. For the which the Protestantes praysed God, and hartely reioyced.

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But Byshop Boner with his champions, were not therewith pleased, but yet notwithstandyng they had hym home with them, and so handled hym amongest that woluishe generation, MarginaliaD Crome caused to recant the second time.that they made hym come to the crosse agayne the next Sōday. And because the Magistrates should now heare hym, and be witnesses of this recantation, which was most blasphemous, to deny Christes sacrifice to be sufficient for penitent sinners, and to say that þ^e sacrifice of the Masse was good, godly, and a holy sacrifice, propitiatorie and auaileable both for the quicke and the dead: because (I say) that they would haue the nobles to heare this blasphemous

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