MarginaliaThe institutiōs of Alexander. Holye water first inuented.
De consecrat. dist. 3.More vnlike it semeth to be true that is recorded and reported of Alexander, whereof we reade De consec. dist. 3. that he should be the first founder and finder of holye water mixt w^t salt, to purge and sanctify them vpō whō it is sprinkeled. The wordes of the dist. be these. Aquam sale conspersam in populis benedicimus vt ea cuncti aspersi sanctificentur et purificentur, quod omnibus sacerdotibus faciendum esse mandamus, &c. that is: We blesse water mixt with salt among the people, that al men beyng sprinkled therwith may be sanctified and purified. And this we commaund all priests to do. &c.

Marginaliathe mixting of water with the wyne in the chalice.
Que pridie
put in the Mas canon.The opinion is also, but howe true I haue not to affirme, that by him first was ordained, water to be mixt with wine in the chalice. Item that by him was broght in the peece of the Masse Canon, beginning: Qui pridie &c. And thus much of these foresaide bishops of Rome, martyred in the dayes of Trayan, and Hadrian.

MarginaliaFlauia the daughter of a consull, banished for the testymony of Christ.
Ex Euseb. lib. 3. cap. 9.Besides these bishops and Martyrs innumerable other there were, which suffred for the like testimonye of the Lord Iesus, both before them and after thē, in number of whom was Flauia the daughter of Flauius Clemens, one of the Romane Consuls, which Flauia with manye other was banished out of Rome into the Isle Pōtia, for the testimony of the Lord Iesus, by the Emperour Domitianus. Euseb. lib. 3.

MarginaliaThe emperour maketh inquiry for all that wer of Dauids stocke.
Dauids stocke feared of the Emperours.This Domitianus feared the comming of Christe, as Herode did: and therefore commaunded them to bee killed which wer of the stocke of Dauid in Iewry. MarginaliaTwo nephwes of Iude the Lordes brother preserued.Ther were remaining aliue at that time certaine of the Lords kindred, which wer the nephewes of Iude, that was called the Lordes brother after flesh. These when the Lieutenant of Iewrye had brought vp to Domitian to be slayne: the Emperour demaūded of them, whether they were of the stock of Dauid: which when they had graūted, he asked agayne, what possessions, and what substaunce they had. They answered, that they both had no more betwene them in al, but. xxxix. acres of grounde, & how they gat their liuing, and sustained their families with the hard labours of their hand: shewing forth their handes vnto the Emperour, being hard & roughworne with labours, to witnes that to be true which they had spoken. Then the Emperour inquiring of them concerning the kingdome of Christ, what maner of kingdom it was, how and when it should appeare: MarginaliaThe kingdome of Christ not of thys Worldthey answered that his kingdome was no worldlye nor terrene thyng, but an heauenly and angelicall kingdome, and that it shoulde appeare in the consummation and ende of the world, what time he cōming in glory, shoulde iudge the quicke and the dead, and render to euery one according to his deseruings. Domitian the Emperour hearyng this (as the saying is, did not condemne them, but despising them as vile persons, let them go, and also stayde the persecution thē moued against the Christiās. They being thus discharged and dismissed, afterward had the gouernment of churches, being taken for Martyrs, & as of the Lordes stocke, and so continued in good peace til the time of Traianus. Hæc Egesip. et Euseb. lib. 3. ca. 20

MarginaliaThe causes whi the Emperours and Senate of Rome dyd so rage agaynste the christians.
The kingdome of christ feared of the RomansBy this storye here recited may appeare, what were the causes why the Emperours of þ^e Romaine Monarchie did so persecute the Christians: whiche causes were chiefly these: feare, and hatred. I. feare, for that the Emperours and Senate of blind ignoraunce, not knowing the maner of Christes kingdome, feared and misdoubted least the same would subuert their Emperie. Lyke as the Pope thinketh nowe that this Gospell will ouerthrowe his kingdome of maiestie. And therefore sought they all meanes possible, how by death and all kindes of tormentes vtterly to extinguish the name and memorie of the christians. And therupon semeth to spring the olde law of the Romaine Senate:MarginaliaLex antiqua Romana cōtra Christianos.
Ex Euseb. lib. 2. cap. 21. Non debere dimitti Christianos qui semel ad tribunal venissent, nisi propo situm mutent. Id est. That þ^e christians should not be let goe, whichwere once brought to the iudgement seate, excepte they chaunged their purpose, &c. Euseb. Lib. 5. cap. 21.

MarginaliaThe kingdome of Christ hated of Roman Princes2. Hatred, partly for that this world of his own naturall condition hath euer hated and maliced, the people of God, from the first beginnyng of the worlde. Partly againe for that the christians being of a contrary nature and religion, seruing onely the true liuing God, dispised their false gods, spake against their idolatrous worshippings, and many times stopped the power of Sathan, working in their Idoles. And therefore Sathan þ^e prince of this world, stirred vp the Romaine princes, and blind idolaters to beare the more hatred & spyte against them.

MarginaliaFalse accusations and sclaunders against the Christians.
Ex Apologia Iustini Marty.Vpon these causes and such lyke, rose vp these malicious slaunders, false surmises, infamous lyes, & slaunderous accusations, of the heathen idolaters against the christian seruauntes of God, which incited the princes of this world þ^e more to persecute them: for what crimes so euer malice could inuent, or rash suspicion could minister, that was imputed to þ^e christians, that they were a people incestuous, that in þ^e night, in their concourses, putting out their candles, they ranne together in all filthie maner, that they killed their own children, that they vsed to eate mans fleshe: that they were seditious and rebellious: that they woulde not sweare by the fortune & prosperitie of Cesar: that they woulde not adour þ^e image of Cesar in the market place: that they were pernitious to the Emperie of Rome. Brieflye what soeuer mishappened to the citie or prouinces of Rome, eyther famyne, pestilence, earthquake, warres, wonders, vnseasonablenes of wether, or what other euils so euer happened, it was imputed to the christians, as Iustinus recordeth. MarginaliaPublius Tarquinius
Mamertinus
PersecutorsOuer and beside all these a great occasion that styrred vp the Emperours agaynst the christians came by one Publius Tarquinius the chiefe prelate of the idolatrous sacrifices, and Mamertinus the chiefe gouernour of the citie, in the time of Traianus, who partly with money, partly with sinister and pestilent counsaile, partly with infamous accusatiōs (as witnesseth Nauclerus) incensed the minde of þ^e Emperour so much against gods people.

Also among these other causes aboue sayd, crepte in some peece of couetousnes with all (as in al other things it doth) in that the wicked promoters and accusers for lucre sake, to haue the possessions of þ^e christians, were þ^e more ready to accuse thē, to haue þ^e spoyle of their goods.

Thus haste thou (Christian Reader) first the causes declared of these persecutions. 2. The cruell law of their condemnation. MarginaliaEx Iust. Mart. in 2. apol.
The forme of inquisition agaynst the Christians in the old tyme.3. Now heare more what was the forme of inquisition: which was (as is witnessed in the seconde Apologie of Iustinus) to thys effecte: that they shoulde sweare to declare the truth, whether they were in very deede christians or not: And if they confessed, then by the lawe, the sentence of death procedeth. Iust. Apol. 2.

MarginaliaThe cruelti of tyrantes in kyllyng of Christen men.Neither yet were these tyrauntes & organes of Sathan thus contented with death onely, to bereafe the life from the body. The kindes of death were diuerse, and no lesse horrible then diuerse. What so euer the cruelnes of mans inuention coulde deuyse, for the punishment of mans body, was practised against þ^e christians (as partly I haue mentioned before, and more appeareth by the epistle sent from the brethren of Fraunce, hereafter following.) Craftye traynes, out cryes of enemies, imprisonments, stripes and scourgings, drawings, tearings, stonynges, plates of yron layde to them burning hoate, depe doungeons, rackes, strangling in prisons, the teeth of wilde beastes, grydyrons, gybbets and gallowes, tossing vpon þ^e hornes of bulles: Moreouer when they were thus kylled, their bodies layd in heapes, and dogs there lefte to keepe them, that no man myghte come to bury them: neyther would any prayer obtayne them to be interred and buryed. Ex epistola fratrum Viennensium ac lugdunensium, &c.

MarginaliaEx epist. fratrū Viēnēsium & Lugdunēsiū ad fratres per Asiā & Phrigiā scriptæAnd yet notwithstanding for al these continual per-