1576 Edition | Book 7 | Page 893 
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
| were not well plea- sed therewith, but would haue them pu- nished, and great con- tention was amōg þe Heluetians about the same, it was cōcluded at length, that þe Mi- nisters should be exi- led: Whom the Ty- gurines did receaue. Ex Pantal. |
| MarginaliaFraunces Warlut, Alexander Dayken. Martyrs. | Fraunces Warlut. Alexander Dayken. | After these two good men being borne in the lower partes of Germany, had ben conuersaūt in diuers reformed Churches in other countreys, at last for conscience sake, they returned home agayne to doe good in their owne countrey of Dornic, & there about. |
| At Dornic. An. 1562. | So vpon a tyme, as the people there resorted to a backe fielde or woode with- out the Citie, with a certaine preacher to heare the worde of God and to praye, the aduersaries ha- uyng thereof some in- telligence, so pursued them, that they tooke of them aboue 30. of whom these two, a- mong the rest, were apprehended, and thin kyng no lesse but that they should bee bur- ned, they began to sing Psalmes. At length beyng brought forth, first one, then the other, they were both beheaded. And where the iudges had entended to quarter their bodyes, and to set them vppe by the | |
| hygh wayes, yet was it so prouided, God workyng in the hartes of the people, that they were both commit- ted to sepulture. Ex Lud. Rab. |
| MarginaliaThe father with his two sonnes and hys daughter martyred. Earle of Lalain. | Gillotus Viuer. Iames Fa- ber, his fa- ther in law. Michaell Faber, sōne of Iames. Anna wife of Gillot9, and daugh- ter of Iames Fa- ber. | These in the cause of Gospell suffe- red at Valence. Iames Faber be- yng an old man, sayd: that althoughe hee could not aūswere or satisfie them in rea- sonyng, yet he would constantly abyde in þe truth of the Gospell. Anna his daugh- ter beyng with child, was respited, after she was deliuered, she folowed her husband and father in the lyke Martyrdome. |
| Marginalia Michella wife of Iames Clerke, Martyr. This Iames Clerke before was burned. | Michella Caignou- cle. | Michella, wife of Iames Clerke, whiche was before burned, whē she was offered to be maryed, and to be caried out of the countrey to some reformed Church, re- fused so to doe, but |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
| At Vallēce An. 1550. | would abyde the ad- uenture of her voca- tion, & so was condēned with Gillotus to be burned. Ex Crisp. |
| MarginaliaGodfride, a Taylor Martyr. Godfridus Hamelle. At Dornic An. 1552. | This Godfride a Taylor, was taken & condemned at Dornic or Tournay. When they had condemned him by the name of an hereticke, Nay (sayd he) not an hereticke, but a seruaunt of Ie- sus Christ vnprofi- table. When the hang man went about to strangle hym to di- minishe his punish- mēt, he refused it, say- ing that he would a- byde the sentēce that the Iudges had ge- uen. Ex eod. |
☞ Besides these Germaines aboue specified, a great number there was both in the hygher, & lower countreys of Germany, which were secretly drowned, or buryed, or otherwise in prison made away, whose names although they be not knowen to vs, yet they are registred in the booke of lyfe. Furthermore, in the Dutch booke of Adrian, diuers other be numbred in the Catalogue of these Germane Martyrs, which likewise suffered in diuers places of the lower coūtrey: the names of certaine wherof be these. At Bergis or Berghen in Hennegow, were burnt
[Back to Top]| MarginaliaDiuers in the lower countries martyred. Iohn Malo. Damian Witroke. Weldrewe Calier. Iohn Porceau. Iuliā, van den Swerde. Adrian Lopphen. Bawdwyne. | in the yeare of our Lorde. 1555. Iohn Malo, Damiā Witrocke, Weldrew Calier buryed quicke, Iohn Por- ceau. At Aste suffered also one Iulian. an. 1541. and Adrian Lopphen. an. 1555. At Bruxels an. 1559. one Bawdwyne beheaded. An |
other called MarginaliaEx Gallicana hist. et Adriano. Gilleken Tielmā burnt. an. 1541. Adde moueouer to the same Catalogue of Dutch martyrs burnt & consumed, in the lower countreys vnder the Emperours dominiō: the names of these folowyng. W. Swolle, burnt at Mechlin, an. 1529. Niho. Paul at Gaunt beheaded. Robert Orguier, & Ioanne his wife, with Baudicon & Martin Orguier their children, which suffred at Lisle. an. 1556. M. Nicolas burnt at Mons in Hennegow. Laurēce of Bruxels, at Mons. Iames Fosseau, at Mōs. Cornelis Volcart, at Brugis, an. 1553. Hubert the Printer, and Philip Ioyner, at Brugis, an. 1553. A woman buried with thornes vnder her. Peter le Roux, at Brugis. an. 1552. At Mechlin suffred Frances, & Nicolas Thijs, ij. brethren. an. 1555. At Antwerpe were burnt Adrian a Painter and Henry a Taylor. an. 1559. Also Cornelys Halewyne Locksmith, & Hermā Ianson the same yeare. M. Iohn Champ schole master. an. 1557. with a nūber of other besides. which in the sayd booke are to be sene and read.
[Back to Top]¶ An. 1525. we read also in the French history of a certaine Mōke, who because he forsoke his abhominable order & was maried, was burnt at Prage.
| MarginaliaA preacher at Erdphord poysoned. The Priests of Erdford. | A Preacher poisoned at Erdford. | In the collectiōs of Henry Pantalion, we read also of a cer- tain godly preacher to be poysoned, for prea- chyng the worde of truth, by the Priests of Erdford. Ex elegia cuiusdā viri Docti. in Pantal. |
And here ceasing with this persecution in Germany, we will now (Christ willyng) procede further to the French Martyrs, comprehendyng in a lyke Table, the names and causes of such as in that kyngdome suffered for the word of God, and cause of righteousnes, as in this brief Summary consequently here vnder ensueth.
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