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A34380	A Continvation of the histories of forreine martyrs from the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth, to these times : with sundry relations of those bloudy massacres executed upon the Protestants in the cities of France, in the yeare 1572 : wherevnto are annexed the two famous deliverances of our English nation, the one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the Gunpowder Treason in the yeare 1605 : together with the barbarous cruelties exercised upon the professors of the Gospell in the Valtoline, 1621.		1641 (1641)	Wing C5965; ESTC R21167	283,455	124

father his two sons and after many words passed they asked them whether they would submit themselves to the will of the Magistrates Robert Oguier and Baudicon his sonne with some deliberation said yes we will Then demanding the same of Mart. the younger brother he answered that he would not submit himselfe thereto but would accompany his Mother so he was sent backe againe to prison whilest the father and the son were aduidged to be burned alive to ashes Now as they went to receive the sentence one of the Iudges sitting in his place after sentence pronounced said to day you shall go to divell with all the Devils in hell fi●e which he spake as one transported with fury in beholding the great patience of these two servants of Christ for they tooke all things quietly vanquishing their enemies cruelty by patient bearing the Crosse and in praysing God for the same Having received the sentence of death they were returned to the prison whence they came being ioyfull that the Lord did them that honor to be enrolled in the number of his Martyrs No sooner entred they the prison but a band of fryers came in thither one amongst the rest told them the houre was come in which they must finish their daies Robert Oguier and his son answered we know it well But blessed be the Lord our God who now delivering our bodies out of this vile prison will receive our soules into his glorious and heavenly kingdome One of the Fryers whose name was Lazard a notable limme of Antichrist endeavoured to turn● them from their faith saying Father Robert thou art an old man let mée intreat thée in this thy last houre to think of saving thine owne soule And if thou wilt give eare to mée I warrant thée thou shalt do well The old man answered poore man how darest thou attribute that to thy selfe which belongs to the eternall God and so rob him of his honour for it séemes by thy spéech that if I will hearken to thée thou wilt become my Saviour No no I have one only Saviour Iesus Christ who by and by will deliver me from this miserable world I have one Doctor whom the heavenly Father Mat. 17 5. hath commanded me to heare and I purpose to hearken to none other A Fryer called the Father of Saint Clare exhorting him to take pitty of his soule which Christ had redéemed Thou willest me said Robert to pitty mine owne soule doest thou not sée what pitty I have on it when for the name of Christ I wi●ngly abandon this body of mine to the fire hoping to day to be with him in Paradise I have put all my confidence in God and my hope wholly is fixed upon the merits of Christ his death and passion he will direct me the right way to his Kingdome I beléeve whatsoever the holy Prophets and Apostles have written and in that faith will I live and die The Fryer hearing this said Out Dog thou art not worthy the name of a Christian thou and thy son with thée are both resolved to damne your bodies and soules with all the devills in the bottome of hell As they were about to sever Baudicon from his father he said Let my father alone and trouble him not thus he is an old man and hath an infirme body hinder him not I pray you from receiving the Crowne of Martyrdome Another of the Fryers said Away varlet thou art the cause of thy fathers perdition The Friers then turning themselves towards the Executioner said On on Officer doe thine Office for we will be gone we lose but our labour séeing the devill hath bewitched them Baudicon was then conveyed into a chamber apart and there being stripped of his clothes was fitted to be sacrificed now as one brought him Gunpowder to put to his breast an odde fellow standing by said Wert thou my brother I would sell all that I am worth to buy Fagots to burne thée thou findest but too much favour The yong man answered Well Sir the Lord shew you more mercy Some that were present saying Good God is it not a pittifull sight to behold these poore men A Doctor being by answered And what pity would you have shewed towards them I would in stead of allowing them this powder Saint Laurence was rosted on a gridiron by Pagans In this age the godly find in a manner the like from fai●e and fained Christians A gentle perswasion have them fryed on Gridirons as S. Laurence was Whilest they spake thus to Baudicon some of the Fryers closed in with the old man perswading him at least to take a Crucifixe into his hands lest the people said they should murmure against you adding further that he might for all that lift up his heart to God because you know said they it is but a péece of wood Thus they fastened it betwéen his hands but as soone as Baudicon was come downe and espied what they had done to his father he said Alas father what doe you now will you play the Idolater even at your last houre And then pulling the idoll out of his hands which they had fastned therein he threw it away saying What cause hath the people to be offended at us for not receiving a Iesus Christ of wood We beare upon our hearts the Crosse of Christ the Son of the everliving God féeling his holy word written therein in Letters of Gold As they were led to execution a band of souldiers were attendant upon them no lesse then if a Prince had béen conducted into his kingdome Béeing come to the place where they were to suffer they ascended up the scaffold which was there prepared for them Then Baudicon asked leave of the Sheriffes to make a confession of his faith before the people Answer was made That hée was to looke unto his ghostly Father and Confessor confesse your selfe said they to him He was then haled rudely to the stake where he began to sing the sixtéenth Psalme The Fryer cryed out Doe you not heare my Masters what wicked errours these hereticks sing to be●ile the people withall Baudicon hearing what he said replyed thus Now simple idiot callest thou the Psalmes of the Prophet David errors But no marvell for thus you are wont to blaspeme against the Spirit of God Then turning his eye towards his father who was about to be chained to the stake he said Be of good courage father the worst will be past by and by As the executioner was fastening him to the post he chanced to hit him with his hammer on the foot to make him stand néerer to the same The old man being sensible of the blow said Friend thou hurtest my foot why doest thou abuse me thus The Frier hearing this said Ah these heretickes They would be counted Martyrs forsooth but if they be but touched a little they cry out as they were killed To which Baudicon thus replyed Thinke you then that we feare the tormentors No such matter for

by little and little are so strained with certain sticks that they eate into the flesh yea pierce to the bare bone Then they lay a linnen cloth on his face to hinder his breathing at the nosthrils whilest they poure water into his mouth which is distilled from above by this cloth to a certaine quantity as it séemes good to his Iudge not by drops but streaming downe to cause the said cloth to goe downe into his throat The poore patient the whilst lies in these torments as one in a manner dead not being able either to stir or breathe Now when this wet cloth is pulled out of the depth of his throate to make him to answer unto their demands If you should behold how blood and water comes out together you would imagine they had plucked the very bowels out of his belly in which wofull plight he is held as long as they thinke good even untill with horrible threats and torments he be returned back again to prison If they please to procéed further in adding moe torments within a moneth or two after the said cruelties are renewed either in more terrible or moderate manner to some once to others to the sixt time There is yet another torment which is peculiar to this holy seat of the Inquisitors They cause a great fire of hot burning coales to be brought which they apply nigh unto the soles of his féet whom they intend to torment which are first thorowly anointed with grease or suet that the heat of the fire may pierce more déeply Thus much be said as touching these torments used by those cruell tormentors of the bloody Inquisition of Spaine upon the bodies of poore Christians ¶ A note of Francis Oliver Chancellor of France THis Chancellor who in the former persecutions not behaving himselfe according to a good conscience being in times past so far enlightned as to make profession of the truth was Gods judgement upon an Apostate visited with a mortall disease in which sicknesse he was observed to cast forth hideous sighs without ceasing In which perplexity the Cardinall of Lorraine came to visit him standing aloofe off from him To whom the Chancellor uttered these words Ah Cardinall thou wilt damne us all It is also reported that he much and often bewailed the death of Anne du Burg of whom mention was made heretofore And thus living a while in this miserable condition he ended his dayes ¶ A Papist defined by Iaques de Lo. HAving called the vowes of papists papisticall vowes he was asked what a papist was He is a Papist said De Lo who squares his actions and conversation according to the Popes lawes Anno 1560. Being pressed by the papists to confesse whom he knew of the reformed religion he would name none but such as had suffered and withall further added I entreat you my Brethren in the name Note his admirable constancy of God that you conceive no sinister opinion as touching me in this behalfe for I am resolved by the help of my God without whose assistance I can doe nothing and with which I can doe all things to suffer my flesh rather to be rent in pieces then to reveale any whose persons might thereby be endangered ¶ The notable conversion of a notorious evill liver by name Iohn Herwin of Houtkerk in Flanders Martyr who by degrees was so far brrught into Christs Fold that hee was called forth to beare witnesse of the Truth from which he was once as farre remote as the heavens are from the earth in the yeare 1560. THis Iohn Herwin born in Géestercoorne c. in the West side of Flanders was of a dissolute life such as souldiers for the most part are of but God having a purpose to shew forth in him the admirable worke of conversion to draw him to Christ put it into his heart to leave his owne countrey and come to the City of London Béeing arrived there about Easter the Lord going on with his worke brought him by his providence into a Brewhouse being a Brewer by his calling where he met with a master and fellow servants fearing God a thing seldome séen in men of that Profession séeing ordinarily they are excessive drinkers His master caused him oft to resort to the Dutch Church in the said city of London where by ordinary hearing of the Word preached he began first to taste and after to increase more and more in the saving knowledge of Christ Newes comming over that warres were likely to be in Flanders caused him to leave England and to returne againe into his owne countrey He came thither at the same time that thrée other martyrs were there apprehended but he was not taken with them The Bailiffe of Furne when he saw he could not méet with him understanding that he was at Honscot advertised the Bailiffe of the said place that he might take him at his sisters house As soone as he heard thereof he delayed no time but in the night time came with his Sergeants apprehēded him Now leading him to prison the bailiffe Anno 1559. méeting certaine drunkards in the stréets said they say Wee have many Gospellers in Houscot but it little appeares by these disorders Iohn Herwin hearing him say so and not willing to balke it replyed Is drunkennesse a sin Master Bayliffe Then sayd the Bayliffe What of that Herwin made this conclusion Why then commit you not these fellowes to prison séeing it is your office to punish vice and to protect such as feare God The Bayliffe was mute yet for all that Herwin was faine to take up his lodging in prison where hee behaved himselfe so vertuously that every one admired it But because hée was not called forth before the Magistrates of Houscot so soone as hée desired and expected hée grew heauy and sad asking of some whom he knew well if they could tell why they so delayed the matter For his heart was fixed with an holy zeale to confesse Iesus Christ before his judges Many feared him much who knew what hée had béen in times past hée being as yet but a Novice and a new commer on in the profession of the Gospell in which case men for the most part have but some glimmering of the light and are unsetled in their judgements At length hée was brought before the sheriffes of the towne who commanded a Priest to dispute with him At the first Encounter he asked Herwin how long it was since hée was confessed also what hée thought of confession asking him sundry other triviall questions to which Herwin answered no lesse modestly then Christianly in so much as they who were of sound judgement easily discerned how hée was not the man hée had béen in times past but that his prison had béen to him a good schoole where hd had well conned his lesson The Priest demanded further whether he beléeved there were seven sacraments or no The bayliffe helping the Priest said what 's that to the purpose whether