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B02519	Martyrs in flames, or, Popery (in its true colours) displayed. Being a brief relation of the horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of rome for many hundred years past, to this present age, inflicted upon Protestants in Piedmont ... : With an abstract of the cruel persecution lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686 and 1687. : Together with a short account of Gods judgment upon popish persecutors. / Published for a warning to all Protestants, [] what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. By R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7344A; ESTC R176606	106,868	208

was never in arms yet he was prepared for death esteeming himself most happy to s●ffer for the name of Jesus Christ At length the Monks and Friers found out Judges though many refused to be concerned who were willing enough to condemn him to death The day he was executed his Sentence was pronounced in the presence of many Monks which he received with a Christian resignation without any emotion fear or trouble in his countenance The Monks would not leave him though he oft desired them but accompanied him to the Scaffold where he made an excellent Prayer and died so edifying a Death that they themselves were forced to avouch he died like a Saint In fine all the Heathenish and Popish Barbarities of former Ages were revived and acted over again upon these blessed Martyrs that it is scarce possible to believe those who bear the name of Christians should be so inhumane whereby above Eight Thousand Persons have expired and a multitude more even all the Protestant Inhabitants of those once flourishing Valleys of Piedmont driven into banishment though kindly received by the Switzers and those of Genev● who with Christian compassion treated them with all manner of kindess and tenderness Let us all who have been so lately delivered from the like treatment which was designed for us never forget so wonderful a Salvation but be truly thankful to God and our most gracious King and Queen whom the Almighty hath been pleased to make the glorious Instruments of our redemption from Popery and Slavery To which let all good Protestants and Englishmen say Amen Gods Judgments upon Popish Persecutors discovered in some eminent Examples 1. FRom the First plantation of the Christian Religion in this Nation under King Lucius there was never any King or Queen of England in whose Reign so much Christian blood was spilt as in four years space during the Reign of Queen Mary But as she was prodigal of the Lives of the best of her Subjects and a Persecutor of the Gospel so it pleased God to follow her with Plagues and Judgments all her life for nothing prospered which she took in hand of which we shall give some few Instances The fairest and greatest Ship she had called the Great Harry was burnt by Lightning from Heaven the Christian World at that time not affording such another Then she would needs marry Philip King of Spain thereby Subjecting England to Strangers yet with her utmost endeavour she could never set the English Crown on his head Then did she attempt the Restitution of Abby Lands and had all the assistance that the Pope could give her therein yet she was utterly crost also in that Design Then she lost Calice in France which had been in the possesion of the English during the Reign of eleven Kings that is from the Reign of King Edward the third with which loss she was so afflicted that she told some of her Courtiers If they opened her body when she was dead they would find Calice written in her heart She was reported to be with Child but it came to nothing Her beloved Husband left her in whom she placed her greatest felicity and content So that now she could neither enjoy him nor marry another About the same time the Land was grievously afflicted with horrible Tempests Famines Plagues mortal Diseases and burning Agues so that between October and December there died seven Aldermen in London that had been Lord Mayors and the mortality was so great that much Corn was lost in the Fields for want of men to gather it whereby great scarcity ensued and many poor people lived upon Accorns And lastly she was struck with a lingring and pining sickness whereof she died having only reigned Five years and Five month● a shorter time than any of the Kings of England enjoyed since the Conquest Richard the Third only excepted 2. In the next place let us consider Gods Judgments upon some other Instruments of Cruelty and among the rest Stephen Gardiner who was a most Cruel Persecutor of the Protestants In King Heary the Eighths time he was a great stickler for the divorce from the Lally Katherine of Spain and was therefore made Bishop of Winchester In King Edward the sixths time he seemed a Friend to the Gospel and preached it up but in Queen Mary's days he was the greatest and most inveterate enemy against it and the professor thereof and continued so to his dying day For the same day that Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer were burnt at Oxford the old Duke of Norfolk came to dine with Gardiner The Bishop deferred his Dinner till about four a Clock in the Afternoon at which time came one of his Servants posting to tell him that fire was put to these Servants of God which when he was certified of he came out rejoyeing to the Duke and said Now let us go to dinner The Table was presently set and the Bishop began to eat merrily but as soon as he had earen a few bits he was on a sudden struck very sick and being carried from the Table to Bed he there continued in such intolerable Anguish and Torment that he could void nothing either by Stool or Urine His Tongue was black and swoln so big that his mouth could not contain it and his body violently Inflamed In this sad condition he lay fifteen days and then ended his miserable life In the beginning of his sickness Dr. Day Bishop of Chichester coming to see him began to speak to him about the merciful Promises of God and free Justification by the blood of Christ To whom he answered What my Lord will you open that gap now then farewell all together Open this window to the People and farewell all together And being by another Person put in mine of St. Peters denying his Master and that he ought not to despair He answered I have denied Christ with Peter but I never repented with Peter 3. Bloody Bonner though he died in his bed yet lay under the Spiritual Judgment of Impenitency and as he had been a Persecutor of the Light and a Child of Darkness so in darkness and at midnight his Carkass was tumbled into the Earth And as himself had been a Murderer so was he laid among Thieves and Murderers a place by Gods Judgment fitly appointed for him 4. Dr. Whittington Chancellor having condemned a Godly Religious woman to be Burnt at Chipping Sadbury a multitude of People came to see her Suffer and among the rest Whittington himself At the same time there was a Butcher in another place of the Town killing a Bull who was fast bound with a Rope ready to be knockt on the head the Butcher missing his stroke the Bull broke loose just as the people were coming from the Execution of this Holy Martyr the people seeing him coming severed themselves and made a Lane for him the Bull passed through them without hurting man woman or child till he came to the place where Whittington was against

short time they made him privy to their most secret Consultations and keeping short Notes of all things of Concernment he was thereby in a Capacity to give an account of so many several particulars a he has discovered which have had the happiness to be confirmed by other Circumstances and Evidence and have not the least contradicted one another nor those other Papers which have been found elsewhere nor differed from the Informations that have been given in by Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. Dugdale Mr. Jennism Mr. Mowbray Mr. Baldron and others whom God hath since raised up further to clear and unmask this detestable and bloody Conspiracy Dr. Oats was resolved as much as in him lay to prevent their Traiterous designs upon his Majesties Life though he endangered his own thereby since he observed that all their Contriv●n●es were ripe and there only wanted the Fatal Blow to destroy the Life of his Sacred Majes●y and the R●ligion and Liberties of these three Kingdoms and whereas Father Woitebread the Provincial of the Jesuits had engaged Dr. Oats before his last return into England to ●●●assinate and murder Israel Tongue Doctor of Divinity because he had translated a Book Intituled The Jesuits Morals and had promised him Fifty pound as a reward for the same Dr. Oats after his coming over became acquainted with Dr. Tongue and finding him to be a person of Trust and Integrity he gave him an Account of his Assassination and likewise some Heads of the Plot in General After which they both seriously Consulted together of the best methods for making this necessary Discovery since they were sure to meet with great opposition therein At last they concluded to acquaint Mr. Christopher Kirby therewith as a person whom for his Loyalty Courage and Zeal for the Safety of his Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion they judged very fit and capable to assist them and therefore on Monday August 12. 1678. Dr. Tongue snewed Mr. Kirby Forty three Articles drawn up in writing desiring him that without making any other Person acquainted therewith he would discover the same to the King and Mr. Kirby very generously undertook the same and accordingly the next morning in St. James's Park he humbly acquainted his Majesty That his Enemies had a Design against his Life and humbly beseeched his Majesty to use all Caution for he did not know but he might be in danger in that very walk But his Majesty armed with his Native goodness and Innocency seemed more surprized with the strangeness of the News than with the apprehension of the danger and only asked How that could be To which Mr. Kirby replyed That it might be by being shot at And gave a part●●cular account that there were two men Grove and Pickering by name that watched an opportunity to shoot his Majesty and that another person was hired to Poyson him His Majesty ordered further Scrutiny should be made into the business and a while after Doctor Oats having written fair Copies of his Informations upon the 28. of September 1678. went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and made Oa●h of the truth and reality thereof Sir Edmundbury defiring to keep a Copy of the Informations himself as having never before perused them which it may be was the occasion of his horrid Murther which soon after followed The Plot in General seemed to be by Fire and Sword to subvertand destroy the Protestant Religion and established Government of these three Kingdoms and to reduce them to Popery The chief Conspirators being Innocent the 11th now Pope who in The Congregation for propagating the Faith held about Decemb. 1677. and consisting of about 350. Persons Declared All his Majesties Dominions to be part of St. Peters ●atrimony as forfeited to the Holy See for the Heresie of the Frince and People and to be disposed of as he should hink sit And our English Cardinal Howard wa● appoint by the Pope to take Possession of England in his Name who was likewise made Archbishop of Canterbury and other Popish Priests were made Bishops in England all the present Bishops being designed to be removed from their Dignities Johannes Paulus de Oliva Father General of the Jesuits was to give Directions to the Provin●ial of the Jesuits in London how to manage their Affairs Monsieur ●e Chese a Jesuit Consessor to the French King was likewise concerned with whom Edward Coleman held correspondence Also Strange and Whitebread Provincials of the Jesuits and the Benedictine Monks of the Savoy were in this cursed Conspiracy and the Jesuits and Seminary Priests of whom there were at that time in England about Eighteen Hundred Divers Lay Persons of Quality were drawn in who were to command Forces and to execute the Great Offices of the Realm as the Lord Arundel of Warder was appointed Lord Chancellour of England the Lord Powis Lord Treasurer Sir William Godolphin Lord Privy Seal Edward Coleman Secretary of State and for the Military part Lord Bellasi● to be Lord General Lord Petters Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ratoliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Richard Langhorn Advocate General who had Commissions sent them from Paulus de Oliva and directed from Rome to Mr. Langhorn This was so great and glorious a work that the chiefest of the Romish Clergy through Europe were engaged therein so that it cannot be said to be the Act or Contrivance of any few particular Persons but The unanimous undertaking of their whole Church and so to their everlasting Infamy ought to be Recorded Now as to the Means whereby this was to be accomplished the first and chief was By Murdering his Sacred Majesty which was to be accomplisht either by Pistolling of him wherein Pickering and Grove were ingaged or by Stabbing and this to be done by Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks or four Irish Ruffians Or lastly by Poysoning for which Money was paid to the Undertaker 2. Another means was by firing London Westminster and the parts adjacent and likewise other Cities and great Towns in England immediately upon the Murder of his Majesty 3. By a General Massacre to which purpose they had designed to raise an Army which was to consist of Fifty Thousand men to be Listed in and about London The Officers to be all Resolute Papists and for the most part French and Irish and these they gave out were enough to out the Throats of One Hundred Thousand Protestants especially being taken upon a Surprize when the Militia of London was undisciplined and unprovided Care was taken likewise about securing Ireland and Scotland to their Interest Great sums of Money were provided for the necessary charge of this mighty undertaking and it was discoursed that the Jesuits in England had purchased a great Estate per Annum for that purpose and that they had a great Stock in ready Money and were to receive Eleven thousand Crowns from Rome Ten thousand pound from Spain and Ten thousand from France besides several other very considerable sums for promoting this vast design