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A40369	Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]; Actes and monuments. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; N. T., M.A.T.C.C.	1677 (1677)	Wing F2042; ESTC R10453	85,156	250

he was a person distracted and knew not what he said and yet burned for an Heretick who in the midst of the flames lifting up his Head to Heaven soberly and discreetly called upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and so departed Vol. 2. p. 437. Roger Clarke a Suffolk Man taken at Ipswich and judged 1546. with one Kerby by my Lord Wentworth who after Sentence given talked with another Justice on the Bench a good while to whom Clarke said My Lord speak out and if you have done any thing contrary to your Conscience ask of God mercy and we from our hearts do forgive you speak not in secret for ye shall come before a Iudge and then make answer openly even before him that shall judge all Men. He was burn'd at Berry and at Stake kneeled down and said My Soul doth magnifie the Lord c. Vol. 2. p. 569. Dirick Carver a Beer-Brewer in Bright-Hamsted in Sussex an ancient and pious Man though not understanding a Letter of the Book was apprehended for having with some others been at Prayer in his House and after his apprehension he so improved his time in Learning though ancient that before he suffered through Gods blessing he could read any English printed Book At the Stake in Lewis Iuly 22. 1555. he went into the Barrel having stript himself and there spake to the People Dear Brethren and Sisters witness to you all that I am to seal with my Blood Christs Gospel because I know it is true and because I will not deny Gods Gospel and be obedient to Mens Laws I here am condemned to dye Dear Brethren and Sisters as many as believe on the Father Son and Holy Ghost unto everlasting Life see ye do the works pertaining to the same I ask ye all whom I have offended forgiveness for the Lords sake as I heartily forgive all you who have offended me in thought word and deed Lord have mercy upon me for unto thee do I commend my Soul and my Spirit doth rejoice in thee And so the Fire being kindled he said Oh Lord have mercy upon me and sprang up in the Fire calling on the Name of Jesus and so ended Vol. 3. p. 386. Richard Colliar of Ashford in Kent being examined and condemned for the Gospels sake as soon as he was condemned he sang a Psalm and was afterwards burnt with five more Kentish Men at three Stakes in one Fire in August 1555. Vol. 3. p. 394. Tho. Cranmer a Gentleman of a Family ancient as the Conquest born at Arselacton in Nottinghamshire brought up at School and at Cambridge was Fellow of Iesus Colledge and afterwards one of the Heads of the University used to examine all Graduates in Divinity who would not admit any to be Batchellors or Doctors in Divinity but those who were well read in the Scriptures whereby he refused many Fryars some of whom by being thereby brought to consult the Word of God were converted and afterwards returned him thanks This Cranmer was afterwards by King Hen. 8. made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for his Service to him in endeavouring to satisfie his Conscience about the divorce of his Queen Catherine his first Wife the Widow of his late deceased Brother He was of a mild Nature soon reconciled to his Enemies and so ready to do them good that it grew Proverbial Do my Lord of Canterbury a displeasure and then you may be sure to have him your Friend whilst he lives Vol. 3. p. 637. He was by many endeavours tempted to recant and after much resistance did at last recant chiefly out of a design to compleat an Answer against a Papish Book which he had begun but though he subscribed the Papists were ordered to burn him March 21. at Oxford by the Queen who had ordered Doctor Cole to have a Funeral Sermon in readiness against that day and accordingly at the day appointed the Doctor did preach and Cranmer was had to the Church not knowing the design but as he was perswaded to publish his Recantation publickly and after Sermon when it was expected he should declare his Recantation he with many tears and earnest desires did entreat the People to pray for him to God for pardon of his sins amongst which none troubled him more than his subscribing to Popery with his hand which he hated in his heart But saith he for as much as my hand hath offended it shall be first punished for may I come to the Fire it shall first be burnt and so he began to cry against the Papists and Popery whereby the Papists expectation were frustrated and they grew mad at him stopping his Mouth and pulling him down and led him forthwith to the Town-ditch to be burnt where in the Fire he put forth his right hand into the flames as soon as they came near him and held it there till it was burnt his body being unburnt often saying Oh unworthy right hand and saying often Lord Iesus receive my spirit he stood immovable in the flames and dyed March 21. 1556. Vol. 3. p. 670 671. Iohn Carter a Weaver of Coventry dyed in the Kings-Bench a Prisoner for the Gospel who expected and desired to have been burnt In a Letter to Mr. Philpot he writes thus My Friends report me to be more worthy to be burnt than any that was burnt yet God's blessing on their hearts for their good report God make me worthy of that dignity and hasten the time that I might set forth his glory He wrote divers Letters of encouragement to the persecuted Brethren and in one Letter to his Wife he begs and chargeth her to rejoice with him in this his state of sufferings for Christ's sake Vol. 3. p. 716. c. Peter Chevet See Peter Mrs. Gertrude Crockhay Wife to Mr. Robert Crockhay at St. Katherines by the Tower in London being for the Gospel persecuted fled 1556. to Gelderland beyond Sea to look after some Estate that should fall to her Children by a former Husband but there also she was betrayed and came to trouble at Antwerp where at the request of her Friends she was set at liberty and she came for England where she was infested again by the Papists and being very sick They told her Daughter that unless her Mother would receive the Sacrament she should not be buried with Christian burial who hearing the same said Oh how happy am I that I shall not rise with them but against them The Earth is the Lords and all the fullness thereof and therefore I commit the matter to him Soon after she dyed and was buried in her Husbands Garden Vol. 3. p. 1013 1014. Christians to the number of 30000 slain in the Massacre at Paris in France 1572. which was effected by the French King 's inviting the chief Captains of them and all other that would to the Wedding between the Prince of Navarre and the Kings Sister at which being kindly received some of them after the compleating of that Marriage were slain and all

Vol. 3. p. 132. to 136. Robert Smith burnt 1555. at Uxbridge August who being at the Stake comforted the people willing them to think well of his Cause and not doubt but that his Body dying in that quarrel should rise again to life And I doubt not said he but God will shew some Token thereof At length being near half burnt and cluster'd together on a lump like a black Coal all Men thinking him to be dead he suddenly rose upright lifting up his stumps of his Arms claping them together as a Token of rejoicing and then bending down again he dyed In a Letter to his Wife he writes thus If ye will meet with me again Forsake not Christ for any pain Vol. 3. p. 410 411. He wrote this Exhortation to his Children Give ear my Children to my words whom God hath dearly bought Lay up my Law within your heart and print it in your thought For I your Father have foreseen the frail and filthy way Which flesh and blood would follow fain even to their own decay For all and every living Beast their Crib do know full well But Adam's Heirs above the rest are ready to rebell And all the Creatures on the Earth full well can keep their way But Man above all other Beasts is apt to go astray For Earth and Ashes is his strength his glory and his Reign And unto Ashes at the length he shall return again For Flesh doth flourish like the Flower and grow up like a Grass And is consumed in an hour as it is brought to pass In me the Image of your years your treasure and your trust Whom ye do see before your Face dissolved into Dust For as you see your Father's Flesh converted into Clay Even so shall ye my Children dear consume and wear away The Sun and Moon and eke the Stars that serve the day and night The Earth and every earthly thing shall be consumed quite And all the worship that is wrought that have been heard or seen Shall clean consume and come to nought as it had never been Therefore that ye may follow me your Father and your Friend And enter into that same life which never shall have end I leave you here a little Book for you to look upon That ye may see your Father's face when I am dead and gone Who for the hope of heavenly things while he did here remain Gave over all his golden years in Prison and in pain Where I among mine Iron bonds enclosed in the dark Not many dayes before my death did dedicate this work To you mine Heirs of earthly things which I have left behind That ye may read and understand and keep it in your mind That as you have been Heirs of that which once shall wear away Even so ye may possess the part which never shall decay In following of your Father's Foot in truth and eke in love That ye may also be his Heirs for evermore above And in example to your Youth to whom I wish all good I preach you here a perfect faith and seal it with my blood Have God alwayes before your eyes in all your whole intents Commit not sin in any wise keep his Commandements Abhor that arrant Whore of Rome and all her blasphemies And drink not of her Decretals nor yet of her Decrees Give honour to your Mother dear remember well her pain And recompense her in her age in like with love again Be alwayes aiding at her hand and let her not decay Remember well your Father's fall that should have been her stay Give of your Portion to the Poor as riches do arise And from the needy naked Soul turn not away your Eyes For he that will not hear the cry of such as stand in need Shall cry himself and not be heard when he would hope to speed If God hath given great increase and blessed well your store Remember ye are put in trust to minister the more Beware of foul and filthy lust let whoredom have no place Keep clean your Vessels in the Lord that he may you embrace Ye are the Temples of the Lord for ye are dearly bought And they who do defile the same shall surely come to nought Possess not pride in any case build not your Nests too high But have alwayes before your face that you were born to dye Defraud not him that hired is your labour to sustain But give him alwayes out of hand his Penny for his pain And as ye would that other Men against you should proceed Do ye the same again to them when they do stand in need And part your Portion with the Poor in Money and in Meat And feed the fainted feeble Soul with that which ye should eat That when your members shall lack meat And cloathing to your back Ye may the better think on them That now do live and lack Ask counsel also at the wise Give ear unto the end Refuse not ye the sweet rebuke Of him that is your Friend Be thankful alwayes to the Lord With prayer and with praise Desire you him in all your deeds Ever to direct your wayes And sin not like the swinish sort Whose bellies being fed Consume their years upon the Earth From belly unto bed Seek first I say the Living God Set him alwayes before And then be sure he will bless Your Basket and your store And thus if you direct your dayes According to this Book Then shall they say that see your wayes How like me you do look And when you have so perfectly Upon your fingers ends Possessed all within this Book Then give it to your Friends And I beseech the Living God Replenish you with Grace That I may have you in the Heavens And see you face to face And though the Sword hath cut me off Contrary to my kind That I could not enjoy your love According to my mind Yet I do hope that when the heavens Shall vanish like a scrowl I shall receive your perfect shape In Body and in Soul And that I may enjoy your love And ye enjoy the Land I do beseech the Living God To hold you in his hand Farewel my Children from the World Where ye must yet remain The Lord of Hosts be your defence Till we do meet again Farewel my Love and loving Wife My Children and my Friends I hope to God to have you all When all things have their ends And if you do abide in God As ye have now begun Your course I warrant shall be short Ye have not far to run God grant you so to end your years As he shall think it best That ye may enter into Heaven Where I do hope to rest Vol. 3. p. 405 406. Robert Samuel a Suffolk Minister was imprisoned by Dr. Hopton Bishop of Norwich and kept sadly being chained bolt upright so that he stood on tip-toes day and night and was kept without meat and drink save only three mouthfuls of bread and three spoonfuls of water a day And