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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

1527. of Christ who being extremely beloved had many importuning her to recant but she would not and amongst the rest a certain Noble Matron communing with her perswaded her to keep silence and to think silently in her heart what she believed that she might prolong her days To whom she said Ah you know not what you say it is written Rom. 10. with the heart we believe to Righteousness and with the tongue we confess to salvation And thus she remained stedfast and firm in her Confession and was November 20. condemned to be burnt to ashes which sentence she took mildly and quietly And being at the place of Execution a Monk brought her a blind Cross willing her to kiss it and worship her God to whom she said I worship no wooden God but only that God which is in Heaven And so with a merry and joyful countenance she embraced the Stake and by an ardent prayer commended her self to the hands of God Vol. 2. p. 115. Waldenses began 1200 years after Christ and were so called from Waldo who first instructed them and they delivered their Doctrine from Father to Son successively They had indeed divers Names according to the places where they lived In the Northern parts they were called Lollards about Lyons in France they were called Pauperes de Lugduno in Flanders Terraelupins of a desart where Wolves did haunt in Dolphine Chugnards by way of despite because they lived harbourless They taught at first in Caves of the Earth and in the night for fear of Persecution and were a people fearing God living uprightly and justly yet they suffered much Persecution especially in Merindol and Calabria whither they came from Piedmont Vallies and though those places were desarts yet were they by them so cultivated that they proved very fruitful Vol. 2. p. 185 186. They were charitable to the poor hospitable to strangers and were known by these marks they would not swear nor name the Devil were true to their promise and would not take an Oath unless in judgment or in making some solemn Covenant nor would they in any company talk of dishonest matters but whenever they heard wanton or swearing talk they presently departed out of that Company and also they always prayed before they went to any business and opposed generally Images crossing and other Popish Fooleries as was testified by their very Enemies and their neighbouring Inhabitants to the French King Vol. 2. p. 193. They were also called Albigenses from the place where they frequented in Tolouse and Merindolians from Merindol a place of Provence in France which with Cabriles were laid waste burned and rased their Inhabitants cut asunder and their Women and Maids ravished those with Child cut open by one Iohn Minerius Lord of Opede at the command of Francis the French King April 12. 1545. Vol. 2. p. 196 to page 200. Their Principles were these 1. One God the Creator of all things 2. The Son the onely Mediator and Advocate of all Mankind 3. The Holy Ghost the Comforter and Instructer of all truth 4. They acknowledged the Church to be the Fellowship of the Elect of God whereof Iesus Christ is the Head 5. They allow'd the Ministers of the Church wishing such as did not their duty were removed 6. Magistrates they granted to be ordained of God to defend the good and to punish the transgressors and that they ought to the Magistrate love and tribute and that none herein was exempted They acknowledged Baptism to be an outward and visible sign representing to us the Renewing of the Spirit and mortifying of the members 8. They confessed the Lord's Supper to be a Thanksgiving and a memorial of the benefits received through Christ. 9. Matrimony they esteemed holy instituted of God and inhibited to no Man 10. Good works they observed and thought them to be practised of all Men as Scripture teaches 11. False Doctrine leading from the true worship of God ought to be eschew'd 12. The order and rule of their Faith was the old and new Testament protesting they believed all contained in the Apostolique Creed Vol. 2. p. 200. They at they burying of their Dead used to accompany the dead to the grave reverently with a sufficient company and made Exhortation out of the word of God to the Living and to comfort the Parents and Friends of the party deceased and to admonish all Men diligently to prepare for death Vol. 2. p. 203. They were much persecuted by Henry the Ninth French King and often delivered miraculously in Angrogne Lusern and other places Valleys of Piedmont till 1559. when a peace being made between France and Spain those Valleys were as due given to the Duke of Savoy who entreated these Waldenses gently till by the Pope and his Legates he was instigated to persecute them which was very severely and cruelly done Vol. 2. p. 204 205. They were persecuted in all their places and one called The Lord of Trinity and one Trunchet were their great enemies The Waldenses used to go and pray before Battel and after Battel gave thanks and though they were but few in number and without armour only by Slings and stones and a few Harquebusses they so amazed and put to flight their Enemies often that they flying said God fought for them And at last though after much misery and cruelty they had a peace brought them by the Lord of Raconis from the Duke of Savoy which was obtained by the Mediation of his Dutchess Vol. 2. p. 218 219 220 222. So much of the Waldenses Rise and Actions Vol. 1. p. 299. George Wisehart a Scotchman burnt March 1. 1546. being condemned by David Beton Archbishop of St. Andrews although he answered all the Articles he was accused of Who going to the Stake sat down on his knees and rose again saying three times O thou Saviour of the World have mercy on me Father of Heaven I commend my Spirit into thy holy hands And then turning to the People he said I desire you not to be offended with the word of God for which I suffer and exhorted them to embrace it and to continue stedfast For which saith he I suffer this day not sorrowfully but with a glad heart and mind Consider and behold my visage ye shall not see me change my colour this grim fire I fear not and so I pray you to do if any persecution befal you I know that my Soul shall sup with Christ for whom I suffer this within these six hours in Heaven Then pray'd he for his Enemies saying Father I beseech thee to forgive them that have ignorantly or of evil mind forged any lies upon me I freely forgive them with all my heart and I beseech Christ to forgive them who this day condemned me to death And being to be hang'd on a Gibbet and so burn'd the Executioner begg'd his pardon whom he kissed saying There is a token that I forgive thee do thine Office And so he was burnt Vol. 2. p. 618 620

they spilled daily in fighting against Christ and his Gospel He suffered at Paris Vol. 1. p. 133. Noblemen 100 and others of Alsatia were burned and martyred the 1212. year of Christ under Pope Henricus 3. for holding every day was free for eating Flesh so it be done soberly and that they did wickedly who restrained Priests from their lawful Wives Vol. 1. pag. 336. Iohn Noyes a Shoe-maker of Laxfield in Suffolk burned 1557. in September when he came to the place of Execution he kneeled down and sang the 50 th Psalm and being bound at the Stake he said Fear not them that kill the Body but fear him that can kill both Body and Soul and cast it into everlasting fire And seeing his Sister weeping he desired her not to weep for him but for her sins Having a Faggot thrown at him he kissed it and said Blessed be the time that ever I was born to come to this And in the fire he said Lord have mercy upon me Christ have mercy upon me Son of David have mercy upon me He wrote a Letter to his Wife containing nothing but consolation from Texts of Scripture and bidding her farewell he desired his Wife and Children to leave worldly care and see that they were diligent to pray Vol. 3. p. 850 851 852. Nichaise of Tombe born in Tournay martyred for the Gospel being condemned he said Praised be God At the Stake he said Lord they have hated me without a cause and prayed thus Eternal Father have pity and compassion on me according as thou hast promised to all that ask the same of thee in thy Sons Name And so he continued praying until his last gasp Additions to Vol. 3. of the Massacre in France and Flanders p. 33. O O ORigen at 17 Years old wrote to his Father Leonides to encourage him to suffer martyrdom under the fifth Persecution began the 205. Year of Christ. He wrote about 7000 Volumes as much as 7 Notaries and as many Women could pen. Vol. 2. p. 70. Cicely Ormes Wife of Edward Ormes a Worsted-Weaver in Norwich was burnt September 23. 1557. at Norwich She was an ignorant simple Woman yet zealous in the Lord's cause and being threatned by the Chancellor of Norwich she said He should not be so desirous of her sinful flesh as she would by God's grace be content to give it in so good a quarrel Being condemned at the Stake she pray'd and repeated her Faith and then said to the People I would not have you think that I believe to be saved in that I offer my self here unto death for Christ 's cause but I believe to be saved by the death of Christ 's passion and this my death is and shall be a witness of my Faith unto you all Good People as many as believe of you I pray you pray for me And then she coming to the Stake she kissed it and said Welcome sweet Cross of Christ and so was bound to it and in the fire she said My Soul doth magnifie the Lord and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour and so she yielded up her Life Vol. 3. p. 833. Robert Oguier of the City Lile in Flanders his Wife and two Sons Bardicon and Martin were apprehended 1556. and first the Father and Bardicon suffer'd who upon examination confessed their Faith and Bardicon being apprehended as he went said O Lord assist us with thy Grace not onely to be prisoners for thy sake but so as to seal with our bloods thy Truth And told the Emperor's Commissioners the tenour of their prayers in their Meetings for God's glory and the Empires and Emperors felicity And then he and his Father submitted themselves to the Judges while Martin his Brother chose to accompany his Mother who was still detained in Prison And these two were by their Judges condemned to be burnt which sentence being past they returned to Prison rejoycing that the Lord had honoured them to enroll them amongst the number of Martyrs The day of Execution being told them they blessed God who delivering their Bodies out of Prison would receive their Souls into his Kingdom The Father being advised to pity his Soul said You see what pity I have of it when for the Name of Christ I willingly abandon my Body to the fire hoping to day to be with him in Paradise At the Stake he and his Son sang the 16. Psalm and being chained the Son said to his Father Be of good comfort the worst will be past by and by And often repeated these words O God Father Everlasting accept the Sacrifice of our Bodys for thy wel-beloved Son Jesus Christ 's sake And lifting his Eyes to Heaven he spoke to his Father saying O Father behold I see the Heavens open and millions of Angels ready to receive us rejoycing to see us thus witnessing our truth in the view of the World Father let us be glad and rejoyce for the joyes of Heaven are set before us Fire being kindled he oft repeated to his Father thus Yet a little while and we shall enter into the Heavenly Mansions And their last words were Jesus Christ thou Son of God into thy Hands we commend our Spirits And within 8 dayes the Mother Iane Oguier and Martin her Son were brought forth but in Prison Iane by the Papists was perswaded to recant and to endeavour her Son's return to Popery who hearing of it said to her Oh Mother what have you done have you denyed him that redeemed you What evil hath he done you that you should requite him with so great an injury Ah good God! that I should live to see this day which pierceth my heart And his Mother hearing his words and seeing his tears began to renew her strength in the Lord and with tears cry'd Father of mercies be merciful to me miserable sinner and cover my transgressions under the Righteousness of thy Blessed Son Lord enable me to stand to my first Confession and to abide stedfast in it to my last breath And when the Papists came to her again she said Avoid Satan get thee behind me for hence forth thou hast neither part nor portion in me I will by the help of my God stand to my Confession and if I may not sign it with Ink I will seal it with my Blood And so she and her Son were condemned to be burnt and their ashes to be cast into air who rejoyced at the Sentence and accounted it a day of Triumph over their Enemies and Martin being profer'd an hundred pound if he would recant said He would not lose an Eternal Kingdom for it Addition to Vol. 3. of Massacres of France pag. 1. to 5. P P PHilip the Apostle after he had much laboured amongst the Barbarous Nations in preaching the Word of Salvation to them at length he suffer'd in Hierapolis a City of Phrygia being there crucified and stoned to death where also he was buried and his Daughters with him Vol. 1. pag. 42 43. Peter the