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A38426	England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ...		1682 (1682)	Wing E3036; ESTC R2702	130,582	188

two Thieves even so when the Priest is at mass and hath lifted the Host over his Head he there hangeth between two Thieves except he be one that preaches the Word of God truly That he had said to the people that they should not eat and tear the flesh of Christ with their teeth c. For Christ said This is my Body which was the Word of God which was to be broken to the people with such like to which he gave his particular Answers But a Commission was sent down for the tryal of these persons according to the Act of the six Articles and the aforesaid persons clapt into the Jayle Testwood being sick and in bed was haled thence and forced into prison going upon Crutches The chief Judges who sat on these men were Doctor Capon Bishop of Salisbury Sr. William Essex Knight Sr. Tho Bridges Sr. Humphry Foster Mr. Franklin Dean of Windsor and Mr. Fachell of Reading After very unjust doings packing of the Jury being strangers and not of the neighbourhood and all of them farmers belonging to the Colledg of Windsor and some of them Contrary to the Statute had but one witness appearing against them yet they were all of them found guilty by the Jurie and condemned to dye the next day by the Court Fatchell giving the Sentence There came a pardon for Marbeck the rest seeing their hard lot comforted one another knowing that they dyed in a good Cause All night they spent in fervent prayer to God to strengthen them that they might be stedfast in their torments praying also for their persecutors that God would forgive them since they did what they did through blind Ignorance and zeal The next day being Fryday their execution was respired but on the Saturday when they were to dye desiring to receive the Sacrament it was denyed them for they said it was not to be granted to Hereticks but they might be Confessed if they would As they passed thorow the Streets they prayed all good people to pray for them and Filmer who was Condemned from the testimony of his own Brother only as he past by his door called several times on him that he mought see him but he would not appear however Filmer most Christian like desired God to forgive him for he had restified wrongfully against Him When they were come to the Stake Mr. Persons with a chearful Countenance embracing the Stake in his Arms and Kissing it said Now welcom my own sweet Wife for this day shall thou and I be married together in the Love and peace of God Being all bound to the post a certain young man of Filmers acquaintance brought him a pot of drink which he dr●nk of to his Companions who pledged him at when drinking their Adversaries made a jesting reporting afterwards that they were all drunk and knew not what they said After they had drank Mr. Filmer said my Brethren let us be merry in the Lord for I trust in God that after this sharp Brea●fast we shall have a good dinner in the Kingdom of Christ our Lord and Redeemer At which words the Fire being set to the straw Testwood lifting up his Hands and eyes to Heaven desired God to receive his spirit And Mr. Persons pulling the straw to him put a good handful on his Head saying This is Gods Hat now am I dressed like a true Sould●ers of Christ by wh●se merits on●y I trust this day to enter into his Joy And so they yeilded up their souls to God like meek Lambs with so much patience and tranquillity and so great stedfastness that amazed the people many wished that they had been so happy as to have dyed with them The Persecutors disgraced Not long after the whole Conspiracy of the Bishop of Winchester Dr. London Simone and Okeham came to be revealed by Gods Providence and how unjustly they had dealt with these poor men haveing also lay'd a design against several of the Kings Privie Council and many Knights and Gentlemen as favourers of Heresie which being made known to the King he withdrew his Favour from Gardner and London Simmons and Okeham Perjurie being proved against them rode thorow Windsor with their faces to the Horses tails and papers of their Crimes pinned on their breasts and Okeham the like at Newberry where he stood in the pillory Thus God by his secret Judgment brought the wickedness of these malicious Papists to light and their persons to disgrace being ever hated of all men About the same time great persecution was made at Calice where one Adam Damlip Dod and several others were Martyred And likewise in Scotland suffered many Martyrs in the latter end of the reign of King Henry the 8th of England as Mr. Wisehart Walace Sr. John Borthwick and divers others so that many there as well as in England sealed to the truth of the Gospel with their Blood But we shall omit forreigners and speak only of those of our own nation as we have at first proposed having enough and too many executed and tormented by the bloody Papists Kerby and Clark Martyr'd in Suffolk In the year 1546 Mr. Kerby and Clark were burned for their religion in Suffolk passing over one Henrie and his servant burnt at Colchester and also one Sary a Priest who was hang'd privatly in the Bishop of Winchesters Porters lodg and that not without the privity of the Bishop himself as it was thought for indeed it would be too long to enumerate all the publick and private Murthers of these bloody Papists But as to the Story of Kerby and Clark in brief it was this Kerby and Clark of Mendelsham in the County of Suffolk were apprehended for Gospellers and thrown into the Goal and a Commission was sent down to try them the chief of the Commissioners was the Lord Wentworth Being brought before them having in Secret prayed to themselves a while with hands eyes lifted up they hearkned to their charge which were certain Articles put in against them concerning the Sacrament and being there publickly demanded if that after the words of Consecration spoken by the Priests the breed did not then become the very flesh blood and bones of Jesus Christ as he was born of the Virgin● they answered No That they did not believe it but that it was a sign to put us in mind of Christs Death for the remission of our sins Upon his after they had used 〈◊〉 ●●g●ment● perswasions and threats to thes poor men to make them alter th●ir minds in vain sentence was given against them Kerby to be burnt in Ipswich the next Saturday following and Roger Clark at Bury before Gang Munday ensuing Kirby having received his sentence holding up his hands with humble reverence bowing himself he said Praysed be Almightie God and then sto●d still saying no more And Clark at p●rting from the Judgment seat said with some Vehemency Fight for your God for he hath not long to co●tinue which was a Prophesie of the Reformation

Whaddon who were Martyr'd and for holding several of Wickliffs opinions was Condemned to be imprisoned for 7 years and to eat nothing but bread and water every Fryday during that time and also in the beginning of every Lent and Maunday Thursday to do open pennance Several others were forced to ab●ure and to do open pennance None can imagine ●he grievous sufferings that the people of God indured in those days and it would be too tedious to ●numerate some of them being accused for having a ●ible in their house And in the year 1430. one ●ohn Hovedon a wool winder and Citizen of London ●as burnt near the Tower as Fabian writes About the same time Nicholas Canon in Northfolk was forced to abjure and had 3 publick disciplines about the Cloysters of the Cathedral of Norwich and imprisoned besides In the year 1431. Thomas Bagley Priest an adherent to Wickliffs Doctrine was burnt in Smithfield about the midst of Lent after he had been degraded And also Paul Craw was burnt the same year Anno 1439. one Richard Wich was burnt who being a priest was first degraded and then burnt on Tower-Hill for an Heretick He was esteemed a very holy man in so much that after his Death the people went to the place where he was burnt and there prayed and reared an heap of stones and set up a cross in his Memory which troubled the clergy and made them get a prohibition from the King to hinder and punish such as should resort thither as to Pilgrimage And not long after by reason of the malice of the Cardinal of Winchester and other Prelates the good Duke of Gloucester was arrested in few days after found dead in his Bed About the year 1456. when Thomas Burrscheer was Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Reynold Peacock Bishop of Chichester a good man was brought into trouble and persecuted by his fellow Prelates for holding several opinions contrary to their Romish Doctrines and for his faith and profession of the Gospel After he had been cited before the Arch-Bishop and other prelates and much pains and endeavours used to bring him from his opinions they at last drew up a form of Recantation which they forced him to declare to the people by many menaces and hard usage for all which he was detained in prison and what became of him was not known The Burning of John Goose and others We have briefly gone thorow the reigns of those Princes since the Clergy obtained the Writ de Comburendo for the burning of Hereticks and none has scaped that cruel punishment more or less in any of their reigns since King Rich. 2d and for ought we can see is rather likely to increase than decrease for in the Reign of King Ed. 4th of the Line of York who succeeded King Hen. 6th whom he caused to be murdered we find Anno 1473 one Jehn Goose a godly servant of Jesus Christ was condemned to the fire and burnt on Tower Hill in the month of August Being delivered over to the secular power into the hands of Sheriff Belisdon he endeavoured all he could to cause him to renounce his opinions to save his Life but this constant Martyr would not hearken to the Temptation but desiring the Sheriff to let him have some victuals to refresh him the Sheriff commanded the same and he eating a very hearty Dinnet as if he were unconcerned and giving God thanks for his meal and refreshment he said that he should pass a sharp showr e're he should go to supper after which being led to the place of Execution he dyed with great Constancy and praysing the Lord yeilded up his Spirit to God Ex polychron The Burning of several others In the reigns of King Ed. 5th and his Bloody Uncle and Usurper King Rich. 3d we do not find any Martyr'd their Reigns being but short and full of Trouble but in the Reign of King Hen. 7th about the year 1494 there was a very ancient Lady about 80 years of Age named Joan Boughten burnt in Smithfield for holding the opinions of Wickliff She dyed on the 28 of April being very constant and returned to the menaces of Bishops that she knew her self beloved of God and his holy Angels and that she feared not the Fire and in the midst thereof she cryed to God to receive her Soul She was much beloved and her Ashes were carried away by such as secretly professed the Gospel and kept as a Relick In the year 1497 several were forced to do pennance bare footed and bare headed with faggots on their shoulders before St. Paul's Cross during the procession and Sermon there And in the following year 1498 in the beginning of May a priest was burnt And the same year in Northfolk was burnt a very Godly man named Brabram and another in July that year burnt in Smithfield In the year 1499. above 60 persons in Buckinghamshire in the Diocess of Lincoln William Smith being then Bishop were forced to pennance with faggots on their shoulders for the Gospels sake And at Amersham in the same County was burnt one Wiliam Tylsworth a godly Martyr in a Close called Stanly Anno 1506. He was about 60 years of Age who being bound to the Stake and the Faggots about him ready to suffer the barbarous Papists caused his only daughter being a Marryed woman to set fire to her own Father her Husband John Clark doing pennance at the same time with a Faggot before the fire with many others And the next day after one Father Roberts was Martyr'd at Buckingham At whose burning there were 9 Persons forced to bear Faggots for pennance And two or three years after at the same Town of Amersham were burnt Thomas Bernard an Husbandman and James Morden a labouring man both in one fire And at the same time there were thirty more who bare Faggots and were burned in the right cheek The manner thus Their necks were tyed fast with Towels to a Post and their hands bound that they could not stir and so the Iron being hot was clapt to their cheeks being stigmatized for the Gospels sake And this we must look for again whenever Popery comes to have Dominion in this Kingdom At the same time one Father Rogers was kept in the Bishops Prison for 14 weeks night and day and so cruelly handled with cold hunger and Irons that when he was let forth of prison he could never go upright as long as he liv'd The Cruel handling and Murder of Thomas Chase In the same year 1506 at Amersham also one Thomas Chase of that town was cruelly handled in the Bishops prison being a man of a very Godly and Sober behaviour speaking against the idolatry and superstition of the Papists for which he was condemned to the Bishops prison at Wooborn called little ease where he lay bound and manacled with Gyves Fetters Chains and Irons pinched with hunger and thirst having nothing given him but by Chaplains who mingled with their Alms bitter tants scoffs