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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01600	The life and death of Mr. Edmund Geninges priest, crowned with martyrdome at London, the 10. day of Nouember, in the yeare M.D.XCI.	Geninges, John, d. 1660.; Baes, Martin, engraver.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 11728; ESTC S103059	35,374	114

euery where about them This strange sight put the child into a great feare which caused him to runne in hastily to tell his mother being then a Widdow what he had seene and she presently went forth with three or foure of her neighbours who that night had supped with her and they were all eye-witnesses of the same spectacle Thus much I my selfe haue heard them report who also affirmed that my self was then present but being very yong I cannot remember it This happened in the beginning of our chiefest persecution not long before the glorious death of B. Father Campian and the rest about the yeare 1581. Seruit hero duce hero Christi fit seruus Vterque Fidus proque hero agit maxima proque Deo OF HIS CONVERSION to the Catholike fayth CHAP. II. NOW GROWING further in yeares frequenting the Shooles vntill he was 13. yeares of age in which processe of time he attayned to so great vertue of obedience towards his mother of modest behauiour towards all of reuerence towards his elders betters and profited so much in learning that he was not onely worthily admired beloued of many but especially of his Schoolmaister aboue others who had greatest tryall of him who now began to affect him so much and to conceaue such an opinion of him as he would often vse S. Paules wordes vnto him Gratia Dei es id quod es gratia eius in te vacua non est Through the grace of God thou art that which thou art and his grace in thee is not void Now I cannot heere but much admire the prouidence of Almighty God who by his secret and vnexpected meanes bringeth euer that to passe which he hath preordayned This youth during all this time was no member of the Catholike Church but frequented the Protestants Conuenticles with the rest of his friendes How then was he drawne to the true fayth and religion Oh God that ordereth all thinges sweetly disposed this accordingly for it happened that a Gentleman comming to the place where he was taught and lodging at his Scoolemaisters fathers house who kept an Inne in the same Citty and by chance or as God would haue it meeting the Schoolmayster there at supper after other ordinary communication inquired of him whether it were not possible to get in that Citty a handsome youth to ride with him as his page whom quoth he I will mantaine like a gentleman if he haue learning nourture and behauiour beseeming such a person To which the Schoolmaister made answere Such a youth there is heere Qui virtutem in vultu gerit who carryeth vertue in his very countenance but sayth he he is the child of a widdow who I much feare will not easily be perswaded to depart from him Whereupon the Gentleman much desiring to haue a sight of the youth obtayned that he should be sent for to his lodging at whose comming he found the Scoolemaisters wordes most true and therfore would not cease his suite vntill he had obtayned his mothers consent which by long intreaty and large promisses and an assured speedy returne the Iunekeeper and Schoolmaister being his suretyes at length he enioyed And so this our yong man being aged about 16. yeares vpon a sodayne willingly left both mother friends and Country and with all alacrity put himselfe into the gouerment of a maister that was vnto him a meere stranger But heere I must aduertise my Courteous Reader that this good Gentleman was a Catholike and very much persecuted for his religion in his temporall fortunes and therfore made seldome any long aboad in one place for the better preseruation of his liuing The same man afterwards went beyond the seas and was made Priest so that the man became fellow and brother to his mayster as shall be related hereafter This Gentleman at the first had a watchfull eye ouer his new seruant in all his actions because he knew all his friendes to be earnest Protestants but in short time he found him so trusty so secret and so diligent in all his busines and affayres that he began to deale with him touching religion for the saluation of his soule and perceyuing him both tractable capable and willing to heare he so far instructed him that at length the youth blushing at his owne ignorance earnestly desired to be reconciled and made a member of the Catholike Church from which he promised he would neuer swarue Deo adiuuante with Gods assistance Which pious request was not long denied him to his exceeding comfort and consolation Behold heere his first entrance into the way towards heauen his first stepp to his glorious martyrdome whose deuout beginning made him gratious both to God and man For as before he was diligent in all his maisters affayres so now he was most fortunate in what he tooke in hand which caused him to be loued of euery one with whom he conuersed I cannot heere let passe one thing amongst many which this our pious yong Man did in the seruice of his foresayd Mayster which I relate the rather because the Gentleman himselfe being a Priest in Bruxells of Flanders told it afterward vnto me and this it was The foresaid Gentleman hauing dealt in matters of great importance with many Recusants of our Countrey it so fell out that one of them whom for many respects I forbeare to name was taken committed close prisoner in London and because waighty matters had passed betwixt the prisoner and the foresayd Gentleman touching landes and other affayres and therby was like to ensue some domage extraordinary to the Gentleman if some meanes were not wrought to aduertise the prisoner how to answere to those accusations which would be layd against him and hauing by himselfe sought all the meanes that he could to haue accesse to the said prisoner perceiuing no hope therof without eminent danger desisted determining at last to send this his trusty seruant confiding more to his approued wit lucky successe in all his actions then to any probability of accomplishing the same And thus resolued he sent Edmund who was not yet 17. yeares of age to effect that enterprize which himselfe could not performe and this he only imposed vpon him not directing him how it was possible to be atcheiued The youth hauing his charge went with all readines committing his cause to God Quia non erit impossibile apud Deum omne verbum for that nothing is impossible to God Determining therfore to do as a trusty seruant what did lye in him and thinking on no other meanes he tooke vp his lodging neere to the prison hoping in time to get acquayntance with the keeper or his man and so to bring to passe his intended purpose Neyther was his hope frustrate for within few dayes he so ordered the matter as he fell into great familiarity with the said keepers man who as God would haue it had the charge of the forsaid close

her selfe frustrated of all in that kinde through the presse of people and also through daunger of being discouered deuotion being her guide she followed his quarters as they were drawne backe agayne to be boyled at Newgate hoping there at the least to touch them before they were dispersed to hang on the gates of the Citty being as it were in despaire of any greater benefit And comming to the prison the people flocked togeather to behold the fresh bleeding quarters according to theyr wonted custome when any such thing is to be seene before they were carryed vp to boyling desiring the executioner to shew them peece by peece that so their curiosity might giue censure as they said whether he was fat or leane blacke or fayre To satisfie theyr request by chance Bull the Hangman tooke vp one of his forequarters by the arme which when he had shewed to the People he conteÌ„ptuosly flung it downe into the baskett agayne wherin it lay and tooke vp the head that they might see his face And as God would haue it both arme and hand of the foresayd quarter hung out ouer the sides of the basket which the said virgin espying drew neare to touch it and approaching warily with feare lest any should take notice of her so doing hauing a determination and vehement desire to touch his holy annoynted thumbe which then appeared next her if it were possible and because it was a part of his hand which so often had eleuated the immaculate body of our B. Sauiour Iesus Christ she purposed not to leaue it vnhandled for her last farewell This her determination and purpose she presently performed and taking the thumbe in her hand by the instinct of Almighty God she gaue it a little pull only to shew her loue and desire of hauing it The sequele was miraculous for behold she not imagining any such matter would haue followed by the diuine power the thumbe was instantly loosed from his hand and being separated she carryed it away safely both flesh skinne and bone without sight of any to her great ioy and admiration O strange and miraculous separation O benefit past all requitall The thumbe of a man newly dead and quartered to depart from the hand as it were sponte sua of it owne accord to pleasure a friend that loued him so entirely and that in the middest of so many hundreds of people of a different Religion yet not espyed by any But the strangnes therof I leaue to your pious consideration confessing my selfe altogeather vnworthy and not any wayes able to explicate the worthines of the same This yonge Gentlewoman presently vpon this miraculous purchase hauing fully resolued to forsake the vanityes of the world and especially this our troublesome Countrey went not long after beyond the seas carrying with her this pretious Relique which she much esteemed There she deuoted herselfe to S. Augustine and is since become a venerable Nunne of the same Order Afterward she hearing of this Martyrs owne brother to liue in the Seminary at Doway sent him for a token a little peece of the same thumbe inclosed in a letter written with her owne hand protesting the verity of all the aforesayd narration Jam Virtus pietas redeunt iam saecula prisca Tu Stephanus Saulus dum tibi frater erat OF THE CONVERSION OF his Brother to the Catholike faith CHAP. XI SEING I HAVE now agayne made mention of this our Martyrs brother I thinke it will not be vngratefull to the Reader if I relate briefly how he came to be a Catholike how afterward he took his iourney to Doway there put in practise such his good purpose as was to follow the stepps of his deare brother whose life death I haue rehearsed Verily whosoeuer readeth it shall find the intercession of this Saint to haue bene the only cause next after God of all his good I haue declared already how little hope there was of his Conuersion when his brother was liuing for although he was young yet was he obstinate and rather inclyned to a Puritanicall spirit then any way fauouringe the Catholike doctrine nay he was euer brought vp where he neuer heard any good report of a Catholike no not so much as that they were honest men I haue likewise shewed the great desire the blessed Martyr had to bring his Brother to be a member of the Catholike Church the great care he tooke for his conuersion I haue further sett downe the Martyrs strange manner of finding him and being found the vnbrotherly salutation he gaue the finder whose behauiour was such as time and place would not giue leaue once to speake of Religion Finally I haue mentioned that the cause of the holy Martyrs coÌ„ming to London wheÌ„ he was taken specially was his brother Iohns loue but indeed he was martyred before euer he could see him and so he neuer vsed vnto him any perswasions or reasons for Religion nor yet commended he him to any one friends care so hastened was his vnexpected death Now I will truly relate the manner of his Conuersion being it cannot but redound highly to the glory of God and honour of the blessed Martyr who by his prayers obtayned that in heauen which he himselfe could not effect on earth Thus then it happened This Martyrs Brother called Iohn Geninges being in London at the very time of our ChaÌ„pions apprehension coÌ„demnation execution hearing of the same rather reioyced then any way bewayled the vntimely bloudy end of his nearest allyed hoping therby to be rid of all perswasions which he mistrusted he should receyue from him touching Catholique religion And through blind wilfulnes intending to withstand all spirit of grace he therfore neglected yea rather scorned to go to see his brother eyther imprisoned arraigned or martyred such was the froward blindnes of his heresie But about ten dayes after his execution towards night hauing spent all that day in sport and ioylity being weary with play he resorted home where to repose himselfe he went into a secret chamber He was no sooner there set downe but forthwith his hart began to be heauy and his head melancholy and he began to waygh how idlely he had spent that day When he was entred into such conceits there presently was represented vnto his mind a strange imagination and apprehension of the death of his Brother and amongst other thinges how he did forsake not long before all worldly pleasure for his Religion only indured intollerable torments Thus within himselfe he made long discourses concerning his Religion and his Brothers comparing the Catholike manner of liuing with his and finding the one to desire payne the other pleasure the one to liue strictly the other licentiously the one to feare sinne the other to runne into all kind of syn being stroken with exceeding terrour and remorse he wept bitterly desiring God after his fashion to illuminate his vnderstanding that he might see

ought to speake well of him he added that he himselfe had heard that he was a very honest man loued both the Queene and his Countrey but God aboue all yet tell me good cosin Iohn quoth he do you not know him if you see him To which Iohn answered No he could not remember eyther visage or stature Notwithstanding then he began to suspect and feare that he was his brother and a Priest yet neuerthelesse not knowing what a Priest was boldly told him he could not tell what he was yet that he greatly dreaded he had a brother a Papist Priest and that he was the man swearing withall that if it were so he would discredit himselfe and all his friendes if he were so proued and protesting in that he would neuer follow him although in other matters he would greatly respect him Which wordes Edmund hearing could no longer conceale himself from his suspitious brother but told him truely he was his brother indeed and for his loue had taken great paynes to come to seeke him perswading him to keepe in secret the knowledge of his arriuall To which the youth answered he would not for a world disclose his returne but yet he desired him to come no more vnto him for that he feared greatly the daunger of the law that being he was his brother he should incurre the penalty of the Statute newly made in concealing him The good Man hearing this thought it neyther time nor place conuenient being then in a tauerne to talk of religion he being but a waggish youth only he told him he was deceyued for that he was no such manner of man as he tooke him for neyther was I sayth he euer at Rome or with the Pope but only haue trauayled in other Countreys for which fact there is no such punishment appoynted by the law To conclude much talke they had about diuers thinges by which the good Priest well perceyued his poore brother farre from any good affection to Catholike religion but rather wilfully giuen to persist in his Protestancy withour any hope of a present recouery And therfore declaring vnto him his present departure out of towne tooke his leaue assuring him that within one moneth or little more he intended to returne at which time he would see him agayne and conferre with him more at large about some necessary affayres which concerned him very much And thus the two brethren parted the one to do his function in conuerting of soules the other to meditate how to corrupt his owne and so the one went to spend his time in studying how to perswade the other how to withstand the one purposed to make hast backe agayne hoping to saue a soule brothers loue him therunto prouoking the other wished his brothers neuer returne through feare of conuersion licentious liberty brothers loue peruerting CÃ¹m veteri peragit Missa pia Sacra sodali Jnfestat turbam turba profana piam OF HIS RETVRNE TO London and the manner of his taking imprisoning examining c. CHAP. VII THE TIME APappoynted being expired our Godly Champion hauing laboured in the Countrey by exhorting instructing exercising amongst Catholikes his Priestly function withall diligence according to his promise make to God returned to London to the end he might visit confer with his brother The same night on which he came to the Citty he repayred to a Catholikes house in Holborne where he found M. Polidore Plasden a very vertuous godly Priest After a friendly and kind congratulation with some discourses of ech others successe in the haruest of England they began to confer of that which euer was and still is the chief ioy to all true zealous Priestes and theyr only felicity to wit touching the offering of the dreadfull Sacrifice where they might serue God togeather the next day and say Masse At length they concluded to say their mattins togeather celebrate the next morning at M. Swithin VVelles his house being in the vpper end of Holborne They also made some acquaynted with theyr meeting there whom they wished to be present and this they did the rather because it was the Octaue day of the feast of all Saynts to the end that theyr good frendes as well as themselues might on that great feast be partakers of so worthy a benefit They themselues that night kept togeather preparing to solemnize the morne according as the dignity therof required theyr poore abilities affoarded Wherfore they heard Confessions and did such like actes of deuotion as became such mortal men as Almighty God in his secret wisedome had chosen as Saynts and had determined on the feast of all Saynts to marke as his owne Saynts to the view and sight of the whole world by beginning theyr Saintly coÌ„bat to the glory of all Saynts O that I could here expresse the deuotion and consolation which these good men had all that night powred and infused into them they not knowing what should befall them on the morrow Day being come they lifted vp theyr soules to heauen and recoÌ„mending theyr good purposes with the sinnes of the people to the holy suffrages of all Saints they went so to Masse no doubt accompanyed with troupes of Angells and Saynts comming to behold and succour them in the Tragedy which heere ensueth for now M. Geninges being at Masse there were present as hearers the forsayd M. Plasden M. Eustach VVhite Priests M. Bryan Lacy Gentleman Iohn Mason Sydney Hodgson lay men with Mrs. VVelles whose house it was and and other deuout people who came thither on that day for the same purpose M. VVelles himself being from home and out of the towne But behold when he was euen at the Consecration of the holy body and bloud of our Sauiour one M. Topliffe with other officers knocked at the dore Which suddayne noyse stroke feare and terrour into the harts of all that were present But the forenamed good Priests with the rest arose from theyr deuotions and drawing out their weapons as S. Peter did to defend our Sauiour were ready at the chamber dore when their enemyes had burst it open bidding them to stand not suffering any one of them to enter vntill the Priest had finished his Masse At which time eyther Iohn Mason or Sydney Hodgson came vnto them and seing them so maliciously bent that they would not expect one of them ranne vpon M. Topliffe to haue throwne him downe the stayres and with such vehemency as they tumbled downe both togeather Then M. Plasden hauing appoynted the rest to keepe the broken dore went to the Altar and bad the good Priest go forward without feare and finish his Masse to the greater glory of God and honour of all his Saints and after returning to the dore he espied M. Topliffe hastening vp the stayres with a broken head and fearing he would haue raysed the whole streete for help the more to pacify him seing no meanes to escape he told him

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