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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

home and the world but our place of banishment Let us aspire after our Country Consider the honour God doth you in that you have a Husband who is not only called to be a Minister of Christ but highly advanced to partake of the Crown of Martyrdom which honour the Angels in Heaven are not capable of I rejoice in my sufferings I am filled with the abundant riches of my God I now taste and see Gods goodness I feel by experience he never forsakes them that trust in him I have profited more in the School-house of my Prison than in all my life time before I would not change my condition with them which are my Persecutors I eat and drink and rest with more hearts-ease than they Additions to Vol. 3. concerning Massacre in France and Flanders p. 37 38. Francis le Bossu with his two Sons martyred at Lyons in France in the Massacre there 1572. he encouraged his two Sons to suffer with him for the Gospel exhorting them thus Children we know the enmity of the wicked and the world against Gods people is no strange thing Let not their drawn Swords affright us they will be but as a Bridge whereby we shall pass over out of a miserable life into immortal blessedness we have breathed and lived long enough among the wicked let us now go and live with one God And so all three embracing each other were found slain Additions to Vol. 3. concerning Massacre in France p. 68. C C CAlocerius seeing the great patience of the Christians in so great Torments and Persecutions cryed out Vere magnus Deus Christianorum that is truly the God of the Christians is a great God Which words being heard he was apprehended and brought to the place of execution and made partaker of their martyrdom Vol. 1. p. 53. Cecilia the Virgin brought Valerian her espoused Husband and Tiburtius his Brother to the Faith of Christ and with her exhortations made them constant to Martyrdom after whose sufferings she was apprehended and brought to offer Sacrifice to Idols but refusing she was had to the Judge to be condemned in the mean time the Serjeants and others began to perswade her to favour her self and not cast her self away to whom she so reply'd with Reasons and godly Exhortations that by the grace of God they were converted also and divers others were with them baptized to the number of 400 persons which being done she was condemned and was inclosed in a hot Bath a day and a night without hurt and was afterwards ordered to be beheaded in the Bath Vol. 1. Cyprian being also named Statius he was an African and born in Carthage an Idolater and a Gentile altogether given to the study of Magical Arts who was converted to the Christian Faith through the grace of God by the means of Cecilius a Priest and by the occasion of hearing the History of the Prophet Ionah and was after his conversion ordained Priest and Bishop of Carthage Soon after in which Office and Dignity he so shined in Gifts and Vertues that he had the Covernment of all the East Church and Church of Spain and was called the Bishop of the Christian men And was beheaded in the 259. year of Christ under the Eighth Persecution He is said to observe 12 abuses in mans life 1. A wise man without good works 2. An old man without Religion 3. Youth without obedience 4. Rich men without Alms. 5. A Woman shameless 6. A Guide without vertue 7. A Christian contentious 8. A poor man proud 9. A King unrighteous 10. A Bishop negligent 11. People without discipline 12. Subjects without love Vol. 1. p. 89 90 c. Christians to the number of 2000 being assembled in their Temple at Nicomedia to celebrate the Nativity of Christ and fire being caused to be set to the Temple by the order of Maximianus under the Tenth Persecution with a Cryer That all that would have life should come out of the Temple and do sacrifice upon the next Altar of Iupiter One in the behalf of all the rest answered They were all Christians and that they would do Sacrifice only to Christ his Father and the Holy Ghost and that they were all now ready to offer Whereupon they all and the Temple were burned Vol. 1. p. 102. Iohn Clardon a Currier of London was burned only for having English Books in his house which as his Enemies said contained heretical Opinions which he owned against the Popish Party 1415. year of Christ. Vol. 1. p. 842. Iohn Clerke of Meldon in France a Wool-carder for saying the Pope was Antichrist in a Bill he set upon the Church doors against the Pope's Pardons was to be whipt three several times and each time marked on the forehead with a note of infamy whose Mother being a Christian woman and seeing those things done to her Son courageously emboldened him crying Blessed be Christ and welcome be these marks He afterwards removing to Metz in Lotharing the night before the people idolatrously according to their Custom was to go out of Town to worship some Images he brake them down and the next day the Monks and people coming to worship found their Images broken whereof they suspected this Clerke who being examined confessed the fact and shewed his reason for it whereat the people were enraged and cut off his right arm and with Pinsers pulled off his nose arms and breast and then burnt him An. 1514. who patiently endured it singing Their Images be of Silver and Gold the work of mens hands Vol. 2. p. 107. Dr. Iohn Castellane a French Divine was degraded and burnt only for Religion in which he continued constant to death and so patiently underwent it 1525. that many ignorant people were thereby drawn to the knowledge of the Truth and many weak were greatly confirmed Vol. 2. p. 107 108 109. George Carpenter burned in Munchen in Bavaria Feb. 8. 1527. whose Crimes were because he held a Priest could not forgive sins nor call God out of Heaven that God was not in the Bread in the Sacrament nor that the Element of Water in Baptism did confer Grace which four Articles he refused to recant and being asked if he was let go if he would not go to his Wife and Children he answered If I was let go whither should I go rather than to my Wife and well-beloved Children And being told if he would recant he should be set at liberty he said My Wife and Children are so dearly beloved of me that they cannot be bought from me for all the Riches of the Duke of Bavaria but for the love of my Lord God I will willingly forsake them And being led to the place of Execution he promised a sign of his Faith that while he could open his mouth he would not cease to call upon the Name of Iesus and being in the fire he cryed aloud Iesus Iesus and so gave up his spirit joyfully Vol. 2. p. 114. One Cowbridge burnt at Oxford

there for any evil action but for the quarrel of our Saviour and when tyed to the Post he sang the 25. Psalm and with Eyes looking up to Heaven seeing the place of Execution he said O the happy journey and fair place prepared for me He in the fire cryed O Lord give thy hand to thy Servant I recommend my Soul to thee And so meekly yielded up the Ghost Vol. 2. p. 150. Dominicus de Basana an Italian burned at Placentia 1553. being asked whether he was a Priest said Not of the Pope but of Christ being asked if he would renounce his Doctrine answered He maintained no Doctrine of his own but of Christs which also he was ready to seal with his blood and gave hearty thanks to God which so accepted him as worthy to glorifie his Name with his martyrdom And being cast into Prison he continued constant yea at his Execution he did preach and pray for his Enemies and so finished his days Vol. 2. p. 167. A Bookseller of Avinion was burned by the means of the Bishop of Aix for selling some Bibles in the French Tongue and as a sign of the Crime for which he was burnt he had two Bibles hanged about his neck one before and another behind him Vol. 2. p. 191. Maurice Blane a young man in Merindol in France being one of the Waldenses and taken by one Iohn Miniers Lord of Opede who went as Captain against Merindol was shot to death with Harquebusses and though he was not very well instructed yet in all his Torments he lifted up his Eyes to Heaven and with a loud voice ceased not to call on God and the last words he was heard to say were O Lord God these men take from me a life full of misery but thou wilt give me life everlasting by thy Son Iesus Christ to whom be Glory Vol. 2. p. 198. Thomas Bilney being brought up under Popish ignorance and did in order to his obtaining pardon of sins use fasting watching buying pardons c. and at last hearing that the New Testament was translated into Latine elegantly by Erasmus out of a love to the Latine more than to the Word of God which he then knew not what it meant bought one and did read it and at his first reading he happened on 1 Tim. 1.15 It is a faithful saying c. which sentence through Gods instructions and co-workings exhilerated him and was a means of his conversion to the Faith of Christ learning that all travels and watchings without Christ availed nothing And having tasted of the sweetness of Christ himself he greatly endeavoured the promoting of Christ's Gospel and opposed Popery in its abuses of Pardons c. Vol. 2. p. 268. He was instrumental to the conversion of Mr. Latimer p. 271. He was of Trinity Hall in Cambridge and first framed that University to the knowledge of Christ Vol. 2. p. 274.276 He once recanted and was absolved which created such trouble to him that for two years he almost despaired nor could any Scripture comfort him till at length God by the means of Mr. Latimer comforted him And he propagated the Doctrine of Christ in Norfolk and was burned at Norwich 1531. The night before which eating an Ale-berry chearfully some Friends said they were glad to see him so merry to whom he said he did as Husbandmen repair the ruinous House of his body He often tryed the heat of the fire by putting his finger in the Candle flame saying I feel and know fire to be naturally hot yet I am perswaded by Gods Word and by experience of some in it that in the flames they felt no heat And I believe howsoever that the stubble of my body shall be wasted by it yet my Soul shall be thereby purged it is a pain for a time on which follows joy unspeakable Vol. 2. p. 277. Richard Bayfield a Monk of S. Bennets belonging to Berry converted by means of one Dr. Barnes was November 20. 1531. degraded and condemned and being struck with a Crosier he fell backward broke his head and swooned when he came to himself again he thanked God that he was delivered from the malignant Church of Antichrist and was come into the sincere Church of Christ militant here on Earth And I trust anon said he to be in Heaven with Christ and that Church triumphant for ever And being in a slow fire was half an hour alive and when the left arm was on fire and burned he rolled it with his right hand and it fell from his body and he continued in Prayer to the end without moving Vol. 2. p. 293. Iames Beinham a Lawyer in King Henry the Eighth's days for knowledge of the New Testament was burnt April the last 1532. who first abjured but soon relapsed declaring he would not suffer the like Hell he did when he was abjured for all the world and when he was again taken and burning he in the fire when his legs were half consumed said O ye Papists ye look for miracles here ye may see one for in this fire I feel no more pain than if I were in a Bed of down and it is to me as a Bed of Roses Vol. 2. p. 301. Thomas Benet Master of Art in Cambridge thinking after his conversion not safe to stay there went to Exeter and there taught a School And at last abhorring the blasphemy of the Papists he fixt up Bills against the Popes Supremacy c. for which after much enquiry being found out he at length suffered all their endeavours being not able to reclaim him to Popery to whose perswaders he mildly answered desiring them to desist for he was resolved and did more desire to dye for Christ than to live longer and partake of and behold their detestable Idolatry At the fire he prayed so fervently and his sayings were so pious and himself so constant that his very Enemies counted him a good man and God's servant yet was he burnt And at Stake being commanded by one Esq Barnhouse to pray to Saints he would not it being God on whom only he must call to whom the Esquire said he should pray to Saints or else he would make him and therewith thrust a Fir-bush on fire at his Face to whom the Martyr said Alas Sir trouble me not and prayed Father forgive them Whereupon the Esquire caused the fire to be kindled and then the Martyr lifted up his Eyes and Hands saying O Lord receive my Spirit and so continuing Prayers did never stir nor strive but abode the flames until he ended Vol. 2. p. 314. Dr. Barnes of Cambridge in King Henry the Eighth's days burned in Smithfield 1541. Iuly 30. he much promoted good Learning in Cambridge and then Religion yet afterwards recanted twice but at length preached Christianity again for which he being apprehended was to be burnt who making his Confession said He dyed for the Faith of Christ by whom alone he doubted not but to be saved he prayed for pardon And whereas

Purgatory He was nine Months in Prison in great misery bewailing his former life though no man could charge him with any outward Crime and enduring more severe torments by the Officers afterwards he being of a weak body comforted himself thus This Body said he must once dye but the Spirit shall live the Kingdom of God endureth for ever And swooning when he came to himself he said Oh Lord why hast thou forsaken me but his Tormentors further vexing him he said O Lord I beseech thee forgive them they know not what they do And when Sentence was given against him he comforted himself with S. Paul's words Rom. 8. saying Who shall separate us from the love of God shall the Sword hunger nakedness no nothing shall pluck me from him And being brought to the place of Execution he sang the 114. Psalm and testified he dyed for the Gospel of Christ and said O Lord haste thee to help me and tarry not and desired all to study the Gospel and not to fear them that kill the body He said he found his Flesh to resist marvellously his Spirit but he should soon cast it off And then begging the people to pray for him he said often O Lord my God into thy Hands I commend my Soul In the often repeating of which he dyed being strangled and burned Vol. 2. p. 129 130. Anne Audebert an Apothecaries Wife and Widow at Orleance in France being judged to be burnt for Religion's sake when the Rope was about her neck to strangle her she called it her Wedding Girdle wherewith she should be married to Christ And as she should be burned on a Saturday she said I was first married upon a Saturday and on a Saturday I shall be married again And martyred she was with such constancy as made the beholders to marvel Vol. 2. p. 135. Somponius Algerius a young man burnt at Rome 1555. being in Prison at Venice from whence he was sent to Rome he wrote an Epistle to the persecuted and afflicted Saints wherein he declares the many ways he was tempted to recant to which Tempters he said God forbid I should deny Christ whom I ought to confess I will not set more by my life than by my Soul nor will I exchange the life to come for this present world Vol. 2. p. 180 181 182. Mrs. Anne Askew being 1545. apprehended and often examined as an Heretick subscribed two of her Confessions thus By Anne Askew that neither wisheth death nor feareth his might and as merry as one that is bound towards Heaven God have the praise thereof with thanks She always concluded her Letters with Pray Pray Pray She was racked till almost dead to discover her Confederates but she would not then was she by flattery tempted but was not so won to deny her Faith but said she would rather burn than deny it In Newgate before she suffered she made a Confession of her Faith clearing her self from Errours and proving her self a Christian and then prayed for support against the malice of her Enemies that they might not overcome her and that God would pardon their sins and open their Eyes and Hearts to do what God pleased and to set forth his Truth without Errour She was of a Family that she might have lived in great wealth and prosperity if she had loved the world more than Christ but she being constant was at last being unable to go by reason of her racking brought in a Chair to Smithfield and there chained to a Stake when Wrisley then Lord Chancellor sent her pardon and bad her recant but she refused to look once on them and said she came not thither to deny her Lord and Master and so was burned in Iune 1546. with whom suffered also Iohn Lacels Iohn Adams and Nicholas Belenian which three men though courageous before yet by her Exhortation and Example were emboldened and received greater comfort Vol. 2. p. 580. Iohn Ardeley an Essex man being burnt Iune 10. 1555. was examined and perswaded by Bishop Bonner to recant to whom he said Bear as good a face my Lord as you can you and all of your Religion are of a false Faith and not of the Catholick Church God foreshield I should recant for then should I lose my Soul and if every hair on my head was a man I would suffer death in the Faith and Opinion that I now am in And so he did Vol. 3. p. 253. Will. Allen a Norfolk man burnt at Walsingham 1555. in September because he would not go in Procession and kneel to the Cross he was in such favour with the Justices of Peace for his tryed conversation amongst them that he was permitted to go to his Sufferings untyed and there being fastned with a Chain stood quietly without shrinking till he dyed Vol. 3. p. 419. Rose Allen of much Bentley in Essex being fetching drink for her sick Mother in a morning with a light Candle who was also with her self and Father apprehended by Edmond Tyrrel Esq to be all three carried to Colchester Goal for the Gospel who perswaded this Rose Allen to counsel her Parents well who said They had a better Counsellor than she to wit the Holy Ghost who I trust will not suffer them to erre And being for this accused of Heresie by him she said With that which you call Heresie I worship my Lord God To whom he then said I perceive you will also burn for company's sake And she answered Not for company's sake but for Christ's sake and if he call me to it I hope in his mercy he will enable me to bear it So Tyrrel took her Candle and held it to her hand burning it crossways the back of it till the sinews crackt asunder and asked her often during that tyranny What you Whore will you not cry To whom she said she had no cause to weep if he considered it well he had more cause to weep for she had none she thanked God but rather had cause to rejoice and she said that though at first burning it was some grief to her yet the longer it burnt the lesser she felt or well near no pain at all Vol. 3. p. 830. Iohn Alcock a young man in Suffolk apprehended at Hadley because he would not move his Cap as the Priest came into Church with a Procession and being bid to take heed of the Priest he said I fear not for he shall do no more than God will give him leave and happy shall I be if God will call me to dye for his Truths sake And being sent up to London he dyed in Prison at Newgate and was buried in a Dunghil 1558. Vol. 3. p. 883. Richard Atkins burnt at Rome 1581. he was born in Hartfordshire in England and travelling to Rome he came to the English Colledge knocking at whose Gates several English Scholars came out and bid him go to the Hospital and there he should receive his meat and drink But he declared he came not to