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= Famer Panane, At Paris, one James Panane, 4 School-maſter, was burnt for the Truth. 
' Dennis de Alſo at Melda, Dennis de Rewx was burned, for ſaying, That the Maſs was 4 


plain denial of the Death and Paſſion of Chriſt. He uſed often to meditate of, and 
to repeat thoſe words of Chriſt. He that denies me before men, him will 1 deny alſo 
before ns Father, He was burnt in aſlow fire, and ſo abode much torment. 


John de Cadurco, Preaching to his Countreymen of Limoſire, was apprehend- 

ed and degraded. The Fryer that was to Preach at his Degradation, took that 

Text, 1 Tim. 4. The Spirit ſpeaks expreſly,, that in the latter days men ſhall depart 

F-- from the Faith, giving heed to lying ſpirits and doftrines of Errors, "Then did Fohz 
be —_ Pro- call to him to read on, but the Fryer ſtood dumb, and could not ſpeak:a word 


more. Then did John read on, Teaching falſe doftrine in hypocriſie, having their 
conſciences ſeared with an hot iron, forbidding to marry, and to eat meats created by 
God tobe received with thankſgiving, &c. Preſently after he was burned. 


has i About the ſame time, five Men for ſcattering about certain Papers agarnſt 


the Maſs, and other Popiſh Superſtitions, were apprehended and burnt at Par. 
One of them for ſpeaking freely, had his Tongue burned through, and with a 
- wire tied faſt to one of his Cheeks. CE DOE: 
_—_— Alexander Canus, agodly Miniſter, for Preaching and confeſſing the'Truth 
48 of Chriſt, was burned at Paris with a ſmall fire, whereby he indured great pain. 
Fobn Pointer. Alſo John Pointer, a Chirurgeon, had his Tongue firſt cut out, and then was 
burat abour the ſame time, EF" 
Peter Gauder, Peter Gandet, living at Geneva, was by a Popiſh Uncle trained into Fraxce, 
Popilhere= © pprehended, condemned; and after many and long:torments ſuſtained in Priſon, 
was burned. _ 14 | 
Divers others were apprehended, condemned, and burned at Arras. 
Fohn Cornon. A godly Virgin was burned at Fountains,' Anno 1534. As allo one Fohy Cor- 
#02, an Husbandman ; but one indowed with ſuch-wildom by Goa, that all his 
Judges were amazed at it : Yet was he condemned and burned. 
” Martin Genin, Martin Gonin was caſt into the River and drowned. o 
” Claudia, Anno 1540, One Claudius indeavoring toconvert his Friends and Kinsfolk 
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more hurt than good. 57 | 6 5 SOR: 
Anno 1554. . There were two godly Men, with one of their Soris' ahda* 
Daughter going towards Gezeva, whom a Lieutenant overtaking by the wi > - 
like.a Judas, he infinuated himſelf into their company, pretended great favorto A Fulay 
them and to that Religion,which he&faid;he ſuppoſed them tobe of: Andſo with __ = 
fair words he circumvented them, and drew out of: them that' they were Pro- - * © 
teſtants,and their Wives at Geneva,whither they were now. travelling : Thendid © 
he apprehend them, and carry them to the Caſtle of ' Niver»e. During theit” 
impriſonment, they were examined of many Articles,to which they ma 
and clearan{wer according to their Faith : After this they were fa e3 
ly for three hours together toforce them torecant, which they bore-with ad-+ 
murable patience : Being therefore condemned, as they-went-toexecution, the 7 
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* 228 - The Perſecution of the Church tn France. 
” * Zeal. Officer bound a wooden Croſs between their Hands, but they pulled it out with 
WW --: their Teeth, and threw it away, whereupon their Tongues were cut out; nat- 
FA Mirace, withſtanding which God gave them utterance, fo that they ſpake plain, ſaying, 
| we bid ſin, the fleſh, the world, and the devil farewel for. ever, with whom we ſhall 
never have more to do hereafter, and much more to the like purpoſe. - When the 
Officer came to beſmear them with Brimſtone and Gunpowder, they ſaid, Go to, 
ſalt on, ſalt on the ſtinking and rotten fleſh , and lo perliſting conſtant in the flames, 
3 they finiſhed their Martyrdom. | 
” Philbert Ham- Anno 1557, Philbert Hamlin, Prieſt, was through Gods grace brought to 
= - the knowledg of the Truth, he he went to Gezeva, where he exerciſed 

the Art of Printing, and ſent Books abroad. Afterwards he was made a Mini- 
ſter, and preached at the Town of Alezart, inwhich and in ſome other places he 
did much good : At laſt he with his Hoſt, a Prieſt, whom he had inſtruted in 
the knowledg of the Goſpel, were apprehended and caſt into Priſon, at Bour- 
deaux ;, And whilſt they lay there,in came a Prieft with his furniture to ſay Maſs : 
But Philbert, inflamed with a holy zeal, went and plucked the garments from 
his back, and overthrew the Chalice and Candleſticks, laying, 1s it not enough 
for you to Blaſpheme God in the Churches, but you muſt alſo pollute the Priſon with 
your 1aolatry ? The Jailor ſeeing this, fell upon him, and beat him with his Raff, 
and alſo removed him into'a dungeon, loading him with-Irons which made his 
Legs to ſwell : There he lay eight days. The Prieſt his Hoſt, terrified with the 
Apoſtacy, Prilon and fear of death, renounced Chr:t and his Word, and was ſet at liberty , 
| whereupon Philbert (aid to him, O nnhappy and more than miſerable Man | Is it 
A Propheſie, poſſible that you ſhowld be ſo fooliſh, as for to ſave your life a few, days, you ſhould ſo 
ſtart away from and deny the Truth? Know you therefore, that although hereby you © 
have avoided the corporal fire, yet your life (hall be never the longer ; For you ſhall die 
before me, andyet fat not have the honey to die for the cauſe of God 5. and you ſhall be 
an example to all Apoſtates. Having ended his Speech, and the Prieſt going out 

| Gods judg- of Priſon, he was preſently {lain by two Gentlemen, who formerly had a quar-. 
oO menton® reltohim. Philbert hearing of it, profeſſed that he knew of no ſuch thing be- 

b. porate, R . . R . 

# | fore, but ſpake as.it pleaſe God to guigſhis Tongue. Philbert being condem- 
ned, and had to execution,they Jabored fo drowt: his voice by founding of Trum- 
pets, and ſo inthe midft of the flames, praying and exhorting the people, he ren- 

\ --- _ dred uphis Soul unt&&od. | h 04 

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he patiently took his Martyrdom an Foxwile. : 
About the ſame time a company of the Faithful of about Three or Four hun- 
dred were met together at an Houle in Par, in the beginning of the night, to 

4 receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper : Some Prieſts getting intelligence of 
”  Popiſhmalice. it, gathered many of that faction together, and came, and beſet the Houſe, ma- 
E king an outcry that the watch might come and apprehend them,ſo that.in a ſhort 

time moſt of the City of Paris was up in Arms, ſuppoting that there had been 
ſome conſpiracy. , The people following the noiſe, and perceiving that they 
were Lutherans, they grew into a great rage, feeking to murther them, and 
thereupon ſtopped the ſtreets and .lanes with Catts, and made-fires that none 
mighteſcape them, But through Gods mercy, before this tumult began, the 
Faithful had finiſhed their adminiſtration and prayers, with as much quiet as ever 
they had done. And now ſeeing this ſudden danger, they were fomewhat ama- 
zed; whereupon the Paſtors of the Congregation exhorted them, and fell-to pray- 
er: After which, conſidering the cowardlinels of the multitude, it was reſolved 


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chery. 
Blind zeal. 


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chat fach as ie” weapons "ould — thr 
in practice, the —_ Powne of _— prrye-onet 
fires, and t the pallages, yett 
down with fade, and {lain : The any i wanted Wi 1 
One hundred and twenty, ſtayed in the Houſe with the Women and Childr 
' ſome of which leaped into Gardens, where: they. remained «ill the Magiſtrates - 
came : The Women, which were all Perſons of good quality, ſave Six or Seven, v9} vl 
. Perceiving their danger by reaſon of the fury of the people, went 'up into the 
Windows, ſhewed their innocency, and'defired that they might be tried in an 
ordinary way of Juſtice ; yet there they were /incloſed. by -the rabble for Six or 
Seven hours; At laſt came the Kings Atturney with - many Serjeants and Ot 
cers, who with much ado ae Top the paples entred into the Houle, 
and their ſeeing the quality of To Perſons, and their innocency the A 
much pitied them, yet carried chem to Priſon in the little Caſt: But. as | 
went; the furious multitude plucked and haled the Gentlewomen, - tore their Popids rage 
garments, pulled their Hoods from their Heads, and all beſmeared hep Faces | craeley, / 
with duſt and dirt. FED 
In the Priſon they were uſed no better ; For the Villains and Thizves being 
let out of their holes, and ſtinking Caves, theſe Lambs of Chriſt were pur into 
their rooms. Then follswed the cruel and flanderous reports of the S, yo 
in their Sermons railed upon them, told the people that they were 
make a Banquet in the night, after which, putting out the Candles, tl 
together Fact with Fill; after a filthy and- Beaſtly-manner ; They cha rem Satans fo 
alſo with ſedition, as if they conſpired againſt the King, &«c. pn thele cutled T- - 
| defamations'were no ſooner vented, but they were ſpread abroad far and-wide, 
yet inthe Court it {elf, and the Cardinal of Lorraine procured 4 Certain Juc to. 
come'to the King, who teſtified that he found in the Houſe divers Couchesupoa -- i 
which they intended tocommit their Whoredoms and —_— whieh ark —— 
enflamed the King againſt them. | "ol 
- Theſe things made the Enemies to triumph excerdingly, | 
ry, the Brethren which eſcaped, were full of per 
rowing not ſo much for themſelves, as for the'im 
yet they much comforted themſelves in thei conſideration-g hel 0 
ful deliverance. They upon debate alſo reſolved, Firſt, at all 
humble themſelves before God in their own Families. Ys 
the falſe rumors, to write tw9 Apologies, one to the King, and another to the ib 
Thirdly, To write conſolatory Letters to their Friends in Priſon,” | w- 
| The Apology to the King: was . written: and conveyed privily into 2 
Chamber, where it was met with. and read openly, before the. 


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was falſe, and a pretence to hide their wickedte(s ; Bur that to-che Pepple - 


did very much good, and fo did their conlolatory. Letxer to cheir Eriends in | 
Priſon. 

The Adverſaries all this while did beſtir heme eighth were 
bo Priſon to execution, and procured: 4 Commilſion- fromthe 

udges to haſten their trial. '  Butit-ſell aut by Gods Providence, that 3 
be oteſtant Princes of Germany 'were-met: aa Colleguy: at won, ow 
divers learned egg queſting, them to ſend their Ay 
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Gaſcojzne to joyn her ſelf to the Church at Paris, was brought/forth with' the for- 
mer,” and endured many conflicts with: the Judges and Sorboniſts ; who when 
ſhe was urged to recant, ſaid, That ſhe had learned her faith from the word of . God, 


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lice, that there was much ſinging of ?ſ«/»zs in her Houle, and that ſometimes they 
ID had ſeen abundance of people come out of it, and that at the death of her Huſ- 
Gods Juip- band no Prieſt was called for, &&c. But preſently after, two of theſe witnefles 


ment on | : : , 
ſecutors. fell out; and one ſlew the other with a Knife, 


might have her eſtate. When ſhe was condemned, ſhe had her Tongue cur, 
as the two former alſo were ſerved. Going to: execution, ſhe. dreſſed her ſelf 
Courage. like a Bride, being that day to be married to her Spoule Feſws Chriſt ; the went to 
the = without ever changing countenance, and ſo quietly yielded up her ſpirit 
, to God, . | | 
Divers others of this Congregation ſuffered in the like ſort, the reſt, at the 
—_ of the Prince 'Elector Palatize, and the Proteſtant Switzers were re- 
leaſed. * . | 
In other parts of Fraxce alſo ſundry faithful Chriſtians were impriſoned, 
cruelly racked, had their Tongues cur out, and finally were burned, con- 
cerning whom becauſe I find nothing extraordinary, I have forborn to men- 
tion them. | | 
Anno 1559. The King of Fraxce, Henrythe Second, coming into the Par- 
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ſoon after finiſhed his courſe, and quietly refigned up: his Soul un- 
| : to . 
At cAmiens; At Amiens , all Bibles, New Teitaments, and Pfaim-Books were ſought for 
Bibles burat. 1,4 openly burnt, as alſo the Miniſters Pulpit. Then did the G#ifians proceed to 
killing ſome of the Proteſtants, and caſting them into the River ; ſome they ſhot 
to death, and others they h 6 AE HON 15 £: 
At Abbevilli they ſlew the Lord of Hawcort, with divers others , one Beliart 


Ar Abbevils. | 
they dr along the Streets with his Face downwards, and then drowned 

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- Ar Meauxs, © At Meauxthe Proteſtants were the Croat Ry, und therefore continued 
; the free exerciſe of their Religion for ,a while: But the Parliament of Paris 


gave judgment againſt them, and gn them to the ſpoil of fuch as would un- 
Gertake it : Then a Company of Soldiers entring the Town',: CIROINE 
þ - itizens, 


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livered out of Priſon, yet in the end he glorified God by his death ; and if 1 ſhould 
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putting Bolts upon him, becauſe of his ſore Leg, yet did he put him intoa ſtrait- 


that they would not leave ſo much as a Houſe ftanding except they would. 


time amongſt them with wonderful fruit; But by reaſon that he was fo extream-. 


Citizens, ey" or ER prime Err 
Bbi(y entring with. more Soldiers cotnmirred); 
Maids were ravithed in the open Market- 
and hauled w —_ —_ _— ro openly, married ; 
were pillaged and piundre me that 1ed - WILL 
and _—_— Many © ng Women and Hee wp zh * maſſacred ai H 
ed.; Infants were daſhed againſt the Walls, , and ſome others were 
The Executionets running into divers places,; Committed: a world of i my 
arid diyers Prieſts: amongſt chem flew ſome of the Proteftants wich th 
Hands. ! 

At Troys, Bibles and Diviaity- -Books were tecit and: torn in f oavng 
the Religion were murthered, and their * Houſes ſacked ;. Eig A 
hanged ; Womeir were dragged through theStreets, - and caſt Fes the River; 
and Infants were pulled from their Mothers Breſts, and re-baptized., = 

'At Bar the Popiſh Enemies enjring the Town, committed ed ſuch crueltics as ArB 
never were ſeen, eſpecially agaibſ} Women and little Children ; Some of 'thejr 
Breſts:they cut open, pulled out their Hearts _08 gnawed thery with thir T th, 
rejoycing that they had taſted of an Hug#cets Heart ; A young Coun icy 
hanged at the requeſt of his own Father ; with. moſt horrible Blaphemies thez 
raviſhed Womertand Girls. _— 5 

Monnſ! enr de St, Eſteen, with his two ' forhers, were cru & 689 = al 
their own Couſin-germane, their Wives were foiled of all Hey cruelty, 
away Priſoners. * be” 
* The Peſants in ſome places committed infinite murthers and miſchiefs again | 4 
thoſe of the Religion ; _Mownſicvr de Yigney with his Wife and Sefyapi rhiey 2 
{acred-irrhis own Houſe, which afterward they pillaged and ſpoi S202, 

In Cant, the Peſants entring the Town,murthered MF popes col] 
together with his Father they burat.. . +, CR — 
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At Auxerre one Coſſon was barbarouſly maſſcred ; A fair young Geatle- Ar 4 4 fx ome 


woman was ſtabbed and caſt intothe River ; z many other PRs and robb 
were committed, ae) 
At Werers the Miniſters were caſt into Priſon, whereof one periſhed. T 
bly there ; Another. miraculouſly eſcaped ;; Childfen were re-F ; 'D 
riages reiterated; and many Houles pfu | BITE. - 
The Popiſh party entring Chaſtillon, left flo kind of erucly i inexerciſed, nei- 
ther u upon W omen an n,; old nor 'oung3 you not pon: ts Y omen 
with Child that wee realy 5p looulive p A hte Rhea 
At 'Guyen they u hp all the iely that, po plas wo A and 
ſome 1taliaxs, in hatred 0 © tha; Relig ng, out an REY pieces,. and eat 
his Liver. _ 
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and Daughter to King the-I Ft} y5H Wh 
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praiſed God with a chearful heatt and voice, the quietly rel igned up" her ſpixix om.” 
Unto God. SI I. 


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he uſed all kinds of cruelty, cially 
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was but twelve years old, to ſhew ham thenake 
in their own Blood; After divers affaultsthe City of R9e: 
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of thy God, and call upox# bims 


now to help thee. 
Art Vire. ' Inr7re as they came from a Sermon, ſome were ſlain, ſome ſtoned, and a 
: whule after many were put to the Sword. 4 St 
- Ar eAgen. In and about Agen, Mornlnc killed and maſſacred many,two young Children 
® were roaſted. | | pts tore. 
At Reime. In the Caltle of Reime, Morluc uſed great cruelty againſt thoſe of the Religi- 


on, ſparing none, but murthering young Children in their Mothers Arms, and 
then killing the Mothers : Some other Women they reſerved for their luſt, which 
they ſo abuſed, that (faith mine Author) I abhor to write it. ', Above Five hun- 
dred men were hanged upon Gibbets, amongſt whom was a grave Counſellor in 
his long Gown and iquare Cap. . One poor Man they cut nw mafigled in ſeveral 
i - parts of his Body, filling all his wounds with falt. 

> Art Blok. . In the City of Blois there was a godly Woman called N:chola, at whoſe 
AY Houſe ſome holy people uſed to meet to pray, and confer together tor their mu- 
tual edification and comfort. - The murtherers hearing of 1t, came ruſhing'in, 
thinking to have found a Miniſter preaching, bur being diſappointed 1n their ex- 
pectations, they dragged theſe good Women out by the Hair'of the Head ,' load- 
"A ed them with many ſtripes, and then threw them 4nto; the River :: But behold'a 
3 ſingular Providence ! God ſo endowed them with. ftrength and, skill, that they 
ſwam fafely to an Iland : Yet after a while ſome Watermen finding them 
there, they ſtript them ſtark naked, and threw: them again int the River, -yet 
" they ſtill Jought to ſave themſelves by ſwimming; and. coming at laſt 'to'the 
, Suburbs of Yienne, they were there moſt cruelly knocked on the Head: by the _ 
bloody Papiits. ts el 226; yo OTINE: NNN 6

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in a place of great ſecreſie ; after which he ſhnthimalclfup-aiwhi 
dy, by Prayer to fit himſe If for death, into which the murthexers breaking-w 

Baetle-axes and Staves, {o loaded him with: blows onthe Head; prmemr. anr 
his blood-into his owti hands z and when cher ng killed him, they: threw .bim = 
into the River. £ ) F229 7 raid Sled; 5 - 
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w_ into the River 7. Y niraon ly preſerving - all the other Miniſteds.in ' — bk 
t &C i 25) FI9UPYS ; 

A feweller be being in Bed with his Wife; who ar-tharitithehad the Midwife ” 
with her, being near the time of her Delivery; theſe bloody. Villains cameknock- _ 
ing at the Door; and in the Kings name demanded Cnerance 5 the wontan as ill 
as ſhe was, 0 petied/the Dvor,- whereupon r An; her Hasband 
in his Bed , ths Midwife ſeeing that they werebent to  murther che woman alſo; 
earneſtly intreated therti totarty at leaſt {o long till the Infant (which wonld be 
the twentieth Child that God had given her) was Born: | 
her requeſt, they took the woman, and thruft a-Da aggerines her Fundarheat 1 
to the Hilts ; the wornan finding her ſelf morratly-w 7 ded; yer defwougtg bri 

moths 


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forth her Fruit, fled into a Corn loft, whither rh CES 

her another ſtob'int the Belly; and ſo caſt herour of the 

and uport the fall, the Child came forthot her Body; _ head forhoft;r Do | 

and yauning in pitiful winner,” 7 SAT 7 
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ſome had no part of humane ſhape re- 


The murther- 
ers abſolved, 


At Angiers. 


Hypocriſie, 
A Miniſter 
murthered. 


maining. | 

Shortly after the Popes Legat came thither, and as he came out of the great 
Church from Maſs, all the chief Maſſacres kneeled down for to have his abloſu-. 
tion, and when he was told who they were, and why they kneeled there, ' he 
abſolved them all by making the ſign of the Crols. : 

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Avgiers, and coming to the Houſe of a Reverend, Godly, and Learned Miniſter 
called Maſter Fohn Maſon, _ his Wife at the Door, hefaluted her, asking 
where her Husband was * She ſaid, Fhat he was walking in his Garden, o_ 
him the way to him ; when he canie to him, he lovingly embraced him, and 
then ſaid, Do you know wherefore I am come to you ? The King hath Commanded nit 
preſently to kill ow, and therewithal he preſented a Piſtol to his Breaſt ; theMi- 
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delivered out of the Hands of theſt bloody 
Petiecutors, og 
Theophilus Meſſino was ſhot with a Muſquet, but being not ſlain, they ſet 
open his Mouth with a gag, filled it with Gunpowder, and giving fire to it, fore 
his Head miſerably ; His Son was {lain with many wounds. | 
Another being wounded apd ſtripped naked, was carried out and thrown 
into the Woods; yet ermwk he gat up and went home to his own Houle, 
where he had Mountains of Gold profered him if he would turn Papiſt , yet , 
through Gods mercy, he continued faithful tothe death. | | 
 Ayoung Gentleman, too much addicted to the vanities of the world, being 
earneſtly ſallicited to forſake the Proteſtant Religion, ſtqutly retuſed, where: 
upon they ſhot him with a Musket, and having Iain a while,and then raiting 
himſelf up, he beſought them todiſparch him, that he might render his Sonl to 
his Creator, t 
| Divers Ment and Women were thrown down from Bridges into the River 
Adaa, and drowned fof their conſtancy in the truth, | 
Some had their Mouths {lit up to their Ears ; others had the fleſh cut from 
their Faces ; others were ſlaſhed in other parts of their Body till they died, and- 
others were often put to the ſtrappado, and then hewen tt pieces. | 
A noble Virgin that was'come to Sondres for Religion fake, theſe Villains 
took and carried her