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Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…
Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful soldiers that the Devil either by his grand captains the emperors, or by his most dearly beloved sons and heirs the popes, have most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poisoned doctrines wherewith that great read dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his traitorous practises and designs, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, and our most religious Sovereign Lord King James. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and divers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Lady ANNE of Bullen.
Within short time after, the King married the Lady Anne Bullen, Mother to Queen Elizabeth, who was the secret aider and comforter of all the Professors of the Gospel, and her alms showed her life was accordingly, which was a hundred gowns weekly, and other apparel yearly before she was married, both to men & women, she also gave much private alms to the widows and poor householders continually, until she was apprehended. And she ever gave three or four pounds at a time to them, to buy them Kine, and sent her Sub-almoner about to the Townes where she lay, that the Parishioners should make a b•ll of all the poor householders in their parish: and some parishes received 7. 8. or 10. pounds to buy Kine withal: Also, she maintained many learned men in Cambridge, so did the Earle of Wiltshire her Father, and the Lord Roch her Brother, and she brought them in favour with •ing Henry. She carried always about her a little purse, out of which she was wont daily to scatter abroad some alms to the needy, thinking no day well spent wherein none had fared the better for her. She kept her Maids, and such as were about her, employed in making shirts and smocks for the poor, but the Lady Dowager being divorced, made the Pope to curse the King, and interdict the realm: In the mean time Queen Anne being great with child, in the next year following was crowned with high solemnity at Westminster, and not long after brought to •ed at Greenwich,1 of the fair Lady, Elizabeth: The Lord Major of London and his Brethren, with forty chief Citizens, were commanded to be present, with all the Nobles and Gentlemen: The Kings Palace, and all the walls to the Fryers were hanged with Arras, d the Friars Church. The Font war of Silver, and stood in the midst of the Church, three steps high, which was covered with fine linen, and divers Gentlemen with aprons and towels about their necks, gave attendance about it: Over the Font hung a fair Canopy of Crimson Satin, fringed with Gold.