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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.
JOHN BROWNE, a blessed Martyr, burned at Ashford in the second year of Henry the eighth, Anno 1511.
IOHN BROVVNE, a blessed Martyr, burned at Ashford in the second yeare of Henrie the eighth, Anno 1511.
The said John Browne passing to Graves-end in a Barge, a Priest began to swell and stomach that he should sit so near him, at length said, Doest thou know who I am, thou fittest so near me and upon my clothes? No sir, said the other. I tell you, said he, I am a Priest. What sir, are you a Parson or Vicar, or some Ladies Chaplain? No, said he, I sing for a Soul. I pray you, said the other, where find you the Soul when you go to Mass? I cannot tell, said he. I pray where do you leave it when you have done Mass? I know not; said the Priest. How then, said the other, can you save the Soul? I perceive thou art an Heretic, said the Priest. Within three days after, by virtue of a Warrant •rom the Archbishop, with a Bailiff and two of the Bishops men, they came suddenly into the house of the said Browne, as he was carrying a dish of meat to his guests (for his wife was that day Churched) they laid hands on him, and carried him to Canterbury, where they kept him forty days: in which time he was so pitifully entreated by Warram the Archbishop, and Fisher Bishop of Rochester, that he was set bare-footed upon hot burning coals, to make him deny his Faith; which he bare patiently, and continued in maintaining the Lords quarrel unremovable: then he was sent to Ashford, where he dwelt, the next day to be burned: where he was set in the Stocks all night; his wife sate all the while by him, to whom he declared the whole Tragedy ⟨p. 220⟩