A07225:1815
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.
About this time at Saint Pancrase in Cheap, the Crucifix with the Pyx were taken out of the Sepulchre before the Priest rose to the resurrection: so that when he put his hand into the Sepulchre, & said very devoutly surrexit non est hic, he found his words true, for he was not there indeed, whereupon being dismayed, and debating amongst themselves whom they thought likest to do it: they laid it to one Marsh, which a little before had been put from that parsonage because he was married, but when they could not prove it, being brought before the ⟨p. 244⟩Mayor, they burdened him to have kept company with his wife since they were divorced: He answered that the Queen had done him wrong to take from him both his living, and his wife: whereupon he and his wife were committed several Counters.
About this time at Saint Pancrase in Cheape, the Crucifixe with the Pixe were taken out of the Sepulchre before the Priest rose to the resurrection: so that when he put his hand into the Sepulchre, & said very deuoutly surrexit non est hic, he found his words true, for he was not there indéede, wherevpon being dismaide, and debating amongst themselues whom they thought likest to doe it: they layed it to one Marsh, which a little before had beene put from that parsonage because he was married, but when they could not proue it, being brought before the ⟨p. 244⟩Mayor, they burdened him to haue kept company with his wife since they were diuorced: He answered that the Queene had done him wrong to take from him both his liuing, and his wife: wherevpon he and his wife were committed seuerall Counters.
About this time there was a Cat hanged upon a Gallows at the Cross in Cheap, apparelled like a Priest, ready to say Mass with a shaven Crown: her two fore-feet were tied over her head, with a round paper like a Wafer Cake put between them, where on rose great evil will against the City of London: the Queen and the Bishops were very angry, and there was a proclamation in the afternoon, that whosoever could bring forth the party that hanged up the Cat should have twenty Nobles, which after was increased to twenty Marks, but none would are it, the occasion of this was, because the Bishop of Winchester had preached before the Queen for the strait execution of Wyatt's Soldiers: Whereupon there was twenty Gibbets and Gallows set up, in and about the streets of London, which there remained for the terror of others from the 13. of February, until the fourth of June, and at the coming of King Philip were taken down.