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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
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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 •ar•e 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.
About this time there was a Cat hanged vpon a Gallow•s at the Crosse in Cheape, apparelled like a Priest, ready to say Masse with a shauen Crowne: her two fore-feete were tyed ouer her head, with a round paper like a Wafer Cake put betweene them, where on rose great euill will against the Citie of London: the Quéene and the Bishops were very angry, and there was a proclamation in the afternoone, that whosoeuer could bring forth the party that hanged vp the Cat should haue twenty Nobles, which after was increased to twenty Markes, but none would •ar•e it, the occasion of this was, because the Bishop of Winchester had preached before the Queene for the straite execution of Wyats Souldiours: Wherevpon there was twenty Gibbets and Gallowes set vp, in and about the streets of London, which there remained for the terrour of others from the 13. of February, vntill the fourth of Iune, and at the comming of King Philip were taken downe.
One Master Walter Mantel, one of them which rose with Wyatt, being prisoner in the Tower, the Queen sent unto him Doctor Bourne, to convert him: he answered Bourne that he believed in the holy Catholic church of Christ, grounded upon the Prophets and Apostles, but he took exception to the Antichristian popish Church: and he said, he thought the Mass not fit, both for the occasion of Idolatry, and also the clear […] of Christs institution: and said it was not a propitiatory sacrifice for sin: for the death of Christ was only that sacrifice, and certain Collects therein are blasphemous. Then said the Doctor, see how vainglory toucheth you; then I found fault it was not a Communion: Yes said he one Priest saying Mass here, and another there, and the third in an other place is a Communion: Then he desired God to receive him to his mercy, that he might die undefiled in his truth, at utter defiance with all papistical and Antichristian Doctrine: and to defend all his chosen, from the tyranny of the Pope and Antichrist and from his subtleties: at his first casting off the Gallows the rope broke, then they would have had him recant, and received the Sacrament of the Altar, and then he should have the Queens Pardon: but Master Mantel, like a worthy gentleman, refused their serpentine Council, and chose rather to die then to live for dishonouring of God.