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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 BRADFORD.
IOHN BRADFORD.
HE was borne at Manchester in Lancaster:1 On the 13. day of August, in the first year of Queen Mary: Master Bourne, Bishop of Bathe, made a beastly Sermon at Pauls Cross to set up popery, as before is said: Boner being present, the people were ready to pull him out of the Pulpit, and a Dagger was hurled at him, and being put from ending his Sermon, he entreated Bradford being with him, to speak and appease the people, when he came into the place of the Preacher, all the people cried Bradford, Bradford, God save thee Bradford: And after they heard his godly exhortation they left off their raging. Bourne thought himself not yet sure of his life, until he was safely housed, th•ugh the Sheriff and Mayor were ready to help him. Wherefore he desired Bradford not to depart from him until he was in safety, and Bradford went at his back shadowing him with his Gown: Amongst whom one Gentleman said: Ah Bradford, Bradford, thou savest him that will help to burn ⟨p. 275⟩thee: I give thee his life for if it were not for thee, I would run him through with my sword, within three dares after Bradford was sent for to the Tower, and there the Council charged him with sedition for this matter, and committed him to the Tower, and from the Tower to the Kings Bench in Southwark, and after his condemnation unto the Counter in the Poultry, whilst he remained in these two prisons he preached twice a day continually almost two years.