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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.
Immediately after whose death, a Noble man named Zischa, minding to revenge the injuries of John Hus, and Jerome of Prague, gathered a number of men of War, and subverted the Monasteries and Idolatrous Temples, breaking in pieces the Images, driving away the Priests and Monks, which he said were kept up in their Cloisters like Swine in their fat sties a fating: his army increased to forty thousand men: he went to Pelzina where he knew he had many friends of his faction, and took the Town and fortified it strongly, and some of his company took the Castle of Uissegard: then the Queen sent Letters to the Emperor Sigismund, and other Nobles, requiring aid: in the mean time the Queen raised an army with the treasure of the King which could not prevail against them.
Immediatly after whose death, a Noble man named Zischa, minding to reuenge the iniuries of Iohn Hus, and Ierome of Prage, gathered a number of men of Warre, and subuerted the Monasteries and Idolatrous Temples, breaking in péeces the Images, driuing away the Priests and Monkes, which hée said were kept vp in their Cloisters like Swine in their fat sties a fatting: his army increased to fortie thousand men: hée went to Pelzina where hee knew hée had many friends of his faction, and tooke the Towne and fortified it strongly, and some of his company tooke the Castle of Uissegard: then the Quéene sent Letters to the Emperour Sygismond, and other Nobles, requiring ayde: in the meane time the Quéene raised an armie with the treasure of the King which could not preuaile against them.
Then the Protestants sent Letters throughout the whole Realm, that they should not let the Emperor enter, who was an enemy to Bohemia, had bound the ancient City of the Prutenians unto order by pledges, put the Marquess of Brandenburg from the Bohemian Crown, and not only suffered but procured John Hus, and Jerome of Prague to be burned, and with all his endeavour doth impugn the Doctrine which they taught: Zisca was twice assaulted of his enemies, ⟨p. 128⟩but was alway victor: after he went to Ausca, a town, out of which the Papists had cast many Protestants, he took the town and set it on fire: the chief Papists fled to the Castle Lytius, but he took the Castle, and put them all to sword save one: then he chose a place by a river which was fenced by nature, this place he compassed in with walls, and commanded every man to build them houses, and named it Thaber, and his companions Thabarites, as if they had seen the transfiguration of Christ in the mount: the way to it by land was scarce thirty foot broad, for it is almost an Island, they had no horsemen until the Emperor sent Nicholas, Master of the Mints, with a thousand horsemen, to withstand the Taborites, upon whom Zisca came in the night, and took away all his horses and armour.