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Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many…Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many…
Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Fox's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]
London: printed for R. Butler, 1677
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.
William Gardiner, born at Bristow, and there dealing in Merchandise under one Mr. Paget a Merchant, at 26 years of age sailed to Spain, but by chance the Ship arrived at Lisbon the chief City of Portugal, where he stayed and merchandised, and learning their tongue, he acted for many English Merchants, and had much knowledge in Scripture and the Reformed Religion: And being there, and happening to be at the solemnizing of a marriage between the King of Portugal's Son, and the King of Spain's Daughter, and beholding great Pomp and greater Idolatry acted by the Kings, and all the Assembly's adoring the Mass, praying, kneeling and worshipping the external Sacrament, he was ⟨p. 71⟩much troubled, and could he have got near the Altar would have interrupted them; but being hindered by the throng of the people, he was very sorrowful for his neglect of that opportunity to declare against their Idolatry, which neglect he much lamented, and contrived how to redeem it; to effect which he cast up all his accounts, and bad adieu to worldly concerns; and giving himself to reading, meditating, fasting, weeping, and praying: He being cleanly dressed the next Sunday, when the like Solemnity was to be done, he gat to the Altar betimes, and there stood with a Testament in his hand till the Cardinal came to solemnize it, and till he consecrated, sacrificed, and lifted up on high the Host, showing his God to the people, who with the Kings and Nobles gave great reverence to it; and at last, when the Cardinal came to begin to toss it to and fro round the Chalice, making several Circles, this Gardner stepped in, and with one hand took the Cake and trod it under foot, and with the other ⟨p. 72⟩hand overthrew the Chalice, in the presence of the Kings, and the Nobles and Citizens, which abashed them all; and one cut him with a Sword, but the King commanded he should be saved; and being examined, he confessed himself to be an English-man and a Protestant, and decried much against their Idolatry;
William Gardiner, born at Bristow, and there dealing in Merchandise under one Mr. Paget a Merchant, at 26 years of age sailed to Spain, but by chance the Ship arrived at Lisborne the chief City of Portugal, where he stayed and merchandised, and learning their tongue, he acted for many English Merchants, and had much knowledge in Scripture and the Reformed Religion: And being there, and happening to be at the solemnizing of a marriage between the King of Portugal's Son, and the King of Spain's Daughter, and beholding great Pomp and greater Idolatry acted by the Kings, and all the Assembly's adoring the Mass, praying, kneeling and worshipping the external Sacrament, he was