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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.
To whom William ⟨p. 86⟩Hunter said, For my little pain which I shall suffer, which is but short, Christ hath promised me a Crown of joy; may you not be glad of that Mother? Who answered, yea, I think thee as well bestowed as any Child I ever did bear; and prayed to God to strengthen him to the end. He was burnt March 26. 1555. As he went to the Stake he met his Father, who said to him, God be with thee my Son William: and he answered, God be with you my good Father; be of good comfort, for I hope we shall meet again when we shall be merry. And, taking up a Faggot, he kneeled down and prayed, and read the 51. Psalm, and then went to the Stake, standing upright, begging the people to pray for him and to dispatch him quickly: He still had his pardon offered, if he would recant; but he refused. At his request for the peoples Prayers, one Justice Brown said, he would pray no more for him, than for a Dog. To whom William Hunter said, You now have, Sir, what you sought for; I pray God it be not laid to your ⟨p. 87⟩charge, howbeit I forgive you. And soon after he prayed, Son of God, shine on me; and immediately the Sun in the Element shone out of a dark Cloud so full in his Face, that he was forced to turn away his head; whereat the people mused, because it was so dark a day a little time before. Then William Hunter took and embraced a Faggot in his Arms, and when the Fire was kindled, he lift up his hands to Heaven, and said, Lord, Lord, Lord, receive my spirit, and so dyed. Vol. 3. p. 191, to 194.
Thomas Hawks, an Essex Gentleman, being threatened by Bishop Bonner if he would not recant, said always, Ye shall do no more than God will give you leave; and at last at his condemnation being urged to recant, he said, No, had I an hundred bodies I would suffer them all to be torn in pieces, rather than recant. As he went to Execution, June 10. 1555. being desired by his Friends that he would show them some sign in the flames, if he could, whereby they might know more certainly, whether the pain ⟨p. 88⟩