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…

Roger Holland, Son to a Lancashire Gentleman, and Apprentice to a Merchant-Taylor in London, a zealous Man; to whom this Roger was a great trouble, being a debauched Lad, and a great Papist, yet did he trust him with his Accounts; but it happened one night that Roger lost thirty pound at Dice, and not being able to pay it, resolved next morning to go to France, or Flanders; but acquainted his Fellow-servant, a Maid, whose name was Elizabeth, a Woman of great Christian profession and practice; to whom he gave a Bill to give his Master for the thirty pound, that his Master might not acquaint his Friends with it; and that if ever he was worth it, he would pay it to his Master: and so he going to leave the House, the Maid, having Money by her, brought him thirty pound, and gave him; saying, I will take the Bill my ⟨p. 92⟩self, and conceal the thing from your Friends, and my Master; and you may have this thirty pound to pay my Master, on condition that you will throw away your Popish Books and read the Bible, and attend all Christian Lectures; nor more swear, curse, drink, whore, nor play: But if you do those things again, and I know of it, I will then tell my Master of the business. But in half a years space Roger was so reformed, and so zealous a Protestant, that he was admired by his Associates: And going into Lancashire to his Friends, he was, by his Books he carried, and by his discourse, instrumental, that his Father and his Friends began to try the truth of God, and to hate Popery. And at his return to London his Father gave him fifty pound to set up with; and then he paid the Maid Elizabeth her thirty pound, and soon after Married her; and they lived heavenly together, till he was apprehended for the Gospels sake, and by Bishop Bonner persecuted; to whom he openly told the impurity of ⟨p. 93⟩their Principles, the corrupt tendency of their confessions from his own Practice, who cared not what sin he used to commit so long as he was a Papist, since the Popish Priest would, for Money, absolve him. And when he was condemned, he told Bishop Bonner, That his cruelty should be but short, nor after that day should he burn any more: which came so to pass.

Roger Holland, Son to a Lancashire Gentleman, and Apprentice to a Merchant-Taylor in London, a zealous Man; to whom this Roger was a great trouble, being a debauched Lad, and a great Papist, yet did he trust him with his Accounts; but it hapned one night that Roger lost thirty pound at Dice, and not being able to pay it, resolved next morning to go to France, or Flanders; but acquainted his Fellow-servant, a Maid, whose name was Elizabeth, a Woman of great Christian profession and practice; to whom he gave a Bill to give his Master for the thirty pound, that his Master might not acquaint his Friends with it; and that if ever he was worth it, he would pay it to his Master: and so he going to leave the House, the Maid, having Money by her, brought him thirty pound, and gave him; saying, I will take the Bill my