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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.
John Brown of Ashford was burned 1517. at Ashford, being taken away by force from his own House, the same day his Wife was Churched, and he was carried to Prison at Canterbury, for no Crime but for asking a Mass-Priest, where the Soul was when he began Mass and when he had done Mass? who answering he knew not; John Brown asked him then, how he could save the Soul? For which he was continued in Prison from Low-Sunday till Friday before Whitsuntide, his Wife not knowing where he was all this time; till the night before he was burned being set in the Stocks at Ashford, she came and sat ⟨p. 20⟩up by him, to whom he declared the whole passage, and said that the Bishops, Warham and Fisher, heated his Feet on the Coals, and burned them to the bones, to make him deny his Lord; which I will never do, added he, for if I should deny him in this world, he would deny me hereafter. I pray thee, said he further, good Elizabeth, continue as thou hast begun, and bring up thy Children virtuously in the fear of God. And the next day being Whitsunday-Eve this godly Martyr was burned; standing at the Stake he thus prayed, holding up his hands, O Lord I yield me to thy grace, Grant me mercy for my trespass, Let never the Fiend my Soul chase: Lord I will bow, and thou shalt beat, Let never my Soul come in Hell heat. Into thy hands I commend my Spirit, for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord of truth. And so he ended. Vol. 2. p. 13.
Iohn Brown of Ashford was burned 1517. at Ashford, being taken away by force from his own House, the same day his Wife was Churched, and he was carried to Prison at Canterbury, for no Crime but for asking a Mass-Priest, where the Soul was when he began Mass and when he had done Mass? who answering he knew not; Iohn Brown asked him then, how he could save the Soul? For which he was continued in Prison from Low-Sunday till Fryday before Whitsontide, his Wife not knowing where he was all this time; till the night before he was burned being set in the Stocks at Ashford, she came and sat ⟨p. 20⟩up by him, to whom he declared the whole passage, and said that the Bishops, Warham and Fisher, heated his Feet on the Coals, and burned them to the bones, to make him deny his Lord; which I will never do, added he, for if I should deny him in this world, he would deny me hereafter. I pray thee, said he further, good Elizabeth, continue as thou hast begun, and bring up thy Children vertuously in the fear of God. And the next day being Whitsonday-Eve this godly Martyr was burned; standing at the Stake he thus prayed, holding up his hands, O Lord I yield me to thy grace, Grant me mercy for my trespass, Let never the Fiend my Soul chase: Lord I will bow, and thou shalt beat, Let never my Soul come in Hell heat. Into thy hands I commend my Spirit, for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord of truth. And so he ended. Vol. 2. p. 13.