Persecuters	Martyrs.	The Causes.
Martyrs of Couentrie. Maistres Smyth Rob. Hatchets. Archer. Haukins. Thomas Bond. Wrighthā. Lūdsdale, Martyrs. Simon Mourton the By- shops Somner. The By- shop of Couētry. Frier Stafford, Warden.	Maistres Smith, wi- dow. Rob. Hat- chets, a shomaker. Archer, a shomaker. Hawkyns, a Shoma- ker. Thomas Bond, Sho maker. Wrigshā, a Glouer. Landsdale, an Hosier. At Couen trie. an. 1519.	THe principall cause of þe appre hensiō of these persōs, was for teachyng theyr childrē, & familie, the Lordes prayer, & x. Commaundementes in Eng- lishe: for whiche they were vp- pō Ashewedensday, taken and put in prisō, some in places vn der the ground, some in Cham bers, & other places about, till Friday folowyng. Then they were sent to a Monasterie cal- led Mackstocke Abbey 6. myles frō Couentry. During whiche tyme, their children were sent for to the Grayfriers in Couē- try, before the Warden of the sayd Friers, called Frier Staf- ford: Who straitly examinyng them of their beliefe, & what he resie their fathers had taught them, charged thē vpon payne of suffering such death, as their     The lords prayer in Englishe, forbidden of the Papistes. fathers should, in no wise to medle any more with þe Lordes prayer, the Crede, and com- maundements in English. &c. Whiche done, vpon Palme- sonday, the fathers of these chil	Martyrs of Couentrie. Maistres Smyth Rob. Hatchets. Archer. Haukins. Thomas Bond. Wrighthā. Lūdsdale, Martyrs. The lords prayer in Englishe, forbidden of the Papistes.
dren were brought backe agayne to Couētrie, and there, the weeke next before Easter, were cōdemned for relapse (because most of them had borne fagottes in the same Ci tie before) to be burned. Only Maistres Smith was dimissed for that present, & sent away. And because it was in þe euennig being some- what darke, as she should go home, the foresayd Simon Mourton the Somner offered him selfe to go home with her. Now as he was leadyng her by the arme, and heard the rattelyng of a scrole within her sleue: yea (sayth hee)

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what haue ye here? And so tooke it from her, and espyed that it was the Lordes prayer, the Articles of the faith, & x. Commaundementes in Englishe. Whiche when the wretched Somner vnderstode, ah serrha (sayd he) come, as good now as an other tyme, & so brought her backe

Persecuters	Martyrs.	The Causes.
agayne to the Byshop, where she was immediatly con-     Maistres Smyth condemned for hauing the Lords prayer in Englishe. demned, and so burned with the vi. men before named, the fourth of Aprill, in a place thereby called the litle parke. an. 1519.	Maistres Smyth condemned for hauing the Lords prayer in Englishe.

An. 1521. Rob. Silkeb, Martyr.	Robert Silkeb. At Couen trie. an. 1521.	JN the same number of these Couentrie men aboue re- hearsed, was also Robert Sil- keb, who at the apprehensiō of these, as is aboue recited, fled away, and for that tyme, esca- ped: But about ij. yeares after, hee was taken agayne, and brought to the said Citie of Co uentrie, where he was also bur ned the morow after hee came thether, whiche was about the xiij. day of Ianuary. an. 1521. Thus, when these were dis- patched, immediatly þe Shriffes went to their houses, and toke all their goods & cattel to their owne vse, not leauyng their wiues and children any parcell therof to helpe thē selues with all. And for so much as the peo	An. 1521. Rob. Silkeb, Martyr.
ple began to grudge somewhat, at the crueltie shewed, and at the vniust death of these innocent Martyrs, the Byshop, with his officers & priestes, caused it to be noy- sed abroad, by their tenauntes, seruauntes, and fermers, that they were not burned for hauyng the Lordes prayer and Commaundementes in Englishe, but because they did eate fleshe on Fridayes and other fastyng dayes. Which neither could be proued, either before their death, or after, nor yet was any such matter greatly obiected to     Testimonie of thys storye. Note, howe these Martyrs holding with the popishe sacramentes, yet were burned of the Papistes, onely for a fewe Scriptures in Englishe. thē in their examinations. The witnesses of this histo- rie be yet alyue, whiche both saw them and knew them. Of whom one is by name mother Halle, dwellyng now in Bagington ij. myles from Couentrie. By whom also this is testified of them, that they aboue all other in Co- uentrie pretended most shew of worship and deuotion, at the holdyng vp of the Sacrament, whether to colour the matter, or no, it is not knowen. This is certeine that in godlynes of life they differed from all the rest of the Ci- tie: Neither in their occupyng they would vse any othe: nor could abyde it in them that occupyed with them.	Testimonie of thys storye. Note, howe these Martyrs holding with the popishe sacramentes, yet were burned of the Papistes, onely for a fewe Scriptures in Englishe.

An. 1427. The storye of M. Patricke Hamelton, in Scotland. Iames Beton Archby- shop of S. Andrew M. Hew Spens, Deane of Diuinitie in the vni- uersitie of S. Andrew M. Iohn Weddell, Rector of the Vni- uersitie. Iames Symson. Officiall. Tho. Ram say, Cha- non, and Deane of þe Abbey of S. An- drewes.

Patricke Hamelton

P Atricke Hamelton a Scotish man borne, of an hygh and noble stocke, and of the kyngs bloud, yoūg & of florishing age, and excellent towardnes, of 23. yeares, called Abbot of Ferme, first commyng out of his coun trey with iij. companions, to seke godly learnyng, went to the Vniuersitie of Marpurge in Germanie, whiche Vniuersitie was then newly erected by Phi lippe Lantgraue of Hesse: where     Of thys Philip Lantgraue of Hesse, read before, pag. 1025. he vsyng conference and fami- liaritie with learned mē, name ly with Franciscus Lambertus, so profited in knowledge, and mature iudgement in matters of Religion, that hee, through the incitation of the sayd Lam- bert, was the firste in all that vniuersitie, of Marpurge, which     Of the Vniuersitie of Mertgraue, read pag. 1025. publikely did set vp conclusiōs there to be disputed of, concer- nyng fayth and workes: argu- yng also no lesse learnedly thē feruently vpon the same. What these propositions & conclusi- ons were, partly in his treatise hereafter folowyng, called Pa- trike places, may appeare. Thus þe ingenious wyt of this

An. 1427. The storye of M. Patricke Hamelton, in Scotland. Of thys Philip Lantgraue of Hesse, read before, pag. 1025. Of the Vniuersitie of Mertgraue, read pag. 1025.

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