CONTENTS. THE NAMES OF THE PRIESTS AND LAY CATHOLICS, WHO SUFFERED DEATH FOR As the names and number of other catholics, as well of the clergy as of the laity, who, under this same reign, were either deprived of their livings, or suffered loss of their estates, imprisonments, banishments, &c., for their religion; it is impossible to set them all down. Dr. Bridgewater, in a table published at the end of Concertatio Ecclesia Catholica, gives us the names of about twelve hundred, who had suffered in this manner, before the year 1588; that is, before the greatest heat of the persecution; and yet declares, that he is far from pretending to have named all, but only such whose sufferings had come to his knowledge. In this list, there are three archbishops (taking in two of Ireland); bishops consecrated, or elected, eighteen; one abbot; four whole convents of religious; thirteen deans; fourteen archdeacons; sixty pre- pendaries; five hundred and thirty priests; forty-nine doctors of divinity; eighteen doctors of the law; and fifteen masters of colleges; one queen; eight earls; ten lords; twenty-six knights; three hundred and twenty-six gentlemen; and about sixty ladies and gentlewomen. Many of these died in prison; and several under sentence of We shall here add, by way of conclusion of this first part, the names of those (who were not executed,) whose sufferings for religion are briefly touched on in our memoirs. Ailworth, an Irish gentleman, perishes in prison. Arundel, Sir John, is cast into prison. Arundel, Philip, Earl of, died in prison under sentence of death. Barnet, Mr., is condemned to die. Bennet, John, priest, is imprisoned and tortured, and at last sent into banishment. Bishop, William, priest, is imprisoned, and afterwards banished. Bosgrave, James, priest, S. J. is sentenced to death, afterwards banished. Canfield, Bennet, capuchin, imprisoned, afterwards banished. Catholics, prisoners in York castle, dragged to protestant sermons. Chaplain, William, priest, dies in prison. Clifton, Thomas, priest, is condemned to perpetual imprisonment. Cooper, John, perishes through cruel treatment in the Tower. Colins, John, bookseller, condemned to die. Cornish gentlemen cast into a premunire. Cotesmore, Thomas, priest, perishes in prison. Crowthar, Thomas, priest, dies in prison. Dymock, Esq., champion of England, perishes in prison. Feckenham, abbot of Westminster, dies in prison. Fenn, Robert, priest, suffers prisons, racks, and banishment for his faith. Harrison, John, priest, dies in prison. Hart, John, priest, is condemned with father Campion, is cruelly used in prison, and Hatton, Richard, priest, is condemned to perpetual imprisonment. Holmes, Robert, priest, perishes in prison. Hunt, Eleanore, is sentenced to die for harbouring a priest. Jenks, Roland, is condemned to lose his ears. Jetter, John, priest, dies in prison. Lancashire gentlemen imprisoned for religion. Lomax, James, priest, perishes in prison. Maskew, Bridget, is condemned to be burnt. Mettham, Thomas, priest, S. J., dies in prison. Northumberland, Henry Piercy, earl, is murdered in the Tower. Norton, Mrs., is sentenced to death for relieving a priest. Orton, Mr., is condemned with father Campion, afterwards banished. Pounds, Thomas, Esq., a great sufferer for catholic religion. Pole, Edward, priest, dies in prison. Priests, seventy, banished in 1585. thirty committed prisoners to Wishich castle. Pugh, John, is condemned to die for his religion. Pugh, Henry, gent., is cruelly tortured. Rishton, Edward, priest, is condemned with father Campion. Shelley, Esq., dies in the Marshalsea. Sherton, Martin, priest, dies in prison. Steile, James, priest, is banished and cruelly treated. Tesse, Ann, is condemned to be burnt, for persuading a minister to become a catholic. Thimbleby, Gabriel, gent., dies in prison. Tregian, Thomas, Esq., is stripped of a plentiful estate, and condemned to perpetual Thyrwhite, William, Esq., is hurried to prison under a violent fever, and dies in two Typper, Mark, gent., is whipped through the city of London, and has his ears bored Vaux, Lawrence, warden of Manchester, dies in prison. Wakeman, Roger, priest, perishes in prison. Watson, Christopher, with twenty other catholics, perishes in York jail. Watson, Richard, priest, is cruelly treated in Bridewell. escapes by the help of Mrs. Margaret Ward. Wells, Mrs., dies, under sentence of death, in prison. Williamson, Thomas, priest, is condemned to prison for life. PREFACE. THE following sheets are presented to the reader as a supplement to English history, which appeared to the publisher, by so much the more wanting, by how much the less, the trials and executions of catholics, on religious accounts, have been taken notice of by the generality of English historians; and which, he flattered himself, would not be disagreeable to the lovers of history, of what persuasion soever they might be in matters of religion; for, if men of all persuasions read with pleasure the history of the lives and deaths, even of the most notorious malefactors; not that they are delighted with their crimes, but because they there meet with an agreeable scene of stories unknown before; and often discover a surprising boldness and bravery in their enterprizes; how much more may it be expected that every generous English soul should be pleased to find in the following memoirs, so much fortitude and courage, joined with so much meekness, modesty, and humility, in the lives and deaths of so many of his countrymen, who have died for no other crime but their conscience. The first and most necessary quality that ought to recommend history, is truth and this, we can assure our reader, we have been careful to follow to a nicety; and therefore we have given nothing upon hearsays, or popular traditions, but upon the best authorities, either of grave cotemporary writers, informed by such as were upon the spot, or themselves eye-witnesses of what they write; or of records and manuscript memoirs, penned by such as were eye-witnesses, or otherwise perfectly instructed in the things they deliver; and withal, men, as we had reason to be convinced, of the strictest veracity. And we have always taken care in the beginning of every life, to acquaint the reader from whence we have had our informations, concerning the persons we are treating of. |