Edmond Sutton
Iohn Makebraie.
VVilliam VVhittingham
Thomas Cole
VVilliam VVilliams
George Chidley
VVilliam Hammon
Thomas Steward
Thomas wood
Iohn Stanton
VVilliam VValton
Jasper swyft
Iohn Geofrie
Iohn Graie
Mighell Gill
Iohn Samford
Iohn VVood
Thomas Sorby
Anthony Cariar
Hugh Alforde.”
A Brieff Discours off the Troubles begonne at Franckford inGermany Anno Domini 1554. Abowte the Booke off Common prayer and Ceremonies. Pag. xix. xx. Printed M.D.LXXV.
Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?
Knox was accused by the English exiles of High Treason, because he charged queen Mary with cruelty, and said that the emperor was as great an enemy to Christ as Nero. But his accusers, it might easily be shown, used stronger language on this subject than ever he did. Mr Strype informs us that the protestants who felt and outlived the persecution of Mary, used the very worst epithets in speaking of her character. Memorials of the Reform, iii. 472. We need no other proof of this than the Oration composed by John Hales, and pronounced by a nobleman before queen Elizabeth, at her entrance upon the government. Speaking of the late persecution under Mary, the orator exclaims, “O cruelty! cruelty! far exceeding all crueltys committed by those ancient and famous tyrants, and cruel murderers, Pharaoh, Herod, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Maximine, Dioclesian, Decius; whose names, for their cruel persecution of the people of God, and their own tyranny practised on the people, have been, be, and ever shall be in perpetual hatred, and their souls in continual torments in hell.” The late Queen he calls “Athalia, malicious Mary, unnatural woman; no, no woman, but a monster, and the Devil of hell, covered with the shape of a woman.” See Works of the Rev. Samuel Johnston, p. 144.