Queen Elizabeth
... Heals the brokenhearted, binds up their wounds ...
... Heals the brokenhearted, binds up their wounds ...
- Psalm 147: 3
Hundreds of savage murders by Queen Elizabeth, catholic priest hunter, for not recognizing her church superiority.
The first book, “A Treatise of Schisme” by Gregorie Martin, the printer is hanged, bowelled, quartered, for just that reason, publishing a book, wherein a passage is forced to mean Elizabeth should be assassinated. 1578, photocopy.
The first book, “A Treatise of Schisme” by Gregorie Martin, the printer is hanged, bowelled, quartered, for just that reason, publishing a book, wherein a passage is forced to mean Elizabeth should be assassinated. 1578, photocopy.
The second, “Memoirs of Missionary Priests” by Richard Challoner, (1691-1781) is a large catalog of hundreds of Catholics and lay people who were killed by the queen of England. He covers the period of 1577 to 1684. Challoner finished the two volumes in 1741-2. The salvaged edition, edited by John Hungerford Pollen, (1858-1925) was printed in 1924.
The third, “A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Reverend Priests”, by William Cardinal Allen, 1583?. The first of the Catholic Martyr books. Reprinted from a copy in the British Museum, and edited by J. H. Pollen. Illustrated. 1908.
The fourth is by Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, “The Rye-House Plot” printed in 1684 and 1885 by order of the King. Challoner brings it up on page 398, the second part of his book. It appears that The Rye-House Plot is a ploy to eliminate the King of England.
A section of English Church History is included, all of the church proclamations and Acts of Elizabeth. ( preliminary pdf draft )
“... Now the fall which he had from the gallows, not his hanging, did a little astonish him; for that they had willed the hangman to put the knot of the rope at his poll, and not under his ear as it is usual. The man that was to quarter him was a timorous, unskilful man, by trade a barber, and his name was Barefoot, whose mother, sisters, and brothers are devout Catholics. He was so long a dismembering him that he came to his perfect senses and sate upright, and took Barefoot by the hand, to shew, as I believe, that he forgave him; but the people pulled him down by the rope which was about his neck. Then did this butcher cut his belly on both sides, and turn the flap upon his breast, which the holy man feeling put his left hand upon his bowels, and looking on his bloody hand laid it down by his side, and lifting up his right hand he crossed himself saying, three times, Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, mercy! The which, although unworthy, I am a witness of, for my hand was on his forehead; and many Protestants heard him and took great notice of it, for all the Catholics were pressed away by the unruly multitude except myself, who never left him until his head was severed from his body. Whilst he was thus calling upon Jesus, the butcher did pull a piece of his liver out instead of his heart, and tumbling his guts out every way to see if his heart were not amongst them; then with his knife he raked in the body of this blessed martyr, who even then called on Jesus, and his forehead sweat; then was it cold, and presently again it burned—his eyes, nose, and mouth run over with blood and water. His patience was admirable, and when his tongue could no longer pronounce that life-giving name Jesu, his lips moved, and his inward groans gave signs of those lamentable torments which for more than half an hour he suffered. Methought my heart was pulled out of my body to see him in such cruel pains, lifting up his eyes to heaven, and not yet dead. ...”
The fourth is by Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, “The Rye-House Plot” printed in 1684 and 1885 by order of the King. Challoner brings it up on page 398, the second part of his book. It appears that The Rye-House Plot is a ploy to eliminate the King of England.
A section of English Church History is included, all of the church proclamations and Acts of Elizabeth. ( preliminary pdf draft )
“... Now the fall which he had from the gallows, not his hanging, did a little astonish him; for that they had willed the hangman to put the knot of the rope at his poll, and not under his ear as it is usual. The man that was to quarter him was a timorous, unskilful man, by trade a barber, and his name was Barefoot, whose mother, sisters, and brothers are devout Catholics. He was so long a dismembering him that he came to his perfect senses and sate upright, and took Barefoot by the hand, to shew, as I believe, that he forgave him; but the people pulled him down by the rope which was about his neck. Then did this butcher cut his belly on both sides, and turn the flap upon his breast, which the holy man feeling put his left hand upon his bowels, and looking on his bloody hand laid it down by his side, and lifting up his right hand he crossed himself saying, three times, Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, mercy! The which, although unworthy, I am a witness of, for my hand was on his forehead; and many Protestants heard him and took great notice of it, for all the Catholics were pressed away by the unruly multitude except myself, who never left him until his head was severed from his body. Whilst he was thus calling upon Jesus, the butcher did pull a piece of his liver out instead of his heart, and tumbling his guts out every way to see if his heart were not amongst them; then with his knife he raked in the body of this blessed martyr, who even then called on Jesus, and his forehead sweat; then was it cold, and presently again it burned—his eyes, nose, and mouth run over with blood and water. His patience was admirable, and when his tongue could no longer pronounce that life-giving name Jesu, his lips moved, and his inward groans gave signs of those lamentable torments which for more than half an hour he suffered. Methought my heart was pulled out of my body to see him in such cruel pains, lifting up his eyes to heaven, and not yet dead. ...”
- Challoner
Text
• R_Challoner.pdf
• Allen.pdf
Photocopy
• pc_Martin.pdf
• pc_R.Challoner.pdf
• pc_Allen.pdf
• pc_Sprat.pdf
• Elizabeth.pdf