Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.

IOHN BROVVNE, a blessed Martyr, burned at Ashford in the second yeare of Henrie the eighth, Anno 1511.

THe said Iohn Browne passing to Graues-end in a Barge, a Priest began to swell and stomack that he should sit so neere him, at length said, Doest thou know who I am, thou fittest so neere me and vpon my clothes? No sir, said the o∣ther. I tell you, said he, I am a Priest. What sir, are you a Parson or Uicar, or some Ladies Chaplain? No, said he, I sing for a Soule. I pray you, said the other, where find you the Soule when you go to Masse? I cannot tel, said he. I pray where do you leaue it when you haue done Masse? I know not; said the Priest. How then, said the other, can you saue the Soule? I perceiue thou art an Heretick, said the Priest. Within three daies after, by vertue of a Warrant ••rom the Archbishop, with a Baylife and two of the Bishops men, they came suddenly into the house of the said Browne, as he was carrying a dish of meat to his guests (for his wife was that day Churched) they layd hands on him, and carried him to Canterburie, where they kept him fortie dayes: in which time he was so pitifully entreated by Warram the Archbishop, and Fisher Bishop of Rochester, that he was set bare-footed vpon hote burning coales, to make him denie his Faith; which he bare patiently, and continued in maintaining the Lords quarrell vnremoueable: then he was sent to Ashford, where he dwelt, the next day to be burned: where he was set in the Stocks all night; his wife sate all the while by him, to whom he declared the whole Tra∣gedie

of his handling: how they burned his ••e••t to the bones, that he could not set them to the ground, to make him denie his Lord here: which if I should haue done, he would denie me hereafter; therefore good wife, continue as thou hast be∣gun, and bring vp thy children in the feare of God: where the next day he was bur∣ned. This Iohn Browne bare a Faggot seuen yeares before this, whose sonn••, na∣med Richard Browne▪ for the like cause of Religion, was imprisoned at Canter∣burie in the later time of Queene Marie, and should haue beene burned, with two more: but the next day after Queene Marie died, and they escaped by the Procla∣mation of Queen•• Elizabeth.