Six Martyred at Brainford.
Not long after the Martyrdom of these 7 last mentioned in Smathfield, viz. on the 14th of July following, Six more suffered in one fire at Brainford.
England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ...
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- England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ...
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"England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38426.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Their names were Robert Wills, Stephen Colt••n, Robert Dynes, Stephen White, John Slade, and William Pikes a Tanner. All these were condemned By Bonner, and ordered to be burnt at the place afore∣said. When they came to the stake, they made their prayers with great humility, like so many Lambs prepared for the slaughter, th••n and res••ing themselves, they went joyfully to the stake, to which they were bound, and the fire being put to them, and flaming about them, they yield 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their Bodies, Lives, and Souls, into the hand of Jesus, for whose cause they suffer'd. The last mentioned William Pikes, being a very godly, holy and religi∣ous man, not long before he was taken, as he was reading the B••ble of Mr. Rogers his translation in his Garden, 4 drops of blood fell down upon the Bible, from whence he could not tell except it came out of the Element, upon which he called his wife, and shewed her the prodigy, blotting out one of the drops with his finger At last he said, I perceive the Lord will have blood, his will be cone, and give me grace to abide the try∣al. And it was not long after that be was ap∣prehended. The same man being in Newgate, fell extreamly sick, so that none looked he could have lived 6 hours, being given over for a dead man; upon which he prayed, and desired of God, that he might glorifie his name at the stake, which came to pass accordingly God hearing his prayers.