The Sufferings of Cicely Ormes, Wife of Edmund Ormes of Norwich, Worsted-Weaver, burnt about the twenty third day of September.
The occasion of her first apprehending was for that she being per∣sent at the death of two Martyrs burnt in the Lollards-pit,* 1.1 without Bi∣shops-gate in Norwich, for that she said, she would pledge them of the same Cup that they drunk of; she was apprehended and had before the Chancellor, who Examining her concerning the Sacrament of the Altar: He askt her, What it was the Priest held over his head, she re∣plyed, It was Bread, and if said she, you make it any better it is worse: Whereupon the Chancellor, with threatning words, sent her to the Bishops Prison; shortly after she was brought before him again, who offered her, If she would go to Church, and keep her Tongue, she should be at liberty, but she refusing his offer, he past Sentence of Death up∣on her, and delivered her to the Sheriff, to see her burnt; when she came to the Stake, she said, Welcome the sweet Cross of Christ; and when the Fire was kindled about her, she said, My Soul doth Magnifie the Lord, and my Spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour, and so finished her Testi∣mony in patience.
At this time, the rage of Persecution was very hot in many Coun∣ties, and many were Persecuted at Litchfield, and about seventeen were put to death in Sussex in the Diocess of Chichester, a particular Relation whereof there is little left upon record to make manifest, but the Popes Tyranny was great in many Counties in England in this Queens time.