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A Book of English Martyrs

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This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in the troubled days of the sixteenth century, when Tyburn tree was a concrete fact, and when ardent love hurled the defiance, "Come rack! Come rope!" Martyrs lay and cleric are here commemorated. The Carthusians, Houghton, Lawrence, Webster; the Jesuits, Campion, Sherwin, Southwell; the secular priests, Hart, Lacey, Ingleby; the countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; the Chancellor of England Blessed Thomas More, Philip Earl of Arundel, and Margaret Clitherow, harborer of priests. Their stories are told whenever possible in the words of records of the time (Summary from America Magazine, Volume 14, 1916) (6 hr 38 min)

Chapters

Preface and Author's Note

9:58

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The Road to Tyburn

25:59

Read by John

''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1

27:01

Read by Michael Curran

''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 2

21:55

Read by Kristine Wales

The English Terror

22:11

Read by KevinS

Papists and Heretics

22:07

Read by JeffE

The Northern Rising and Its Effects

19:31

Read by KevinS

The Excommunication

25:24

Read by John

Increase in Persecution

18:23

Read by John

The First-fruits of the Jesuit Mission

48:47

Read by John

Blessed Ralph Sherwin

13:37

Read by John

The York Martyrs

23:56

Read by John

A Group of Lay Martyrs

32:02

Read by John

The Martyrs of 1588

25:22

Read by John

Philip, Earl of Arundel

15:52

Read by John

''Come Rack, come Rope!''

20:00

Read by DJRickyV

Strength in Weakness

25:56

Read by swiftsjourney