Excerpt from The Western Martyrology, or Bloody Assizes: Containing the Lives, Trials, and Dying Speeches of All Those Eminent Protestants That Suffered in the West of England, and Elsewhere, From the Year 1678 to This Time

But since we have yet no form'd History of all those who have suf feted under the Cruelty and Injustice, not to use so harsh a Word as Tyranny, of late Years since such a Design may be of no little Use, both to shew what our former Discords have cost us, and to vindicate the Memories of the Sufferers, as well from the Malice of their Enemies, as hasty Kindness of their Friends: And besides, to leave Posterity so many great Examples of those who preferred their Liberty and Religion before all else that was deer in the World and because they could not live free, died so. For such Reasons as these, this Work is undertaken, which, if it deserves the Acceptance of the Reader, no doubt will find it there being few good Books written which have not been favourably received in the World.

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