Missionarius: Lancastriæ, in Anglia, Martyrio coronatus, 1646; small 4to.

V. P. F. MARTINUS WOODCOCKE; in an oval, small quarto. W. Richardson.

Martin Woodcocke, who was born in Lancashire, studied at St. Omer's and Rome, and afterward at Douay, where, in 1631, he entered into the order of St. Francis. In 1643, he was sent hither in the character of a missionary, and was seized and imprisoned soon after his arrival. He was detained in prison two years before he was brought to his trial, when he readily owned himself to be a priest of the catholic church," and was condemned in consequence of that confession. He was executed at Lancaster, the 7th of August, 1646, together with Reading and Whitaker, who were also priests of the church of Rome.†

The condition of a missionary, in the beginning of this reign, was very different from what it was in the latter end of it; when religious zeal against popery was heightened and inflamed with all the rage of faction. If a Turkish dervise had then preached Mahomet in England, he would have met with much better treatment than a popish priest.

* His secular name was John.

+ Dod. iii. 109.

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