Chapters

1) History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero

2) The Ten Primitive Persecutions
....The First Persecution Under Nero, 67 A.D.
....The Second Persecution Under Domitian, 81 A.D.
....The Third Persecution, Under Trajan, 108 A.D.
....The Fourth Persecution Under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus,
    162 A.D.
....Justin Martyr
....The Fifth Persecution Commencing with Severus, 192 A.D.
....The Sixth Persecution Under Maximus, 235 A.D.
....The Seventh Persecution, Under Decius, 249 A.D.
....The Eighth Persecution Under Valerian, 257 A.D.
....The Ninth Persecution Under Aurelian, 274 A.D.
....The Tenth Persecution Under Diocletian, 303 A.D.

3) Persecutions of the Christians in Persia
....Persecutions Under the Arian Heretics
....Persecution Under Julian the Apostate
....Persecution of the Christians by the Goths and Vandals
....The Last Roman 'Triumph'
....Persecutions from About the Middle of the Fifth to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century
....Persecutions from the Early Part of the Eighth to Near the Conclusion of the Tenth Century
....Persecutions in the Eleventh Century

4) Papal Persecutions
....Persecutions of the Albigenses
....The Bartholomew Massacre at Paris, etc.
....From the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the French Revolution, in 1789
....Martyrdom of John Calas

5) An Account of the Inquisition
....An account of an auto da fe, performed at Madrid.(1682 A.D.)
....An Account of the Cruel Handling and Burning of Nicholas Burton, an English Merchant, in Spain
....Some Private Enormities of the Inquisition Laid Open, by a Very Singular Occurrence
....The Persecution of Dr. Aegidio
....The Persecution of Dr. Constantine
....The Life of William Gardiner
....An Account of the Life and Sufferings of Mr. William Lithgow, a Native of Scotland
....The Story of Galileo
....Summary of the Inquisition

6) An Account of the Persecutions in Italy Under the Papacy
....An Account of the Persecutions of Calabria
....Account of the Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont
....An Account of the Persecutions in Venice
....An Account of Several Remarkable Individuals Who Were Martyred in Different Parts of Italy, on Account of Their Religion
....An Account of the Persecutions in the Marquisate of Saluces
....An Account of the Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont in the Seventeenth Century
....Further Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont, in the Seventeenth Century
....A Narrative of the Piedmontese War
....An Account of the Persecutions of Michael de Molinos, a Native of Spain

7) An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe

8) An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
....Persecution of John Huss
....Persecution of Jerome of Prague
....Persecution of Zisca

9) An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther

10) General Persecutions in Germany

11) An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands (Holland)

12) The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale

13) An Account of the Life of John Calvin
....Calvin as a Friend of Civil Liberty

14) An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I

15) An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
....An Account of the Life, Sufferings and Death of George Wishart Who Was Strangled and Afterward Burned in Scotland, for Professing the Truth of the Gospel

16) Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary I
....The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane upon the Scaffold
....John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's and Reader of St. Paul's, London
....The Rev. Lawrence Saunders
....The History, Imprisonment and Examination of Mr. John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester
....The Life and Conduct of Dr. Rowland Taylor of Hadley
....Martyrdom of William Hunter
....Dr. Robert Farrar
....Martyrdom of Rawlins White
....Rev. George Marsh
....William Flower
....Rev. John Cardmaker and John Warne
....John Simpson and John Ardeley
....Thomas Haukes, Thomas Watts and Anne Askew
....Rev. John Bradford and John Leaf, an Apprentice
....Rev. John Bland, Rev. John Frankesh, Nicholas Shetterden and Humphrey Middleton
....Dirick Carver and John Launder
....John Denley, John Newman and Patrick Packingham
....Rev. Robert Samuel
....Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer
....Mr. John Philpot
....John Lomas, Agnes Snoth, Anne Wright, Joan Sole and Joan Catmer
....The Vision of Three Ladders
....Hugh Laverick and John Aprice
....Preservation of George Crow and His Testament
....Executions at Stratford le Bow
....Rev. Julius Palmer
....Joan Waste and Others
....Persecutions in the Diocese of Canterbury
....Rev. John Hullier
....Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper
....Executions at Colchester
....Mrs. Joyce Lewes
....Executions at Islington
....Mrs. Cicely Ormes
....Rev. John Rough
....Cuthbert Symson
....Thomas Hudson, Thomas Carman and William Seamen
....The Story of Roger Holland
....Flagellations by Bonner
....Rev. Richard Yeoman
....Thomas Benbridge
....Mrs. Prest
....Deliverance of Dr. Sands
....Queen Mary's Treatment of Her Sister, the Princess Elizabeth
....God's Punishment upon Some of the Persecutors of His People in Mary's Reign

17) Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland, with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641

18) The Rise, Progress, Persecutions and Sufferings of the Quakers

19) An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan

20 An Account of the Life of John Wesley

21) Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
.....The Arrival of King Louis XVIII at Paris
.....The History of the Silver Child
.....The Catholic Arms at Beaucaire
.....Massacre and Pillage at Nismes
.....Royal Decree in Favor of the Persecuted
.....Petition of the Protestant Refugees
.....Monstrous Outrage Upon Females
.....Outrages Committed in the Villages, etc.
.....Further Account of the Proceedings of the Catholics at Nismes
.....Attack Upon the Protestant Churches
.....Murder of General La Garde
.....Interference of the British Government
.....Ultimate Resolution of the Proestants at Nismes

22) The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions
.....The Persecution of Doctor Judson
.....Removal of the Prisoners to Oung-pen-la; Mrs. Judson Follows Them
.....Missionary Beginnings
.....Epilogue to the Original Edition

In addition there were many more Inquisitional murders for various concocted reasons, such as the death of:
the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, 1548?-1600, who used Copernican principles in formulating his cosmic theory of an infinite multiverse. He was condemned by the Inquisition for heresy, immoral conduct and blasphemy and burned at the stake.

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