# Gerard, With About Thirty Others, Men As Well As Women, For Maintaining The Apostolical Doctrine, At Oxford, In England, Are Branded In The Forehead, Scourged Out Of The City, And Miserably Perish With Cold, A. D. 1161.

c. 1161 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: GERARD, WITH ABOUT THIRTY OTHERS, MEN AS WELL AS WOMEN, FOR MAINTAINING THE APOSTOLICAL DOCTRINE, AT OXFORD, IN ENGLAND, ARE BRANDED IN THE FOREHEAD, SCOURGED OUT OF THE CITY, AND MISERABLY PERISH WITH COLD, A. D. 1161.

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It is recorded159 that A. D. 1161, in the eighth
year of Henry II., King of England, about thirty
persons, men as well as women, natives of Germany,
sailed over to England. The papists called them erring
spirits and publicans, saying that they had sprung
from an unknown author;160 but others have called
them Petro-brusians, Berengarians, Poor Men of Lyons,
etc., because they, it appears, had their views
against infant baptism, transubstantiation, and other
errors of the Roman church, in common with Peter
Bruis, Berengarius, and the Poor Men of Lyons.

“There were upwards of thirty of them,” says
the papistic writer, “who, concealing their errors,
had peaceably come into the land, in order to propagate
their belief. Their principal leader was one
Gerard, upon whom they looked as their lord and
master; for he alone had a little learning, while all
the rest were illiterate idiots, a very low and boorish
class of people, and of the German nation and language.
But they could not long remain concealed,
since some made very diligent inquiries regarding
them; and when it was found that they belonged to
a strange sect, they were apprehended.”





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