John Trapp on Matthew 27:57

Verse 57. A rich man of Arimathaea] Not many such, '[illegible: 2 words] there are any. Ioseph was a counsellour, a Senatour, one of the [illegible: 1 word] or seventy Seniours. Christ findes friends in the [illegible: 1 word] tempestuous times and unlikely places; as in [illegible: 1 word] and Neroes court. Some good Obadiah, or One [illegible: 1 word], to seek out Paul the prisoner, and refresh his bowels. Serena the [illegible: 1 word],Bucholo. wife to Diocletian that bloody persecutour, was a Christian, and a great friend to the true Religion. So was the Lady Anne (wife to our King Richard the second,) a disciple of Wickliffe; whose books also she conveyed over into Bohemia her countrey, whereby a good foundation was laid for the ensuing Reformation. [illegible: 1 word] of Gaunt shewed himself a great favourer of Wickliffe: The like did the Electour of Saxony for Luther. George Marquesse of Brandenburg, in a meeting of the Emperour and [illegible: 2 words] Ausborough, zealously professed that he would rather kneel [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] down presently in the presence of them all, and yeeld his head to be [illegible: 1 word] off by the executioner, then deny Christ and his Gospel.