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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
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The next day following, he appeared in the same place as before,1 & after much persuasion he submitted himself the B. notwithstanding committed him to one of the Counters for further trial. And the year 1532. §1532In the month of February he was called for again, and although he was yet abjured, not yet seemed he to satisfy the Chancellor: so he was for that present returned to his prison again: and the viij. day of February appeared as before, and made a full abjuration, and subscribed it. Which done the Chancellor put him to his fine, to pay twenty pound to the king: and enjoined him penance, to go before the Cross in Procession at Pauls, and to stand before the Preacher at Pauls cross during the Sermon, with a fagot on his shoulder, and so to return with the Summer again to prison, there to abide the Bishops determination.2 And so the 17. of February he was dismissed home, where he had scarce abode a month, but he bewailed his fact, and was never quiet in conscience, till he had asked God and the world forgiveness, before the congregation in those days, in a warehouse in Bow lane. And immediately the next Sunday after, he came to S. Austin's, with the new Testament in his hand, in English, and the obedience of a Christian man in his bosom, and stood up there before the people in his pew, and there declared which weeping tears, that he had denied God, and prayed the people to forgive, and to beware of his weakness. Besides, he wrote certain letters to the Bishop, to his brother, and to others: so that shortly after he was apprehended, and committed to the Tower of London, and after three appearances, the 19. of April, the 20. and the 26. of the same month, before Master John Foxforde. Vicar general of the Bishop of London, in the presence of Matthew Grifton, Register, Nicholas Wilson, and William Phillips, &c, he was condemned to be burned, and so was he delivered ⟨p. 22⟩to sir R. Gresham sheriff then being present, who caused him by his officers to be carried to Newgate,3 & was burned in Smithfield the last day of April at iij. of the clock in the afternoon. After he had endured great torments, stocks and irons in prison before, as he was in the middest of the flaming fire, and his arms and legs half consumed therewith,