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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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FOR answer unto all these articles, he granted that the first nine were true, as the register recorde••. Howbeit, I find noted on the backside of the information, specified in the second article (although crossed out again), that he denied such things as were there on information against him. Therefore it is not likely that he did simply grant the contents of the second article, but that he only affirmed, that such an information was given against him, and not that the same was true.
THUS much I thought to acquaint the reader of, le•t in mistaking his answers, it might seem that he granted himself to be a seditious and a rebellious p••son; of which fact he was both clear and innocent. And being farther demanded upon the contents of the eighth article, where he wrote that letter withal? He said, that Richard Roth, sometime f•llow-prisoner with him, did make his nose bleed, […] thereby he got the blood wherewith he did […] write. The bishop again asked him, to whom he would have sent the same. He answered, Unto one Agnes Smith, alias Silverside, of Colchester. Why (says the bishop) Agnes Smith was an heretic, […] burnt for heresy. Nay, said Allerton, she is i• better case than I myself, or any of us all. And being again demanded, upon the ninth objection, to whom he would have sent the letter mentioned in the same: he answered, that he intended to have sent it unto Richard Roth, at that time separated •rom him. Whereupon the bishop farther inquired, what he meant by these words, "Brethren and sisters," specified in the said letter? He answered, that he meant thereby, such as were lately condemned at Colchester, and were like (at the writing thereof) shortly to be burned. As for the contents of the tenth and eleventh articles, he utterly denied them. But to the twelfth, he confessed, that he wrote upon the said trencher and other boards, the words mentioned in the said article, and that he did leave the same in the prison-house, to the intent that Richard Roth should read them. Bonner also bringing out the wooden sword, mentioned in the said articles, asked him who made it, and for what purpose. Whereunto he answered, that he was the maker thereof, howbeit for no evil purpose. But being idle in the prison, and finding there an old board, he thought the time better spent in making thereof, than to sit and do nothing at all.