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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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Volume 2 › Book 3 › Chapter 1 › The Martyrdom of CICELY ORMES, at Norwich.
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The Martyrdom of CICELY ORMES, at Norwich.
ABOUT the 2• day of the said month of September, next after the others above-mentioned, suffered at Norwich, Cicely Ormes, wife of Edmund G•mes, worsted-weaver, dwelling in St. Laurence parish in Norwich: she being of the age of twenty-two, or more, was taken at the death of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper above-mentioned in a place called Lollard's Pit without Bishopsgate, at the said Norwich, for that she said that she would pledge them of the same cup that they drank of. For so saying, one Mr. Corbet, of Sprowson, by Norwich, took her and sent her to the chancellor. When she came before him, he asked her what she said unto the sacrament of Christ's body. And she said, she did believe that it was the sacrament of the body of Christ. Yea said the chancellor, but what is that the priest holdeth over his head? she answered him and said, It is bread: and and if you make it any better, it is worse. At which words the chancellor sent her to the bishop's prison, to the keeper called Fellow, with many threatenings and hot words, as a man being in great rage.
ABOUT the 2• day of the said month of September, next after the others above-mentioned, suffered at Norwich, Cicely Ormes, wife of Edmund G•mes, worsted-weaver, dwelling in St. Laurence parish in Norwich: she being of the age of twenty-two, or more, was taken at the death of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper above-mentied in a place called Lollard's Pit without Bishopsgate, at the said Norwich, for that she said that she would pledge them of the same cup that they drank of. For so saying, one Mr. Corbet, of Sprowson, by Norwich, took her and sent her to the chancellor. When she came before him, he asked her what she said unto the sacrament of Christ's body. And she said, she did believe that it was the sacrament of the body of Christ. Yea said the chancellor, but what is that the priest holdeth over his head? she answered him and said, It is bread: and and if you make it any better, it is worse. At which words the chancellor sent her to the bishop's prison, to the keeper called Fellow, with many threatenings and hot words, as a man being in great rage.