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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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SOON after the martyrdom of the two good women at Colchester, the three above-mentioned persons were put to death in Smithfield, at London, the 18th of November.
BEING brought before Bonner, bishop of London, the 5th day of November, 1557, the following articles were exhibited unto them.
FIRST, That the said John Hallingdale is of the diocese of London, and so subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of London.
SECONDLY. That the said John, before the reign of king Edward the Sixth, late king of England, was of the same faith and religion that was then observed, believed, taught and set forth in this realm of England.
SECONDLY. That the said John, before the reign of king Edward the Sixth, late king of England, was of the same faith and religon that was then observed, believed, taught and set forth in this realm of England.
THIRDLY, That during the reign of the said king Edward the Sixth, the said John Hallingdale, upon occasion of the preaching of certain ministers in that time, did not abide in his former faith and religion, but did depart from it, and so did and doth continue till this present day, and so determineth to do (as he saith) till his life's end.
FOURTHLY, That the said John Hallingdale hath thought, believed, and spoken divers times, that the faith, religion, and ecclesiastical service received, observed, and used now in this realm of England, is not good and laudable, but against God's commandment and word, especially concerning the mass, and the seven sacraments; and that he the said John, will not in any wise conform himself to the same, but speak and think against it during his natural life.
FOURTHLY, That the said John Hallingdale hath thought, believed, and spoken divers times, that the faith, religion, and ecclesiastical service received, observed, and used now in this realm of England, is not good and laudable, but against God's commandment and word, especially concerning the mass, and the seven scraments; and that he the said John, will not in any wise conform himself to the same, but speak and think against it during his natural life.
FIFTHLY, That the said John absenteth himself continually from his own parish church of St. Leonard's, neither hearing matins, mass nor even-song, nor yet confessing his sins to the priest, nor receiving the sacrament to the altar at his hands, or using other ceremonies as they are now used in this church and realm of England: and as he remembereth, he never came but once to the parish church of St. Leonard's, and careth not if he never comes there any more, the service being as it there, and so many abuses being there, especially the mass, the sacraments, and the ceremonies and service set forth in Latin.
FIFTHLY, That the said John absenteth himself continually from his own parish church of St. Leonard's, neither hearing mattins, mass nor even-song, nor yet confessing his sins to the priest, nor receiving the sacrament to the altar at his hands, or using other ceremonies as they are now used in this church and realm of England: and as he remembereth, he never came but once to the parish church of St. Leonard's, and careth not if he never comes there any more, the service being as it there, and so many abuses being there, especially the mass, the sacraments, and the ceremonies and service set forth in Latin.
SIXTHLY, That the said John, when his wife, called Alice, was brought to bed of a male-child, caused the said child to be christened in English, after the same manner and form in all points, as it was used in the time of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, aforesaid, and caused it to be called Joshua, & would not have the said child christened in Latin, after the form and manner as it is now used in ⟨p. 502⟩the church and realm of England, nor will have it by his will to be confirmed by the bishop
SIXTHLY, That the said John, when his wife, called Alice, was brought to bed of a male-child, caused the said child to be christened in English, after the same manner and form in all points, as it was used in the time of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, aforesaid, and caused it to be called Josua, & would not have the said child christened in Latin, after the form and manner as it is now used in ⟨p. 502⟩the church and realm of England, nor will have it by his will to be confirmed by the bishop
UNTO all which articles the said John Hallingdale made answer, confessing them all, and every part of them to be true, and saying, that he would not revoke his said answers, but stand unto them according as it was in every article above written.
FURTHERMORE, the said John Hallingdale, being demanded by the said Bonner, whether he firmly believed, that in the sacrament, commonly called the sacrament of the altar, there is really and truly the very body and blood of our Saviour Christ, or no; made answer, that he neither in the time of the said king Edward the Sixth, nor at the present did believe, that in the said sacrament there is really the body and blood of Christ. For he said, that if he had so believed, he would (as others had done) have received the same, which he did not, because he had and then did believe, that the very body of Christ is only in heaven and no where else. And furthermore the said John Hallingdale said, that Cranmer, Latimer, Ridley, Hooper, & generally all that have of late been burned for heretics, were no heretics at all, because they did truly preach the gospel; upon whose preaching he grounded his faith and conscience, as he said, according to the saying of St. John, Rev. xviii. where he saith, That the blood of the prophets, and of the saints, and of all them that were slain upon earth, was found in the Babylonical church, by which, he said, is understood the church where the pope is the head.
AFTER which examination, the said John was sent unto prison again. And the next day, being the sixth of the said month, he was called before the bishop again, who persuading him with some wrested sentences of the scripture, the said John Hallingdale answered▪ Because I will not, saith he, come to your Babylonical church, therefore (speaking unto Bonner), you go about to condemn me. And being further demand by bishop Bonner, whether he would persevere and stand in his opinions or no: he made answer, that he would continue and persist in them unto his death. Then Bonner read the sentence of condemnation. At which time the said John affirmed openly, that (thanking God) he never came into the church since the abomination […] into it, and so he was sent to prison again.
AFTER which examination, the said John was sent unto prison again. And the next day, being the sixth of the said month, he was called before the bishop again, who persuading him with some wrested sentences of the scripture, the said John Hallingdale answered▪ Because I will not, saith he, come to your Babylonical church, therefore (speaking unto Bonner), you go about to condemn me. And being further demand by bishop Bonner, whether he would persevere and stand in his opinions or no: he made answer, that he would continue and persist in them unto his death. Then Bonner read the sentence of condemnation. At which time the said John affirmed openly, that (thanking God) he never came into the church since the abomination 〈…〉 into it, and so he was sent to prison again.
UPON the same forenoon, William Sparrow was brought before the bishop, and had the following articles laid to him.
