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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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DURING the time that king Edward VI. was afflicted by a long illness, a marriage was provided, concluded, and solemnized in the month of May, between the lord Guilford, son to the duke of Northumberland, and the lady Jane, daughter of the duke of Suffolk: whose mother, being then alive, was daughter to Mary, king Henry's second sister, who was first married to the French king, and afterwards to Charles, duke of Suffolk. The marriage being consummated, and the king growing every day worse, he was prevailed upon to set aside, by his last will and testament, his two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, and to leave his crown to lady Jane, the duke of Suffolk's daughter.
DURING the time that king Edward VI. was afflicted by a long illness, a marriage was proviled, concluded, and solemnized in the month of May, between the lord Guilford, son to the duke of Northumberland, and the lady Jane, daughter of the duke of Suffolk: whose mother, being then alive, was daughter to Mary, king Henry's second sister, who was first married to the French king, and afterwards to Charles, duke of Suffolk. The marriage being consummated, and the king growing every day worse, he was prevailed upon to set aside, by his last will and testament, his two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, and to leave his crown to lady Jane, the duke of Suffolk's daughter.
TO this order subscribed all the king's council, and the chief of the nobility, the lord mayor and city of London, and almost all the judges and principal lawyers of the realm, except justice Hales of Kent, a true protestant, and upright judge, who having given his consent to the lady Mary's being queen, would upon no account therefore subscribe to the lady Jane. How he was rewarded for his integrity by Mary, will be seen in the sequel. But the objections made by others in the realm against lady Mary's reigning were, because they feared she would marry a foreigner, and by that means entangle the crown; and it was generally believed, that she would bring in the pope, and quite alter the religion used both in the days of her father king Henry, and in those of her brother Edward VI. which afterwards came to pass.