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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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HOWEVER, lady Mary, thus powerfully guarded and faithfully assisted, for the present, vanquished the duke and lady Jane's adherents. In consideration whereof, when the Suffolk protestants afterwards reminded their most gracious queen Mary of her promise, she made them the following severe, and ungrateful reply: "Forasmuch (said she) as you, being but the members, desire to rule your head, you shall one day well perceive, that members must obey their head, and not look to bear rule over the same." And with a view of striking greater terror into others, a certain gentleman, near Windham side, named Dobbe, for advertising her by a humble petition of her promise, was punished with standing three times in the pillory. Many others were likewise imprisoned, for having delivered her books and supplications, collected out of the scriptures, thereby exhorting her to continue in the true reformed religion then established.
BUT to return to the duke of Northumberland, who, having his warrant under the broad seal, proceeded on his march; but his short journeys, assigned him by commission, and the tedious delays in his rout, added an increasing strength to lady Mary's cause, especially as, at this time, the hearts of the people began to be much inclined to her; which, when the council at London perceived, and understood how the common people began to withdraw from them to her, as did also several of the nobility, they forthwith changed their measures, and proclaimed for queen lady Mary, eldest daughter to Henry VIII. appointed by the parliament to succeed, king Edward dying without issue. As to the duke of Northumberland, he was left destitute and forsaken at Cambridge. Upon this he proclaimed Mary queen; yet this piece of policy did him no service; for he was arrested, as were likewise some of his sons, and the earl of Huntington, with a few others; who were all sent to the Tower, as traitors to the crown.
THUS was lady Mary seated on the throne of England, who, to a disagreeable person and weak mind, had united bigotry, superstition, and cruelty. She seems to have inherited more of her mother's, than her father's qualities. Henry was fiery, rough, and ungovernable; but Catharine, with a severe and implacable rancour against protestants, assumed the character of a saint. It was the same with her daughter Mary, as appears from a letter in her own hand writing, now in the British Museum. In this letter, which is addressed to bishop Gardiner, she declares her fixed intention of burning every protestant; and it contains an insinuation, that, as soon as circumstances would permit, she would restore back to the church the lands that had been taken from the convents This was the strongest instance of her weakness that she could show; for the convents had been demolished, except a few of their churches; and the rents were in the hands of the nobility, who, rather than part with them, would have overturned the government, both in church and state. But reason and bigotry cannot accord. That narrowness of spirit, which always distinguishes a weak mind from one that has been enlarged by education, pervaded all the actions of this princess. Unacquainted with the constitution of the country, and a slave to superstition, Mary thought to domineer over the rights of private judgment, and to trample on the privileges of mankind.