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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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NO sooner had this queen, by the Suffolk protestants, the sword of authority put into her hand, than she began to employ it against those who had supported the title of lady Jane Grey. This devoted victim remained with her husband, lord Guildford, almost five months in the Tower, waiting her pleasure. But the duke of Northumberland, within a month after his confinement there, was condemned, brought to the scaffold, and beheaded, notwithstanding a promise made him of his life, if he would but renounce his religion and hear mass; which he not only did, but also exhorted the people to return to the Catholic faith. The Papists immediately published and spread abroad ⟨p. 265⟩his recantation: but the duke, in consequence of his crimes arising from a sordid ambition, died unpitied; nay, he was insulted on the scaffold by those who remembered in what manner he had acted to their beloved Somerset. It may be proper to observe, this duke of Northumberland was not of the great Percy family, which at that time was under a cloud; but he was the grandson of that Dudley, who was executed in the year 1509, for having acted inconsistent with the common law.
NO sooner had this queen, by the Suffolk protestants, the sword of authority put into her hand, than she began to employ it against those who had supported the title of lady Jane Gray. This devoted victim remained with her husband, lord Guildford, almost five months in the Tower, waiting her pleasure. But the duke of Northumberland, within a month after his confinement there, was condemned, brought to the scaffold, and beheaded, notwithstanding a promise made him of his life, if he would but renounce his religion and hear mass; which he not only did, but also exhorted the people to return to the Catholic faith. The Papists immediately published and sprea• abroad ⟨p. 265⟩his recantation: but the duke, in consequence of his crimes arising from a sordid ambition, died unpitied; nay, he was insulted on the scaffold by those who remembered in what manner he had acted to their beloved Somerset. It may be proper to observe, this duke of Northumberland was not of the great Percy family, which at that time was under a cloud; but he was the grandson of that Dudley, who was executed in the year 1509, for having acted inconsistent with the common law.