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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 1 › Book 1 › Chapter 1 › A Prohibition of the Queen from Preaching, Printing, &c.
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"AND furthermore, forasmuch as it is also well known, that sedition and […] rumours have been nourished and maintained in this realm, by the subtlety and malice of some evil disposed persons, which take upon them, without sufficient authority, to preach and to interpret the word of God after their own brain in churches, and other places both public and […] playing of interludes, and printing […], ballads, rhymes, and other […] in the […] tongue, concerning doctrine, in […] now in question and controversy, touching the high points and mysteries of the christian religion: which books, ballads, rhymes, and treatises, are chiefly by the printers and stationers set out to sale to her grace's subjects, of an evil zeal, for lucre and covetousness of vile gain: her highness therefore straitly chargeth and commandeth all and every of her said subjects, of whatsoever state, condition, or degree they be, that none of them presume from henceforth to preach, or by way of reading in churches, or other public or private places, except in schools of the University, to interpret or teach any scriptures, or any manner of points of doctrine concerning religion, neither also to print any books, matter, ballad, rhyme, interlude, process or treatise, nor to play any interlude, except they have her grace's special licence in writing for the same, upon pain to incur her highness's indignation and displeasure.
"AND furthermore, forasmuch as it is also well known, that sedition and 〈…〉 rumours have been nourished and maintained in this realm, by the subtility and malice of some evil disposed persons, which take upon them, without sufficient authority, to preach and to interpret the word of God after their own brain in churches, and other places both public and 〈…〉 playing of interludes, and printing 〈…〉, ballads, rhimes, and other 〈…〉 in the 〈…〉 tongue, concerning doctrine, in 〈…〉 now in question and controversy, touching the high points and mysteries of the christian religion: which books, ballads, rhimes, and treatises, are chiefly by the printers and stationers set out to sale to her grace's subjects, of an evil zeal, for lucre and covetuousness of vile gain: her highness therefore straitly chargeth and commandeth all and every of her said subjects, of whatsoever state, condition, or degree they be, that none of them presume from henceforth to preach, or by way of reading in churches, or other public or private places, except in schools of the University, to interpret or teach any scriptures, or any manner of points of doctrine concerning religion, neither also to print any books, matter, ballad, rhime, interlude, process or treatise, nor to play any interlude, except they have her grace's special licence in writing for the same, upon pain to incur her highness's indignation and displeasure.