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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 › The Tumult at Paul's Cross, occasioned by Mr. Bourn's Sermon.
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ON the 14th, the archbishop of Canterbury was brought before the lords, in the Star-chamber; where being charged with treason, and with distributing seditious bills to the disturbance of the state, he was immediately committed close prisoner to the Tower of London, there to remain at the queen's pleasure, till further justice and order.
ON the 15th, a letter was sent to the Rev. Mr. Horn, dean of Durham, requiring him to come before the council; and October 7th, another letter was sent to hasten his appearance.
ON the 16th instant, orders were sent down to the mayors of Dover and Rye, to suffer all French protestants to pass out of this realm, except such whose names were to be signified to them by the French ambassador.
OCTOBER, 1553. The coronation of Mary I. in the usual form, at Westminster, took place on the 1st day of this month, and dreadful were the consequences that followed; for on the 10th, the parliament began with a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost, celebrated with great pomp, after the popish manner, in the palace of Westminster; at which, according to custom, those bishops, not yet deposed, were to be present, namely, the archbishop of York, Dr. Taylor, bishop of Lincoln, and John Harley, bishop of Hereford; but when the bishops, Taylor and Harley, had taken their places among the lords, upon seeing mass begin they