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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 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 ⟨p. 269⟩withdrew, not enduring the sight of such idolatrous foppery: for which cause the bishop of Lincoln being examined, and protesting his faith, was commanded to attend; who soon after fell sick, and died at Ankerwike; and bishop Harley, for being married, was expelled from parliament, and deprived of his bishopric. Mass being ended, the queen came to the parliament house, where she opened the session in the usual manner. A consultation was then held with the states of the realm, after which, all the statutes were repealed, that were made for reformation, in the reign of Henry VIII. and those in the time of Edward VI. for reading the Common Prayer, and administering the sacrament in the English tongue; and in this session, the attainder of the duke of Northumberland was also confirmed.
IN the mean time, several persons were very forward in erecting altars for masses, in churches; but such as favoured the reformation, or adhered to the laws made in King Edward's reign, were either marked, or apprehended; among whom was Sir James Hales of Kent, justice of the common-pleas; who, because he had given a charge, at a quarter sessions, upon the statutes of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. for the supremacy and reformation, was therefore imprisoned in the Fleet, where he was so cruelly handled, and terrified by the conversation of the warden in his hearing, of the torments preparing for heretics, that he intended to dispatch himself with a knife; but afterwards, submitting himself to the pleasure of the queen's council, he was willing to say what they desired him; after which compliance, his conscience so troubled him, that he sought for rest om a violent death, and drowned himself in a river, about half a mile from his own house.