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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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ABOUT the same time, or a little before, upon Corpus-Christi day, the procession being made in Smithfield, where, after the manner, the priest, with his box, went under the canopy, by chance there came by the way a certain simple man, named John Street, a joiner, of Coleman-street, who having some haste in his business, and finding no other way to pass through, by chance went under the canopy by the priest. The priest seeing the man so to presume to come under the canopy, be••g belike afraid, and worse feared than hurt, let […] pyx fall down. The poor man, being straightway apprehended, was had to the compter, the priest accusing him before the council, as though he had come to slay him; whereas the poor man, as himself hath since declared unto us, had no such thought ever in his mind. When from the compter, he was had unto Newgate, where he was cast into the dungeon, there chained to a post, where he was cruelly and miserably handled, and so extremely dealt withal, that being but simple before, he was now out of his wits altogether, and so upon the same had to Bedlam. Whereupon the brief chronicle of London in this point is not to be credited, which untruly reported that he feigned himself in Newgate to be mad: which we in writing of this history, by due inquisition of the party, have found to be cont•••y▪
ABOUT the same time, or a little before, upon Corpus-Christi day, the procession being made in Smithfield, where, after the manner, the priest, with his box, went under the canopy, by chance there came by the way a certain simple man, named John Street, a joiner, of Coleman-street, who having some haste in his business, and finding no other way to pass through, by chance went under the canopy by the priest. The priest seeing the man so to presume to come under the canopy, be••g belike afraid, and worse feared than hurt, let 〈…〉 pyx fall down. The poor man, being straightway apprehended, was had to the compter, the priest accusing him before the council, as though he had come to slay him; whereas the poor man, as himself hath since declared unto us, had no such thought ever in his mind. When from the compter, he was had unto Newgate, where he was cast into the dungeon, there chained to a post, where he was cruelly and miserably handled, and so extremely dealt withal, that being but simple before, he was now out of his wits altogether, and so upon the same had to Bedlam. Whereupon the brief chronicle of London in this point is not to be credited, which untruly reported that he feigned himself in Newgate to be mad: which we in writing of this history, by due inquisition of the party, have found to be conty