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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 6 › CARDINAL POOLE's LETTER to the POPE.
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FRIDAY, December 28, the prince of Piedmont came to the court at Westminster.
ON New-year's day, 1555, at night, several honest men and women of the city, to the number of thirty, and Mr. Rose, a minister, were taken as they were in a house in Bow-church-yard, at the communion, and the same night were all committed to prison. And on the third of January following, Mr. Rose was before the bishop of Winchester, the lord chancellor, and from thence the same day committed to the Tower, after some communication between the bishop and him.
THE same day the act of supremacy passed in the parliament, and at night a great tumult was at Westminster, between some Spaniards and Englishmen, whereof a great mischief had like to have ensued, by means of a Spanish friar, who got into the church, and rung the alarm. The occasion was about two prostitutes then in the cloister at Westminster, with a sort of Spaniards, whereof whilst some played the knaves with them, others kept the entry of the cloister with dags in harness. In the mean time, some of the dean's men came into the cloister, and the Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some of them. By and by the noise of this came into the streets, so that the whole town was up almost, but never a stroke was stricken. Notwithstanding the noise of this doing with the dean's men, and also the ringing of the alarm, made much ado, and a great number to be sore afraid.
THE same day the act of supremacy passed in the parliament, and at night a great tumult was at Westminster, between some Spaniards and Englishmen, whereof a great mischief had like to have ensued, by means of a Spanish friar, who got into the church, and rung the alarum. The occasion was about two prostitutes then in the cloyster at Westminster, with a sort of Spaniards, whereof whilst some played the knaves with them, others kept the entry of the cloyster with dags in harness. In the mean time, some of the dean's men came into the cloyster, and the Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some of them. By and by the noise of this came into the streets, so that the whole town was up almost, but never a stroke was stricken. Notwithstanding the noise of this doing with the dean's men, and also the ringing of the alarum, made much ado, and a great number to be sore afraid.