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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 2 › Chapter 2 › The Form and Manner of the said Degradation.
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The Form and Manner of the said Degradation.
THE fourth day of February, the year abovementioned, in the chapel of Newgate, Gardiner, bishop of London, there sitting with his notary and several other witnesses, Alexander Andrew the gaoler came in, bringing with him bishop Hooper and the Rev. Mr. Rogers, being condemned before by the lord chancellor, where the said bishop of London, at the request of the bishop of Winchester, proceeded to the degradation of Mr. Hooper and Mr. Rogers, after this form and manner: first, he put upon him all the vestures and ornaments belonging to a priest, with all other things to the same order appertaining, as though (being revested) they should solemnly execute their office. They b•ing thus apparelled and revested, the bishop beginneth to pluck off, first the outermost vesture, and so by degree and order coming down to the lowest vesture, which they had only in taking Benet and Collet; and so being stripped and deposed, he deprived them of all order, benefit, and privilege belonging to the clergy; and consequently that being done, pronounced, decreed, and declared that the said parties so degraded, to be given personally to the secular power▪ as the ⟨p. 460⟩sheriffs being for that year, Mr. David Woodrooffe, and Mr. William Chester; who receiving first the Rev. Mr. Rogers at the hands of the bishop, had him away with them, bringing him to the place of execution where he suffered. The witnesses there present were Mr. Harpsfield, archdeacon of London, Robert Cousin, and Robert Willerton, canons St. Paul's, Thomas Montague, and George How, clerks, Tristram Swadock, and Richard Clumney, sumner, &c.
THE fourth day of February, the year abovementioned, in the chapel of Newgate, Gardiner, bishop of London, there sitting with his notary and several other witnesses, Alexander Andrew the gaoler came in, bringing with him bishop Hooper and the Rev. Mr. Rogers, being condemned before by the lord chancellor, where the said bishop of London, at the request of the bishop of Winchester, proceeded to the degradation of Mr. Hooper and Mr. Rogers, after this form and manner: first, he put upon him all the vestures and ornaments belonging to a priest, with all other things to the same order apperaining, as though (being revested) they should solemnly execute their office. They bing thus apparelled and revested, the bishop beginneth to pluck off, first the outermost vesture, and so by degree and order coming down to the lowest vesture, which they had only in taking Benet and Collet; and so being stript and deposed, he deprived them of all order, benefit, and privilege belonging to the clergy; and consequently that being done, pronounced, decreed, and declared that the said parties so dgrded, to be given personally to the secular power as the