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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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CHAP. IV. An Affecting Narrative, and Historical Account of the several PROTESTANTS, namely, Judge HALES, THOMAS TOMKINS, WILLIAM HUNTER, THOMAS CAUSTON, THOMAS HIGBED, WILLIAM PYGOT, STEPHEN KNIGHT, and JOHN LAURENCE; who was persecuted, tormented, and most of them burned, under the bloody Tyranny of BONNER, Bishop of LONDON.
STEPHEN GARDINER, having condemned and burned several great and learned men, he presumed, that these examples would deter any one from speaking against, and opposing the popish religion, and his tyrannical proceedings; but in this imagination he found himself deceived: for within ⟨p. 490⟩eight or nine days after sentence had passed against bishop Hooper and others, being the 8th of February, six other good christians were likewise brought before the bishops, to be examined for the same cause of religion. Stephen Gardiner seeing this became discouraged; and from that day meddled no more in such kind of condemnations; but referred the whole of this cruel business to Bonner, bishop of London; who supplied that part, as in the further process of this history will evidently appear. Bishop Bonner having taken the matter in hand, called before him in his consistory at St. Paul's (the lord mayor, and several aldermen sitting with him) the six persons, upon the 8th day of February, and on the next day, being the 9th, read the sentence of condemnation upon them, as appeareth in bishop Bonner's own registers: such quick speed these men could make in dispatching their business at once. But because the death of these condemned martyrs did not follow before the next month of March, we will defer the prosecuting of their matter, till we come to the time and day of their suffering.