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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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WHAT was the cause that their execution was so long deferred after their condemnation, we cannot precisely say, unless peradventure the sermon of Alphonsus, the Spanish friar, and the king's confessor▪ did some good; for when those six persons were cast upon Saturday the 9th of February, upon the day following, the 10th of February, the said Alphonsus preached before the king; in which sermon he did earnestly inveigh against the bishops for burning of men, saying plainly that they learned it not in scripture, to burn any for his conscience; but the contrary, that they should live and be converted: with many other things more to the same purport.
FEBRUARY 14, Dr. Robert Ferrar, bishop of St. David's, was sent towards St. David's, there to be condemned and executed. Touching whose martyrdom, forasmuch as it fell not before the month of March, we will defer the history thereof till we come to the day and time of his sufferings.
ON the 14th day of February, the lord chancellor, and other bishops, caused the image of Thomas Becket to be set up over the mercer's chapel door, in Cheapside, London, in the form and s•ape of a bishop, with mitre and cross. But within two days after his erection, his two blessing fingers were first broken away, and on the next day (being the 17th of February) his head also was taken off: whereupon arose great trouble, and many were suspected: among whom one Mr. John Barnes, mercer, dwelling over-against the said chapel, was vehemently by the lord chancellor charged withal, as the doer thereof, and the rather for that he was a professor of the truth. Wherefore he and three of his servants were committed to prison; and at his delivery, although it could not be proved upon him, he was bound in a great sum of money, as well to build it up again as often as it should be broken down, as also to watch and keep the same. And therefore the image was again set up the 2d day of March ensuing; but the 14th day of the same month, i the night, the head was again the second time broke off: which thing was so heinously taken, that the next day, being the 15th, there was a proclamation made in London, that whosoever would tell who did strike off his head, (though he were of counsel, and not the principal doer) he should have not only his pardon, but also one hundred crowns of gold, with hearty thanks. But it was not known who did it.