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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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18. ITEM, Having received payment of the king's majesty's subsidy, due in Oct. the fourth year of his grace's reign, of the foresaid chanter of the cathedral church of St. David's, and Rowland Meyrike, two of the residentaries there, before Christmas last, he unjustly, of a premeditated mind and purpose, afterwards certified them for recusants, to their ruin, if they had not been admonished of his cruel purpose, and provided lawful defence for the same.
18. ITEM, Having received payment of the king's majesty's subsidy, due in Oct. the fourth year of his grace's reign, of the foresaid chaunter of the cathedral church of St. David's, and Rowland Meyrike, two of the residentaries there, before Christmas last, he unjustly, of a premeditated mind and purpose, afterwards certified them for recusants, to their ruin, if they had not been admonished of his cruel purpose, and provided lawful defence for the same.
19. ITEM, The said bishop celebrating matrimony in his own person, dispensed, contrary to the book of ordinance, with the parties married, for not receiving the holy communion; the parties both being young and lusty persons, having no reasonable cause wherefore they should abstain. At which celebration the bishop communicated not himself. And further the communion was celebrated by a chaplain of his, with superstitious blowings, kneelings, and knockings both by the chaplain that ministered, and by all the company, only one other priest communicating for the manner.
20. ITEM, Where the official of the archdeacon of Carmarthen, in his visitation within Carmarthen, found, contrary unto the said ordinance, an altar set up in the body of the church, for the celebration of the communion, and caused the said altar to be taken away, and a table to be set in the middle of the church; the bishop after the same commanded the vicar of Carmarthen to set the table without the chancel again for the ministration of the communion.