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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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33. ITEM, The bishop was twice in one day presented in the great court, held in the court of Carmarthen, for inclosing and covetously encroaching on the king's high-way.
33. ITEM, The bishop was twice in one day presented in the great court, held in the court of Caermarthen, for inclosing and covetously incroaching on the king's high-way.
34. ITEM, He covetously continueth purchasing of lands, buying of cattle, merchandise, and other things, being indebted a notable sum to the king's majesty, as may appear by his accounts in the court of tenths and first fruits.
35. ITEM, Whereas one Lewis John Tho. Boll, putting from him his lawful wedded wife, upon Christmas-eve last, without banns, had marriage solemnized with a concubine of his in a church within three miles of the bishop's abode at that time: the bishop since knowing the premises, has not only of a covetous mind entered into a familiary with the said Lewis, and bought a piece of land of him, but also ⟨p. 515⟩ever since has (to have his lands cheap) left both the parties and priest unpunished, using him so familiarly, that whereas a sumner cited the parties to appear among other criminals for the same fact, the bishop commanded the said sumner to let him alone, and so they all remain unpunished.
35. ITEM, Whereas one Lewis John Tho. Bool, putting from him his lawful wedded wife, upon Christmas-eve last, without banns, had marriage solemnized with a concubine of his in a church within three miles of the bishop's abode at that time: the bishop since knowing the premises, has not only of a covetous mind entered into a familiary with the said Lewis, and bought a piece of land of him, but also ⟨p. 515⟩ever since has (to have his lands cheap) left both the parties and priest unpunished, using him so familiarly, that whereas a sumner cited the parties to appear among other criminals for the same fact, the bishop commanded the said sumner to let him alone, and so they all remain unpunished.
36. ITEM, Whereas the whole chapter of St. David's, (as it was thought) was in assured amity with the bishop, they all being his officers or chaplains, he procured them to be impleaded with a writ of quo warranto in the King's-bench, keeping the writ with him secretly, at least three months, not delivering it but only ten days before the day of their appearance, the parties being seven days journey from London.
37. ITEM, He is a wilful wrong doer, and troubler of men in their rights, entering upon their lawful possessions, stirring thereby much contention, and so notably known to the offence of the country.
38. ITEM, Whereas the bishop aforesaid was appointed in August, 1547, and consecrated in September following, he never came into the diocese himself, nor sent or appointed any officer there before the month of April, 1548, to the great disorder of the king's majesty's subjects, lack of reformation, and administration of justice.
39. ITEM, During his visitation, the said bishop did not endeavour himself to see reformation, but rode surveying of lands, appointing vain inclosures, and such other things. Which are no parts of the office to him committed, nor yet proper at that time.
40. ITEM, The visitation finished, he neither appointed his officers to examine the clergy of the places of scripture to them appointed to be studied in the same visitation, nor has hitherto effectually gone about any good reformation, according to the ordinances of this realm.
41. ITEM, The bishop since his coming to the diocese never administered the communion, saving only twice that he ordained certain deacons; but in every thing (save that he sometimes preaches) ordereth himself like no minister, nor man of his vocation.
42. ITEM, He hath so alienated himself from study, that he preaches indiscreetly, discrediting the office, not only untruly reporting the scriptures, but also preaching the ten commandments in one place in declaration of the eighth of them, for lack of stuff, the pith of his matter was matrimony of priests.
43. ITEM, The 13th day of September last, he ordained certain deacons, and making his exhortation, he taught that a man was not bound to forgive, but to him that asketh forgiveness: and being admonished by a letter better to declare the same, because that divers were offended with that doctrine; he hath hitherto deferred so to do, to the maintenance of malicious hearts in these parts.
44. ITEM, Since the first day of August, 1549, unto the feast of Candlemas last, he hath preached but two or three sermons, of which one was preached at Aberguilly upon St. Stephen's day last, to a great audience that understood no English, being but a mile from Carmarthen, an English town, and chief of his diocese.
44. ITEM, Since the first day of August, 1549, unto the feast of Candlemas last, he hath preached but two or three sermons, of which one was preached at Aberguilly upon St. Stephen's day last, to a great audience that understood no English, being but a mile from Caermarthen, an English town, and chief of his diocese.
45. ITEM, Since his ordinary visitation which was finished in July 1548, he hath neither preached, nor caused to be preached in the towns of Tinby, Pembroke, nor Haverford, being English towns, not much distant from the place of his abode.
46. ITEM, The churches appropriated to the bishop have no paraphrases in English, and few of them Bibles.
47. ITEM, The churches of the diocese for the most part, and the clergy almost every one, lack paraphrases, notwithstanding there hath been these two years, and yet be a great number of them to be sold in the diocese.
48. ITEM, To declare his folly in riding, he useth a bridle with white studs and snaffle, white Scottish stirrups, with spurs, a Scottish pad, with a little staff of three quarters long, which he hath not only used superstitiously these four or ••ve years, in conversation oftentimes boasting wha• countries he has compassed and measured with the same staff.
48. ITEM, To declare his folly in riding, he useth a bridle with white studs and snaffle, white Scottish stirrups, with spurs, a Scottish pad, with a little staff of three quarters long, which he hath not only used superstitiously these four or ••ve years, in conversation oftentimes boasting wha• •ountries he has compassed and measured with the same staff.
