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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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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.
49. ITEM, He hath made a vow, that he will never ⟨p. 516⟩wear a cap: for he says, it is comely wearing of a hat, and so cometh in his long gown and hat, both into the cathedral church, and to the best town of his diocese, sitting in that sort in the king's great sessions, and in his consistories, making himself a mock to the people.
50. ITEM, He said that he would go to the parliament on foot: and to his friends that dissuaded him, alleging that it is not meet for a man in his place; he answered, I care not for that, it is no sin.
50. ITEM, He said that he would go to the parliament on foot: and to his friends that dissuaded him, alledging that it is not meet for a man in his place; he answered, I care not for that, it is no sin.
51. ITEM, Having a son, he went before the midwife to the church, presenting the child to the priest, and giving his name Samuel, with a solemn interpretation of the name, appointing also two godfathers and two godmothers, contrary to the ordinances, making his son a monster, and himself a laughing-stock throughout all the country.
52. ITEM, He daily useth whistling to his child, and says that he understood his whistle when he was but three days old. And being advertised by his friends, that men laughed at his folly, he answered; They whistle to their horses and dogs, and I am contented: they might also be contented that I whistle to my child, and so whistleth to him daily, all friendly admonition neglected.
53. ITEM, In his ordinary visitation, among other his surveys, he surveyed Milford Haven, where he espied a seal-fish tumbling. And he crept down to the water side, and continued whistling there the space of an hour, persuading the company that laughed at him, that by his whistling he made the fish to tarry there.
