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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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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.
54. ITEM, Speaking of scarcity of herrings, he laid the fault to the covetousness of fishers, who in the time of plenty took so many, that they destroyed the breeders.
55. ITEM, Speaking of the alteration of the coin, he wished that what metal soever it was of, the penny should be in weight worth a penny of the same metal.
56. FOR a conclusion, The said bishop in all his doings, since he came to his diocese, hath behaved himself most unmeet for a man of his vocation, being for a minister of justice, an abuser of the authority to him committed; for a teacher of the truth, and reformer of superstition, a maintainer of superstition without any doctrine of reformation; for a liberal and hospitable, an insatiable covetous man; for a diligent overseer, wilful and negligent; for an example of godly wisdom, given wholly to folly; for merciful, a cruel revenger; and further, for a peace maker, a sower of discord. And so in all his behaviour a discrediter and slanderer of his vocation, and a deceiver of all men, that had hope he should do any reformation. For he yet hath neither brought into his diocese, nor hath belonging unto him, any learned preacher. But such learned preachers as he found in the diocese at his entry, he so vexeth and disquieteth, that they cannot attend to apply their preaching for the defence of their livings, against his quarrelsome inventions, and unjust pretensions.
AFTER these wrangling articles and informations were given up, then the bishop was called for to answer, the hearing whereof was committed unto Dr. Wotton, and sir John Mason, knight, who likewise received the bishop's answers to the aforesaid articles, the copy and effect of which answers hereafter follow.
