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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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12. TO the 12th he saith, That it is slanderous and utterly untrue. And that one John Hughes, priest, made Sage Hughes (daughter to his stepmother) a harlot at eleven years of age, and after married openly to another man, being minister thereof himself. After which doing he took her away from her husband again, and kept her alleging a former contract. And when the said John Hughes was lawfully convicted before the said bishop, in open court at Carmarthen, of that his abominable adultery, claiming the king's pardon thereof, yet the said Sage confessed, that he had to do with her the night before that day of appearance. Which later crime he denied. Nevertheless she proved with child, affirming, both before the birth and after, the child to be his, the midwife and others being witnesses thereof. Yet notwithstanding, George Constantine, as a wicked encourage• of the said priest in his naughty doings, with the help of the aforesaid chanter, first uttered […] Meredith Thomas was father of the said child: which matter was ordered in the ecclesiastical court according to justice, without any partial affection of the said bishop, or of any other to his knowledge.
12. TO the 12th he saith, That it is slanderous and utterly untrue. And that one John Hughes, priest, made Sage Hughes (daughter to his stepmother) a harlot at eleven years of age, and after married openly to another man, being minister thereof himself. After which doing he took her away from her husband again, and kept her alledging a former contract. And when the said John Hughes was lawfully convicted before the said bishop, in open court at Caermarthen, of that his abominable adultery, claiming the king's pardon thereof, yet the said Sage confessed, that he had to do with her the night before that day of appearance. Which later crime he denied. Nevertheless she proved with child, affirming, both before the birth and after, the child to be his, the midwife and others being witnesses thereof. Yet notwithstanding, George Constantine, as a wicked encourage• of the said priest in his naughty doings, with the help of the aforesaid chaunter, first uttered 〈…〉 Meredith Thomas was father of the said child: which matter was ordered in the ecclesiastical court according to justice, without any partial affection of the said bishop, or of any other to his knowledge.
13. TO the 13th he saith, It is utterly false so far as he knoweth.
14. TO the 14th he saith, That by lawful sequestration in the king's majesty's name, he committed the custody of the fruits of Langatnoke and Lanvihangel to two honest men, for the behoof of the king's first fruits and tenths, and of the next incumbent, and further he did not meddle nor minister any cause of unquietness in that behalf.
14. TO the 14th he saith, That by lawful sequestration in the king's majesty's name, he committed the custody of the fruits of Langatnoke and Lanvihangel to two honest men, for the behoof of the king's first fruits and tenths, and of the next inincumbent, and further he did not meddle nor minister any cause of unquietness in that behalf.
15. TO the 15th he saith, That he made a collation, (lawful, as he supposeth) of the prebend of Lanbister, to Stephen Greene, his chaplain, without any covenant or colour, and further he did not meddle in that behalf.
16. TO the 16th he saith, All is untrue as far as he knoweth.
17. TO the 17th he saith, It is untrue for his own part, and his officers, as far as he knoweth.
18. TO the 18th he saith, It is untrue as far as he knoweth, and that he did certify the recusants justly, as he thinketh, because they refused wilfully to pay the king's whole subsidy of their whole dividends, as it standeth in the king's book, pertaining to the canons resident.
19. TO the 19th he saith, That after a travel of fourteen miles, being not able fasting to celebrate the communion, in a chapel within the house of sir Thomas Jones, knight, one of the kings majesty's honourable council of the marches of Wales, this defendant celebrated matrimony without receiving the communion for the causes abovesaid, betwixt Mr. Griffith Rice, and the daughter of the said sir ⟨p. 520⟩Thomas Jones, according to the king's ordinances. And Thomas Prichard, priest administered the holy communion there without any superstition, to this defendant's knowledge: and the married persons not disposed to receive the holy communion, he could not compel them against their consciences, and saith, that he did not dispense with them, as it is contained in the article.
20. TO the 20th he saith, That George Constantine, in the third year of his majesty's reign, not regarding the dangerous time of rebellion in other places, rashly caused to be pulled down, without any authority known to this defendant, the communion altar in Carmarthen church, by his own presumptuous mind, appointing the use thereof in another place of the church, not without grudge of the people. Wherefore the bishop fearing tumult, commanded the vicar to set up the communion table (for the time) near to the place where it was before.
20. TO the 20th he saith, That George Constantine, in the third year of his majesty's reign, not regarding the dangerous time of rebellion in other places, rashly caused to be pulled down, without any authority known to this defendant, the communion altar in Caermarthen church, by his own presumptuous mind, appointing the use thereof in another place of the church, not without grudge of the people. Wherefore the bishop fearing tumult, commanded the vicar to set up the communion table (for the time) near to the place where it was before.
21. TO the 21st he saith, That he has been divers times in the quire of Carmarthen, and hath tarried there in the communion time, not communicating himself, and that in every church where he cometh on the holy-day to preach, or to pray, he kneeled in the quire bare-headed, as well at matins before the communion, as at evening song after, without any superstition: he thinketh it not necessary for the communion's sake to leave kneeling to Christ. But he hath diligently taught the people not to kneel nor knock to the visible show, or external show of the sacrament. And the choirs of Carmarthen and other places there, are not close at the sides, so that the people may come in and go out at their pleasure. Moreover the king's ordinances do not authorize him to rebuke the people for knocking on their breasts, in token of repentance of their sins; nor for kneeling, in token of submission to God for mercy in Christ.
21. TO the 21st he saith, That he has been divers times in the quire of Caermarthen, and hath tarried there in the communion time, not communicating himself, and that in every church where he cometh on the holy-day to preach, or to pray, he kneeled in the quire bare-headed, as well at matins before the communion, as at evening song after, without any superstition: he thinketh it not necessary for the communion's sake to leave kneeling to Christ. But he hath diligently taught the people not to kneel nor knock to the visible shew, or external shew of the sacrament. And the choirs of Caermarthen and other places there, are not close at the sides, so that the people may come in and go out at their pleasure. Moreover the king's ordinances do not authorize him to rebuke the people for knocking on their breasts, in token of repentance of their sins; nor for kneeling, in token of submission to God for mercy in Christ.
22. TO the 22d he saith, That in the time of the rebellion in Devonshire and Cornwall, threatening to come into Wales, he teached the people the true form of prayer, according to God's holy word, and declaring the prayer upon the beads to be vain and superstitious, yet durst nor for fear of tumult forcibly take from any man his beads, without authority. And touching the not reproving of such as he should meet, wearing beads, he remembereth not that he hath so done, unless it were in the rebellion time, at which time he durst not rebuke such offenders.
23. TO the 23d he saith, That he being in the pulpit, his face towards the people, did not see the lights, if any were set up about the corpse behind his back till after that he came down from the pulpit. But he with George Constantine and the aforesaid chanter, fitting in the church, in Carmarthen, to •ear causes, and seeing the vicar with other priests, with song and lights bringing a corpse up to the church, called forthwith the vicar and priests, and rebuked them in open court, as cormorants and •avens, flying about the dead carcass for lucre and sake.
23. TO the 23d he saith, That he being in the pulpit, his face towards the people, did not see the lights, if any were set up about the corpse behind his back till after that he came down from the pulpit. But he with George Constantine and the aforesaid chaunter, fitting in the church, in Caermarthen, to •ear causes, and seeing the vicar with other priests, with song and lights bringing a corpse up to the church, called forthwith the vicar and priests, and rebuked them in open court, as cormorants and •avens, flying about the dead carcass for lucre and sake.
24. TO the 24th he saith, That he caused the one child being born with great peril of death to the mother, and itself lying for dead a certain space after, to be christened on the working day: the other child was christened on the working day, because both father and mother, and all other people there were in peril of death by reason of the sudden sweat, which all men feared at that time. And touching the rest of the accusation, which is, that by that example, it is used after the old accustomed fashion, he knoweth no such thing.
25. AND the 25th article he utterly denieth.
