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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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25. AND the 25th article he utterly denieth.
26. TO the 28th he saith, That his hall at Aberguilly ⟨p. 521⟩being ruinous, he useth for his hall a great chamber adjoining, for himself and his servants, and all manner of strangers, and besides twenty persons in his house daily. What other hospitality he keepeth, honest neighbours can testify.
27. TO the 27th he saith, That his talk is according to his hearers, that is to say, reverently and truly of faith, love, and honest life, according to scripture to like auditors; and to other irreverent and rash turmoilers of scripture and holy doctrine, he doth talk of honest worldly things with godly intent; and that he doth not most commonly talk of such things as are expressed in this article, but when he hath honest occasion so to do.
28. The 28th he saith, is untrue, and that he hath warned no man out of his lands; but where he is destitute of necessary provision▪ and would have part of his own domain from certain freeholders, having it only from year to year at pleasure, he cannot obtain it without brawling. Wherefore he suffereth them to keep it even still, against right and reason. And touching the rest, that he had rather the crows should eat it, &c, he never spake any such word.
29. TO the 29th he saith. That whereas his predecessor bishop Barloe, did let to farm the isle of Ramsey to one William Brown, after whose hands this defendant received it into his own possession, the vicars of St. David's being dispossessed of it long before; he did let it over to Stephen Green, for 40s. the ground, as it was before, and 3• more for seals, coneys▪ and fowls there: and he knoweth of no right the vicar's choral had therein, who did refuse when this defendant did diligently upon reasonable conditions offer the same unto them: and this defendant made no promise unto them, as is contained in the article.
29. TO the 29th he saith. That whereas his predecessor bishop Barloe, did let to farm the isle of Ramsey to one William Brown, after whose hands this defendant received it into his own possession, the vicars of St. David's being dispossessed of it long before; he did let it over to Strephen Green, for 40s. the ground, as it was before, and 3• more for seals, coneys▪ and fowls there: and he knoweth of no right the vicar's choral had therein, who did refuse when this defendant did diligently upon reasonable conditions offer the same unto them: and this defendant made no promise unto them, as is contained in the article.
30. TO the 30th he saith▪ He knoweth not but that he advertised his bailiff to warn the freeholders, and others having his domain in rent, during pleasure, to leave it at a lawful day to this defendant's necessary use▪ but did not cause the curate to do as is contained in the article to his remembrance.
30. TO the 30th he saith▪ He knoweth not but that he advertized his bailiff to warn the freeholders, and others having his d•main in rent, during pleasure, to leave it at a lawful day to this defendant's necessary use▪ but did not cause the curate to do as is contained in the article to his remembrance.
31. TO the 31st he saith, That he knoweth not what the priest bade in the church, nor how many ploughs there came, undesired of this defendant. But he knoweth certainly, that he desired no man's labour but for his money.
32. TO the 32d he saith, That he knoweth not any such appointment of schools and revenues there, but he found there (after the departing of bishop Barloe) a schoolmaster, an usher being a priest, and twenty scholars, which he hath hitherto maintained better than he found it, to his knowledge: he did never convert any penny thereof to his own use, albeit he might lawfully have done the same.
33. THE 33d he saith, is all untrue, so far as he knoweth.
34. TO the 34th article he saith, He never purchased more than three parcels, whereof one was 2s. 8d. by the year; the second, 3s. 4d. and the third, 1l. 6s. 8d. or thereabout, by the year; the rest he denieth.
35. TO the 35th he saith, That he never bought of Lewis John Thomas, his good land cheap, but after 40 years purchase, not knowing at that time any such thing as is contained in the article against the said Lewis John Thomas. Neither bade he the sumner to •et him alone, but as soon as he heard any thing of it, commanded the sumner to cite him; and so he was cited in this defendant's house, occasioning him to break his bargain: to which Lewis the defendant said these words. If you would give me your land with a house full of gold, I cannot, no• will I suffer you to keep a woman. Then the said Lewis affirming the latter woman to be his wife, and the first unknown to the defendant, he brought the said Lewis to the consistory for trial, where it hangeth yet and also by lawful process excommunicated the first woman, for that she would not by any means appear in the court to claim or to confess marriage with the said Lewis, and so she standeth this day at the point of Significavit.
36. TO the 36th he saith, That whereas the chanter, and R. M. with other canons there, would not obey the king's godly injunctions, concerning the finding of a school for poor men's children, a ⟨p. 522⟩lecture of divinity, sermons on the Sundays, repairing of their church and mansion houses, decent order and ministration there; but stubbornly counted themselves (with the chanter) to be a body politic, without regard of the bishop and his lawful monitions, being himself named in their shire statutes a deacon, having also their dean-stall in the choir with a prebend thereunto annexed, and the chief place in the chapter-house, with a key of their chapter-seal, being also by the king's majesty's commission appointed their ordinary: yet would they not in any wise deliver unto him a book of their statutes, for the better knowledge of his and their duties, nor show unto him their records and monuments, for declaration of the king's right and his. For which cause this defendant, by writ of quo warranto ▪ lawfully called them to answer, which yet lieth asleep, to the loss of the king's majesty's right. The time of delivery of the said writ▪ he remembereth not.
36. TO the 36th he saith, That whereas the chaunter, and R. M. with other canons there, would not obey the king's godly injunctions, concerning the finding of a school for poor men's children, a ⟨p. 522⟩lecture of divinity, sermons on the Sundays, repairing of their church and mansion houses, decent order and ministration there; but stubbornly counted themselves (with the chaunter) to be a body politic, without regard of the bishop and his lawful monitions, being himself named in their shire statutes a deacon, having also their dean-stall in the choir with a prebend thereunto annexed, and the chief place in the chapter-house, with a key of their chapter-seal, being also by the king's majesty's commission appointed their ordinary: yet would they not in any wise deliver unto him a book of their statutes, for the better knowledge of his and their duties, nor shew unto him their records and monuments, for declaration of the king's right and his. For which cause this defendant, by writ of quo warranto ▪ lawfully called them to answer, which yet lieth asleep, to the loss of the king's majesty's right. The time of delivery of the said writ he remembereth not.
37. THE 37th, he saith, is all false, as far as he knoweth.
