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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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1. THAT thou being of lawful age and discretion, at the least seventeen years old, wast ⟨p. 559⟩a professed monk in the late abbey of Ely, wherein after thy profession thou remainedst until the age of twenty-one years, using all the mean time the habit and religion of the same house, and was reputed and taken notoriously for such a person.
2. THAT thou wast ordained and made priest, according to the laudable custom of the catholic church, and afterwards thou didst execute and minister as a priest, and wast commonly reputed, named, and taken for a priest.
3. THAT after the premises thou, forgetting God, thy conscience, honesty, and the laudable order of the catholic church, didst, contrary to thy profession and vow, take, as unto thy wife, one woman, commonly called Alice Pulton, in the parish church of Tewksbury, in the diocese of Gloucester, with whom thou hadst mutual cohabitation, as man and wife, and had by her two children.
4. THAT thou being a religious man and a priest, didst, contrary to the order of the ecclesiastical laws, take upon thee to practise in divers places within the diocese of London, physic and chirurgery, when thou wast not admitted expert or learned.
5. THAT upon Easter day last past, that is to wit, the 14th of April, within the parish church of St. Margaret's, at Westminster, within the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, thou didst maliciously, outrageously, and violently pull out thy wood-knife or hanger. And whereas the priest and minister there, called John Cheltam, was executing his cure and charge, especially in doing his service, and administering the sacrament of the altar to communicants, then didst thou wickedly and abominably smite with the said weapon, the said priest, first upon the head, and afterwards upon his hands or other parts of his body, drawing blood abundantly from him; the said priest then holding the said sacrament in his hand, and giving no occasion why thou shouldst so hurt him: the people being grievously offended therewith, and the said church polluted thereby, so that the inhabitants were compelled to repair to another church to communicate, and receive the said sacrament.
5. THAT upon Easter day last past, that is to wit, the 14th of April, within the parish church of St. Margaret's, at Westminster, within the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, thou didst maliciously, outragiously, and violently pull out thy wood-knife or hanger. And whereas the priest and minister there, called John Cheltam, was executing his cure and charge, especially in doing his service, and administering the sacrament of the altar to communicants, then didst thou wickedly and abominably smite with the said weapon, the said priest, first upon the head, and afterwards upon his hands or other parts of his body, drawing blood abundantly from him; the said priest then holding the said sacrament in his hand, and giving no occasion why thou shouldst so hurt him: the people being grievously off•nded therewith, and the said church polluted thereby, so that the inhabitants were compelled to repair to another church to communicate, and receive the said sacrament.
6. THAT by reason of the promise• thou wast and art by the ecclesiastical laws of the church, amongst other penalties, excommunicated and accursed, in very deed, and not to be accompanied withal, neither in the church nor elsewhere, but in special cases.
7. THAT thou, concerning the truth of Christ's natural body and blood in the sacrament of the altar, hast been by the space of one or more years, and yet art at this present, of this opinion, That in the sacrament of the altar, after the words of consecration, there is not really, truly, and in very deed, contained (under the forms of bread) the very true and natural body of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
8. THAT thou for the hatred and disdain that thou hadst and didst bear against the said sacrament, and the virtue thereof, and against the said priest administering the same, (as before) didst smite, wound, and hurt him in manner and form as before is declared.
9. THAT thou, over and besides the pains due unto thee for the doing of the cruel fact, art also by the order of the ecclesiastical laws of the church, and the laudable custom and ordinance of the same, to be reputed, taken, and adjudged (as thou art indeed) a very heretic, and to be punished by and with the pains due for heresy, […] of the said heresy and damnable opinion.
9. THAT thou, over and besides the pains due unto thee for the doing of the cruel fact, art also by the order of the ecclesiastical laws of the church, and the laudable custom and ordinance of the same, to be reputed, taken, and adjudged (as thou art indeed) a very heretic, and to be punished by and with the pains due for heresy, 〈…〉 of the said heresy and damnable opinion.
10. THAT all the prem••• be […], manifest, notorious and famous, and that upon the same, and every part thereof, there was and in within the said parish of St. Margaret's, and thereabouts, a public voice and fame.
10. THAT all the prem••• be 〈…〉, manifest, notorious and famous, and that upon the same, and every part thereof, there was and in within the said parish of St. Margaret's, and thereabouts, a public voice and fame.
TO the first article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof, except that he saith and confesseth that he never consented and agreed in his heart to be a monk. TO the second article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof. Howbeit he saith, that he never did, nor yet doth esteem the said order of priesthood, according to the order of ⟨p. 560⟩the said catholic church, because he was offended therewith in his conscience. TO the third article he answereth and confesseth, That he intending to live in holy matrimony, and not forgetting God, did marry with the said Alice Pulton named in this article, wherein he believed that he did well, and according to God's laws. Further, confessing and believing, that all the time when he was a professed monk, and made priest, he did thereby utterly forget God: but when he did marry the said Alice Pulton, and in continuing with her did beget three children, he did remember God, as he saith, and believeth that he did then lawfully. TO the fourth article he answereth and believeth the same to be true in every part thereof. TO the fifth article he answereth and confesseth, Than his conscience being greatly offended with the said John Cheltam, priest, for administering the sacrament of the altar to the people at the place and time specified in this article, he did so smite and strike the same priest with his hanger or wood-knife, as well upon his head, as upon other parts and places of his body, which he remembereth not, whereby blood ran out, and was shed in the said church, as he believeth, having, as he saith, none other cause or matter so to do, but only that his conscience was offended and grieved, in that the same priest did so give and administer the said sacrament to the people: which people he believeth was greatly abashed and offended with the said fact and doing, and were compelled to go out of the church, and to repair to another to receive the said sacrament. And further, being then demanded and examined, whether he intended to have killed the said priest, or not; he said he would not answer thereunto. And being further examined, whether he did well or evil in striking the said priest, he would make no answer thereunto.
TO the first article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof, except that he saith and confesseth that he never consented and agreed in his heart to be a monk. TO the second article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof. Howbeit he saith, that he never did, nor yet doth esteem the said order of priesthood, according to the order of
TO the sixth he answereth and saith, That whether he be so excommunicated or accursed, as is contained in this article, he referred himself herein to the ecclesiastical laws. TO the seventh he answereth and saith, That by the space of six and twenty years now past, he hath always been, and yet is of this opinion touching the said sacrament of the altar, as followeth; namely, that in the sacrament of the altar, after the words of consecration, there is not really, truly, and in very deed, contained, under the form of bread, the very true and natural body of our Saviour Jesus Christ. TO the eighth he answereth and believeth the same to be true in every part thereof. TO the ninth he answereth, and herein he referreth himself to the said laws, custom, and ordinance specified in this article, that is to say, the canonical laws. TO the last he answereth and believeth, That those things before by him confessed be true, and those which he hath denied, be untrue; and that the said common voice and fame hath and doth only labour and go upon those things by him before confessed. By me WILLIAM FLOWER▪
