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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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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▪
AFTER this examination, the bishop began to instruct him, and to exhort him to return again to the unity of his mother the catholic church, with such reasons as he is commonly wont to use to others, promising many fair things if he would do so, besides the forgiving what was past.
AFTER this examination, the bishop began to instruct him, and to exhort him to return again to the unity of his mother the catholic church, with such reasons as he is commonly wont to use to others, promsing many fair things if he would do so, besides the forgiving what was past.
TO this William Flower answering again, thanked him for his offer: and where it was in his power to kill or not to kill his body, he stood therewith contented, let him do therein what he thought; yet over his soul he had no such power, which being once separated from the body, is in the hands of no man, but only of God, either to save or destroy. As concerning his opinion of the sacrament, he said he would never go from what he had spoken, do he with him what he would.
THEN the bishop assigned him again to appear in the same place in the afternoon, betwixt three and four; in the mean time to consider well of his former answers, whether he would stand to the same his opinions or not; which if he so did, he would further proceed against him, &c.
IN the afternoon the said William Flower appeared again before the said bishop, at the hour and place appointed. To whom the bishop sitting in his consistory, spake these words: Flower, you was this forenoon here before me, and made answer to certain articles; and thereupon I respited you till now, to the intent you should consider and weigh with yourself your state, and to remember while you have time, both your abominable act, and also that evil opinion which you have conceived touching the verity of Christ's true natural body in the sacrament of the altar.
TO whom the said Flower answered as followeth: That which I have said, I will stand to; and therefore I require that the law may be put in force against me. Whereupon the bishop commanded his notary (Harward by name) to read to him again his articles, as before. Which being read, the said William Flower persisting in his sentence, answered to all parts of the articles, as in the forenoon before, save only that he requested the bishop concerning the fifth article, he might alter something his answer therein, after this tenor and manner of words, to wit, "And moreover confesseth and saith, that whereas he struck the priest on Easter-day last past, in St. Margaret's church in Westminster, he hath since that time, and yet doth mislike himself in that doing, and doth now judge and believe that the same act was evil and wrong. Howbeit he saith and believeth, that for the matter and cause whereof he so struck the said priest, (which was for ministering the sacrament of the altar, which he taketh and judgeth abominable) he neither did nor doth mislike himself at all therein."
MOREOVER, he desireth of the said bishop licence to be granted him, to alter and take out some of the ninth article, and place thereof, these words to be inserted; to wit, "Herein he referreth himself to the laws, custom, and ordinances specified in this article, &c." At which request, Bonner granted to the altering of both the articles according as he desired, and so put in the acts.
MOREOVER, he desireth of the said bishop licence to be granted him, to alter and take out some of the ninth article, and place thereof, these words to be inser•ed; to wit, "Herein he referreth himself to the laws, custom, and ordinances specified in this article, &c." At which request, Bonner granted to the altering of both the articles according as he desired, and so put in the acts.
AFTER this, the bishop turning again to his old manner of exhorting, endeavoured with fair words to persuade him to submit himself to the catholic church, and to the faith thereof. Notwithstanding all his persuasions, he still remained constant and firm, saying, that he would not be removed from what he had spoken, though he should suffer death for it. Whereupon the bishop assigned him the next day (being the twentieth of April) to appear in the same place, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, then and there to hear the sentence pronounced in case he would not relent, &c.
