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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
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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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.