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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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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.
THE next morning the said William Flower was brought by the keeper belonging to the warden of the Fleet, before bishop Bonner, who, according to his usual manner, endeavoured to reduce him to his catholic church and the unity thereof, that is, from Christ to Antichrist; sometimes alluring him with fair promises, and sometimes with menaces, terrors, and threatenings. To which he answered, Do what you will, I am at a point: for the heavens shall as soon fall, as I will forsake my opinion, &c. Whereupon the bishop, after he had commanded these words to be registered, called for the depositions of certain witnesses, produced for the better information of this matter, the names of which witnesses were these; William Jennings, John Bray, Robert Grant, Richard Dod, William Pampion, Robert Smalwood, the parish priest of St. Margaret's at Westminster. The sum and effect of whose depositions here ensueth.