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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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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.
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 Graunt, Richard Dod, William Pampion, Robert Smalwood, the parish priest of St. Margaret's at Westminster. The sum and effect of whose depositions here ensueth.
ROBERT GRANT of Westminster, examined upon the said answers of William Flower, saith and deposeth, That he did hear and see the said Flower acknowledge and recognize the said answers, and subscribe to the same with his own hand, and also was present in the church of St. Margaret's in Westminster, when the said William Flower did smite and wound the priest, when he was administering the sacrament; •nd how this examinant among others pressed towards him to take him, and was hurt thereby upon his chin, and after he was taken, this examinant did help to conduct him to the Gatehouse.