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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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JOHN BRAY, one of the church-wardens of the parish church of St. Margaret's in Westminster, sworn and examined upon the said answers, saith and deposeth, That he did hear and see the said Flower acknowledge and recognize the said answers, and also subscribe unto the same: and further deposeth of Flower's striking the priest, in effect, as the rest of the examinants do, and that this said jurate was present there at the doing thereof.
AFTER the depositions of these witnesses were taken, published, and denounced, the said bishop spake to William Flower, and asked him, if he knew any matter or cause why sentence should not be read, and he to be pronounced as an heretic. Whereunto he answered as followeth: I have nothing at all to say, for I have already said unto you all that I have to say; and what I have said, I will not go from: and therefore do what you will, &c.
WHICH when he had spoken, the bishop proceeded to the sentence, condemning and excommunicating him for an heretic, and after pronounced him to be degraded, and so committed him to the secular power. Upon the 24th day of the aforesaid month of April, which was St. Mark's eve, he was brought to the place of martyrdom, which was in St. Margaret's church-yard at Westminster, where the fact was committed: and there coming ⟨p. 563⟩to the stake where he should be burned, first he maketh his prayer to Almighty God, with a confession of his faith, in manner as followeth.