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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 12th day, Mr. Thomas Ross, preacher, was by the council's letters delivered from the Tower to the sheriff of Norfolk, to be conveyed and delivered to the bishop of Norfolk, and he either to reduce him to recant, or else proceed against him according to the law.
THE 16th, a letter was sent to the lord treasurer, signifying what the lord lieutenant had done for Ross; and that order should be given, according to his lordship's request, for letters to the bishops: and as for Apps, whom the lieutenant of the Tower reporteth to be mad, his lordship perceiving the same to be true, should commit him to Bedlam, there to remain till their further order.
THE 16th, a letter was sent to the lord treasurer, signifying what the lord lieutenant had done for Ross; and that order should be given, according to his lordship's request, for letters to the bishops: and as for Appes, whom the lieutenant of the Tower reporteth to be mad, his lordship perceiving the same to be true, should commit him to Bedlam, there to remain till their further order.
THE 26th, a letter was ••nt to the lord treasurer, to confer with the bishop of London, and the justices of the peace of that county, wherein they were to be executed that were already condemned for religion, and upon agreement of places, to give order for their execution accordingly.