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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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UPON the 30th day of May, John Cardmaker, otherwise called Taylor, prebendary of the church of Wells; and John Warn, upholsterer, of the parish of St. John in Walbrook, suffered together in Smithfield. Of whom it remaineth now particularly to treat, beginning with Mr. Cardmaker, who first was an observant friar before the dissolution of the abbeys: afterwards was a married minister, and in king Edward's time appointed to be a reader in St. Paul's, where the papists were so enraged against him for his doctrine's sake, that in his reading they cut and mangled his gown with their knives. Mr. Cardmaker being apprehended in the beginning of queen Mary's reign, with Mr. Barlow, bishop of Bath, was brought to London, and put in the Fleet prison, king Edward's laws being yet in force. But after the parliament was ended, in which the pope was again admitted as supreme head of the church, and the bishops had also gotten power and authority, officially, to exercise their tyranny, these two were brought before the bishop of Winchester, lord chancellor, and others appointed by commission, (as before is mentioned) to examine the faith of such as were then prisoners; and as unto others before, so now unto them the chancellor offered the queen's mercy, if they would agree, and be conformable, &c.
UPON the 30th day of May, John Cardmaker, otherwise called Taylor, prebendary of the church of Wells; and John Warne, upholsterer, of the parish of St. John in Walbrook, suffered together in Smithfield. Of whom it remaineth now particularly to treat, beginning with Mr. Cardmaker, who first was an observant frier before the dissolution of the abbeys: afterwards was a married minister, and in king Edward's time appointed to be a reader in St. Paul's, where the papists were so enraged against him for his doctrine's sake, that in his reading they cut and mangled his gown with their knives. Mr. Cardmaker being apprehended in the beginning of queen Mary's reign, with Mr. Barlow, bishop of Bath, was brought to London, and put in the Fleet prison, king Edward's laws being yet in force. But after the parliament was ended, in which the pope was again admitted as supreme head of the church, and the bishops had also gotten p•wer and authority, officially, to exercise their tyranny, these two were brought before the bishop of Winchester, lord chancellor, and others appointed by commission, (as before is mentioned) to examine the faith of such as were then prisoners; and as unto others before, so now unto them the chancellor offered the queen's mercy, if they would agree, and be conformable, &c.
TO this they both made such an answer, as the chancellor with his fellow commissioners allowed them for catholics. Whether they of weakness so answered, or he of subtlety would so understand their answer, that he might have some forged example of a shrinking brother to lay in the dish of the rest, which were to be examined; it may easily be perceived by this, that to all them which followed in examination, he objected the example of Barlow and Cardmaker, commending their soberness, discretion, and learning. But whatsoever their answer was, yet notwithstanding Barlow was led again to the Fleet, from whence he afterwards being delivered, did by exile constantly bear witness to the truth of the gospel. Cardmaker was conveyed to the Compter in Bread-street, the bishop of London procuring it to be published, that he should shortly be delivered, after he had subscribed to transubstantiation and certain other articles. To the same prison where Cardmaker was, Mr. Laurence Saunders was brought, (after the sentence of excommunication and condemnation was pronounced against him) where these two prisoners had such christian conference, that whatsoever the breath of the bishop blustered, and the sickle ears of the people too lightly believed, in the end they both showed themselves constant confessors and worthy martyrs of Christ▪ as of Laurence Saunders is alr•••y written. After whose departure Cardmaker remained there prisoner, to be baited by the papists, who would needs seem to have a certain hope that Cardmaker was become their's. Continual and great conferences divers of them had with him, with reasonings, persuadings, and threatenings, but all to no effect. To the end that their doings might appear, he required them to put their reasons in writing, and promised by writing to answer them.
TO this they both made such an answer, as the chancellor with his fellow commissioners allowed them for catholics. Whether they of weakness so answered, or he of subtlety would so understand their answer, that he might have some forged example of a shrinking brother to lay in the dish of the rest, which were to be examined; it may easily be perceived by this, that to all them which followed in examination, he objected the example of Barlow and Cardmaker, commending their soberness, discretion, and learning. But whatsoever their answer was, yet notwithstanding Barlow was led again to the Fleet, from whence he afterwards being delivered, did by exile constantly bear witness to the truth of the gospel. Cardmaker was conveyed to the Compter in Bread-street, the bishop of London procuring it to be published, that he should shortly be delivered, after he had subscribed to transubstantiation and certain other articles. To the same prison where Cardmaker was, Mr. Laurence Saunders was brought, (after the sentence of excommunication and condemation was pronounced against him) where these two prisoners had such christian conference, that whatsoever the breath of the bishop blustered, and the sickle ears of the people too lightly believed, in the end they both shewed themselves constant confessors and worthy martyrs of Christ as of Laurence Saunders is alry written. After whose departure Cardmaker remained there prisoner, to be baited by the papists, who would needs seem to have a certain hope that Cardmaker was become their's. Continual and great conferences divers of them had with him, with reasonings, persuadings, and threatenings, but all to no effect. To the end that their doings might appear, he required them to put their reasons in writing, and promised by writing to answer them.
DR. MARTIN, who bare also a part in those pageants, took upon him to be the chief doer by writing, whose long unsavoury letters and simple reasons for transubstantiation, and such papistical trash, Mr. Cardmaker answered largely, learnedly, and substantially, confuting the same, opening the falsehood of his arguments, and delivering the sentences of the fathers (which Martin abused for his purpose) to their true understandings; which answers I would had come to our hands. Thus constantly abode this good man all their doings, as he did also the death which he suffered in Smithfield in London: whereof an account shall be […]. But first we ⟨p. 565⟩will survey the matter and manner of the articles objected against him by bishop Bonner, with his answers annexed to the same, as followeth.
DR. MARTIN, who bare also a part in those pageants, took upon him to be the chief doer by writing, whose long unsavoury letters and simple reasons for transubstantiation, and such papistical trash, Mr. Cardmaker answered largely, learnedly, and substantially, confuting the same, opening the falshood of his arguments, and delivering the sentences of the fathers (which Martin abused for his purpose) to their true understandings; which answers I would had come to our hands. Thus constantly abode this good man all their doings, as he did also the death which he suffered in Smithfield in London: whereof an account shall be 〈…〉. But first we ⟨p. 565⟩will survey the matter and manner of the articles objected against him by bishop Bonner, with his answers annexed to the same, as followeth.
1. I Edmund, bishop of London, object against thee, John Taylor, alias Cardmaker, that thou wast and art of the city and diocese of London, and so of the jurisdiction of me Edmund, bishop of London.
2. ITEM, That thou in times past didst profess the rule of St. Francis, and didst by vow promise to keep poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to the rule of St. Francis.
3. ITEM, That thou in times past didst receive all the orders of the church then used; to wit, both greater and lesser.
4. ITEM, That thou after thy said entry into religion, and profession and orders aforesaid, didst take to wife a widow, and with her hadst carnal copulation, and didst get with her a woman child, breaking thereby thy vow and order, and also the ordinance of the church.
5. ITEM, That thou hast believed and taught, and so dost believe, that in the sacrament of the altar, under the visible signs there, that is to say, under the forms of bread and wine, there is really and truly the true and very natural body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
6. ITEM, That the belief of the catholic church is, that in having the body and blood of Christ really and truly contained in the sacrament of the altar, is to have (by the omnipotent power of Almighty God) the body and blood of Christ invisibly and really present under the said sacrament, and not to make thereby a new God, or a new Christ, or a new body of Christ.
7. ITEM, That it may stand well together, and so is the faith of the catholic church, that the body of Christ is visibly and truly ascended into heaven, and there is in the visible form of his humanity; and yet the same body in substance is invisibly and truly contained in the said sacrament of the altar.
8. ITEM, That Christ at his last supper taking bread into his hands, blessing it, breaking it, giving it to his apostles, and saying, Take, eat, this is my body; did institute a sacrament there, willing that his body really and truly should be contained in the said sacrament, no substance of bread and wine there remaining, but only the accidents thereof.
