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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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ITEM, That thou hast believed, and dost believe, that after the words of consecration spoken by the priest, there is not (as the church of England doth believe and teach) the body of Christ; but that there doth only remain the substance of material bread, as it is before the consecration, or speaking the words of consecration; and that the said bread is in no wise altered or changed.
ITEM, That thou hast said and dost believe, that if the catholic church do believe and teach, that there is in the mass now used in England, and in other places of Christendom, a sacrifice containing the body and blood of Christ really and truly; then that belief and faith of the church is naught, and against God's truth and the scripture.
ITEM, That thou hast said, that about a twelve-month ago and more, a rough spaniel of thine was shorn on the head, and had a crown like a priest made on the same, thou didst laugh at it and like it, though thou didst it not thyself, nor knewest who did it.
ITEM, That thou neither this Lent last past, nor at any time since the queen's majesty's reign, hast come into the church, or heard mass, or been confessed, or received the sacrament of the altar; and hast said that thou art not sorry that thou hast so done, but that thou art glad, because thou hast not therewith defiled thy conscience, which otherwise thou shouldst have done.
UPON all which articles John Warn being examined by the said bishop Bonner, in the presence of divers witnesses, May 23, 1555, did confess and believe the same, and subscribe hereunto his name with his own hand.
UPON all which articles John Warne being examined by the said bishop Bonner, in the presence of divers witnesses, May 23, 1555, did confess and believe the same, and subscribe hereunto his name with his own hand.
By me, JOHN WARN.
By me, JOHN WARNE.
IT was also objected against the said John Warn, by the aforesaid bishop, as followeth.
IT was also objected against the said John Warne, by the aforesaid bishop, as followeth.
ITEM, That thou John Warn wast in time past here in the city of London, accused in Guildhall of heresy against the sacrament of the altar, according to the order of the laws of this realm of England in the time of king Henry VIII. and when alderman Barnes was then sheriff, and the Thursday after that ⟨p. 567⟩Anne Askew was burnt in Smithfield; and thereupon thou wast sent a prisoner to Newgate, to whom Edmund, bishop of London, did repair with his chaplains, to instruct thee in the true faith of Christ, touching the said sacrament of the altar, and to bring thee from thy error, which was, that in the sacrament of the altar there is not the body of Christ, nor any corporal presence of Christ's body and blood, under the forms of bread and wine: but •hat in the said sacrament there is only material bread and wine, without any substance of Christ's body and blood at all: and because thou wouldst not leave and forsake thy said heresy therein, but persist and abide obstinately and wilfully therein, thou wert, according to the said laws condemned to death and to be burnt; and thereupon suit being made for thee to the king and others in the court, thou hast a pardon of king Henry VIII. and thereby didst save thy life.
ITEM, That thou John Warne wast in time past here in the city of London, accused in Guildhall of heresy against the sacrament of the altar, according to the order of the laws of this realm of England in the time of king Henry VIII. and when alderman Barnes was then sheriff, and the Thursday after that ⟨p. 567⟩Anne Askew was burnt in Smithfield; and thereupon thou wast sent a prisoner to Newgate, to whom Edmund, bishop of London, did repair with his chaplains, to instruct thee in the true faith of Christ, touching the said sacrament of the altar, and to bring thee from thy error, which was, that in the sacrament of the altar there is not the body of Christ, nor any corporal presence of Christ's body and blood, under the forms of bread and wine: but •hat in the said sacrament there is only material bread and wine, without any substance of Christ's body and blood at all: and because thou wouldst not leave and forsake thy said heresy therein, but persist and abide obstinately and wilfully therein, thou wert, according to the said laws condemned to death and to be burnt; and thereupon suit being made for thee to the king and others in the court, thou hast a pardon of king Henry VIII. and thereby didst save thy life.
NEVERTHELESS, in thy heart, conscience, and mind, thou didst both then, and also before believe no otherwise than at this present thou dost believe; that is to say, that in the sacrament of the altar there is neither the very true body or blood of Christ, nor any other substance but the substance of material bread and wine; and to receive the said material bread and wine, and to break it, and to distribute it among the people, only is the true receiving of Christ's body, and no otherwise: so that thy faith and belief is, that in the said sacrament there is no substance of Christ's material body and blood; but all the thing that is there is material bread, and the receiving of it as before; and that the substance of the natural and •rue body of Christ, born of the virgin Mary, is only in heaven and not in the sacrament of the altar. In which thine opinion thou hast ever hitherto since continued, and so dost continue at this present, thou confessing all this to be true, and in witness thereof subscribing thy name thereunto, as followeth.
By me, JOHN WARN.
By me, JOHN WARNE.
JOHN WARN being examined upon the aforesaid articles by the bishop before certain witnesses, whose names were John Roswell, John Heywood, and Robert Ravens, the 23d of May, did answer for the same, confessing and granting the articles and contents thereof to be true, according as they were objected in every part, subscribing also the same with his hand. Such strength and fortitude God's Holy Spirit wrought in him, to stand stoutly and confidently to the defence of the sincere doctrine of his Son.
JOHN WARNE being examined upon the aforesaid articles by the bishop before certain witnesses, whose names were John Roswell, John Heywood, and Robert Ravens, the 23d of May, did answer for the same, confessing and granting the articles and contents thereof to be true, according as they were objected in every part, subscribing also the same with his hand. Such strength and fortitude God's Holy Spirit wrought in him, to stand stoutly and confidently to the defence of the sincere doctrine of his Son.
WHEREUPON the bishop exhorting him with many words to leave his heresies, (as he called them) and to return to the bosom of his mother the holy church, commanded him to appear again the next day, being the 24th of May.
WHO so doing (and answering as he did before) was ordered to come thither again in the afternoon, and so he did: at which time he was earnestly exhorted by the said bishop to recant his opinions. To whom he answered, that he would not depart from his received profession, unless he were thereunto thoroughly persuaded by the holy scriptures.
UPON which answer he was ordered to come again the next day, being the 25th of May, at one of the clock in the afternoon. At which day and hour the bishop examined him again upon all his former articles objected, to which he most constantly adhered, with this further answer added thereunto: I am persuaded (said he) that I am in the right opinion, and I see no cause to recant; for all the filthiness and idolatry is in the church of Rome.
THE bishop then seeing that notwithstanding all his fair promises and terrible threatenings, (whereof he used many) he could not prevail; finished this examination with the definitive sentence of condemnation pronounced against the said John Warn, and charged the sheriffs of London with him, under whose custody he remained in the prison of Newgate, until the 30th day of May.
THE bishop then seeing that notwithstanding all his fair promises and terrible threatnings, (whereof he used many) he could not prevail; finished this examination with the definitive sentence of condemnation pronounced against the said John Warne, and charged the sheriffs of London with him, under whose custody he remained in the prison of Newgate, until the 30th day of May.
WHICH day being appointed for their execution, John Cardmaker, with the said John Warn, were brought by the sheriffs to the place where they should suffer; who being come to the stake, first the sheriffs called Mr. Cardmaker aside, and talked with him secretly, during which time Mr. Warn had said his prayers, was chained to the stake, and had wood and reeds set about him, while Mr. Cardmaker was talking with the sheriffs.
WHICH day being appointed for their execution, John Cardmaker, with the said John Warne, were brought by the sheriffs to the place where they should suffer; who being come to the stake, first the sheriffs called Mr. Cardmaker aside, and talked with him secretly, during which time Mr. Warne had said his prayers, was chained to the stake, and had wood and reeds set about him, while Mr. Cardmaker was talking with the sheriffs.
