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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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Nevertheless his execution was prolonged, and he remained in prison till the 10th day of June. Then was he committed to the hands and charge of the lord Rich, who being sufficiently assisted with power by the wo•••ipful of the shire, had the aforesaid Thomas Hawks down into Essex, with six other fellow prisoners whose stories hereafter follow, there to suffer martyrdom, Hawks at Coxchall, the others in several other places.
Nevertheless his execution was prolonged, and he remained in prison till the 10th day of June. Then was he committed to the hands and charge of the lord Rich, who being sufficiently assisted with power by the wo•••ipful of the shire, had the aforesaid Thomas Haukes down into Essex, with six other fellow prisoners whose stories hereafter follow, there to suffer martyrdom, Haukes at Coxchall, the others in several other places.
THOMAS HAWKS by the way used much exhortation to his friends, and whensoever opportunity served to talk with them, he would familiarly admonish them.
THOMAS HAUKES by the way used much exhortation to his friends, and whensoever opportunity served to talk with them, he would familiarly admonish them.
A little before his death, there were several of his familiar acquaintance and friends, who frequented his company more familiarly, and seemed to be greatly confirmed both by the example of his constancy, and by his talk; yet notwithstanding, being terrified by the sharpness of the punishment which he was going to suffer, privately desired that in the midst of the flame he would show them some token, if he could, whereby they might be more certain, whether the pain of such burning were so great, that a man might not therein keep his mind quiet and patient. Which thing he promised them to do; and so secretly between them it was agreed, that if the rage of the pain were tolerable and might be suffered, then he should lift up his hands above his head towards heaven, before he gave up the ghost.