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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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A LETTER, Sent by certain Justices in Essex, to BONNER, Bishop of London.
AFTER our most hearty commendations to your good lordship, these shall be to advertise you, that at our sessions of oyer and terminer held at Chelmsford, the ⟨p. 600⟩26th day of April last past, there came before us in open court, one Thomas Watts of Billerica within your diocese, by ordinary process, and then and there being examined why he refused to come to his parish church, and there to receive the sacrament of the altar, and hear divine service, according to the institution of the holy church, he openly there answered generally: That like as the service of the church set out in the days of the late king Edward VI. was said by us now to be abominable, heretical, schismatical, and naught; so he said, that all that is now used and done in the church, is abominable, heretical, schismatical, and wicked; with divers other erroneous and arrogant words: and therefore we have thought proper to send him to your lordship, to be further examined by you of his particular opinions, as to your pastoral office shall seem convenient, certifying you further, that in our opinion he is one of the most arrogant heretics, that hath been heard speak, or ever came before you, and not meet to be kept here in any jail, as well for fear of corrupting others, as for divers and sundry other special causes hereafter to be more declared. Thus leaving to molest your good lordship, we commit you to the Holy Ghost. Given at Chelmsford, April 27, 1555. Your good lordship's most assured, R. Rich Henry Tyrel Anthony Brown Edmund Tyrel Thomas Mildman. John Wiseman Roger Appleton Richard Weston.
AFTER our most hearty commendations to your good lordship, these shall be to advertise you, that at our sessions of oyer and terminer held at Chelmsford, the ⟨p. 600⟩