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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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WE will now return to the proceedings of the court in the case of queen Mary's supposed child, whereof we have already treated, in a former part of this work.
LONG persuasion had been in England with great expectation, for the space of half a year or more, that the queen was conceived with child. This report was made by the queen's physicians, and others about the court: so that several were punished for saying the contrary. And a command was given, that in all churches supplications and prayer should be made for the queen's good delivery: the certificate whereof you may read before in the letter of the council sent to bishop Bonner. And also the same moreover may appear by provision made before by act of parliament for the child.
AND now forasmuch as in the beginning of this month of June, about Whitsuntide, the time was thought to be nigh that this young master should come into the world, and •hat midwives, rockers, nurses, with the cradle and all, were prepared and in readiness; suddenly, upon what cau•• or occasion is unknown, a certain vain rumour was spread about in London of the safe delivery of the queen and the birth of the child. Insomuch that the •ells were rung, bonfires and processions mad• […] only in the city of London, and in most other parts of the realm, but also in the town of Antwerp, guns were shot off upon the river by the English ships, and the mariners thereof rewarded with an hundred pistolets or Italian crowns by the lady regent, who was the queen of Hungary. Such great rejoicing and triumph was made for the queen's delivery, and that there was a prince born. Yea, divers preachers, particularly the parson of St. Ann within Aldersgate, after procession and Te Deum sung, took upon him to describe the proportion of the child, how fair, how beautiful, and great a prince he was, as the like had not been seen.