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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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AT these words, or rather before he had fully finished, the said lord chancellor something snuffed, and declared it to be a lye: for, said he, the fact was seditious, as you my lord of London can bear witness.
Bonner. You say true, my lord, I saw him with my own eyes, when he took upon him to rule and lead the people impudently, thereby declaring that he was the author of the sedition.
Brad. My lords, notwithstanding my lord bishop's seeing and saying, yet the truth I have told, as one day the Lord God Almighty shall reveal to all the world, when we shall all come to appear before him: in the mean season, because I cannot be believed by you, I must and am ready to suffer, as now ⟨p. 620⟩your sayings be; wh•••oever God shall license you to do unto me.
Lord Chan. I know thou hast a glorious tongue, and goodly shows thou makest; but all is lies thou speakest: And again, I have not forgot how stubborn thou wast when thou wast before us in the Tower, whereupon thou wast committed to prison concerning religion I have not forgotten thy behaviour and talk, for which cause thou hast been kept in prison, as one that would have done more hurt than I will speak of.