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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 11 › An Account of JAMES TREVISAM, who was buried in Moorfields.
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An Account of JAMES TREVISAM, who was buried in Moorfields.
UPON Sunday the 3d of July, 1555, died one James Trevisam, in the parish of St. Margaret, in Lothbury, who being impotent and lame, kept his bed a long time. This Trevisam had a servant named John Small, who was reading in the bible, when one Berd the promot•• came to the house, and would needs go up stairs, where he found four persons besides him and his wife; to wit, the young man that read, and two men and a woman. All whom the said Berd apprehended and carried to the Compter, where they remained about a fortnight, notwithstanding all the friends they could make. Not only so, but the said Berd intended to carry the poor lame bedridden man to Newgate in a cart, (and brought a cart to the door for that purpose) had not the neighbour, who had a little more humanity, prevented that barbarous design. Nevertheless, the poor man was obliged to have two sureties for his forth coming, notwithstanding […] could not get out of his bed, being not only […] but very sick at the same time. In a few days […] he grew so ill that his life was despaired of […] the parson of the parish, one Mr. Farthing, […] visit him, and had communication with him, […] they both agreed very well in matters of religion▪ […] so the parson departed. No sooner was he […] down into the street, but he was met by one […] a founder, who threatened to accuse him, […] with Trevisam; for, said the founder, […] the sacrament of the altar. Upon […] parson went to him again, and then they […] agree. And so the parson went to the […] London, and told him. The bishop answered, […] he should be burnt; and if he were already […] he should be buried in a ditch. And when he […] dead, the parson showed as much spite and ill […] to his poor sorrowful widow as possibly […] not suffering her to put him in a co•••n, or […] else, but insisted on carrying him on a […] Moorfields, and there he was buried. […] night the body was taken up again, and […] taken from him, and he left naked above […] The owner of the field seeing this, buried […] again; a fortnight after, the sumner came […] grave and summoned him to appear at St […] before his ordinary, to answer to such […] should be laid against him. But what […] this affair afterwards, I cannot certainly say.