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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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Another Matter of trouble wrought against Mr. JOHN BLAND, as appeareth by his own Narration.
UPON Innocents day, being the 28th of December, they had procured the priest of Stodmash to say mass: he had nigh made an end of matins ere I came; and when he had ended them, he said to me, Mr. Parson, your neighbours have desired me to say matins and mass; I hope you will not be against the queen's proceedings. No, (said I) I will offend none of her majesty's laws, God willing. What say you? quoth he, and made as though he had not heard. Then I spake the same words to him again with an higher voice; but he would not hear, though all the rest in the chancel heard: I spake so loud the third time, that all the church might hear, That I would not offend the queen's laws, and then he went to mass; and when he was reading the epistle, I called the clerk unto me, with the beckoning of my finger, and said unto him, I pray you desire the priest when the gospel is done to tarry a little, I have something to say to the people; and the clerk did so.
UPON Innocents day, being the 28th of December, they had procured the priest of Stodmash to say mass: he had nigh made an end of mattins ere I came; and when he had ended them, he said to me, Mr. Parson, your neighbours have desired me to say mattins and mass; I hope you will not be against the queen's proceedings. No, (said I) I will offend none of her majesty's laws, God willing. What say you? quoth he, and made as though he had not heard. Then I spake the same words to him again with an higher voice; but he would not hear, though all the rest in the chancel heard: I spake so loud the third time, that all the church might hear, That I would not offend the queen's laws, and then he went to mass; and when he was reading the epistle, I called the clerk unto me, with the beckoning of my finger, and said unto him, I pray you desire the priest when the gospel is done to tarry a little, I have something to say to the people; and the clerk did so.