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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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The first Examination of Mr. JOHN BLAND in the Spiritual Court, before Dr. HARPSFIELD, Archdeacon of Canterbury, and Mr. COLLINS, Commissary.
THE 18th day of May, Mr. Harpsfield, archdeacon of Canterbury, obliged the mayor's serjeant to bring me before him and Mr. Collins, commissary, into Christ's-church, and they took me into a chamber in the suffragan of Dover's house.
THEN the archdeacon said, Art thou a priest? And I said, I was one. And he said, Art thou a graduate of any university? and I said, Yea. What degree, said he, hast thou taken? The degree, said I, of Master of Arts. The more pity, replied he, that thou shouldst behave thyself as thou hast done. Thou hast been a common licensed preacher, hast ⟨p. 699⟩thou not? and I said, I have been so. Marry, said he, so I understand.
Harps. What hast thou preached?