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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 Apprehension, Examination, Condemnation, and Burning of DIRICK CARVER, and JOHN LAUNDER, who suffered Martyrdom for the Testimony of the Gospel.
THE 22d day of July, Dirick Carver, late of the parish of Brighthel•stone in the county of Sussex, was burnt at Lewes in the said county. And the day following John Launder, late of Godstone in the county of Surrey, was burnt at Stening. These two men were, with others, about the l•tter end of the month of October, in the year 1554, apprehended by Edward Gage, gentleman, as they were at prayers in the dwelling-house of the […] Dirick, and by him were sent-up to the quee•'s council, who, after examination, sent them as prisoners to Newgate, there to attend the leisure of Bonner bishop of London. From whence (upon the bishop's receipt of a letter from the Lord ••• quis of Winchester, now lord treasurer) they […] brought by the keeper of the prison on the 8th of June next after into the bishop's chamber at […] house in London; and there, being examined upon divers points of religion, they made their […] confessions, subscribing and signing them with their own hands: which being read, the bishop obj•••• to them certain other articles, causing them to […] truly and directly their answers thereunto; […] articles they confessed to be true, referring […] selves chiefly to their former confessions.
THE 22d day of July, Dirick Carver, late of the parish of Brighthel•stone in the county of Sussex, was burnt at Lewes in the said county. And the day following John Launder, late of Godstone in the county of Surry, was burnt at Stening. These two men were, with others, about the ltter end of the month of October, in the year 1554, apprehended by Edward Gage, gentleman, as they were at prayers in the dwelling-house of the Dirick, and by him were sent-up to the quee's council, who, after examination, sent them as prisoners to Newgate, there to attend the leisure of Bonner bishop of London. From whence (upon the bishop's receipt of a letter from the Lord quis of Winchester, now lord treasurer) they brought by the keeper of the prison on the 8th of June next after into the bishop's chamber at house in London; and there, being examined upon divers points of religion, they made their confessions, subscribing and signing them with their own hands: which being read, the bishop obj to them certain other articles, causing them to truly and directly their answers thereunto; articles they confessed to be true, referring selves chiefly to their former confessions.