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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 GEORGE TANKERFIELD, Martyr.
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IT pleased God to strike him with sickness, whereby he lay long sick; and on a certain day to […] the air abroad, he rose up, and went and walked into the Temple fields to see the shooters. In the mean time Mr. Beard came to his house and inquired for him, pretending to his wife, that he came only to have him dress a banquet at the lord Paget's. His wife, because of his apparel, which was very rich, took him to be some honest gentleman, and with all speed prepared herself to fetch her husband, having a good hope he should now earn some money: and lest this gentleman should be tired with tarrying, she fetched him a cushion to set him soft, and laid • fair napkin before him, and set bread thereon, and came to her husband; who, when he heard it, said▪ A banquet, woman; indeed it is such a banquet […] will not be very pleasant to the flesh, but God's will be done. And when he came home he saw who […] was, and called him by his name, which when his wife perceived, and wherefore he came, like a tall woman would play Peter's part, and instead of▪ sword took a spit, and would have run him through, had not the constable which Mr. Beard had sent for by his man, came in and rescued him: yet she sent a brickbat after him, and hit him on the back. And so Tankerfield was delivered to the constable, and brought to Newgate about the last day of Feb. 1555, by the said Beard, yeoman of the guards, and Simon Ponder, p•wterer, constable of St Duns•••'s in the West, sent in by Roger Chomley, knight, and Dr. Martin.
IT pleased God to strike him with sickness, whereby he lay long sick; and on a certain day to 〈…〉 the air abroad, he rose up, and went and walked into the Temple fields to see the shooters. In the mean time Mr. Beard came to his house and inquired for him, pretending to his wife, that he came only to have him dress a banquet at the lord Paget's. His wife, because of his apparel, which was very rich, took him to be some honest gentleman, and with all speed prepared herself to fetch her husband, having a good hope he should now earn some money: and lest this gentleman should be tired with tarrying, she fetched him a cushion to set him soft, and laid • fair napkin before him, and set bread thereon, and came to her husband; who, when he heard it, said A banquet, woman; indeed it is such a banquet will not be very pleasant to the flesh, but God's will be done. And when he came home he saw who was, and called him by his name, which when his wife perceived, and wherefore he came, like a tall woman would play Peter's part, and instead of sword took a spit, and would have run him through, had not the constable which Mr. Beard had sent for by his man, came in and rescued him: yet she sent a brickbat after him, and hit him on the back. And so Tankerfield was delivered to the constable, and brought to Newgate about the last day of Feb. 1555, by the said Beard, yeoman of the guards, and Simon Ponder, pwterer, constable of St Duns's in the West, sent in by Roger Chomley, knight, and Dr. Martin.