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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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AND for example, I began to bring in a pageant▪ that by report was played at St. Thomas of Acres▪ and where I was when a child, waiting […] a gentleman of Norfolk, which being bound in conscience▪ through the persuasion of the priest, gave away a great quantity of his goods, and forgave unto one Mr. Gresham a large sum of money, and to another as much. The priest for his part had a good share and the house had an annuity to keep him: which ⟨p. 749⟩thing when his brother heard, he came to London, and after a declaration made to the council, how by the subtlety of the priest he had robbed his wife and children, recovered a great part again, to the value of two or three hundred pounds of Mr. Gresham and his other friend; but what he gave to the house could not be recovered. This story I began to tell; but when my lord saw it favoured not to his purpose, he began to revile me, and said, By the mass, if the queen's majesty were of my mind, thou shouldst not come to talk before any man, but shouldst be put in a sack, with a dog in the same, and be thrown into a river.
AND for example, I began to bring in a pageant▪ that by report was played at St. Thomas of Acres▪ and where I was when a child, waiting 〈…〉 a gentleman of Norfolk, which being bound in ••nscience▪ through the persuasion of the priest, gave away a great quantity of his goods, and forgave unto one Mr. Gresham a large sum of money, and to another as much. The priest for his part had a good share and the house had an annuity to keep him: which ⟨p. 749⟩thing when his brother heard, he came to London, and after a declaration made to the council, how by the subtilty of the priest he had robbed his wife and children, recovered a great part again, to the value of two or three hundred pounds of Mr. Gresham and his other friend; but what he gave to the house could not be recovered. This story I began to tell; but when my lord saw it favoured not to his purpose, he began to revile me, and said, By the mass, if the queen's majesty were of my mind, thou shouldst not come to talk before any man, but shouldst be put in a sack, with a dog in the same, and be thrown into a river.