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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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An Account of GEORGE KING and THOMAS LEIS, who died, and were buried in the Fields.
An Account of GEORGE KING and THOMAS LEYES, who died, and were buried in the Fields.
MENTION was made before of ten persons sent out of Newgate by Mr. Hare and other commissioners, to be examined by Bonner, bishop of London: of whom six already have been executed in several places, as hath been showed; whose names were Elizabeth Warn, George Tankerfield, Robert Smith, Stephen Harwood, Thomas Fust, and William Hale. The other three, namely, George King, Thomas Leves, and John Wa•e, f•lling sick in Lollard's Tower, were so weak that they were removed into sundry houses within the city of London, and there died, and were thrown out into the fields, and there buried […] the night by some of the faithful brethren, when […] the […] time durst do it, Propter metum J••••orum. The l•st that remained of this company aforesaid was ⟨p. 764⟩Joan Laysh, or Layshford, the daughter-in-law of John Warn, and Elizabeth Warn, martyrs: but because she was reprieved to another time, her story and martyrdom we will defer till the month of January the next year following.
MENTION was made before of ten persons sent out of Newgate by Mr. Hare and other commissioners, to be examined by Bonner, bishop of London: of whom six already have been executed in several places, as hath been shewed; whose names were Elizabeth Warn, George Tankerfield, Robert Smith, Stephen Harwood, Thomas Fust, and William Hale. The other three, namely, George King, Thomas Leves, and John Wae, flling sick in Lollard's Tower, were so weak tht they were removed into sundry houses within the city of London, and there died, and were thrown out into the filds, and there buried the night by some of the faithful brethren, when the time durst do it, Propter metum Jorum. The lst that remained of this company aoresaid was