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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 › A Copy of the Bishop's Letter written to the Parish of Weme.
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A Copy of the Bishop's Letter written to the Parish of Weme.
UNDERSTANDING that one Glover an heretic is dead in the parish of Weme, which Glover hath, all the time of my being in this country, been known for a rebel against our holy faith and religion, a contemner of the holy sacraments and ceremonies used in the holy church, and hath separated himself from the holy communion of all good christian men, and never required to be reconciled to our mother holy church, nor in his last days did call for his spiritual father, but died without a rite belonging to a christian man; I thought it good not only to command the curate of Weme, that he should not be honoured with christian burial, but also will and command all the parish of Weme, that no man procure, help, nor speak to have him buried in holy ground: but I do charge and command the church-wardens of Weme in special, and all the parish of the same, that they assist the said curate in defending and hindering, and procuring that he be not buried in the church, or within the walls of the church-yard: and likewise I charge those that brought the body to the place to carry it away again, and that at their charge, as they will answer at their peril. At Ecclesch, this sixth of September 1555. By your Ordinary, Radulph, Coventry and Litchfield.
BY virtue of this aforesaid letter, so it fell out, that they who brought the corps thither, were obliged to carry it back again at their own charges. But as the body was corrupted, and smelt so strong that no man could well come near it, they were forced to draw it with horses into a broom-field, and there he was buried.