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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 12 › Bishop LATIMER appeareth before the Commissioners.
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LATIMER. My lords, If I appear again, I pray you not to send for me until you be ready. For I am an old man, and it is great hurt to mine old age to tarry so long gazing upon the cold walls. Then said the bishop of Lincoln:
LATIMER. My lords, If I appear again, I pray you not to send for me untill you be ready. For I am an old man, and it is great hurt to mine old age to tarry so long gazing upon the cold walls. Then said the bishop of Lincoln:
LINCOLN. Mr. Latimer, I am sorry you are brought so soon, although it is the bailiff's fault, and not mine: but it shall be amended.
THEN Mr. Latimer bowed his knee down to the ground, holding his hat in his hand, having a kerchief on his head, and upon it a night cap or two, and a great cap (such as townsmen use, with two broad fl••s to button under the chin), wearing an old thread-bare Bristow frieze gown girded to his body with a penny leather girdle, at which hanged by a long string his Testament, and his spectacles without a case, depending about his neck upon his breast. After this the bishop of Lincoln began on thi• manner.
THEN Mr. Latimer bowed his knee down to the ground, holding his hat in his hand, having a kerchief on his head, and upon it a night cap or two, and a great cap (such as townsmen use, with two broad fl••s to button under the chin), wearing an old thread-bare Bristow frize gown girded to his body with a penny leather girdle, at which hanged by a long string his Testament, and his spectacles without a case, depending about his neck upon his breast. After this the bishop of Lincoln began on thi manner.