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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 Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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At a meeting of the Sub-committee of the Catholics of Ireland, Edward Byrne, Esq. in the chair, Resolved - that the following letter be circulated.
General Committee of Roman Catholics of Ireland. Sub-Committee.Date: 1792?]- Books
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The mayor, sheriffs, free-burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Galway, - - appellants. Henry Russell, Esq; - - - respondent. The appellants case.
Galway (Ireland : City)Date: 1721]- Books
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Henry Pippard, Esquire, - - - - - appellant. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses, and commons, of the town of Drogheda, William Godley, Benjamin Woodward, and Isaac Holroyde, Heirs at law of William Elwood, deceased, - - - - - - - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Drogheda (Ireland)Date: 1759]- Books
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House of Lords. The Right Honourable Alexander Lord M̀donald, of the Kingdom of Ireland, - Appellant. Lieutenant Colonel Norman Macleod, of Macleod, - - - - - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Macleod, Norman, 1754-1801.Date: 1781]- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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John Winckworth, Esquire - - - - appellant. Mark Anthony Najack, Esquire - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Najack, Mark Anthony.Date: 1728]- Books
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John Minchin, Esq; - appellant. Mary Edwards, spinster - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Edwards, Mary, active 1729-1731.Date: 1731]- Books
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The plaintif in error's case. The Reverend Father in God Welbore Lord Bishop of Kildare, and Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Qui tam pro Domino Rege, quam pro seipso sequitur - - - - Plaintiff. The most Reverend Father in God, William Lord Archbishop of Dublin - - Defendant. In a Writ of Error of a Judgment in the Court of King's Bench in England, in Affirmance of a Judgment in the Court of King's - Bench in Ireland, in Affirmance of a Judgment in the Court of Common-Pleas there, in a Prohibition.
Holy Trinity Cathedral (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1724]- Books
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The Belfast town and country almanack, for the year 1795. (Being the third after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, eclipses of the sun and moon-sun's rising and setting-moon's quarters, age, and southing-number of days in each month-days in the week for every month of the year-observations to each month-monthly fairs-common notes-feasts-terms-the royal family-Bristol and Chester fairs. Stamp-duties on bills. D...is, and receipts, in ... likewise, 1. An ingenious calculation, - page 2 2. The country-man's weather-wiser; or Proguolties of the weather from vegetables - ... 3. A droll Irish advertisemant, - ... 4. A sunny parable to report-catchers, ... 5. The coxcomb and barber's boy, - - - 4 6. The Irishman in love, - - - - 5 7. Making toil of a pleasure, - - - - 6 8. The man and his small wife, - - - 7 9. Anecdote of an Irishman, - - - - 10 10. The quack doctor, - - - - 12 11. A sailor's love-letter to his sweetheart, 13 12. A curious comparison, - - - - 15 13. An Irish bull-inscription in a Church-yard, - 16.
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John Vernon, Esq; - - - - - appellant. William Maple, merchant, - - respondent. The appellant's case.
Vernon, John, Captain.Date: 1730]- Books
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Gerald Burke, Esq; - - - - appellant. Thomas Blake, Esq; - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
Burke, Gerald, Esq.Date: 1739]- Books
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Gerald Burke, Esq; - - - - appellant. Thomas Blake, Esq; - - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Blake, Thomas, Sir.Date: 1739]- Books
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Gerard Bor, a minor, by William Cooper, Esq; his guardian, - - - - - - appellant. Jacob Bor, Esq; - - - - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Bor, Jacob.Date: 1755]- Books
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Between the Hon. Henry Lawes Luttrell, and Francis MʻFarland - - appellants, and the Right Hon. Simon Lord Irnham - respondent. Upon a petition of appeal in two causes. First cause. The Right Hon. Simon Lord Irnham - plaintiff, against the Hon. Henry Lawes Luttrell - defendant. Second cause. The Right Hon. Simon Lord Irnham - plaintiff, and the Hon. Henry Lawes Luttrell, and Francis MʻFarland - - - defendants. Against an order in both causes made the 26th of February, 1777, and a decree in the last cause made the 3d of March, 1777. The respondent's case.
Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787.Date: 1778]- Books
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[H]ouse of Lords. Appeal from the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. Charles Vipont Charles, Esq; - - - - appellant. The Right Hon. Hercules Langford Rowley, Esq; respondent. The respondent's case.
Rowley, Hercules Langford, approximately 1714-1794.Date: 1774]- Books
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The right Honourable James Earl of Clanbrassill, of the Kingdom of Ireland, - - - - Appellant. Robert Taylor, Esq. - - - - - - Respondent. The case of the Respondent.
Taylor, Robert, Sir, 1714-1788.Date: 1781]- Books
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Edward Edgworth, Esquire, - - - - - - - - - - - appellant. Moore and Damer Edgworth, minors, by John Magill, clerk, their guardian, and the said John Magill, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Edgworth, Edward, -1774.Date: 1766]- Books
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A second letter from a friend to the Right Honourable - - - -.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1725]- Books
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The [B]elfast town and country almanack, for the year 1793. (Being the first after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, [r]ising and setting; moon's southing for every day ... week, and every month in the year; month & ... days; holidays, & monthly fairs, page 4. to 15. ...lipses of the sun & moon; common notes & move-feasts; -four quarterly terms, - page 16. ... family; royal navy; and army-pay, page 2.... Bristol and Chester, - - page 15. ... abstract of the stamp-duties on bills, receipts, in Britain, which commenced august 1. 1791, p. 3. Likewise, ...histle. A story by Dr Franklin, - - page 10. ... and revolution of the Earth and planets, page3. Improvement for the management of bees, page 3. ... of some of the most considerable towns, with their ... of inhabitants, - - - - page16. ... proclamation for holding a Scots fair, page 14. ... letter to his wife, - - page 4.
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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Henry King, Esq; youngest brother of Robert, late Lord Kingsborough, in the Kingdom of Ireland, deceased, - - - - - - appellant. Sir Edward King, baronet, eldest surviving brother and heir at law of the said Lord Kingsborough, - - - - - - respondent. The respondent's case. ...
Kingston, Edward King, Earl of, 1726-1797.Date: 1759]- Books
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The Belfast town and country almanack, for the year 1797. Adapted to the new stile: containing, eclipses of the sun and moon - sun's rising and setting - moon's quarters, age, and southing ...
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William Ashworth - - - appellant. Richard Choppin, Elizabeth Barry, and Christopher Bath, - - respondents. The case of the respondents Richard Choppin, Elizabeth Barry.
Choppin, Richard, active 1740.Date: 1740]- Books
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[H]ouse of Lords. Appeal from the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, Charles Vipont Charles, Esquire, - - - appellant. The Right Hon. Hercules Langford Rowley, Esq. and John Elijah Charles, Esq. respondents. The appellant's case.
Charles, Charles Vipont.Date: 1774]