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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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Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the public. Assisted by other ministers of the gospel. This most valuable and complete work will also include many additional articles of importance, among which are a genuine history of the persecutions of the people called Quakers; a full account of the western Martyrology or Bloody Assizes, under Judge Jefferies, in the West of England, in which many eminent Protestants suffered painful and cruel deaths, including also, a full account of the ten great persecutions under the roman emperors ... with a great number of cruelties exercised against the glorious Christian Martyrs not related in any other work of the kind whatever. With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian Martyrs in the very earliest Ages of the World. ... Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
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Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, concerning the method of planting vacant churches. At Edinburgh the fifteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and thirty two.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: [1732]- Books
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Minutes of a general conference of the members of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation: held in Great East Cheap, London, from the 13th to the 17th of April, 1789. In Consequence of a general Invitation, by Circular Letters, to all the Readers of the Theological Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, who are desirous of rejecting, and separating themselves from the Old Church, or the present established Churches, together with all their Sectaries, throughout Christendom, and of fully embracing the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem.
New Jerusalem Church.Date: 1789- Books
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The kent and Sussex, association of Baptist Churches, consisting of those which meet at Ashford, Sandhurst; Folkstone, Bessel's Green, Chatham, and Eynsford, in Kent; and at Rye, Rotherfield, Wivelsfield, Lewes, Brighthelmston, and Handcross, in Sussex. Maintaining The important Doctrines of Three equal Persons in the Divine Essence. - Eternal and Personal Election to Holiness here, and Eternal Life hereafter. - The original Guilt and Depravity of Mankind. - Particular Redemption. - Free Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ alone. - Efficacious Grace in Regeneration. - And the Perseverance of the Saints to Eternal Glory. Assembled at Rye, in Sussex, the 3d and 4th days in June, 1800.
Baptist Church. Kent and Sussex Association.Date: [1800]- Books
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Act and recommedation of the General Assembly for a voluntar contribution for helping to build a church at Cairstoun in Orkney. At Edinburgh, the 11th day of May 1717.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1717- Books
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The vespers, or even-song: with the Holy Mass. In Latin and English together, With the Antiphons Hymns and Prayers as they are Sung in the Catholick Church upon all Sundays and Festivals through out the whole Year.
Catholic Church.Date: Printed in the Year. MDCCVIII [1708]- Books
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The sinfulness of indulging our curiosity in hearing the word of God. A circulatory letter addressed to the Associated Churches of Christ, called Independants, in the County of Kent. To which is prefixed, the minutes of the said Association.
Associated Churches of Christ.Date: 1795?]- Books
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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David.
Episcopal Church.Date: 1795- Books
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The litanies and prayers, in Latin and English recommended to be said in catholick families. With Licence.
Catholic Church.Date: 1748- Books
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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David.
Episcopal Church.Date: 1797- Books
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Reasons for an union among Protestants, and to enable His Majesty King George to make use of the service of all his faithful subjects. By a member of the Church of England, as now by law established.
Member of the Church of England.Date: [1717]- Books
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The order of confirmation: with instructions for them that come to be confirmed. And prayers, to be used before and after confirmation.
Church of England.Date: 1792- Books
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The form of consecrating churches and church-yards.
Church of England.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Animadversions upon the conduct of the Rev. Dr. Rutherforth, in the controversy which has followed the publication of The confessional. With a word to the author of an "essay on establishments in religion, &c." By Anonymous.
Disney, John, 1746-1816.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A fourme to be vsed in common prayer : twyse a weke, and also an order of publique fast, to be vsed euery Wednesday in the weeke, duryng this tyme of mortalitie, and other afflictions, wherwith the realme at this present is visited. Set forth by the Quenes Maiesties speciall co[m]maundement, expressed in her letters hereafter folowyng in the next page.
Church of EnglandDate: Xxx. Iulii. 1563- Books
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The words and doctrine of the church catechism, explained in a familiar manner, by a country clergyman. To which is added, a short address preparatory to confirmation.
Country Clergyman.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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The gospel written in the 16. of Marke.
Church of EnglandDate: [before 1620]- Books
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Devotion reviv'd: or, safe and easie directions for a truly religious life. With a character of the principal virtues necessary for a Christian. By a divine of the Church of England. Composed at First for his own Private Use, and now Publish'd for the common Good.
Divine of the Church of England.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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An exposition of the XXXIV article of religion, of the traditions of the church: Refer'd to in a Report of the Committee of the Lower House of Convocation, appointed to draw up a Representation concerning several dangerous Positions and Doctrines contained in the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative, and his Sermon preach'd March 31. 1717. By a Clergyman of the Church of England.
Church of England.Date: [1718]- Books
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Ffurf gweddi a diolch i Dduw hollalluog, am ei fawr drugaredd yn rhagluniaethol amddiffyniad y brenin oddiwrth gais ysgeler a bradychol yn erbyn ei ddyndid arbenig, ar Ddydd Iau y pymthegfed o Fai 1800. I'w harfer yn y borëol a phrydnawnol wasanaeth ar ol y diolchgarwch cyffredinol, yn mhob eglwys a chapel trwy Loegr a Chymru, ...
Church of England.Date: 1800