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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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Thomas Drummond, of Logiealmond, - - appellant. His Majesty's Advocate for Scotland, on behalf of his Majesty, - - - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
Drummond, Thomas.Date: 1751]- Books
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The right Reverend Robert Bishop of London, - - Plaintiff in Error. Against Lewis Disney Ffytche, Esquire, - Defendant. Upon a Writ of Error in the House of Lords. The case of the Plaintiff in Error.
Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787.Date: 1783]- Books
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A system of the forms of deeds used in Scotland. By Robert Bell, Clerk to the Signet, Lecturer on Conveyancing, Appointed by the Society of Clerks to the Signet. ...
Bell, Robert, -1816.Date: 1797-1800- Books
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His Majesty's advocate for Scotland, on behalf of His Majesty, - - - - - - - appellant. John Gordon, Esq; second son of Sir James Gordon, of Park, deceased, - - - - - respondent. The said John Gordon, Esq; - - - - - appellant. His Majesty's advocate, on behalf of His Majesty, - respondent. The case of the said John Gordon, Esq;
Gordon, John, of Avachy.Date: 1751]- Books
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Answers for Lieutenant Colonel William Napier of Culcroich. To the petition of Mary Taylor, spouse to Simon Bennet brewer in Potterrow.
Napier, William, -1773.Date: 1762]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of James Donaldson, son to the deceast James Donaldson of Annapolis-Maryland, and his tutor ad litem, ...
Donaldson, James, an infant.Date: 1749]- Books
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His Majesty's advocate for Scotland, in behalf of His Majesty, - - - - appellant. Mary Drummond, only daughter of James Lord Drummond deceased, and Lady Jean Gordon, daughter of the deceased George Duke of Gordon, - - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Drummond, Mary, 1707-1770.Date: 1753]- Books
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Abstract of the cause wherein John Cunninghame Esq; is appellant; and Mrs. Katharine Hamilton, widow, respondent.
Cuninghame, John, active 1717-1740.Date: 1717]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of William Earl of March and Ruglen, ...
Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810.Date: 1749]- Books
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Deed, vesting eight thousand pounds, three per cent. reduced annuities, in trustees, for the benefit of the brothers and sisters of the Hospital of St. Nicholas, at East Harnham, in the county of Wilts. To which is prefixed, a short account of the origin of the charitable fund, for ... which this trust deed was executed.
Hospital of St. Nicholas (East Harnham, England)Date: [1796]- Books
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Petition and answers for John Morison merchant in St. Andrew's, to the petition of Alexander Baxter late baillie of Kinghorn.
Morison, John, merchant in St. Andrew's.Date: 1736]- Books
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Conveyancing epitomised; or, rules and methods of drawing conveyances; shewing the operative parts and effects of the different sorts of deeds, and the mode of conveying estates: with Proper Instructions for the Inrollment of Deeds in the High Court of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, and the regular Fees to be paid in each Court: containing also The necessary Directions for registering Deeds and Wills: Together with The Forms of Memorials, Affidavits, Certificates, &c. in every Case which can occur. By a conveyancer of the Inner Temple.
Conveyancer of the Inner Temple.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- 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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An Act for the publick registring of deeds, conveyances, and wills, and other incumbrances which shall be made of, or that may affect any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments within the county of Middlesex, after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and nine.
Great Britain.Date: 1709]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Mr. John Hamilton, advocate, ...
Hamilton, John, 1715-1796.Date: 1748]- Books
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Memorial and abstract of the proof in the process, John Dingwal writer in Edinburgh, trustee for Roderick Mackenzie merchant in Inverness, pursuer; against Gustavus Monro of Culrain defender, for whom this memorial is offered. ...
Monro, Gustavus.Date: 1749]- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Information for Alexander Fraser second son, and Archibald Fraser third son, to Simon late Lord Fraser of Lovat, deceas'd, claimants; against His Majesty's Advocate, respondent.
Fraser, Alexander, 1729-1762.Date: 1750]- Books
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A particular of the several charitable gifts, rents, and revenues, belonging to the parish of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex; with the names of the donors, for what uses to be disposed of, according to the wills of the donors, and constitutions of every respective gift and settlement.
Church of England. Parish of Enfield.Date: 1775?]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of David Glen writer in Dumfries, and Agnes Glen his daughter; and answers for the said David and Agnes Glens, to the petition of Dr Thomas Young in the College of Edinburgh, and Captain William Denholm of the sixty-third regiment of foot, ...
Glen, David, writer in Dumfries.Date: 1770]- Books
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Information for Sir Alexander Grant of Dalvey, baronet, the surviving accepting executor of the deceast Mrs. Jean Byndloss, alias Campbell, relict of Patrick Campbell of Monzie, Esq; pursuer; against Mrs. Anne and Katharine Campbells, sisters, heirs of line, and executors of the said Patrick Campbell, Esq;
Grant, Alexander, Sir, -1772.Date: 1765]- Books
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House of Lords. John Newton Esquire, eldest son and heir of Brailsford Newton and Elizabeth his wife, ... appellant. William Newton and Robert Lee, executors of Robert Newton, deceased, -- respondents. The appellant's case.
Newton, John, active 1773.Date: 1773]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Jean and Elizabeth Hunters, sisters and nearest in kin of the now deceased Andrew Hunter, residenter in Forfar ...
Hunter, Jean.Date: 1766]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of William Wardrobe of Cult, Mr. John Warden of Foulsheills, minister of the gospel in Canongate; James Waddel of Holehouseburn; Mr. John Scot of Easterseat of Foulsheills, minister of the gospel in Dumfries; George White of Torbantrees; William Meek of Langrig, and the other heritors and inhabitants of the parish of Whitburn, defenders; ...
Wardrobe, William.Date: 1762]