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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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The trial of Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, of Gilmerton, Bart. for the murder of Sir Francis Kinloch, Bart. his brother-german. Before the High Court of Justiciary on Monday June 29. 1795. Taken in short hand, - and carefully revised by the counsel.
Kinloch, Archibald Gordon, Sir, -1800.Date: 1795- Books
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The trial of Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, of Gilmerton, bart. for the murder of Sir Francis Kinloch, bart. his brother-german. Before the High Court of Justiciary on Monday June 29. 1795. Taken in short hand, - and carefully revised by the agent and counsel.
Kinloch, Archibald Gordon, Sir, -1800.Date: 1795- Books
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The trial in the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, At the Instance of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, Esq; his Majesty's Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes Procurator-Fiscal of the said High Court, against James Long Corporal, and Thomas Macadam Soldier, in the Regiment commanded by Col. - Hamilton.
Long, James, Corporal.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The Maybrick case : a treatise on the facts of the case, and of the proceedings in connection with the charge, trial, conviction, and present imprisonment of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick / by Alexander William MacDougall.
Date: 1891- Books
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Memor. - Thomas Hog, Esq; against Rebecca Hog & Tho. Lashley, Esq; L. Duff, W.S. agent. S. clk. Memorial for Thomas Hog, Esq; of Newliston, defender; against Rebecca Hog, eldest daughter of the late Roger Hog, Esq; of Newliston, and spouse of Thomas Lashley, Esq; of London, and the said Thomas Lashley for his interest, pursuers.
Hog, Thomas, 1742-1827.Date: 1791]- Books
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William and Philp [sic] Fullertons, children of the deceased Dr. William Fullerton and others, their trustees and guardians, appellants. David Kinloch, writer in Edinburgh, assignee of the Reverend Mr. Hugh Fraser, Chaplain of St George's Hospital, and others, the creditors of the said Dr. William Fullerton - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Kinloch, David, writer in Edinburgh.Date: 1740]- Books
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Pet. - James, Earl of Fife, against Lord Justice Clerk's interlocutor. G. Robinson, W.S. agent. H. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of James, Earl of Fife; ...
Fife, James Duff, Earl of, 1729-1809.Date: 1794]- Books
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An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, younger of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh. On the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for seditious practices.
Muir, Thomas, 1765-1798.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The trial of William Skirving, secretary to the British convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th of January, 1794; for sedition. Containing a full and circumstantial account of all the proceedings and speeches, as taken down in shorthand, by Mr Ramsey, Short-Hand Writer, from London.
Skirving, William, -1796.Date: [1794]- Books
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James Davidson, of Halltree, bookseller in Edinburgh, - - - - - - appellant. Captain Henry Sinclair, Adam Inglis advocate his factor, and others, -- respondents. The case of the appellant.
Davidson, James, of Halltree.Date: 1750]- Books
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John Lizars, Esq, Surgeon, against James Syme, Esq., Surgeon, Monday, 26th July 1852 : (before the Lord Justice-General and a Jury).
Lizars, John, 1787?-1860.Date: [1852]- Books
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George Montgomerie-Moir, of Leckie, Esq; - - - - appellant. Anne Montgomerie, and Mess. Alexander and Archibald Stevenson, procurators fiscal of the Commissariot of Edinburgh, for their interest, - - - - - - - - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Moir, Anne Montgomery.Date: 1751]- Books
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An appeal from Scotland to the House of Lords. James Chalmers, Merchant in Leith, - Appellant. Alexander Brown, Jeweller in Edinburgh, - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Brown, Alexander, jeweller in Edinburgh.Date: 1783]- Books
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A dissertation on the conduct of the Jewish Sanhedrim, and the advice offered by Gamaliel, in the famous trial of the Apostles, Acts. v.17. - 41. Considered as an argument for the truth of Christianity.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers relating to William Lamb
Date: 1850s - 1860sReference: RET/6/19/1/95Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Late Learned Antiquarian, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Esq; and of some other collections of books lately purchased; Which will begin to be sold by auction, on Monday the 21st of November 1768, in the auction-room below Balfour's Coffee-house. Among which are, folio. Rymer's f̂D oedera, 10 vols Rapin and Tindal, 5 vols Ancient and Mod. univ. hist. 27 vols Biographia Britannica, 7 vols Anderson's diplomata general dictionary, 10 vols The ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, 2 vols Campbell's Vitruvius Britan. 2 vols, fine plates Stephani thesaurus ling. Gr. 4 vols - thesaurus ling. Lat. 4 vols Thucydides, Duckeri Herodotus, Wesselingii, Gr. et Lat. Dionis cassii opera, reimarii, 2 vols Po ̈ etæ græci princip. apud steph. Plinius, Harduini, 3 vols Lucianus, Bourdelotii Dictionaire de Bayle, meil. ed. 4 vols - de Savary 3 v. meil. ed. - de Furetiere, 4 vols - de Moreri, 4 vols Virgilius de la Cerda, 3 vols Madox's history of the exchequer Alberti Sebæ hist. nat. 4 vols Atlas universel, par Robert, G.P. hist. des arts et metiers, 36 parties encyclopedie, par d'alembert, &c. 25 vols Horsley's Britan, Roman. Harris's voyages, 2 vols Bacon, Boyle, and Locke's works Johnson, Savary, Ainsworth, Chambers, Millar, and Bayle's dict. Kniphossii herb. vivum cent. octo. 2 vols state trials, 10 vols Macdowall's institutes 3 vols, L.P. and all the other Scots law-books. Spelmanni gloslarium, edit. opt. Mariana's history of Spain originis opera, Gr. & Lat 4 vols biblia polyglotta, cum lexicon heptaglotton, 8 vols critici sacri, 10 vols Calvini opera, edit. opt. 9 vols Socinus, Crellius, &c. 9 vols (Vide next page.) Time of sale from four to eight. Catalougues to be had at the shop of A. Kincaid and J. Bell.
A. Kincaid and J. Bell (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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In the House of Lords. William Simson, Esq. of Viewfield, - appellant. The Honourable Mrs. Henrietta Ann Ker, sister of the deceased Jane Marchioness of Lothian, Dugald Steuart, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and John Pitcairn, merchant and stationer in Edinburgh, trustees appointed by the said deceased Jane Marchioness of Lothian, and John William Ker, Marquis of Lothian, respondents. The appellant's case.
Simson, William.Date: 1792]- Archives and manuscripts
Introductory Information Packs for Student Nurses
Date: c.1960sReference: DGH1/6/13/3/4Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Audio
The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd