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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?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. D' Eendraght, Jan Boufet, Master. John Shaw, Commander of the private Ship of War the Caesar, the pretended sole Captor, - - - - - - Appellant. Jane Dooling, Widow, the Relict and Administratrix of Laurence Dooling, deceased, late Commander of the private Ship of War the Patsey, and Joseph Fayrer, otherwise Farrer, Commander of the private Ship of War the Harlequin, joint Chacers and Captors, - - - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. Case on Behalf of Jane Dooling, One of the Respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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Edward Mac-Culloch, of Auchinguil, - - appellant. Janet Mac-Culloch, wife of the said Edward, - respondent. The respondent's case.
MacCulloch, Janet.Date: 1759]- Books
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Edward Macculloch, - - - - - - - - appellant. Janet Macculloch, - - - - - - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
MacCulloch, Edward.Date: 1759]- Books
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Elizabeth Halpenn, commonly called Lady Lawley, wife of Mark Halpenn, - - - - - - - - appellant. And Judith Lawley, otherwise Butler, George Bateman Lawley, and Richard Allen, - - - - respondents. The respondent Richard Allen's case.
Allen, Richard, active 1737-1739.Date: 1739]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Eendraght, Jan Beaufet, Master. John Shaw, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Caesar, the pretended sole Chaser and Captor of the said Ship and Goods, - - Appellant. Against Joseph Fayrer, otherwise Farrer, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Harlequin, and Elizabeth Dooling, Widow, the Relict and Administratrix of Lawrence Dooling, late Commander of the Private Ship of War the Patsey, joint Chasers and Captors of the said Ship and Goods, - - - - - - Respondents. Case on behalf of the said Joseph Fayrer, one of the Respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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In error. House of Lords. Between John Wilkes, Esquire, - - - - plaintiff in error. And our sovereign lord the King, - - - defendant in error. On an information for printing and publishing a seditious libel, intituled, "The North Briton, no. 45."
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.Date: 1768]- Books
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In the High Court of Appeals for Prizes. On an Appeal from the Vice Admiralty Court at Minorca. La Colombe-Jean Joseph Charronier Master. Robert Heard, Commander of the Private Ship of War Success, the Captor of the said Ship, and the Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes therein laden, and therewith taken and seized - - - Appellant. Against Daniel M̀neille, Esquire, the Petitioner or Claimant of the said Ship La Colombe, and the Goods, Money, and other Things, in said Ship - - - - Respondent. Appendix to the Case on Behalf of the Appellant.
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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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Jasper Jones, and Frances his wife, - - - - - - - - appellants. John Bennett, and Mary his wife; Henry Spencer, and Anne his wife; William Vade, Francis Leigh, Richard Leigh, Jasper Leigh Jones, Thomas Leigh of Farnham, Thomas Wildman, and Dorothea his wife; Fitz William Plumtree, Sir Thomas Wynne, baronet, and William Fawkes, - - - - - - respondents. Francis Leigh, Esq; - - - - - - - - - - - - appellant. John Bennett, and Mary his wife; Henry Spencer, and Anne his wife; William Vade, Richard Leigh, Jasper Jones, and Frances his Wife; Jasper Leigh Jones, Thomas Leigh of Farnham, Thomas Wildman and Dorothea his Wife; Fitz William Plumtree, Sir Thomas Wynne, and William Fawkes, respondents. The case of the respondents John Bennett, and Mary his wife, Henry Spencer, and Anne his wife, on both the appeals.
Bennett, John, active 1744.Date: 1744]- Books
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John Miller, tobacconist in Greenock, - appellant. William Alexander, Esquire, - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Alexander, William, approximately 1690-1761.Date: 1758]- Books
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Trial of James Hadfield, for high treason.
Hadfield, James, approximately 1772-1841.Date: 1800?]- Books
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The trial of Timothy Murphy, at the sessions-house in the Old-Bailey, for felony and forgery, on Saturday, January 13, 1753. Taken in court by T. Gurney, Author of Brachygraphy, &c.
Murphy, Timothy, -1753.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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The case of Mark Nudigate, Esq;
Nudigate, Mark.Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The genuine trial of the murderers of William Powell, Esq. of Glanareth in the Parish of Langadock. Carmarthenshire. Tried at Hereford assizes, March 28, 1770. Before Mr. Justice Yates, and Baron Perrot.
Date: [1770]- Books
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A statement of the trial of Mr. Samuel Ashworth, At an adjournment of the Quarter sessions, held on Tuesday the twenty-first of October, 1800, before the worshipful the recorder and bench of justices.
Ashworth, Samuel.Date: 1800- Books
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Bill of advocation, Mr. Thomas Waugh, against Mrs. Jean Ballantine. C. Bremner, W.S. agent. H. clerk. Lord Dunsinnan reporter. Bill of advocation for Thomas Waugh writer in Jedburgh; against Mrs. Jean Ballantyne, his wife.
Waugh, Thomas, writer.Date: 1800]- Books
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Pet. Thomas Waugh, against Lord Dunsinnan's interlocutor. The petition of Thomas Waugh, writer in Jedburgh.
Waugh, Thomas, writer.Date: 1800]- Books
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The trial of Arthur Wallace, assistant deputy post-master of Carlow, for stealing notes out of the post bag, and for forgery.
Wallace, Arthur, -1800.Date: 1800- Books
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The trial of the Right Hon. Ann, Countess of Cork and Orrery, at the Consistory Court of Doctors Commons, upon a libel, charging her with committing the crime of adultery, and violating her marriage vow. A trial of the most extraordinary nature. The principal Witnesses, &c. being John Charles Newby, of the Hay Market Theatre, Musician; Elizabeth Cross, House-Keeper to Lady Cork; Ann Newman, Lady's Woman to Lady Cork; Alexander Rice, Box-Keeper to the Hay Market Theatre; Nathaniel Vick, Footman to Lady Cork; the Rev. Dr. Eyre; John Colledge, Lord Cork's Gentleman; Susannah Jones; Thomas Sutliff; James Durham; Sophia Van Ryne, spinster; Robert Brown; Martha Brown; George Bulkley, Musician, at the Hay Market Theatre; William Jones; Thomas Gray; Elizabeth Brown; Ann Lambert, Servant to Lady Cork, &c. Taken in short-hand, by a civilian.
Corke, Edmund Boyle, Earl of, 1742-1798.Date: 1784- Books
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The case of the inhabitants and corporation of the town and port of Sandwich, in the county of Kent, touching a bill, Lately Brought into the House of Commons, to enable the Commissioners of Sewers, for several Limits in the Eastern Parts of the County of Kent, more effectually to drain and improve the lands and grounds within the general valleys, and for the better recovering the Scots, authorized to be raised by the Laws of Sewers, within the Limits aforesaid.
Boys, William, 1735-1803.Date: [1775]- Books
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John London, Amy Pain, Isaac Skilder, and others, - - - Plaintiffs in Error. Charles Lucas, of the Demise of Littleton Brown, Clerk, - - Defendant in Error. On a Writ of Error in Parliament, brought after Judgment in the Court of King's Bench, on a Verdict obtained at Rochester Assizes, in the County of Kent. The case of Littleton Brown, Clerk, the Defendant in Error.
Brown, Littleton.Date: 1736?]- Books
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William Innes of London, merchant, -- appellant. Mess. Gibson and Balfour of Edinburgh, - respondents. The appellant's case.
Innes, William, approximately 1720-1795.Date: 1772]- Books
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Colonel Charles Straton in Old Montrose, - - - appellant. The magistrates and town council of Montrose - - - - - - - - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Straton, Charles.Date: 1744]