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1781 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 56.5 (John Foxe)
… of the Inquisition; and with a ghastly mimicry of the crimes of the mother state, the arrivals of viceroys, and the other popular celebrations were thought …
1782 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 65.6 (John Foxe)
… hundred years of age, together with his granddaughter, a maiden, of about eighteen, in a cave. They butchered the poor old man in the most inhuman manner, and then …
1783 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 67.1 (John Foxe)
… years of age they placed him in the monastery of Gray Friars, where he made such a rapid progress in arts, sciences, and languages that at eighteen years of age …
1784 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 71.2 (John Foxe)
… out the brains of the children. In the towns of Vilario and Bobbio, most of those who refused to go to Mass, who were upwards of fifteen years of age, they crucified …
1785 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 71.6 (John Foxe)
… eighty years of age, was tied neck and heels, and then thrown down a precipice. In the fall the branch of a tree caught hold of the ropes that fastened him, and suspended …
1786 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 72.3 (John Foxe)
… , the daughter of Peter Fontaine, a beautiful child of ten years of age, was ravished and murdered by the soldiers. Another girl of about the same age, they …
1787 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 72.5 (John Foxe)
Giovanni Rostagnal, a venerable Protestant, upwards of fourscore years of age, had his nose and ears cut off, and slices cut from the fleshy parts of his body, until he bled to death.
1788 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 73.11 (John Foxe)
The sieur Thomas Margher fled to a cave, when the soldiers shut up the mouth, and he perished with famine. Judith Revelin, and seven children, were barbarously …
1789 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 89.7 (John Foxe)
After the death of Edward III his grandson Richard II succeeded, in the eleventh year of his age. The duke of Lancaster not obtaining to be the sole regent, as …
1790 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 91.2 (John Foxe)
… in the Lord, in the end of the year 1384, upon Silvester’s day. It appeared that he was well aged before he departed, “and that the same thing pleased him in his old …
1791 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 100.10 (John Foxe)
… fifty years of age, and was possessed of great natural and acquired abilities. When he was told he was to be quartered, and his parts scattered in different …
1792 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 101.1 (John Foxe)
… the power of the emperor, he replied, “I acted strictly according to the dictates of my conscience, and, to this day, deem him my king. I am now full of years, and wish …
1793 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 101.7 (John Foxe)
… -six years of age. When he came to the place of execution, he addressed the principal officer thus: “Behold a miserable ancient man, who hath often entreated God …
1794 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 102.2 (John Foxe)
… embraced the reformed religion for some years. When upon the scaffold the Jesuits used their utmost endeavors to make him recant, and return to his former …
1795 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 103.8 (John Foxe)
… at the age of thirteen was sent to school at Magdeburg, and thence to Eisenach, in Thuringia, where he remained four years, producing the early indications …
1796 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 110.2 (John Foxe)
… , or age, were slain during the carnage, and six thousand were drowned in attempting to escape over the river Elbe. After this fury had subsided, the remaining …
1797 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 114.4 (John Foxe)
… in the fifty-first year of his age, by Beltazar Gerard, a native of Ranche Compte, in the province of Burgundy. This murderer, in hopes of a reward here and hereafter …
1798 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 127.10 (John Foxe)
… of the king’s blood, of excellent towardness, twenty-three years of age, called abbot of Ferne. Coming out of his country with three companions to seek godly …
1799 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 129.3 (John Foxe)
The year following the martyrdoms of the before-mentioned persons, viz. 1539, two others were apprehended on a suspicion of herresy; namely, Jerome Russell and Alexander Kennedy, a youth about eighteen years of age.
1800 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 133.2 (John Foxe)
… at the same time composure of mind, as astonished even his enemies. As soon as he was fastened to the stake and the fagots lighted, he addressed the spectators …