This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...which Rigour produced a Supplication from certain of the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk to the Commissioners sent down by the Queen and Council to enquire into Matters of Religion;--in which they honestly set forth their Faith and Reasons for not agreeing to the Queen's Injunctions, and accepting the Mass ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...which Rigour produced a Supplication from certain of the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk to the Commissioners sent down by the Queen and Council to enquire into Matters of Religion;--in which they honestly set forth their Faith and Reasons for not agreeing to the Queen's Injunctions, and accepting the Mass and Service in Latin, &c.--But this (Supplication), instead of appeasing these Mischiefs, made them rage More Furiously Than Before;--for now, three suffered in one Fire at Bury; and, on the 6th of March (1556), came a Writ directed to the Sheriffs of Norwich, commanding them to burn William Carman, late of Hingham, in Norfolk, he being certified, by Bishop Hopton, to be a contumacious Heretic;--and, on the 20th of the same Month, is this Entry in the Court Book, Mr. Thomas Sotherton, Sheriff, delivered in the Court Four Books that were one William Carman's, an Heretic, lately burnt f--A Bible, A Testament, and Three Psalters, which remain in the Old Council House."--No Marvel that Blomefield should close these Remarks with exclaiming--" Miserable must those Times be when Men Suffered as Heretics for having the Word of God in that language that they understood!"--True: but, in the Estimation of the Church of Rome, the Reading of the Bible is a Crime: it ever was so: it is so: --indeed, the late Tuscan Imprisonments for Bible Reading prove, That Popery is the same Enemy To God's Word--and the same Unalterable Persecuting Religion NOW, As It Was In The Days Of QUEEN MARY! This Supplication is set down, at full length, by Foxe, under the Title of "A certain Godly Supplication exhibited by certain Inhabitants of the County of Norfolk, to the Commissioners come down to Norfolk and Suffolk: --fruitful to be read and marked of...
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