A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.
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A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.
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Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.
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London :: Printed (according to the original copies) for John Dunton,
1693.
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Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, -- Baron, 1644 or 5-1689.
Bloody Assizes, 1685.
Martyrs -- Great Britain.
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"A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63966.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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descriptionPage 385
His Character.
HE was a very promising and ingenious young Gentleman; he had a great deal of ready Wit, and an extraordinary briskness and gaity. He was a very good Scholar, had run ••hrough a Course of Philosophy; but his p••rti∣cular Inclination was to the Mechanical part of it, wherein he had a very happy Genius, and performed many pretty things. He wrote ••ery good clean Latin. He was indifferent tall, ••retty thin, a fair Complexion, his Nose a ••ittle inclining to one side, being hurt in his In∣••ancy. He led a sober, vertuous Life, and dy'd 〈◊〉〈◊〉 happy Death at Taunton, September 30. 1685.
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