A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...
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A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...
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Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.
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London :: Printed for Robert Boulter ...,
1665-1677.
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Christian martyrs -- Early works to 1800.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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"A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70635.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Daigerfield.
William Daigerfield and Joan his Wise (who then gaue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to her tenth child) being imprisoned in several Prisons,
Bishop Brooks sent for the man, and told him, that his Wise had recanted, and so perswathod him to recant, and so sent him to his Wife with a Form of Recantation with him, which when his Wife say, her heart clave in sunder, and she dried out, Alas! Husband, this long we have contributed one, and hath Satan so far prevailed with you, as to cause you to break the Vo••••, which you made to God in Baptisme. Hereupon 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be∣wailed his promise, & beg'd of God that he might not live so long as to call evil good, and good evil, light darkness, or darkness light. And accordingly 〈…〉〈…〉 to pass.