Damlip.
Mr. Adam Damlip, * 1.1 when he had been almost two years in the Marshalsey, considering how he could not employ his talent there to God's Glory,
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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- 1665-1677.
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- 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 June 14, 2024.
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as he desired (though he had many Favours in Pri∣son) resolved to write to the Bishop of Winchester, earnestly to desire that he might come to his Try∣al; for (said he) I know the worst, I can but lose my present life, which I had rather do, than here to remain, and nor to be suffered to use my talent to God's Glory.
When he understood by the Keeper, that his suffering was near, he was notwithstanding very mercy, and did eat his meat as well as over he did in all his life, insomuch that some at the Board said unto him, they wondred how he could eat his meat so chearfully, knowing he was for near his death; Al Masters (said he) Do you think that I have been so long God's Prisoner in the Marshalsey, and have not yet learned to die? Yes, yes, and I doubt not but God will strengthen me there∣in.
When he was told that his four Quarters should he hanged at four parts of Calice, and his Head upon the Lanthern-gate, Then shall I not need (said he) to provide for my Burial.
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Fox, Vol. 2. pag. 564.