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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Farrar.

Mr. Richard Jones, coming to Dr. Robert Farr Bishop of St. David, a little before his death, a

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seeming to lament the painfulness of the death he was to suffer, the Bishop said to him, That if he saw him once to stir in the pains of his Barning, he should then give no credit to his Doctrine. Ac∣cordly he never moved, but even as he stood, holding up his stumps, so he continued still, till Richard Gravell with a staffe dashed him upon the head, and so strook him down.

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