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    had nothing of which to accuse him but his opinions . They admitted that his lite was pure and blameless . He adds , I wish such sl man bad not embraced such aji opinion , or that his life might

    Bfeve been spared and he had been left to the divine mercy , had it so pleased the governors of the Church . Vitoe alioqui integne et incutpatte a suis diabatur conter-TUne . % 8 . Utin am tails tit a aut in

    earn non mcidisset opinionem : aut a / itrr ea quam morte illi potuisset e . nmi ) vitamque divirtte gratice re * liiiqui , 4 i if a visum essct ecclesne ' proceiibus . The judicial proceedings against George Van P arris were held at

    Lambeth , April 6 , 1551 , before Cranmer , Ridley , Coverdale , bishop of Exeter , and six other commissioners . ( Wilkins C . M . B . iv . 44 . ) The prisoner is called a German of the parts of

    Flanders , now residing in the city of London , in the capacity of a surgeon . Chirurgicusj natione TeuthonicuSy videlicet de partibus Tlandna * infra civitaiem Londinensem commorans . Fox describes

    him as quite illiterate , ignorant , I apprehend , of every language but bis own , and therefore needing an interpreter , ah office supplied by Bishop Coverdalq , one of Itis judges , who was a German . Kudiscrat is vrotsus literarum

    atqu € * doct * ifi 4 & expers . Porro ne sertnonis quid-em illius gnaws , in quo CQn&emn&tus e # t . Undequumper senon pofiiit , per iniefpretem respdti&bre episcopum Exoniens . cogebatiur . That surgeons in that age

    wert directly the reverse , in point df education , to what they are at | l *^ eiit , ttiay ap |> ear from a pas-^^ in Eortl Herbert ' s Henry the W&tib * In 1531 ft required a statute to raise tuch persons ,

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    among others , above the f ^ nk of mere labourers . ** It was declared that the said strangers , being bakers , brewers , chirurgeons , and scriveners , were exempted from certain penal statutes , and ho $ taken to be Tiandicrafts-m ^ n . "

    Through his interpreter , thfc prisoner declares u that he believeth thai God the Father is onh g God , and that Christ is not very God , is none heresy ; and being by hko interpretation declared to him that it is a heresy ; and being asked whether he will retract and

    abjure the same opinion , he saith , no . " After disputes and discussions , dihceptattunes et discvssiones with the prisoner , the commissi - oners , as in the case of Joan

    Bocher , invoking thename of Christ , and enduring grief of heart , he is at length declared an obstinate he . retic according to the sentence of the greater excommunication , delivered over to the secular power

    and committed to the custody of Guy Wade , keeper of the prison called the " Coumpter in the Pultry , " in the city of London . Then follows a petition to the King , for the execution of the prisoner ,

    describing him as a child of the devil ancl enemy of all righteous , ness , qvidam iniquitatis diabolica alumnus etfilim . They pray for the king's protection of the church against the corruption of such an

    infectious member , contra tarn putridum mcmbrum . These inconsistent , misguided Christians and professed reformers , who knew not what spirit they were of , had again afforded tfa&fo space for repentance and ilkcM # iMl to a review of their proceedings *

    Fox relates , though he 4 ^ ip say whether before bf dfitter % p sentence , that a relatibh 6 f t ^ brgfe Van Parris , a man of rank at

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    44 & Slc&tch of English Protestant Persecution .- —Lttftf V .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/32/