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iTefc'tz , by letters to Cranmer , interceded for the safety of his kinsman . His wife also , ( he means I apprehend the wife of the prisoner . ) implored his life . Herum
habebat Moguntinum quemdam , vit'um nobilem , qui scriptis ad Cant , liter is in Angliam magnopere pro illius salute deprecatus est . Idem et ab uxore etiam Ulius
factttatum , si precibus impetran vita potuisset . No interference could avail ; for George Van P arris was burnt in Smithfield , April 24 th , 1551 , Fox , attached to the character of Cranmer , and writing just after his friend ' s martyrdom , endeavours to charge
upon the imperious influence of Northumberland cruelties , so inconsistent with the natural mildness of the archbishop . Fox ' s words are these : Sed ingenio mitissimus Cant , qui et ipse , ut post dicemus , exustus esty non tarn in
eo ? iaturam siiam , quam ducts Northuthbrite imperium secutus dicebafur . I must leave this conjecture as I found it , not having met with a confirmation of the rumour
in dny other writer . The Duke oif ^ Northumberland was a wily , though at length an outwitted politician , whose religious profession was at the command of his
ambition . Such a man might have served some interest , or perhaps covered some other design by persecuting a small minority of dissidents from the church now
established . Yet , as to Cranmer and llicliey , however amiable they iffight be as men , as theologians iu ^ ff scarcely be disputed tjhiltt ffeeV were genuine persecu-* J ?!?> awu witnout any foreign , innnuence , capable 6 f any ; seventies connected with that character .
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Respecting this martyrdom 9 / George Van Parris , the following record is in Fabian ' s Chropicle . ic 1551 . This year was a Dutcl | r man brent in Smithfield for hol i «? t ing the opinion of the Arians . " Stow in his Annals ^ ( p . 605 ) gives this notice , <; An Arian
burnt , 1551 , the 24 th April * George of Paris , a Dutchman , was burnt in Smithfield for Arianisme . ' ' Burnett , ( ii . 106- ) after mentioning the case of Joan Bocher , adds , To end all this matter at
once : two years alter this one George Van Parey a Dutchman ^ being accused for saying that God the Father was on / j ? God , and that Christ was not very God , he was dealt with long to abjure , but would not . So on the sixth of April , 1551 , he was condemned in the same manner that Joan of
Kent was ; and on the 25 th of April was burnt in Smjthfield ^ He suffered with great constancy of mind , and kissed the stake an < j faggots that were to burn him , X > £ this Pare I find a popish writes saying , that he was a man pt xnpst wonderful strict life ; that he used
riot to eat above once in two days ; and before he did eat would lie , some " time in his devotioiV pros - trate on the ground . All thi ^ ' tjjjej / made use of to lessen theicreJit of those who had suffered foriqerly i for it was said they saw now that men of harmless lives might be put to de ^ lh Tor lieresyl 'by'lftie confession of the reformers themselves . And i n aft the ' cooks nti p * lished m Queen Mary ' 5 days ^ justifying ner seventy aedinst the . Protestadts , thes ^ m ^ tanc ^ s ^^ S always made Use tfj * ' $ fifia \ tfSSBBi of cmmv ' tW eSLpdflm
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Sketch of English Protestant Persecution * - —Letter V . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/33/
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