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more than this did . It was said he had consented both to Lam * Bert ' s and Anne Askew ' s death , in the former reign , who both suffered for opinions , which he himself held now : and he had
dow procured the death of these two persens ; a : nd when he was brought to suffer himself , afterwards , it was called a just retails ation on him . One thing was certain , that what he did in this
matter flowed from no cruelty of temper in him , no man being further from that black disposition of mind ; but it was truly the effect of those principles by which he governed himself /' Such were the life and death of
George Van Parris , according to Fox , the second and last martyr , sacrificed at the stake , to the misguided zeal of Cranmer and his associates . Should Fox be here
Correct , the passage I formerly quoted from Latimer ( p . 305 . ) must refer to executions , during the reign of Henry . The next year , 1552 , gave completion to a learned work , called , according to Burnett , ( ii . 186 . ) A Reformation of the Ecclesiastical haws . Several eminent
churchmen were appointed to this service , though Cranmer did the whole work almost himself / ' It " was digested , and cast into 51 titles , " and " prepared by February this year . " Burnett gives a large account of this work , upon which he
bestows unqualified approbation . Ifet be calml y tells us , the first title w $ s of the Trinity and the Catholic Faith ; in which those who denied the Christian religion were to suffer death and the loas
of their gQP < Js / ' This is rather obscure , though , I appvefcepd the Tiinity , the Catholic faith , and
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the Christian religion were deemed synotiimpus . To the penalty of of Death was now added the confiscation of goods , or in plain language , the beggary of a surviving family . Such were the tender
mercies of English Protestant persecution , and thus rapidly had Cranmer proceeded to make havoc of those whom he deemed heretics ¦ , during his short career of power .
Nor was Ridley , at this time , inactive . I find him now again , especially preparing to worry the obnoxious Anabaptists . In Concil . Mag . Brit . ( iv . 61 . ) are preserved the Bishop of London ' s " Articles of Enquiry for his Diocese , the 6 th year of Ed ward / ' 1552 . Among
the articles are the the following : — 44 Whether any of the Anabaptist sect , or other , use notoriously any unlawful or private conventicles , wherein they do use doctrine or administration of sacraments , separating themselves from the rest of the parish . *• Whether any speaketh against baptism of infants .
Strype ( p . 365 . ) mentions , during this year , 1552 , a commission to Cranmer , for enquiring after Anabaptists and Arians , in Kent . Probably , this was the same transactibn which he describes in his
Mem . Cranm . ( p . 2 $ 1 . ) Sep . 27 , a $ 6 C a Letter from the Council to Cranmer , to examine a sect newly sprung up in Kent / ' Strype had just before quoted the following passage , from a Preface to tbe Jewel of Joy , by Thomas Becou , Craftmer ' s chaplain .
c What wicked and ungodly opinions are there sown now adays , of the Anabaptists , Davideans , Libertine ? , and suteli other pestilent sects ip the hearts of the people , Unto the great disouieta ^ ss
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442 Sketch of English Protestant Persecution *—^ Letter Vm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/34/
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