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authority which Strype possessed for these statements was Fox's Martyrology , as our readers will perceive by contrasting the respective passages given below , from which it will appear that all the instances of the persecutions by More , referred to by Mr . Turner , rest solely on the authority of Fox *
Barnham ' s Persecution .
James Barnham , Gentleman , sonne to one Master Barnham , a Knight of Gloucestershire , * * * was accused to Sir Thomas More , Chancellor of England , and arrested by a Serjeantat-Arms , and carried out of the Middle Temple to the Chancellor ' house at Chelsey , where he continued in free prison awhile , till the time that Sir T . More saw that he could not
prevaile in perverting of him to his sect . Then he cast him into prison in his own house , and whipped him at the tree in his garden , called the tree of troth , and after sent him to the Tower to be racked , and so he was , Sir Thomas More being present himself , till in a manner he had lamed him , because he would not accuse the gentlemen of the Temple of his acquaintance , nor would shew where his books lay . —Fox ' s Mart . Vol . II . p . 279 .
Strype . About the same time one Barnham , a gentleman of Gloucestershire , of good quality , and Student of the Law in one of the Temples , was brought before More at Chelsea , who cast him into prison in his own house there , and whipped him at a tree in the garden , called the tree of troth , and afterwards sent him to the Tower to be racked , and so he was , More himself present at it , till in a manner he had lamed him , because he would not accuse the gentlemen of the Temple of his acquaintance , nor would shew where his books lay . —Strype , Mem . Vol . I . p . 204 .
Burnet also has repeated the same story , evidently on the authority of Fox . Hist of the Ref Vol . I . p . 165 .
Frith ' s Persecution .
Fox . through the great hatred and deadly pursuit of Sir Thomas More , who , at that time being Chancellor of England , pursued him both by land ana sea , besetting both the waies and havens , yea , and promising great rewards if any man could bring him any newes or tydings of him . —Fox ' s Mar . Vol . II . p . 304 .
Strype . In the next year , 1532 , he prosecuted to death John Frith , a young man , once elected from Cambridge , for his excellent learning , to the Cardinal ' s College in Oxford . The poor man fled from place to place , absconding himself , but More persecuted him both by sea and land , besetting the ways and havens , and promising great rewards to any that would bring him news or tidings of him . —Strype , Mem . Vol . I . p . 204 .
With regard to Tewksbury , Strype has followed Fox , Vol . II , p . 296 , even citing the Martyrology in the margin . So with regard to Bilney , his authority is the same ( p . 272 ) . The " contemporary authorities" of Mr . Turner , therefore , resolve themselves into the later authority of Fox , for it cannot be contended that Fox is to be considered a contemporary authority . At the time of the transactions in question , Fox was only a boy of 15 , and his Martyrology was not published until many years after More ' s death . If Mr . Turner was aware
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Review . —English Reformation . 433
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 433, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/41/
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