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    a Spanish civilian , who had been for some time Attached to the Court of A ^ hasles the I ^ ifth * having acted in the capacity of private Secretary to that monarch , anjdhseceiwd from him , as a

    testimony of his approbation and e&teera , the horfour of knighthood . Jn his travels into Germany in the piaaperor ' s suite , it is conjectured that he became acquainted with some of the heads of the Reformation , and

    imbibed their opinions . After quitting / Germany , he fixed his residence at Naples , with the view of passing there the remainder of &is days in the

    retirement of private life . Here he devoted his leisure to the prosecution of his religious inquiries , and employed himseli in dispensing to others , the light wliich he had received into his own

    mind . It appears that in a short period he succeeded in gaining over a eo ^ iderahle number of converts to Jm 3 , new principles ; and as the station lie had occupied at court led him to mix principally in the first circles , his proselytes were chiefly from this class , and included several individuals of the

    highest rank and distinction in the place . The persons wha had thus become his disciples he is stated to have formed into a society ; by which we are , probably , to understand that they occasionall y met together for the acnicable discussion of religipus subjects . For there is no evidence of

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    their ixaviDff ojrgaoiaed themselves ii ^ to a ^ siwcJ WWch for relii ( iMua wojrshig , Oj ^ -4 v 4 thdrawn t hems el ves frona the service of the mass . . A most important accession wets made to this little band of Reformer ^ by the conversion of the celebrated Fteter Martyr Vermilius , who wa 3 afterwards professor of divinity in the

    University of Oxfords JVJartyr was a native of Florence , v ^ here ^ he was boru in the year 1500 . At the age of sixteen , he becagnej unknown to his friea-ds , a monk of the order of St . Augustine , and at the time now under consideration held the office of

    Principal of the College of St . Peter ' s at the Altar at Naples . Valdesso had carried with him from Germany some of , the works of Luther , Bucer and Zwinglius ; these he subrhitied to the inspection and perusal of Martyr , who

    yielded to the force of their reasonings , and embraced the principles which they advocated . After Martyr liad joined himself to Valdesso ' s society , he took an 9 > ctive and prominent part in its deliberations ; and , indeed , from this period , as may well be suppose ^

    from his superior learning and talents , he became the r ^ al head and leader o ^ the party . Sorn ^ times he ernployed himself in reading lec tures pn partir cular portions of wr Nevy Testament , which he interpret ^! iri a sense that was at variance with the doctrines of

    the Church of Rome * Strangers , or persons who were not considered as belonging to the society , were freely admitted to these lectures ; and , on some occasions , the reader Jiad to reckon among his auditors many of

    the nobility , and some of the btah , ops of the place . On one occasion of Ithis kind , in lecturing on the 13 th and 14 th verses of the third copter of the first Epistle to tho Cprinthiajos , wherein the apostle speaks of men's wprks being to be tried by fire , hc&ing combatted the application of the passage by the Church of Rome to the

    doctrine of purgatory , sotne of Jhiis zealous Catholic bjearers topk the alarm , and reported their susjpjctpns erf his . heresy to the public ^ t \ thpri ^^ s . He ^ va 3 pmiediately iuterdkUid from proceeding wijth his J ^ q ^ ure ^ ^ hftt ^ e turned a d ^ af esw JP * h& W ^ r , ; * n d appealed against H to the luurt of Home , where , throiigh the interest of some powerful friends , he carried his cau **

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/4/