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Title: Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Subjects: Martyrs Persecution Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., C. Foster publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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an armedguard, were there waiting for him, as well as a great crowd of thetownspeople. Now the fires in almost all the houses thereabouts had been putout, so that no one might furnish the fire to light the fagots; it beinga common practice at these executions of the martyrs to use a blazingtorch from the hearth of the nearest house. But Thomas Lovel, theconstable, spied smoke coming out of the chimney-top of one house,the door being locked and the people away. Then he told his mento break open the door, which they did, and thus got fire and broughtit to the place where the stake was set up. When John Noyes came to the place, he kneeled down and prayed;then they, making haste, bound him to the stake. When bound, themartyr looked up to heaven and said, Fear not them that can kill thebody. Then seeing his sister weeping and lamenting for him,he told her to be comforted and to dry her tears. Then one of thesheriffs men, named Nicholas Cadman, brought the first fagot andset it against him.
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JOHN NOYES ARRESTED AT THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE. 552 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. After this, all being ready, Noyes reached out and gave a bookof prayers which he carried in his hand, to the under-sheriff. Thisbook he begged the sheriff to take to his wife as a token of remem-brance, after he, her husband, had perished in the fire. The under-sheriff gave his word to Noyes that he would do this, but never kepthis promise. Then fire was put to the fagots, and the martyr yielded up his lifeamid the flames. When his body was burned, they dug a pit to burythe coals and ashes in, and amongst them they found one of his feetunburned, whole up to the ankle, and that they buried with the rest. Trials of John Hallingdale, William Sparrow, and Richard Gibson.Charges of heresy having been made against these three persons,they were arrested, and confined in prison for some time, after whichthey were brought out to be examined by bishop Bonner, at his courtheld for the purpose of trying persons accus

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