A Martyr of Old York: Being a Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of the Venerable Margaret ClitheroeBurns & Oates, 1900 - 65 pàgines |
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Acts of Supremacy altar Ann Teshe answer Bar Convent Bedingfield Blessed body Catholic chapel Chideock Christ CHRIST'S PARISH Church of St citizens Clitheroe's Coney Street confessor conscience Council Court Davygate declared door Douai Earl Elizabeth evidence execution faith Father Mush felony Flemish boy fresh penal Guild Guildhall Hallam hand hearing Henry Maye holy husband Jesuits John Clitheroe John Trewe John Trewe's house Judge Clinch Kidcote Knavesmire knew Lord Mayor March marriage Martin-le-Grand martyr martyrdom Mary Ward Micklegate Bar mother nuns oath of Supremacy offence OLD OUSE BRIDGE Parson Wigginton penal statutes persecution persons prayer Prison in York pursuivants Queen recusants refused to plead reign relic religion religious Rome Sacrament Seminary priests Shambles sheriffs soul stood suffer Thomas Gascoigne Thomas Middleton Thomas Percy Tollbooth treason trial Tyburn Venerable Margaret Clitheroe vestments whilst wife William York Castle Yorkshire Yoward
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Pàgina 45 - ... without meat or drink, except a little barley bread and puddle water, and the third day to be pressed to death, your hands and feet tied to posts, and a sharp stone under your back.
Pàgina 45 - You must return from whence you came, and there, in the lowest part of the prison, be stripped naked, laid down...
Pàgina 53 - ... at the least, which, breaking her ribs, caused them to burst forth of the skin. Thus most victoriously this gracious martyr overcame all her enemies, passing [from] this mortal life with marvellous triumph into the peaceable city of God, there to receive a worthy crown of endless immortality and joy. This was at nine of the clock, and she continued in the press until three at afternoon. Her hat before she died she sent to her husband, in sign of her loving duty to him as to her head. Her hose...
Pàgina 9 - Nowhere, indeed (to use the words of Surtees), did " the first pale and struggling ray of the Reformation break with more unwelcome lustre " than in the Northern counties, the attachment of whose inhabitants to the ancient faith was deep and strong. It was a feeling which " lay like lees at the bottom of men's hearts, and if the vessel were ever so little stirred came to the top.
Pàgina 57 - I therefore think, in the way of charity, for my part to hinder the country from such a sin; and seeing it must needs be done, to cause as few to do it as might be; and that was the judge himself.
Pàgina 45 - My lord, take heed what you do. You sit here to do justice ; this woman's case is touching life and death, — you ought not, either by God's laws or man's, to judge her to die upon the slender witness of a boy ; nor unless you have two or three sufficient men of very good credit to give evidence against her. Therefore, look to it, my lord, this gear goeth sore.
Pàgina 8 - Sadler's words in 1569 were still generally applicable, — " there be not in all this countrey ten gentilmen that do favour and allowe of her Majestie's proceedings in the cause of religion
Pàgina 35 - You have offended the statutes, and therefore you must be tried ; " and often asked her how she would be tried. The martyr answered : " If you say I have offended, and that I must be tried, I will be tried by none but by God and your own consciences.
Pàgina 23 - ... sentiments. But such of her advisers as leaned towards the puritan faction, and too many of the Anglican clergy, whether puritan or not, thought no measure of charity or compassion should be extended to them. With the divines they were idolaters ; with the council they were a dangerous and disaffected party ; with the judges they were refractory transgressors of statutes ; on every side they were obnoxious and oppressed.
Pàgina 46 - Alas ! will they kill my wife? Let them take all I have and save her, for she is the best wife in all England, and the best Catholic also.