Christian heroes and martyrs (1895) (14781762805)

Identifier: christianheroesm00fost (find matches)
Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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uneducatedbut very earnest in the cause. She was born in East Dereham, andwas the daughter of Thomas Haund, a tailor. The first time she wasbrought before the magistrate she recanted, but was afterward sotroubled in conscience that she wrote a letter to the chancellor, tolet him know that she repented her action from the bottom of herheart, and would never do the like again while she lived. But beforeshe could succeed in having it delivered, she was taken, tried, andcondemned, as previously told. Cicely Ormes was burned the 23d of September, 1557, betweenseven and eight in the morning, the two sheriffs were there, and abouttwo hundred people. When she came to the stake, she kneeled downand made her prayers to God; that being done, she rose up and said, Good people, I believe as I have been taught from the Bible. ThisI do, nor will I ever change from it. This my death is a witness ofmy faith to all here present. Good people, as many of you as believethe same as I believe, pray for me.
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BURNING OF CICELY ORMES, AT NORWICH. 536 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. When Cicely Ormes had said this, she laid her hand on the stake,and seeing her hand blackened (for she was burned at the same stakeSimon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper had been), she wiped it on herdress. After she had been bound, and the sheriffs men had kindled thefire, she clasped her hands together against her breast, turning herface upward, and so stood raising up her hands little by little, till theyfell helpless at her side—when she yielded up her life as quietly as ifshe had been in slumber, and seemed to feel no pain. The Arrest, Trial, and Execution of William Munt; Alice, hisWife; Rose Allen, and Others. These three persons lived near the town of Colchester, not far fromLondon. They had become converted to the reformed faith, and there-fore thought it wrong to attend the services held in the Romish churchof the town. They were frequently warned of the danger of thusdefying the queens command, but conscien