[The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. CHAPTER XXXIV 60/61
Some time after, a Dutchman, called Van Paris, accused of the heresy which has received the name of Arianism, was condemned to the same punishment. He suffered with so much satisfaction, that he hugged and caressed the fagots that were consuming him; a species of frenzy of which there is more than one instance among the martyrs of that age.[**] These rigorous methods of proceeding soon brought the whole nation to a conformity, seeming or real, with the new doctrine and the new liturgy. The lady Mary alone continued to adhere to the mass, and refused to admit the established modes of worship.
When pressed and menaced on this head, she applied to the emperor, who, using his interest with Sir Philip Hobby, the English ambassador, procured her a temporary connivance from the council.[***] * Burnet, vol.ii.coll.
35 Strype's Mem.Cranm.p.
181. ** Burnet, vol.ii.p.
112.
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