. The illustrated Christian martyrology : being an authentic and genuine historical acount of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world . the distressed :religion flourished, manufactures thrived,and industry was encouraged. The Roman catholics viewing with envythe thriving state of religion in Lesna,strove to injure that city by every means | destruction of the noble city of Lesna, in \ in their power. Their first attack was, by Great Poland. A particular and circumstantial account of the cruel transactionsattending the ruin of that city, having
. The illustrated Christian martyrology : being an authentic and genuine historical acount of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world . the distressed :religion flourished, manufactures thrived,and industry was encouraged. The Roman catholics viewing with envythe thriving state of religion in Lesna,strove to injure that city by every means | destruction of the noble city of Lesna, in \ in their power. Their first attack was, by Great Poland. A particular and circumstantial account of the cruel transactionsattending the ruin of that city, having beenpublished by some who were witnesses of,and materially concerned in the sufferingsthat ensued, we shall select such parts ofthe narrative as are most interesting and \ consonant to the plan of our work. several accusations laid before Sigismund,king of Poland, suggesting, that Lesnawas a confluence for men of all nations, aden of outlaws, an asylum for heretics, anda receptacle of traitors to the king and gov-ernment. Luckily the king disbelieved the calum-nies, and thus the Roman catholics were I Lesna, which word implies a grove of; defeated in their malicious ADRIAN CHALINSKY ROASTED ALIVE.—Pntre 125. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYROLOGY. —m 1271 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
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