. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . his queen Catharine ;but in this business he injured his characterwith sober men by his passionate and seditiousconduct. To such a length did he carry hispublic declamations against the government,that in 1536 he was condemned by the par-liament of Paris to make amende honorable forspeaking against the king and the truth; whichsentence was formally executed before thecathedral of Notre Dame. He was then re-manded to
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . his queen Catharine ;but in this business he injured his characterwith sober men by his passionate and seditiousconduct. To such a length did he carry hispublic declamations against the government,that in 1536 he was condemned by the par-liament of Paris to make amende honorable forspeaking against the king and the truth; whichsentence was formally executed before thecathedral of Notre Dame. He was then re-manded to prison, and afterwards sent in exileto the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michael, where hedied the next year. He was a furious perse-cutor of the protestants, and it was chieflythrough his means that the distinguished martyr,Lewis de Berquin, was brought to the published a treatise De unica Magda-lena, against a work of Fabers ; Twobooks against Fabers Commentaries on theGospels and Epistles; One book against theParaphrases of Erasmus ; An Apologyagainst the secret Lutherans ; An Apologyfor the Daughters and Grandchildren of , against Faber; all the above in BEDE BED ( 75 ) BED A Restoration of the Benediction of thePaschal Taper, and A Confession of Faith,in French. The style of all his works is bar-barous and full of acrimony. Bayle. AloreriNouv. But. Hist.—A. BEDA or Bede, surnamed the Venerable,was born in the year 672 or 673, in the neigh-bourhood of Weremouth, in the bishopric ofDurham. From the age of seven to nineteenhe successfully pursued his studies in the mo-nastery of St. Peter at Werei louth, under thecare of abbot Benedict and his successorCeolfrid, and the learned John of Beverly,who successively became bishop of Hexhamand York : at the end of this period, beingordained deacon, he was associated in theoffice of educating the youths who resorted tothe monastery for instruction. So diligent washe in the execution of tliis duty and the prose-cuti
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