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1528 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 2227 In casting prangs for to cast fyre and faggott.

?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew Prol. f. vi Callynge them heretickes at the first choppe, and threateninge them with fier and faggottes.

1566 tr. Against Detestable Masse sig. b^v Oh how muche doe you deserue to haue the fire and fagot, blasphemers and heretickes.

1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 232 Excommunication, exile, losse of goods, imprisonment, depriuation, haue bin reputed euermore fit punishments for heretikes: but fire and fagot is not Gods law, but canon shot.

1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 101 You answer our Arguments with Fire and Faggot.

1759 J. Wesley Let. 17 Nov. (1931) IV. 325 You speak..as authoritatively..as if you had the full papal power in your hands, and fire and faggots at your back!

1847 Liverpool Mercury 13 July 6/5 For leaders we take bigots, and for representatives, monks, who would bring us back, if they could to the days of fire and faggot.

1888 J. Gairdner in Dict. National Biogr. XIII. 30/2 It is not easy to answer arguments in prison, with fire and faggots in the background.

1919 Sat. Rev. 22 Feb. 176/1 In the reign of Mary, because of his Protestant views, he was threatened with fire and faggot.

1950 Scotsman 9 June 6/7 It would be very easy for me to bring to his notice the barbarous outrages of certain fanatical Christians. No one needs to be reminded of the days of ‘the fire and the faggot.’

2010 H. Trevor-Roper & J. Robertson Hist. & Enlightenm. v. 71 The doctrine of the Trinity..had become the badge of orthodoxy in the fourth century, and had been defended by fire and faggot ever since.