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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Book.Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Booke.
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Certain writings are found in the same register, adjoined to the history of Walter Brute, & one,1 a letter which hath no name, written to M. Nicholas Hereford, who being at the first a great follower of Wycliffe, was now in the number of those that sat upon Walter Brute. The effect of the letter was to warn him, & put him in mind of his fall: & beside that epistle, there is found annexed with the same,2 a certain other letter counterfeited, under the name of Lucifer Prince of darkness, to the persecuting Church of the popish clergy. Which letter seemeth to some to be ascribed to Occham above mentioned, wherein Popish Church is noted to be Antichristian, and the abuses of the same laid open, Ex Registro Herfordiensi: and diverse other writings of like argument, both before and since have been devised: as, one bearing the Title Luciferi ad malos principes ecclesiasticos, imprinted first at Paris in Latin, and under the writing thereof bearing this date, Anno à palatij nostri fraction, consortiumque nostrorum subtraction 1351. §1351Which if ye count from the passion of Christ, reacheth to the time of Wycliffe 1385. that was above six years afore the examination of this Walter Brute. There is also another epistle of Lucifer ad Praelatos, mentioned in the Epistle of the school of Prague, to the University of Oxford, set forth by Huldricus Huttenus, Anno 1370.
Certaine writings are found in the same register, adioined to the history of Walter Brute, & one,1 a letter which hath no name, written to M. Nicholas Herford, who beyng at the first a great folower of Wickliffe, was now in the number of those that sat vpō Walter Brute. The effect of ye letter was to warne him, & put him in mind of his fal: & beside that epistle, there is found annexed with the same,2 a certaine other letter counterfayted, vnder the name of Lucifer Prince of darknesse, to the persecuting Church of the popish clergy. Which letter séemeth to some to be ascribed to Occham aboue mentioned, wherein Popish Church is noted to be Antichristian, and the abuses of the same laid open, Ex Registro Herfordiensi: and diuerse other writings of like argument, both before and since haue béene deuised: as, one bearing the Title Luciferi ad malos principes ecclesiasticos, imprinted first at Paris in Latine, and vnder the writing thereof bearing this date, Anno à palatij nostri fractione, consortiumque nostrorum subtractione 1351.