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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 6: The sixth Book.Volume 1 › Book 6: The sixt Booke.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This Paulus had a daughter begotten in fornication, whom because he saw her to be therefore hated, began (as the stories report) to repent him of the law of the single life of Priests,1 and went about to reform the same. Ex Stanisl. Rutheo.
This Paulus had a daughter begotten in fornication, whom because he saw her to be therefore hated, began (as the stories report) to repent him of the lawe of the single life of Priestes,1 and went about to reforme the same. Ex Stanisl. Rutheo.
- 1The pope for marriages of Priests. Pope Sixtus 4. Stews at Rome. The year of Jubilee altered once again.The pope for mariages of Priestes. Pope Sixtus 4. Stewes at Rome. The yeere of Iubile altered once againe.
After this Paulus, came Sixtus the 4. which builded up in Rome a stews for both kinds, getting thereby no small rents & revenues. This pope among other his acts, reduced the year of Jubilee, from the 50. to the 25. He also instituted ⟨p. 287⟩the feast of the conception, and of the presentation of Mary, and Anna her mother, and Joseph: also he canonized Bonaventure and S. Francis, for Saints.
After this Paulus, came Sixtus the 4. which builded vp in Rome a stewes for both kinds, getting thereby no smal rēts & reuenewes. This pope among other his acts, reduced the yéere of Iubile, from the 50. to the 25. He also instituted ⟨p. 287⟩