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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
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.
Anno 1524. John Clerk was martyred at Metz in Lorain, for breaking down the Images, which they were (at ⟨p. 433⟩certain times wont to worship in the suburbs of the city: for which fact he was condemned, & first his right hand stroke of, then his nose with violence pulled from his face with pincers, after the both his arms & his paps,1 were likewise plucked & drawn with the same instrument: the martyr in the mean time singing the verse: Their images are but silver and gold, the work of mens hands, &c. The residue of his life they consumed with fire. This man before, an. 1523. had been whipped, & marked in the forehead, at Melden 10 miles from Paris, for setting up a bill against the Popes pardons, lately sent thither: in which bill he named the Pope Antichrist. Ex Crisp. & Plant.
Anno 1524. Iohn Clerke was martired at Metz in Lorain, for breaking downe the Images, which they were (at ⟨p. 433⟩certaine times woont to worship in the suburbes of ye citie: for which fact he was cōdemned, & first his right hand stroke of, then his nose with violence pulled from his face with pinsers, after ye both his armes & his paps,1 were likewise plucked & drawen with the same instrument: the martyr in the meane time singing the verse: Their images are but siluer and gold, the worke of mens hands, &c. The residue of his life they consumed with fire. This man before, an. 1523. had béene whipped, & marked in the forehead, at Melden 10 miles from Paris, for setting vp a bill against the Popes pardons, lately sent thether: in which bill he named the Pope Antichrist. Ex Crisp. & Plant.
- 1Great cruelty, and great patience.Great crueltie, and great patience.