A01115:1737
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.
The poor people being required to pay the 8000. presently, were fain to sell that they had for a little to make a sum: and although the money were paid, yet the army retired not but demanded anew, & forced them to promise the payment of 8000. crowns: which the Duke released. This done, he went about to slay their ministers, but chiefly the minister of Angroign, whom, when they could not get, they spoiled his house and burnt his books, and spoiled 40. houses in Angroign, broke their mills, and carried away the corn and meal, which they found there: and, to be short, the practises of cruelty showed upon the poor people continually, was very strange: as for example, they took at Tailleret, Odul Gemet, 1a man of sixty years of age, and put him to a cruel death: for when they had bound him, they took a kind of thing, called in French Escarboth, and put them to his navel, covering them with a dish, which within short space pierced into his belly, and killed him.
The poore people being required to pay the 8000. presently, were faine to sell that they had for a little to make a summe: and although the money were paide, yet the army retired not but demāded anew, & forced them to promise the payment of 8000. crownes: which the Duke released. This done, he went about to slea their ministers, but chiefly the minister of Angroign, whom, when they could not gette, they spoiled his house and burnt his bookes, and spoiled 40. houses in Angroign, broke their milles, and carried away the corn and meale, which they found there: and, to be short, the practises of cruelty shewed vpon the poore people continually, was very strange: as for example, they tooke at Tailleret, Odul Gemet, 1a man of sixtie yéers of age, and put him to a cruel death: for when they had bound him, they tooke a kind of thing, called in French Escarboth, and put them to his nauell, couering them with a dishe, which within short space pearced into his bellie, and killed him.
- 1Odull Gemer.