A01115:1798
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.
This year Edward Frese, 1first apprentice to a painter in the city of York, who for his pregnancy of wit, his years were redeemed by the Abbot of Bersie Abbey, and became a novice; but after long space, not liking that trade, he ran away, and came to Colchester in Essex, where he followed his vocation, married a wife, and lived honestly. After he had been there a good time, he was hired to paint certain clothes for the new Inn, which is in the middle of the market place: in the border of which clothes, he wrote certain sentences of scripture: for which he was apprehended in the same Inn, and brought to Fulham to the B. house where he was cruelly imprisoned, with one Johnson and his wife of Colchester, Wily with his wife and son,2 and father Bate of Rowshedge: they were fed with manchet, made with the greater part of sawdust, and were so straightly kept, that their wives and friends might not come at them.
This yéere Edward Frese, 1first apprentice to a painter in the city of York, who for his pregnancie of wit, his yers were redéemed by the Abbot of Bersie Abbey, and became a nouice; but after long space, not liking that trade, he ran away, and came to Colchester in Essex, where he followed his vocation, married a wife, and liued honestly. After he had béen there a good time, he was hyred to paint certaine clothes for the new Inne, which is in the middle of the market place: in the border of which cloathes, he wrote certaine sentences of scripture: for which he was apprehēded in the same Inne, and brought to Fulham to the B. house where he was cruelly imprisoned, with one Iohnson and his wife of Colchester, Wyly with his wife and sonne,2 and father Bate of Rowshedge: they were fed with manchet, made with the greater part of sawdust, and were so straightly kept, that their wiues and friends might not come at them.
- 1Edward Frese.
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