A01115:1875
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.
Besides these six Articles, in the same parliament was ordained, that if Priests were taken in Adultery or Fornication, and duly convict, for their not Caste nor Caute, at first time they should forfeit their goods,1 and for the second fault, be taken and executed as felons: this was brought in by the Lord Cromwels advise: Who if he might have had his will, the first crime of these concubinary Priests, aswell as the second, no doubt had been punished with death: but so Gardiner did bar that article with his shifts, that the first was loss of goods, and the second death: and the next year he so provided, that the pain of death, by Act of parliament was clean repealed: So that by this statute it was provided,2 for all such votaries as lived in whoredom and adultery: For the first offence, to lose his goods, and all his spiritual promotions, except one. For the second, to forfeit all that he had to the king. For the third conviction, to sustain continual imprisonment.
Besides these sixe Articles, in the same parliament was ordained, that if Priestes were taken in Adultery or Fornication, and duely conuict, for their not Caste nor Caute, at first tyme they shoulde forfaite their goods,1 and for the second faulte, be taken and executed as fellons: this was brought in by the Lord Cromwels aduise: Who if he might haue had his will, the firste crime of these concubinarie Priestes, aswell as the second, no doubt had béene punished with death: but so Gardiner did barre that article with his shifts, that the first was losse of goodes, and the second death: and the next yéere he so prouided, that the paine of death, by Act of parlament was cleane repealed: So that by this statute it was prouided,2 for all such votaries as liued in whordome and adultery: For the first offence, to lose his goodes, and all his spiritual promotions, except one. For the second, to forfeite all that he had to the king. For the third conuiction, to sustaine continual imprisonment.
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