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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 2 › Book 11: The eleventh Book.Volume 2 › Book 11: The eleuenth 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.
There was a certain knight by, that went unto Tankerfielde, and took him by the hand, and said: good brother be strong in Christ. This he spake softly: and Tankerfield said, Oh sir, I thank you, I am so I thank God. Fire being put to him,1 he embraced the flame, and bathed his hands therein, and so gave up his soul into the hands of Christ. Whose patience was such, that certain superstitious old women did say the devil was in him, and in all such Heretics, and therefore they could not almost feel any pain.
There was a certaine knight by, that went vnto Tākerfielde, and tooke him by the hand, and said: good brother be strong in Christ. This he spake softly: and Tankerfield said, Oh sir, I thanke you, I am so I thank God. Fire being put to him,1 he embraced the flame, and bathed his hands therin, and so gaue vp his soule into the handes of Christ. Whose patience was such, that certaine superstitious olde women did say the deuill was in him, and in all such Heretikes, and therefore they could not almost féele any payne.
- 1The patience of the martyrs caused the people to say they had the devil.The patience of the martirs caused the people to say they had the deuil.
Robert Smith 1was brought to Newgate the fifth of November, in the first or second year of the Q. by I. Matthew, yeoman of the guard, & by the commandment of the Council. ⟨p. 167⟩First he was servant to sir Th. Smith provost of Eaton, from whence he was preferred to a clerkship of x.l in Eaton. He was much confirmed in the truth, by the preachings & readings of one M. Turner of Windsor and others: Wherefore at the coming in of Mary he was deprived of his clerkship, and not long after their examinations, wherein boldly and wisely he behaved himself in the cause of Christ, he was condemned in the consistory the xij. of July, and from thence was had to Newgate, with other of the brethren. He wrote diverse letters in prison to sundry friends. He suffered at Uxbridge the viij. of August. Being at the stake he comforted the people, willing them to think well of his cause, and not to doubt but his body dying in that quarrel, should rise again to life. And (said he) I doubt not but God will show you some token thereof. At length he being well nigh half burnt and black with fire,