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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.
1The Spaniard beholding this constancy of the Archbishop ran, to the Lord Williams of Thame, crying, that Cranmer was vexed in mind, and died in desperation. And this was the end of that worthy servant of GOD, who suffered in the middest of Queen Mary's reign, and was almost the very middle man of all the martyrs of her days.
1The Spaniard beholding this constancie of the Archbishop ran, to the Lord Williams of Thame, crying, that Cranmer was vexed in minde, and died in desperation. And this was the ende of that woorthy seruaunt of GOD, who suffered in the middest of Quéene Maries raigne, and was almost the very middle man of all the martyrs of her daies.
- 1The wicked cannot discern the spirits.The wicked cannot discerne the spirits.
About the same time that the Archbishop was burned at Oxford, suffered likewise in Ipswich two women: the one named Agnes Potten, the other called Joan Trunchfield, either in the same month of March, or (as some said) in the