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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.
which they did,1 & that done, they opened his body, and took out his bowels, set a stake into the ground, and fastened an end of his bowels thereto, and with needles of iron they pricked his tender body, thereby causing him to go about the stake till all his bowels were drawn out. After this treason the wicked Duke fled into Denmark, and lost all his lands in England, and kept him there 4. years, and more.
which they did,1 & that done, they opened his body, and tooke out his bowels, set a stake into the ground, and fastned an end of his bowels thereto, and with néedles of yron they pricked his tender body, thereby causing him to go about the stake till al his bowels were drawne out. After this treason the wicbed Duke fled into Denmark, and lost al his lands in England, and kept him there 4. yéeres, and more.
- 1Alfred cruelly murdered,Alfred cruelly murthered,
The stories record, that this Canutus following much the superstition of Achelnotus, Archb. of Canterbury, went on Pilgrimage to Rome, and there founded an Hospital for English Pilgrims: he gave the Pope precious gifts, and burdened the land with a yearly tribute, called Romeshotte.1 He shrined the body of Bernius, and gave great ⟨p. 123⟩lands to the Cathedral Church of Winchester: he builded Saints Benets in Norfolk, which was before an hermitage. Also S. Edmundsburie,2