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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.
2 Or else to stand to the Popes arbitrement between them.
2 Or els to stand to the Popes arbitrement betwéen them.
3 Or else to defend his quarrel in his own person, against the Duke, without any further bloodshed.
3 Or els to defend his quarrell in his owne person, against the Duke, without any further bloudshed.
All which conditions he refused, and joining battle with the Normans, was shot into the left eye with an arrow, and died, after he had reigned ix. months: and so was he the last that reigned of the Saxons. Which (reckoning from Hengistus first reign in Kent) was the space of 591. years. And if it be reckoned from the years of the West-saxons,1 then it endured the space of 565. years.
All which conditions he refused, and ioyning battayll wt the Normans, was shotte into the left eye with an arrowe, and died, after he had reigned ix. moneths: and so was he the last that reigned of the Saxons. Which (reckoning from Hengistus first reigne in Kent) was the space of 591. yeres. And if it be reckoned from the yeres of the West-saxons,1 then it endured the space of 565. yeres.
- 1Saxons end after 591. or 560. years.