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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.
Likewise Symphronissa the wife of Getulus the martyr, with her seven children,1 is said about the same time to suffer: who first was much and often beaten and scourged, & afterward hanged up by the hair of the head. At last, having an huge stone fastened about her neck, was cast into the river. And after that her seven children, with sundry and divers kinds of punishments, were martyred by the Tyrants.
Likewise Symphronissa the wife of Getulus the martyr, with her seuen children,1 is said about the same time to suffer: who first was much and often beaten and scourged, & afterward hanged vp by the haire of the head. At last, hauing an huge stone fastned about her necke, was cast into the riuer. And after that her seuen children, with sundrye and diuers kindes of punishments, were martyred by the Tyrants.
- 1Symphronissa and her seven children.Symphronissa and her seuen children.
Getulus or Getulius was a minister or teacher in the City of Tibur, who with Cerdelis, Amantius, and Primitivus, by the commandment of Adrian, were condemned to the fire. The names of the seven sons of Symphronissa were, Crescens, Julianus Nemesius, Primitivus, Justinus, Stateus, and Eugenius: who by the commandment of Adrian, were tied to seven stakes, and so racked with a pulley: and last of all, thrust through, Crescens in the neck, Julianus in the breast, Nemesius in the heart, Primitivus about the navel, Justinus cut in every joint of his body, Stateus run through with spears, Eugenius cut asunder from the breast to the lower parts, and then cast into a deep pit, having the name by their idolatrous Priests, entituled Ad septem Biothanatos. After the death of whom Symphronissa the mother did likewise suffer.
Getulus or Getulius was a minister or teacher in the Citie of Tibur, who with Cerdelis, Amantius, and Primitiuus, by the commaundement of Adrian, were condemned to the fire. The names of the seuen sonnes of Symphronissa were, Crescens, Iulianus Nemesius, Primitiuus, Iustinus, Stateus, and Eugenius: who by the commaundement of Adrian, were tied to seuen stakes, and so racked with a pulley: and last of all, thrust through, Crescens in the neck, Iulianus in the breast, Nemesius in the heart, Primitiuus about the nauell, Iustinus cut in euery ioynt of his body, Stateus runne through with speares, Eugenius cut asunder from the brest to the lower partes, and then cast into a déepe pit, hauing the name by their idolatrous Priests, entituled Ad septem Biothanatos. After the death of whom Symphronissa the mother did likewise suffer.