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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 1 › Book 4: The fourth book.Volume 1 › Book 4: The fourth 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.
About the same time sprang up the Crooched friars,1 taking their original of Innocent the 3. who raised up an army signed with the cross on their breast, to fight against the Albigenses, whom the Pope and his sect accounted for heretics, about the part of Toulouse. The Albigenses denied the Popes authority and his traditions: they were against Images, pardons, purgatory: and chiefly they were abhorred of the Pope, because they set up a contrary pope against him in the coasts of Burgarorum. Of these Albigenses were slain at times, and burned a great multitude, by the means of the Pope and Simon de monte forti, with other more.
About the same time sprang vp the Crooched friers,1 taking their originall of Innocent the 3. who raised vp an army signed with the crosse on their brest, to fight against the Albingenses, whom the Pope and his sect accompted for heretiks, about the part of Tholouse. The Albingenses denied the Popes authoritie and his traditions: they were against Images, pardons, purgatorie: and chiefly they were abhorred of the Pope, because they set vp a contrary pope against him in the coastes of Burgarorum. Of these Albingenses were slaine at times, and burned a great multitude, by the meanes of the Pope and Simon de monte forti, with other more.
- 1Crooched friars.Crooched friers.
About this season, or not not much before, died Pope Innocent the third, in the 19. year of his Popedom: to whose custody, Fredericus the nephew of Frederick Barbarossa, being young, was committed by the empress his mother. After this Innocent, succeeded Honorius 3. and after Honorius, when he had governed ten years, followed Gregorius 9. which popes were in the reign of Henry 3.