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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 this time, an. 1220. 1the pope stirred up Lodovike the young French king, through the instance of Philip his father, to lay siege against the Albigenses, of the city of Toulouse, & utterly to extinguish them: but God preserved them, and cast such a pestilence among the Frenchmen, beside famine & want, that they were constrained to depart: & Simon de monte forti general of the army, to whom the land of the Earle of Toulouse was given by the pope, was slain with a stone before the gate of the city.
About this time, ann. 1220. 1the pope stirred vp Lodouike the yong French king, through the instance of Philip his father, to lay siege against the Albingenses, of the city of Tholouse, & vtterly to extinguish them: but God preserued thē, and cast such a pestilence among the Frenchmen, beside famine & want, that they were constrained to depart: & Simon de monte forti general of the army, to whom the land of the Earle of Tholouse was giuen by the pope, was slaine with a stone before the gate of the citie.
- 1The Albigenses assailed by the pope.The Albingenses assailed by the pope.
Ann. 1221. §1221first entered the Friar minorites, or grey Friars into the land, and had their first house at Canterbury,1 & had their first patron, Franciscus, which died an. 1227. §1227and his order was confirmed by P. Honorius 3. an. 1224. About their coming in, many english men came into their order: