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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.
This Robert Grosted caused to be viewed, and considered diligently of his clerks, what the revenue of foreigners and strangers set in by the pope came to by the year, and it was found,1 and evidently tried, that pope Innocent the fourth, did impoverish the universal Church of Christendom, more then all his predecessors from the time the pope first began: so that the revenues of foreigners & clerks placed by him here in England,2 mounted to the sum of 70. thousand marks and above: whereas the mere revenues of the crown came not to 30. thousand.
This Robert Grosted caused to be viewed, and considered diligently of his clerkes, what the reuenew of forrenners and straungers set in by the pope came to by the yéere, and it was found,1 and euidently tried, that pope Innocent the fourth, did impouerish the vniuersall Church of Christendome, more then all his predecessors from the time the pope first began: so that the reuenewes of forreners & clerks placed by him here in England,2 mounted to the summe of 70. thousand markes and aboue: whereas the méere reuenewes of the crowne came not to 30. thousand.
- 1Pope Innocent the 4. a great impoverisher of christendom.Pope Innocēt the 4. a great impouerisher of christendome.
- 270000. marks revenues of foreigners placed in the land by the Pope.70000. markes reuenewes of forreners placed in the land by the Pope.