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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.
After P. Clement v. (by whose decease the Roman Sea ⟨p. 252⟩stood vacant two years and three months. Next was elected pope John 22. 1a Cistercian Monk, who sat in the papacy 18. years, a man so stout, inflexible, and given much to heaping up of riches,2 that he proclaimed them Heretics, that taught that Christ, & his Apostles, had no possessions of their own in the world.
After P. Clement v. (by whose decease the Romane Sea ⟨p. 252⟩stood vacant two yéeres and thrée moneths. Next was elected pope Iohn 22. 1a Cistercian Monke, who sat in the papacie 18. yéeres, a man so stout, inflexible, and giuen much to heaping vp of riches,