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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 5: The fifth Book.Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth 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.
And in the Parliaments holden the 27. and 28. years of his reign, it was decreed, that whosoever (for any cause of controversy in law) either Spiritual or Temporal, whether ⟨p. 268⟩they were personal or real,1 should appeal or consent to any appeal to be made to the sea of Rome, should incur the danger of a Premunire.
And in the Parlements holden the 27. and 28. yeares of his reigne, it was decreed, that whosoeuer (for any cause of controuersie in law) either Spirituall or Temporall, whether ⟨p. 268⟩they were personall or reall,1 should appeale or consent to any appeale to be made to the sea of Rome, should incur the daunger of a Premunire.
- 1Premunire to make appeal to Rome for any cause.Premunire to make appeale to Rome for any cause.
About this time, being the year of our Lord, 1370. §1370lived holy Brigit, whom the Church of Rome hath not only canonized for a Saint,1 but also for a prophetess: yet in her books of Revelations, she was a great rebuker of the pope, and of his filthy clergy, calling him a murderer of souls, a spiller,2 and a pillar of the flock of Christ, more abominable then the Jews, more cruel then Judas, more unjust then Pilate, worse then Lucifer himself: she prophecieth that the sea of Rome shall be thrown down into the deep like a millstone, &c. And that the Clergy have turned the ten commandments into two words. Da pecuniam: