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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.
An. 1378. §1378pope Gregory sendeth his Bull by the hands of one M. Edmund Stafford directed unto the university of Oxford rebuking them sharply, imperiously, & like a pope, for suffering so long the doctrine of Wycliffe to take root: which Bull when it came to be exhibited to their hands,1 the Proctors and Masters of the university, joining together in consultation, stood long in doubt, deliberating with themselves whether to receive the Popes Bull with honour, or to reject it with shame.
An. 1378. §1378pope Gregory sendeth his Bull by the hands of one M. Edmund Stafford directed vnto the vniuersitie of Oxford rebuking them sharply, imperiously, & like a pope, for suffering so long the doctrine of Wickleffe to take roote: which Bull when it came to be exhibited to their hands,1 the Proctors and Maisters of the vniuersitie, ioyning together in consultation, stood long in doubt, deliberating with themselues whether to receiue the Popes Bull with honour, or to reiect it with shame.
- 1The Popes bull against Wycliffe.The Popes bull against Wickliffe.
Beside this Bull sent to the University of Oxford, pope Gregory directed moreover his letters the same time to the Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury, and to the Bishop of London William Courtney, with the conclusions of John Wycliffe therein enclosed: commanding them by virtue of those his letters apostolical, and straightly enjoining them, to cause the said John Wycliffe to be apprehended and cast into prison: and that the King and the Nobles should be admonished,