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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.
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In which miserable schism fell out many horrible tragedies: as, shedding of blood; imprisonment of priests;1 murdering of Otho, Duke of Brunswick, Prince of Tarentū; Joan, Queen of Jerusalem, and Sicily, his wife, strangled in prison; racking of Cardinals on gibbets to death; the beheading of five Cardinals together, after long torments; the slaughter of fifty thousand, slain in battle on both sides: with a number of other cruelties, practised among them, which Theodoric Niem, who was present at P. Urbanus death, doeth most largely discourse.
In which miserable schisme fell out many horrible tragedies: as, sheding of bloud; imprisonment of priests;1 murthering of Otho, Duke of Brunswike, Prince of Tarentū; Ioan, Quéene of Ierusalem, and Sicilia, his wife, strangled in prison; racking of Cardinals on gibets to death; the beheading of fiue Cardinals together, after long torments; the slaughter of fiftie thousand, slaine in battaile on both sides: with a number of other cruelties, practised among them, which Theodorick Niem, who was present at P. Vrbanus death, doeth most largely discourse.
- 1Cruelty among the clergy during the Schism.Crueltie among the clergie during the Schisme.
About three years after, there fell a dissension between the nobility and commons of the land: in which tumult, the rude people took, and beheaded Simon Sudbury, 1Archb. of Canterbury. In whose place succeeded William Courtney, who was very diligent in rooting out Heretics: notwithstanding, in the mean season, Wickliffe's part increased privily, and daily grew to great force, until the time that William Barton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, about the year, 1380.