A03549:612
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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 to use one example of our own country: The Bishop of Rome did pike a quarrel to king John of England, about the election of Steven 1Langton to the Bishopric of Canterbury, wherein the king had ancient right, being used by his progenitors, all Christian Kings of England before him, the Bishops of Rome having no right, but had begun then to usurp upon the kings of England, and all other Christian kings, as they had before done against their Sovereign Lords the Emperors: proceeding even by the same ways & means, and like wise cursing king John, & discharging his subjects of their oath of fidelity unto their sovereign Lord. Now had Englishmen at that time known their duty to their prince set forth in gods word, would a great many of the nobles, & other Englishmen, natural subjects, for this ⟨p. 609⟩foreign & unnatural usurper his vain curse 2of the king, & for his feigned discharging of them of their oath of fidelity to their natural Lord, upon so slender or no ground at all, have rebelled against their sovereign lord the king? Would English subjects have taken part against the king of England, & against Englishmen, with 3the French king and Frenchmen, being incensed against this Realm by the Bishop of Rome? Would they have sent for, and received the Dolphin of France with a great army of Frenchmen into the Realm of England? Would they have sworn fidelity to the Dolphin of France, breaking their oath of fidelity to their natural Lord the king of England, and have stand under the Dolphins banner displayed against the king of England? would they have expelled their sovereign lord the king of England out of London the chief city of England, and out of the greatest part of England, upon the Southside of Trent, even unto Lincoln, and out of Lincoln it self also, and have delivered the possession thereof unto the Dolphin of France, whereof he kept the possession a great while? Would they being Englishmen have procured so great shedding of English blood, & other infinite mischiefs & miseries unto England their natural country, as did follow those cruel wars & traitorous rebellion, the fruits of the Bishop of Romes blessings?