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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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1Calcobertus King of England destroyed in his Realm when he received the faith of Christ, all the Idols, poppets, Mammets and Images that he found or could come by. In the year of our Lord. 640. Joan. Laziard▪ Vincentius.
1Calcobertus King of England destroyed in hys Realme when he receaued the faith of Christ, all the Idolls, poppettes, Maumettes and Images that he founde or coulde come by. In the yeare of oure Lord. 640. Ioan. Laziard▪ Vincentius.
- 1King Calcobertus.
Pope Gregory the first after that he was appointed Bishop of Rome,1 commanded, that all the Idols and Images of the Heathen should utterly be defaced, their heads cut of, and their other members in all points mangled and disgraced, and so in fine destroyed, that no occasion of Idolatry might afterward be given. In the year of our Lord. 590. Joan. Laziard. Chronica.