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Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…
Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful soldiers that the Devil either by his grand captains the emperors, or by his most dearly beloved sons and heirs the popes, have most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poisoned doctrines wherewith that great read dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his traitorous practises and designs, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, and our most religious Sovereign Lord King James. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and divers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615
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.
Edwin, 1eldest son of King Edmond was crowned at Kingston; the day of his Coronation he forsook his Nobles, and went into a Chamber to a woman whom he inordinately had retained. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury, followed the King into the Chamber, and brought him out by the hand, and accused him to Odo Archbishop, causing him to be separated from her company: for which •act Odo suspended the king out of the Church. The king being displeased, banished Dunstan, who went into Flanders, where he was in the Monastery of A•andus: about that time the order of Benedict Monks, or black Monks, began to multiply in England, so that Priests and Canons were put out in many places and Monks put in their […], but King Edwin, for the displeasure he bare to Dunstan, so vexed all the Order of the said Monks, that in Malmesbury, Glastonbury, and other places, he thrust out the Monks and set secular Priests in their steed.
Edwine, 1eldest sonne of King Edmond was crowned at Kingstone; the day of his Coronation he forsooke his Nobles, and went into a Chamber to a woman whom he inordinately had retained. Dunstone, Abot of G•astenbury, followed the King into the Chamber, and brought him out by the hand, and accused him to Odo Archbishop, causing him to be separated from her company: for which •act Odo suspended the king out of the Church. The king being displeased, banished Dunstone, who went into Flanders, where hée was in the Monastery of A•andus: about that time the order of Benedict Monkes, or blacke Monkes, beganne to multiply in England, so that Priests and Canons were put out in many places and Monkes put in their 〈…〉, but King Edwine, for the displeasure he bare to Dunstone, so vexed all the Order of the said Monkes, that in Malmesbury, Glastenbury, and other places, he thrust out the Monks and set seculer Priests in their steed.
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