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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
Book 4 › THE HISTORY OF THOMAS BECKET Arch-bishop of Canterbury.
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.
In the mean time messengers went daily from the King to the Pope, and from the Pope to the King; and betwixt the Archbishop and others, where I find only rehearsals of matters, which are declared sufficiently in the History, whereof if the Reader be desirous to see, let him resort to the book at large.
In the meane time messengers went daily from the King to the Pope, and from the Pope to the King; and betwixt the Archbishop and others, where I finde onely rehearsals of matters, which are declared sufficiently in the History, whereof if the Reader be desirous to see, let him resort to the booke at large.
After these Letters sent too and fro in the 15. year of Henry the second,1 the King misdoubting that the Archbishop would proceed in excommunication against his own person, made his appeal to the presence of the Pope, requiring to have certain Legates sent from Rome from the Popes side, to take up the matter betwixt the Archbishop and him; requiring also that they might be absolved, that were interdicted: whereupon two Cardinals sent from the Pope, with Letters from the ⟨p. 64⟩Pope came into Normandy, where they appointed the Bishop to meet before the King, but the Arch-bishop delayed his coming, until eight days after, neither would come any further then Grisorsium, where the two Cardinals, and the Archbishop with other Bishops convening together, had a treaty of reconciliation, which came to no conclusion.
After these Letters sent too and fro in the 15. yéere of Henry the second,1 the King misdoubting that the Archbishop would procéed in excommunication against his own person, made his appeale to the presence of the Pope, requiring to haue certaine Legates sent from Rome from the Popes side, to take vp the matter betwixt the Archbishop and him; requiring also that they might be absolued, that were interdicted: wherevpon two Cardinals sent from the Pope, with Letters from the