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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.
Divers of Gloucester in the Diocese of York were excommunicated by the Archb. of Canterbury, because being summoned they refused to appear: a Cardinal by the Kings procurement was sent from Rome to make peace: by the means of the King it was agreed that Canterbury should release his claim to Gloucester, and absolve ⟨p. 68⟩the Clerks thereof, & the bearing the cross and other matters was referred to the other Bishops, and a league of truce for five years betwixt them.
Diuers of Glocester in the Dioces of York were excommunicated by the Archb. of Canterbury, because being summoned they refused to appeare: a Cardinall by the Kings procurement was sent from Rome to make peace: by the meanes of the King it was agreed that Canterbury should release his claime to Glocester, and absolue ⟨p. 68⟩the Clarks thereof, & the bearing the crosse and other matters was referred to the other Bishops, and a league of truce for fiue yeares betwixt them.
The next year Henry the second divided the Realm into six parts,1 & ordained three Justices of assize on every part: to the first Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge shire, Huntingdon-shire, Buckingham-shire, Essex, Hereford-shire: to the second Lincoln-shire, Nottingham-shire, Derby-shire, Stamford-shire, Warwick-shire, Northampton-shire, Leicester-shire: Thirdly, Kent, Surrey, South-hampton-shire, Sussex, Berk-shire, Oxford-shire: Fourthly, Hereford-shire, Gloucester-shire, Worcester-shire, Salop-shire: Fifthly, Wilt-shire, Dorchester-shire, Somerset-shire, De••n-shire, Cornwall: Everwick-shire, Richmond-shire, Lancaster, Copland, Westm•r-land, Northumberland, Cumberland. In this year the Archbishop of Canterbury made three Arch-deacons, where there was but one, and the K. granted the pope, that no Clarke should be called before a temporal Judge, except for his offence in the Forrest or his lay-fee that he holdeth, and that no Bishopric or Abbey should remain but one year in the Kings hands without great cause,