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A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers…A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers…
A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martin Luther, John Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaration of Martin Luther's faith before the Emperor Charles the fifth, and the illustre estates of the empire of Germany, with an oration of his death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melanchthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaracion of Martin Luthers faythe before the Emperoure Charles the fyft, and the illustre estates of the empyre of Germanye, with an oration of hys death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melancthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.
London: printed by John Awdely, 1561London: printed by Iohn Awdely, 1561
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To the reader: ¶ To the favourable Reader.To the reader: ¶ To the fauourable Reader.
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.
¶ To the favourable Reader.
¶ To the fauourable Reader.
I humbly require thee, favourable Reader, to bear with such faults as have escaped in the printing, I trust in the next impression more emendaily to publish these godly histories. In the mean season I thought good to admonish thee of one absurdity, which might argue mere ignorance, if I would not advertise thee of the same. In my Epistle dedicatory to the Lord Wentworth, where as is written (and the body is no body, but a sepulture) read sepulchre. The rest I submit to th• learned correction.
IHumbly require thee, fauourable Reader, to beare wyth such faultes as haue escaped in the prynting, I trust in the next impression more emendaily to publish these godlye histories. In the meane season I thought good to admonishe thee of one absurdirye, whiche might argue mere ignoraunce, if I would not aduertise thee of the same. In my Epistle dedicatorye to the Lorde Wentworth, where as is wrytten (and the body is no body, but a sepulture) reat sepulchre. The rest I submit to th• learned correction.
Farewell.