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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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.
Also Henricus de Erfordia, 1and Reginus make mention of great persecution to be at Colonia where Agrippina and Augusta were martyred, as also in the Province of Rhetia.
Also Henricus de Erfordia, 1and Reginus make mention of great persecution to bee at Colonia where Agrippina and Augusta were martyred, as also in the Prouince of Rhetia.
- 1Agrippina, Augusta, Martyrs. The persecution in Brittany or England. Beda de ratione temporum.
Bede also saith, that this persecution reached even unto the Britons in his book De ratione temporum. And the Chronicle of Martinus, and the Nosegay or time do declare that all the Christians in Brittany were utterly destroyed. Furthermore, that the kinds of death & punishment were so great and horrible,1 as no mans tong is able to express. In the beginning, when the Emperor by his subtlety and wiliness, rather dallied then showed his rigour, he threatened them with bands and imprisonment: but with in a while when he began to work the matter in good earnest, he devised innumerable sorts of torments & punishments, as whippings and scourgings, rackings, horrible scrapings, sword, fire, and ship boats, wherein a great nun ber being put, were sunk & drowned in the bottom of the sea. Euseb. Lib 8. cap 6. & 7. Also hanging them upon crosses, binding them to the bodies of dead trees with their heads downward,2 hanging them by the middles upon gallowses, till they dyed for hunger, throwing them alive to such kind of wild beasts as would devour them, as Lyons, Bears,3