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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.
S. Edmund, Martyred. 16.
¶After the death of S. Edmund, being slain of the Infidel Danes, the kingdom remained with the Danes .50. years, till at length Edward King of the Westsaxons, expulsed the Danes, and joined it to his kingdom. It began about the year of our Lord .561. and continued near about 377. years. Fabian numbereth but 12. kings, but in other I find moe.
¶After the death of S. Edmund, being slaine of the Infidel Danes, the kingdom remained with the Danes .50. yeares, till at length Edward King of the Westsaxons, expulsed the Danes, and ioyned it to hys kingdome. It began about the yere of our Lord .561. and continued neare about 377. yeares. Fabian numbreth but 12. kinges, but in other I finde moe.
The Metropolitan sea of this province of Eastangles, which was first at a town called Dunmoke or,1 or Dun with (which in time past hath been a famous & populous town with a major & 4. bailiffs, & also divers Parish Churches, & hospitals, whereunto great privileges by divers kings have been granted, which town is now fallen into ruin and decay, and more then half consumed by the eating in of the Sea, as also greatly impoverished by loss of the Haven, which heretofore hath flourished with divers tall ships belonging to the same (the inhabitants thereof being not able of them selves to repair it without the help of other good people,) where the first bishop was Felix, a Burgundian, who sate there 14. years. After this, unto the time of Egbert King of Westsaxe, this province was ever ruled by two Bishops, whereof the one had his sea at Dunmoke, now called Dunwich. The other at Demaham, where 12. sate, one after an other. From thence it was translated to Thetford, where sate three Bishops. At last by Bishop Herbert it was removed to Norwich, where he erected a Monastery of Monks.