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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.
Austen thus receiving his pall from Gregory, 1as is above said, and now of a Monk being made an Archbishop, after he had baptised a great part of Kent: he after made two Archbishops or Metropolitans, by the commandment of Gregory, as witnesseth Polychronicon, the one at London, the other at York.
Austen thus receyuing his palle from Gregory, 1as is aboue said, and now of a Monke beyng made an Archbyshop, after he had baptised a great part of Kent: hee after made two Archbyshops or Metropolitanes, by the commaundement of Gregory, as witnesseth Polychronicon, the one at London, the other at Yorke.
- 1An. 600. Polycrō. lib. 5. ca. 9. Fab. part. 5. ca. 119. Archbishops of London & of York made by Austen. Mellitus Bishop of London.An. 600. Polycrō. lib. 5. ca. 9. Fab. part. 5. ca. 119. Archbishops of London & of York made by Austen. Mellitus Byshop of London.
Mellitus, of whom mention is made before, was sent specially of the Eastsaxons in the province of Essex, where after he was made Bishop of London, under Sigebert king of Essex: which Sigebert together with his uncle Ethelbert, first built the church and minster of saint Paul in London, and appointed it to Mellitus for the bishops sea, Austen (associate with this Mellitus and Justus through the help of Ethelbert) assembled and gathered together the Bishops & Doctors of Britain in a place, which taking the name of the said Austen, was called Austens Oak. In this assembly ⟨p. 119⟩he charged the said Bishops, that they should preach with him the word of God to the Englishmen,1