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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.
Upon this simple & rude reason of the king, the multitude eftsoons consented:1 and with them also Cedda was contented to give over. Only Colmanus the Sto•, being then Archbishop of York, in displeasure left the Realm, & departed into Scotland, carrying with him the bones of Aidanus, Bed. Lib. 3. cap. 25. And thus much concerning this matter of Easter.
Upon this simple & rude reason of the king, the multitude eftsoones consented:1 and with them also Cedda was contented to giue ouer. Onely Colmanus the Sto•, beyng thē Archbishop of Yorke, in displeasure left the Realme, & departed into Scotlande, carying with him the bones of Aidanus, Bed. Lib. 3. cap. 25. And thus much concerning this matter of Easter.
- 1Mobile mutatur semper cum principe •ulgus.
After the decease of Oswy, 1Egfride his son was King after him in Northumberland xv. years. By this Egfride Cuthbert was promoted to the Bishopric of the Isle of Farne. And Wilfride which before had been Archbishop of York, was displaced through the means of Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury:2 and Cedda possessed that sea, Wilfride when he was put out, went to Rome & complained of him to Agathon the Bishop, and was well allowed in some things. But the king and Theodorus had there such Proctors and friends, that he returned without speeding of his cause. Wherefore he returned into the Southsaxons and builded an Abbey in Silesey, and preached unto the Southsaxons xv. years. The king of the Southsaxons at that time, Ethelwold, to whom he declared a little before, that Wolferus king of the Mercians, gave the Isle of wight upon condition, that he would be Christened, and so was baptised by Berinus: