A67922:1696
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.
When this letter was read before king Nayton with other of his learned men, and diligently translated into his proper language, he seemed to rejoice very much at the exhortation thereof, insomuch as rising up from among his noble men, he knelled on the ground and gave God thanks that he had deserved to receive so worthy a present out of England, & so caused it forthwith by public proclamation to be written out, learned, & observed through out all the provinces of the Picts, defacing the errors that had been used there by the space of 700. and 4. years. For all the ministers of the altar & all Monks, were shaven, on the crown. And all the people rejoiced for the new discipline of the most blessed Prince of the Apostles, S. Peter which they had received.
When this letter was read before king Nayton wyth other of his learned men, and diligentlye translated into his proper language, he semed to reioyce very much at the exhortation therof, insomuch as rising vp from among his noble men, he kneled on the ground and gaue God thankes that he had deserued to receaue so worthye a presente out of England, & so caused it forthwith by publike proclamation to be writen out, learned, & obserued throught out all the prouinces of the Pictes, defacing the errours that had bene vsed there by the space of 700. and 4. yeares. For all the ministers of the altar & all Monkes, were shauen, on the crowne. And al the people reioiced for the new dyscipline of the most blessed Prince of the Apostles, S. Peter which they had receaued.
¶By this monkish letter above prefixed,1 void of all Scripture, of all probation & truth of history, thou mayest note gentle Reader: how this vain tradition of shaven crowns hath come up, & upon how light and trifling occasion: which in very deed was none other but the dreaming phantasies of Monks of that time, falsely grounding upon the example of Peter: when by no old monument of any ancient record they can ever prove, either Peter or Simon Magus to have been shaven. Moreover in the said letter also is to be noted, how the Scottish Clergy at that season, did wear no such Priestly crowns, as our English Churchmen then did.