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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
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1And for as much as I have here entered into the mention of Bede, a man of worthy and venerable memory, because of the certifying of the truth of that man: and for that I see all writers (as touching his life) do not agree,2 some saying that he was no Englishman borne: I thought so much to report of him, as I find by his own words testified of himself in the latter end of his ecclesiastical history of England, offered to the said Celulfus above mentioned the words of whom be these.
1And for as much as I haue here entred into the mention of Bede, a man of worthy and venerable memory, because of the certifiyng of the truth of that man: and for that I see all writers (as touching his life) do not agree,2 some saying that he was no Englishman borne: I thought so much to report of him, as I finde by his owne words testified of himselfe in the latter end of his ecclesiastical history of England, offred to the said Celulfus aboue mentioned the wordes of whom be these.
- 1An. 729.
- 2The life of Bede, briefly described.
Thus much by the help of God, I Bede the servant of Christ, and Priest of the Monastery of Peter and Paul at wire, have compiled and digested concerning the Britain history. And so the same Bede proceeding further in his narration, declareth that he being borne in the territory of the said Monastery, being of the age of vij. years, was committed of his parents and friends,1