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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.
1These decrees and ordinances being thus among the Bishops concluded: Cuthbert the Archbishop, sendeth the copy thereof to Boniface, which Boniface otherwise named Winfride an English man borne, was than the Archbishop of Mentz, and after made a Martyr, as the Popish stories term him.2
1These decrees and ordinaunces beyng thus among the Bishops concluded: Cutbert the Archbishop, sendeth the copy therof to Boniface, whiche Boniface otherwise named Winfride an English man borne, was than the Archbishop of Mentz, and after made a Martyr, as the Popish stories terme him.2
- 1Boniface an English man Archb. of Mentz.
- 2Ethelwold king of Merceland.Ethelwold kyng of Merceland.
This Boniface being, as is said, Archbishop of Mentz in the time of this foresaid Synod, wrote a letter to Ethelbald king of Merceland: which Ethelbald was also present in the same Synod, of whom Bede maketh mention in his history, calling him proud Ethelbald, and the greatest of the Saxon kings in his time. First this Ethelbald after the departing of Ceolulphe into his Monkery, invaded and spoiled the country of Northumberland. Moreover he exercised mortal and horrible war a long space with Cudred, otherwise of some named Cuthbert, King of Westsaxons. Furthermore he with other Saxon kings, so impugned the Britons, that from that time they never durst provoke the Saxons any more. At length the said Cudred refusing the intolerable exactions of proud Ethelbald, doth encounter with him in battle: Where notwithstanding the great power that Ethelbald had to him adjoined, of the Mercians, of the Eastsaxons, of the Eastangles, and of Cantuarites: yet the said Cudred through Gods power, and the means of a certain valiant warrior called Edelhim a Consul,