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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.
The kingdom of Northumberland ceaseth.
Thus as you have heard,1 after the reign of king Egbert, before mentioned, such trouble and perturbation was in the dominion of Northumberland: with slaying, expulsing, and disposing, their kings one after an other, that after the murdering of this Edelred above specified, none durst take the government upon him, seeing the great danger thereupon ensuing. Insomuch that the foresaid kingdom did lye void and waste the space of xxxiij years together, after the term of which years this kingdom of Northumberland, with the kingdoms also of the other Saxons besides, came all together into the hands of Egbert king of the Westsaxons and his progeny: which Monarchy began in the year of our Lord. 827. and in the 28. year of the reign of the said Egbert: whereof more shall be said (Christ willing) hereafter.2 Of this troublesome & ragious time of Northumberland people, speaketh also the said learned man Alcuinus otherwise called Albinus, in ⟨p. 132⟩the same country borne: writing out of France into England, and complaining of the same in divers his letters, as first to Offa, where he thus writeth. Ego paratus eram eū muneribus Caroli regis ad vos venire, & in patriam reverti. Sed melius visum est propter pacem gentis meae, in peregrination remanere, 3nesciens quid fecissem inter eos, ubi nullus securus esse, vel in salubri consilio proficere potest. Ecclesia sancta a Paganis vastata, altaria periurijs faedata, monasteria adulterijs violata, terra sanguine dominorum & principum faedata, &c. Moreover the said Alcuinus writing to the foresaid Edelred a little above mentioned, after the same tenor reporteth: Ecce Ecclesia sancti Cuthberti sacerdotum Dei sanguine aspersa (omnibus spoliata ornamentis) locus, cunctis in Britannia venerabilior. Paganis gentibus datur ad depraedandum. Et ubi primùm post decessum S. Cuthberti ab Eboraco, Christiana religio in nostra gent sumpsit exordium: ibi miseriae & calamitatis caepit initiū, &c. Item, writing to Osbert a noble pier of the Mercians, complaining on the same manner, saith: Regnum nostrum Northumbrorum penè perijt, propter intestinas dissentiones, & fallaces conjurations, &c.