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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.
Item, in another place the said Alcuinus writing to Adelard Archbishop of Canterbury, complayneth moreover: Hoc dico propter flagellum, quod nuper accidit partibus insulae nostrae, quae prope trecentis & quadraginta annis à parentibus inhabitata est nostris. Legitur in libro Gildae sapientissimi Britonum, quòd ijdem Britones propter avaritiam & rapinam principum: propter iniquitatem & iniustitiam judicum: propter desidiam praedicationis Episcoporum: propter luxuriam & malos mores populi: patriam perdidere. Caveamus haec eadem vitia nostris temporibus inolescere, quatenus benedictio divina nobis patriam conseruet in prosperitate bona, quam nobis misericordissima pietate perdonare dignatus est, &c.
Item, in another place the sayd Alcuinus writing to Adelard Archbishop of Caunterbury, complayneth moreouer: Hoc dico propter flagellum, quod nuper accidit partibus insulae nostrae, quae prope trecentis & quadraginta annis à parentibus inhabitata est nostris. Legitur in libro Gildae sapientissimi Britonum, quòd ijdem Britones propter auaritiam & rapinam principum: propter iniquitatem & iniustitiam iudicum: propter desidiam praedicationis Episcoporum: propter luxuriam & malos mores populi: patriam perdidere. Caueamus haec eadem vitia nostris temporibus inolescere, quatenus benedictio diuina nobis patriam conseruet in prosperitate bona, quam nobis misericordissima pietate perdonare dignatus est, &c.
Over and besides the same author Alcuinus writing to the foresaid Edelred king of Northumberland,1 maketh record of a strange sight which he himself did see the same time in the city of York, to rain blood: whereof, his words which he wrote concerning the same,2 to the said king Edelred be these. Quid significat pluvia sanguinis, quam quadragesimali tempore in Eboraco civitate, quae caput est totius regni in Ecclesia beatiprincipis Apostolorum, vidimus de borealibus partibus domus, (sereno aëre) de summitate minanter cadere? Nonne potest putari, à borealibus partibus venire sanguinem super terram? That is: what signifieth the rain of blood which in time of Lent in the City of York, the chief City of that dominion, and in the church of S. Peter the chief of the Apostles, we our selves did see to fall from the Church top (the element being clear) out of the North parts of the temple,