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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.
A Table of such Saxon Kings, as were after made Monks. 1. 1Kynigilsus, king of Westsaxons. 2. Ive, king of Westsaxons. 3. Ceolulfus, king of Northumberland. 4. Eadbertus, king of Northumberland. 5. Ethelredus, king of Mercia. 6. Kenredus, king of Mercia. 7. Offa, king of Eastsaxons. 8. Sebbi, king of Eastsaxons. 9. Sigebertus, king of Eastangles.
A Table of such Saxon Kings, as were after made Monkes. 1. 1Kynigilsus, king of Westsaxons. 2. Iue, king of Westsaxons. 3. Ceolulfus, king of Northumberland. 4. Eadbertus, king of Northumberland. 5. Ethelredus, king of Mercia. 6. Kenredus, king of Mercia. 7. Offa, king of Eastsaxons. 8. Sebbi, king of Eastsaxons. 9. Sigebertus, king of Eastangles.
- 1Kings made Monks.Kinges made Monkes.
Of which kings and their doings, what is to be judged, look gentle Reader before▪ pag. 133.
Of whiche kynges and their doynges, what is to be iudged, looke gentle Reader before▪ pag. 133.
By these histories it is apparent: what mutations, what perturbations, and what alteration of state hath been in this Realm of Britain, first from Britons kings, to Romans, then to Britons again, afterward to the Saxons. First to vij. altogether reigning, then to one. &c. And this alteration not only happened in the civil government, but also followed in the state Ecclesiastical. For as in the Britons time the Metropolitan sea was in London: so in the Saxons time after the coming of Austen, it was removed to Canterbury, the Catalogue and order of which Metropolitans, from the time of Austen to Egbertus, is thus, as in the history of Malmesberiensis described.