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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.
Bernulphus king of Mercia above mentioned, with other kings, had this Egbert in such decision, that they made of him divers scoffing guests,1 and scorning rimes, at which he sustained for a time. But when he was more established in his kingdom, & had proved the minds of his subjects and especially God working withal:2 he afterward assembled his knights, and gave to the said Bernulphus, a battle in a place called Elindē, in the province of hanton. And notwithstanding in that fight was great odds of number, as 6. or 8. against one, yet Egbert (through the might of the Lord which giveth victory as pleaseth him) had the better and wan the field:3 Which done he seized that Lordship into his hand. And that also done, he made war upon the Kentish saxons, and at length in likewise, of them obtained the victory.4 And as it is in Polychronicon testified, he also subdued Northumberland, and caused the kings of these three kingdoms to live under him as tributaries or joined them to his kingdom. Ex Flor. Hist. This Egbert, also wan from the Britons or Welshmen, the town of Chester, which they had kept possession of, till that day. After these & other victories, he peaceably enjoying the land, called a Council of his Lords at Winchester, where by their advises he was crowned king & chief Lord over this land.5 which before that day was called Britain: but then he sent out into all coasts of the land his commandments and commissions, charging straightly that from that day forward the Saxons should be called Angles, and the land Anglia.
Bernulphus king of Mercia aboue mentioned, with other kings, had this Egbert in such decisiō, that they made of him diuers scoffing gestes,1 and scorning rimes, at which he susteined for a time. But when he was more established in his kingdome, & had proued the mindes of his subiects and especially God working withall: