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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 Privileges and donations given by king Ethelwulfus to the Clergy.
* The Priuiledges and donations geuen by king Ethelwulfus to the Clergie.
REgnante Domino nostro imperpetuum. Dumb in nostris temporibus per bellorum incendia, & direptiones opum nostrarum, nec non & vastantium crudelissimas depredations hostiū, 1barbarum, paganarumque gentium, multiplices tribulationes ad affligendum usque ad internecionem, 2tempora cernimus encumber periculosa. Quamobrem, ego Ethelwulfus Rex occidentalium Saxonum, cum consilio Episcoporum & principum meorum, consilium salubre, & uniform remedium affirmavi: ut aliquam portionem terrarum haereditariam, Deo & sanctae Mariae, & omnibus sanctis jure perpetuo possidendam concedam, scilicet partem terrae meae, 3ut sit tuta & immunis ab omnibus secularibus seruicijs, nec non regalibus tributis maioribus & minoribus sive taxationibus, quod nos dicimus Wittereden: sitque libera omnium rerum, 4pro remissione animarum & peccatorum nostrorum, ad Deo soli deseruiendum, sine expedition, & pontis construction, & arcis munition: ut eo diligentiùs pro nobis ad Deum preces sine cessatione fundant, quo eorum seruitutem in aliqua part levigamus, &c.