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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.
After him, was Pope Leo the iiij. to whom this king Ethelwulfus (as in this present chapter is above specified) did commit the tuition of his son Allured. By this Pope Leo, it came in, and was first enacted in a Council of his, that no Bishop should be condemned under 72. witnesses, according as ye see in the witnesses, at the condemnation of Stephen Gardiner, orderly practised.1
After him, was Pope Leo the iiij. to whom this kyng Ethelwulfus (as in this present chapter is aboue specified) did commit the tuition of his sonne Alured. By this Pope Leo, it came in, and was first enacted in a Counsell of hys, that no Bishop should be condemned vnder 72. witnesses, according as ye see in the witnesses, at the condemnation of Stephen Gardiner, orderly practised.1
- 1No Bishop by the Popes law to be condemned under 72. witnesses. The golden cross first borne before the pope.No Byshop by the Popes law to be condemned vnder 72. witnesses. The golden crosse first borne before the pope.
Item contrary to the law of Gregory the iiij. his predecessor: this Pope ordained the cross (all let with gold & precious stone) to be carried before him, like a Pope.
Item contrary to the law of Gregory the iiij. his predicessor: this Pope ordayned the crosse (all let with golde & precious stone) to be caried before him, like a Pope.
And here next now followeth & cometh in, the whore of Babylon (rightly in her true colours by the permission of God and manifestly without all tergiversation) to appear to the whole world: and that not only alter the spiritual sense, but after the very letter, and the right form of an whore in deed. For after this Leo above mentioned, the Cardinals proceeding to their ordinary election (after a solemn Mass of the holy Ghost,