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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
Book 3 › * King Allured otherwise called Alfred.Book 3 › * King Alured otherwise called Alfrede.
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 third year after this,1 which was the xix. year of the reign of king Alfred: the foresaid Athelstan the Danish king of Norfolk (which by Alfred was Christened before) deceased. Not long after this, about the xxj. year of this kings reign, the Danes again landed in four places of this land: which was, in Eastinglande: in the North: and in the West, in two places. Before the landing of these Danes, it chanced king Elfred, hearing of the death of King Athelstan, and of other complaints of the Danes, was then in Eastengland, when these tidings c•me to him.
The third yeare after this,1 which was the xix. yeare of the raigne of king Alfred: the foresayd Athelstane the Danish king of Northfolke (which by Alfred was Christened before) deceased. Not lōg after this, about the xxj. yeare of this kinges reigne, the Danes agayne landed in foure places of this land: which was, in Eastinglande: in the North: and in the West, in two places. Before the landyng of these Danes, it chaunced king Elfred, hearing of the death of King Athelstane, and of other complayntes of the Danes, was then in Eastengland, when these tidings c•me to him.
- 1An. 892.
When King Alfred was hereof ascertained: forsomuch as some of the Danes were landed in that coast, thinking with themselves the further they went in those parties, the less resistance to have,1 and the more speed, as they were wont to have before: Alfride therefore sending messengers in all hast to Etheldred Duke of Mercia, to assemble to him an host, to withstand the Danes which landed in the West, made forth toward his enemies there, where he was in Eastanglia, whom he pursued so sharply, that he drove them out from those parties. They then landed in kent, whether the king with his people sped him, and in like manner drave the Danes from thence, without any great fight,