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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 fourth host of the Danes, the same year came to Chester, which at length they won, but then, the country adjoining pressed so sore upon them, and besieged them so long,1 keeping them selves within the City, that at the last the Danes wearied with the long siege, were compelled to eat their own horses for hunger. But by appointment, at last they gave over the town, and went about by Northwales to Northumberland, which was about the xxiij. year of king Alfred: Which Alfred in the mean while with his host, sped him thitherward. Then the Danes, leaving their strong holds and Castles garnished with men and victual: took again shipping, and set their course in such wise that they landed in Sussex, & so came to the port of Lewes: and from thence toward London, and builded a Tower or Castle near unto the river of Ley,2 xx. mile from London. But the Londoners hearing thereof, manned out a certain number of men of arms, who with the assistance of them of that country, put the Danes from that tower: ⟨p. 143⟩and after beat it down to the ground. Soon after the king came down thither. And to prevent the dangers that might ensue,3 commanded the river of Luye to be divided in iii. streams: so that where a ship might sail in times before, then a little boat might scantly row. From thence the Danes, leaving their ships & wives, were forced to fly that country, and took their way again toward Wales, and came to Quadruge near to the River of Severn. Where, upon the borders thereof, they builded then a castle, there resting themselves for a time: whom the King eftsoons with his army pursued. In the mean time, the Londoners at Luye taking the Danes ships: some of them they brought to London, the rest they fired. During all these three years, from the first coming of the Danes to Luye, England was afflicted with three manner of sorrows: with the Danes,4 with pestilence of men, and murrain of beasts. The which troubles notwithstanding, yet the King manfully resisted the malice of his enemies, and thanked God alway, what trouble soever fell to him, or unto his Realm, and sustained it with great patience & humility. These three years overpast,