A67922:1879
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 › In Regem Alfredum, & virtutum illius claram memoriam.
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.
In Regem Alfredum, & virtutum illius claram memoriam.
Famosus, Bellicosus, Victoriosus: Viduarum, pupillorum, & orphanorum pauperumque provisor studiosus, Poetarum Saxonicorum peritissimus: Suae genti Chatissimus: Affabilis omnibus: Liberalissimus: Prudentia, fortitudine, temperantia, Justitia praeditus: in infirmitate, qua continuè laborabat pacientissimus: In exequendis judicijs indagator discretissimus: In seruicio Dei vigilantissimus & devotissimus: Anglosaxonum Rex Alfredus, pi•ssimi Ethelulfi filius. 29. annis sexque mensibus regni sui peractis mortem obijt. Indict. 4. Quinto Kalend. Novemb. feria quarta, & Wintoniae in novo monasterio sepultus immortalitatis stolam, & resurrectionis gloriam cum justis expectat. &c.
FAmosus, Bellicosus, Victoriosus: Viduarum, pupillorum, & orphanorum pauperumque prouisor studiosus, Poetarum Saxonicorum peritissimus: Suae genti Chatissimus: Affabilis omnibus: Liberalissimus: Prudentia, fortitudine, temperantia, Iustitia praeditus: in infirmitate, qua continuè laborabat pacientissimus: In exequendis iudicijs indagator discretissimus: In seruicio Dei vigilantissimus & deuotissimus: Anglosaxonum Rex Alfredus, pi•ssimi Ethelulfi filius. 29. annis sexque mensibus regni sui peractis mortem obijt. Indict. 4. Quinto Kalend. Nouemb. feria quarta, & Wintoniae in nouo monasterio sepultus immortalitatis stolam, & resurrectionis gloriam cum iustis expectat. &c.
Moreover in the History of Henricus Huntingtonensis, these verses I find written in the commendation of the same Alfred: made (as I suppose and as by his words appeareth) by the said author, whereof I thought not to defraud the reader: the words whereof here follow.