A67922:1914
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 Ethelstane, or Athelstan.Book 3 › ¶ King Ethelstane, or Adelstane.
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 copy of an old writing of king Ethelstane, testifying of the miraculous death of Duke Elfrede, suddenly stricken by the hand of God for perjury. Sciant sapientes regionis nostrae, non has praefatas terras me iniustè rapuisse, rapinamque Deo dedisse. Sed sic eas accepi, quemadmodum judicaverunt omnes optimates regni Anglorum.1 Insuper & Apostolicus Papa Romanae ecclesiae Joannes (Elfredo defuncto) qui nostrae foelicitati & vitae aemulus extitit, nequitiae inimicorum nostrorum consentiens: quando me voluerunt (patre defuncto) coecare in urbe Wintonia, si non me Deus sua pietate eripuisset. Sed denudatis eorum machinamentis, remissus est ad Romanam ecclesiam, ut ibi se, coram Apostolico Joanne jureiurando defenderet. Et hoc fecit coram altare sancti Petri. Sed facto juramento, cecidit coram altar, & manibus famulorum suorum portatus est ad scholam Anglorum, & ibi tertia nocte vitam finivit. Et tunc Apostolicus ad nos remisit, & quid de eo ageretur a nobis consuluit, an cum caeteris Christianis corpus illius poneretur. His peractis, & nobis renunciatis: optimates regionis nostrae cum propinquorum illius turma efflagitabant omni humilitate, ut corpus illius per nostram licentiam cum corporibus poneretur Christianorū. Nosque flagitationi illorum con sentientes Romam remisimus: & Papa consentiente, positus est ad caeteros Christianos, quamuis indignus. Et sic judicata est mihi tota possessio eius in magnis & in modicis. Sed & haec apicibus literarum praenotavimus, ne quando aboleatur, unde mihi praefata possessio, quam Deo & sancto Petro dedi, donatur. Nec justiùs novi, quám Deo & sancto Petro hanc possessionem dare, qui aemulum meum in conspectu omnium cadere fecerunt, & mihi prosperitatem regni largiti sunt. &c.
¶The copie of an olde writing of king Ethelstane, testifying of the miraculous death of Duke Elfrede, sodenly stroken by the hande of God for periurie. SCiant sapientes regionis nostrae, non has praefatas terras me iniustè rapuisse, rapinamque Deo dedisse. Sed sic eas accepi, quemadmodum iudicauerunt omnes optimates regni Anglorum.1 Insuper & Apostolicus Papa Romanae ecclesiae Ioannes (Elfredo defuncto) qui nostrae foelicitati & vitae aemulus extitit, nequitiae inimicorum nostrorum consentiens: quando me voluerunt (patre defuncto) coecare in vrbe Wintonia, si non me Deus sua pietate eripuisset. Sed denudatis eorum machinamentis, remissus est ad Romanam ecclesiam, vt ibi se, coram Apostolico Ioanne iureiurando defenderet. Et hoc fecit coram altare sancti Petri. Sed facto iuramento, cecidit coram altare, & manibus famulorum suorum portatus est ad scholam Anglorum, & ibi tertia nocte vitam finiuit. Et tunc Apostolicus ad nos remisit, & quid de eo ageretur a nobis consuluit, an cum caeteris Christianis corpus illius poneretur. His peractis, & nobis renunciatis: optimates regionis nostrae cum propinquorum illius turma efflagitabant omni humilitate, vt corpus illius per nostram licentiam cum corporibus poneretur Christianorū. Nosque flagitationi illorum cō sentientes Romam remisimus: & Papa consentiente, positus est ad caeteros Christianos, quamuis indignus. Et sic iudicata est mihi tota possessio eius in magnis & in modicis. Sed & haec apicibus literarum praenotauimus, ne quando aboleatur, vnde mihi praefata possessio, quam Deo & sancto Petro dedi, donatur. Nec iustiùs noui, quám Deo & sancto Petro hanc possessionem dare, qui aemulum meum in conspectu omnium cadere fecerunt, & mihi prosperitatem regni largiti sunt. &c.