A67922:1918
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.
Ye heard a little before, how king Ethelstane after the death of Sythericus King of Northumberland, seized that land or province into his own hand, & put out his son Alanus: who after flying into Scotland, married the daughter of Constantine King of Scots. By whose stirring and exhortation, he gathered a company of Danes, Scots, and other, and entered the mouth of Humber with a strong navy of 615. ships.
Ye heard a little before, howe king Ethelstane after the death of Sythericus King of Northumberland, seazed that land or prouince into his owne hand, & put out hys sonne Alanus: who after flying into Scotland, maried the daughter of Constantine King of Scots. By whose stirring and exhortation, he gathered a company of Danes, Scots, and other, and entred the mouth of Humber with a strong nauie of 615. ships.
Whereof King Ethelstane with his brother Edmund having knowledge: prepared his army, and at length joining in fight with him & his people, at a place called Brimambruch or Brimford:1 where he fighting with them from morning to even, after a terrible slaughter on both sides (as the like hath not been seen lightly in England) had the victory. In which battle were slain five small and under kings, with Constantine king of Scots: and xij. Dukes with the more part of all the strangers which at that time they gathered to them.2 Here also our writers put in an other miracle in this battle: how king Ethelstanes sword miraculously fell into his sheath through the prayer of Odo, then Archbishop of Canterbury.
Whereof King Ethelstane wyth his brother Edmunde hauing knowledge: prepared his army, and at length ioyning in fight with him & his people, at a place called Brimābruch or Brimford:1 where he fighting with them from morning to euen, after a terrible slaughter on both sides (as the like hath not bene sene lightly in England) had the victorie. In which battaile were slaine fiue small and vnder kings, with Constantine king of Scots: and xij. Dukes with the more part of all the strangers which at that time they gathered to them.