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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 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.
Uniuscuiusque Domini proprium est & necesse, ut seruis condescendat, 1& compatiatur, sicut indulgentius poterit: Quia Domino Deo viventi sunt aeque chari seruus, & liber. Et omnes uno & eodem pretio redemit, & omnes sumus Deo necessariò serui: Et sic judicabit nos, sicut antè judicavimus eos, in quos potestatem judicij in terris habebimus. Et ideo opus est ut eis parcamus qui nobis parere debent & tunc manutenebimur in Dei omnipotentis proprio judicio. Amen.
Vniuscuiusque Domini proprium est & necesse, vt seruis condescendat, 1& compatiatur, sicut indulgentius poterit: Quia Domino Deo viuenti sunt aeque chari seruus, & liber. Et omnes vno & eodem pretio redemit, & omnes sumus Deo necessariò serui: Et sic iudicabit nos, sicut antè iudicauimus eos, in quos potestatem iudicij in terris habebimus. Et ideo opus est vt eis parcamus qui nobis parere debent & tunc manutenebimur in Dei omnipotentis proprio iudicio. Amen.
- 1A law how that masters ought to condescend and bear sometime with their servants. The law of king Ethelstane concerning tithes.A lawe how that maisters ought to condiscend and beare sometime with their seruauntes. The law of king Ethelstane concerning tythes.
The said Ethelstane besides, prescribed other constitutions also, as touching tithes giving: where he sayeth and proclaimeth. Ego Ethelstanus Rex, consilio V•felmi Archiepiscopi mei & aliorum Episcoporum, mando praepositis omnibus in regno meo, in nomine Domini & sanctorum omnium, ut inprimis reddant de meo proprio decimas Deo, tam in vivente capitali, quàm in mortuis frugibus terrae: & Episcopi mei similiter faciant de suo proprio, & Aldermanni mei & praepositi mei, &c. That is, I Ethelstane King, charge and command all my officers through my whole Realm, to