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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.
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 ⟨p. 150⟩give tithes unto God of my proper good, as well in living cattle, as in the corn and fruits of the ground, and that my Bishops likewise of their proper goods, and mine Aldermen, and my officers and headmen shall do the same. Item this I will: that my Bishops & other headmen do declare the same,1 to such as be under their subjection, & that to be accomplished at the term of S. John the Baptist. Let us remember what Jacob said unto the Lord: Of all things that thou givest to me, I will offer tithes unto the Lord. &c. Also what the Lord sayeth in the Gospel of S. Matthew. To him that hath, it shall be given: and he shall abound. We must also consider how terribly it is written in books, that if we will not offer our tenths, from us ix. parts shall be taken away, and only the x. part shall be left us. &c. And in the same place, after that he hath assigned the Church rights to be paid in the place, whereto they belong: it followeth thus.2 Facite etiam ut mihi mea propria cupiatis, quae mihi poteritis recté acquirere. Nolo ut aliquid mihi iniuste cóquiratis. Sed omnia vestra concedo vobis eo tenore, quo mihi mea similiter exoptetis. Cavete simul & vobis, & eis quos admonere debetis, ab ira Dei, & transgressione mea.
The sayde Ethelstane besides, prescribed other constitutions also, as touching tithes geuing: where hee sayeth and proclaimeth. Ego Ethelstanus Rex, consilio V•felmi Archiepiscopi mei & aliorum Episcoporum, mando praepositis omnibus in regno meo, in nomine Domini & sanctorum omnium, vt inprimis reddant de meo proprio decimas Deo, tam in viuente 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 commaund all my officers through my whole Realme, to