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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
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.
King Edmund.
1Edmund the son of Edward the elder, by his third wife (as is declared) and brother of Ethelstane, being of the age of xx. years, entered his reign: who had by his Queen Elgina,2 two sons, Edwin, and Edgarus, surnamed Pacificus, which both reigned after him, as followeth. This Edmund continued his reign vj. years & a half. By him were expulsed the Danes, Scots, Normans, and all foreign enemies out of the land. Such Cities and Townes which before were in the possession of strangers: as Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, Stafford, and Leicester, he recovered out of their hands. Thus the realm being cleared of foreign power, for a time: then the king set his study and mind in the redressing and maintaining the state of the Church: which all stood then in building of Monasteries, and furnishing of Churches, either with new possessions,3 or with restoring the old which were taken away before. In the time of this Edmund, this I find in an old written story, borrowed of W. Cary: a citizen of London, a worthy treasurer of most worthy Monuments of antiquity. The name of the author I can not allege: because the book beareth no title, lacking both the beginning, and the latter end. But the words thereof faithfully recited, be these: Huius regis tempore, facta est dispersio Monachorum Eushmensis coenobij, 4cum substitutione Canonicorum per Althelmum, & Ulricum laicos, & Osulphum Episcopum. &c. That is: In the time of this King, there was a scattering or dispersion made of the Monks out of the Monastery of Evesham, and Canons substituted in their place: through the doing of Athelmus, & Ulricus lay men, and of Osulfus Bishop. &c.
1EDmund the sonne of Edwarde the elder, by his thirde wife (as is declared) and brother of Ethelstane, being of the age of xx. yeares, entred his raigne: who had by hys Queene Elgina,