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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.
In the time of this Edmund, was Ulstanus Archb. of York,1 and Odo Archbishop of Canterbury, which Odo being a Da•e borne (as is before touched) was promoted to that sea by king Ethelstane, for that (as they say) he being first bishop of Witone, & present with king Ethelstane in the field against Analafus before mentioned, what time the said Ethelstane had lost his sword, he thorough his intercession up to heaven, did see a sword from heaven, come down into the sheath of the king. Whereof relation being made to the king by the foresaid Bishop,2 Ethelstane upon the same was so affected toward Odo, that not only he counted him for a Patron of his life, but also made him Primate of Canterbury after the decease of Ulfelmus. This Odo was the first from the coming of the Saxons, till his time which was Archbishop of Canterbury being no monk.3 For all the other before him were of the profession of Monks, of whom a great part had been Italians unto Berctualdus. Notwithstanding this Odo, being also a stranger borne, after he was elected into the bishopric, to answer to the old custom of others before him, sailed over into France, and there at Floriake (after the usual manner above mentioned of Englishmen) received the profession and habit of monkish religion, as saith my foresaid author. And like as the said Odo first being no monk, was made Archbishop of Canterbury. So also Ulstanus the same time, being bishop of York and of Worcester,4 differed from divers his predecessors before him in profession and in habit: of whom the forenamed author thus writeth in his iij. book, speaking of Ulstanus qui sanctitate discrepabat & habitu, that is, he differed in sanctimony and in habit.5 Whereby is to be collected, that in those days was a difference in habit & garment, not only between monks & bishops, but also between one Bishop and an other. Albeit what difference it was yet, I do not find. But I return again to Odo, who by the description of his manners, might seem not to be the worst that occupied that place, were it not that our lying histories feigning false miracles upon him (as they do of other) make him in deed to seem worse then he was.