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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 Edwin.
* King Edwine.
1Edwin the eldest son of king Edmund afore mentioned, after his uncle Edrede, began his reign about the year of our Lord,2 955. being crowned at Kingston by Odo the Archbishop of Canterbury. Of this Edwin it is reported of divers writers, that the first day of his coronation, sitting with his Lords, brake suddenly from them & entered a secrete chamber, to the company of a certain woman, whom he inordinately retained (being as some say an other mans wife) whose husband he had before slain, as other say being of his alliance, to the great misliking of his Lords, and especially of the Clergy. Dunstan was yet but Abbot of Glastonbury, who following the king into the chamber, brought him out by the hand, and accused him to Odo the Archbishop,3 causing him to be separate from the company of the foresaid party, by the which Odo, the king was for his fact suspended out of the Church. By reason whereof the king being with Dunstan displeased, banished him his land, & forced him for a season to flee to Flanders where he was in the monastery of S. Amandus. About the same season the Monastical order of Benedict Monks or black monks (as they were called) began to multiply and increase here in England.4 In so much, that where before time other priests & Canons had been placed. there monks were in their rooms set in, and the secular priests (as they then were called) or Canons put out, But king Edwin for the displeasure he bare to Dunstan, did so vex all the order of the said monks, that in Malmesbury Glastonbury, & other places moe, he thrust out the monks, and set in secular priests in their stead.