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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.
Humano more crux praesens aediditore. Coelitus affata, quae perspicis hic subarata. Absit ut hoc fiat,1 ut cae tera tunc memorata.
Humano more crux praesens aediditore. Coelitus affata, quae perspicis hic subarata. Absit vt hoc fiat,1 vt cae tera tunc memorata.
- 1Here lac•e• a Thomas Crome••• to try out false juggling.Here lac•e• a Thomas Crome••• to try out false iugling.
Of this Dunstanicall, or rather Satanical oracle, Henricus maketh no mention, nor Ranulphus, nor yet Hovedenus, nor Fabian in their histories. Gulielmus in his book de Regibus, reporteth it but by hearsay, in these words saying: Aliae literae docent, &c. Wherefore the less it seemeth to be of credit. Albeit if it were of credible truth, yet it proveth in this matter nothing else, but Dunstan to be a Sorcerer, as Polydorus Virgilius, also himself seemeth to smell something in this matter.
Of this Dunstanicall, or rather Satanical oracle, Henricus maketh no mention, nor Ranulphus, nor yet Houedenus, nor Fabian in their histories. Gulielmus in his booke de Regibus, reporteth it but by hearesay, in these wordes saying: Aliae literae docent, &c. Wherfore the lesse it seemeth to be of credite. Albeit if it were of credible truth, yet it prooueth in this matter nothing els, but Dunstan to be a Sorcerer, as Polydorus Virgilius, also himselfe seemeth to smell something in this matter.