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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.
¶But here by the way is to be noted (upon the name of this Edward) that there were three Edwards before the conquest.1 The first, was king Edward the Senior. The second, king Edward the Martyr, which was this king. The third, was king Edward called the Confessor▪ whereof hereafter shall follow (Christ willing) to be declared.
¶But here by the way is to be noted (vpon the name of this Edward) that there were three Edwardes before the conquest.1 The first, was kyng Edward the Senior. The second, king Edward the Martyr, which was this kyng. The third, was king Edward called the Confessor▪ whereof hereafter shall follow (Christ willyng) to be declared.
- 1Three Edward kings before the conquest.Three Edward kinges before the conquest.
In the order and course of the Roman Bishops; mention was made last of Agapetus the second. After whom next succeeded Pope John xiij.1 of whom Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury received his pall, as in the story of King Edgar is before minded. This Pope is noted to be very wicked and infamous, replete from his first bringing up with abominable vices: a whoremaster, an adulterer, incestuous, libidinous, a gamester, an extortioner perjured, a fighter, a murderer, cruel, and tyrannous. Of his Cardinals, some he put out their eyes, from some he cut of their tongues, some their fingers, some their noses, &c. In a general council before the Emperor Otho, she first of that name (who was the first Emperor of the Germans) after the Empire was translated out of France to Germany by Pope Agapetus (as is above historied) these objections were articulate against him.