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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 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.2 First, that he never said his service, that in saying his Mass he did not communicate, that he ordained Deacons in a stable, that he committed incest with two of his sisters, that playing at dice,3 he called for the Devil to help, that for money he made boys Bishops, that he deflowered Virgins and strangers, that of the palace of Lateran he made a Stews, that he lay with Stephana his fathers concubine, likewise with Ramera and with Anna and her niece, that he put out the eyes of the bishop Benedict, that he caused houses to be set on fire,4 that he brake open houses, that he drank to the devil, that he never crossed himself, &c. For the which causes (and worthily) he was deposed by the consent of the Emperor with the Prelates,5 and Pope Leo was substitute in his place. But after his departing (thorough the harlots of Rome and their great promises) the said Pope John was restored again to his place,6 and Leo (set up by the Emperor) was deposed. At length about the tenth year of the Popedom of this John he being found without the city with another mans wife, was so wounded of her husband, that within viij. days after he dyed.