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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.
After him followed Pope Benedictus the sixth,1 who in like manner was apprehended by Cynthius a Captain of Rome, & cast in prison, where he was strangled, or as some say, famished to death.
After him followed Pope Benedictus the sixt,1 who in like maner was apprehended by Cynthius a Captayne of Rome, & cast in prison, where he was strāgled, or as some say, famished to death.
- 1Pope Benedictus. 6. Pope Benedict slain in prison. Pope Donus. 2. Pope Bonifacius. 7.Pope Benedictus. 6. Pope Benedict slayne in prison. Pope Donus. 2. Pope Bonifacius. 7.
Then came Pope Donus the ij. After whom Bonifacius the vij. was Pope: who likewise seeing the Citizens of Rome to conspire against him, was constrained to hide himself, And seeing no place there for him to tarry, took the treasure of S. Peters Church,1 and so privily stale to Constantinople. In whose stead the Romans s•t up P. John the xv. Not long after: Boniface returning again from Constantinople, by his money & treasure procured a garrison or company to take his part: By whose means the foresaid Pope John was taken,2 his eyes put out, and so thrown in prison, where he was as some say famished: some say he was slain by Ferrucius. Neither did Boniface reign many days after, but suddenly dyed: whose carcass after his death was drawn by the feet through the streets of Rome, after the most despiteful manner of the people shrieking and exclaiming against him.3