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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.
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 an. 976.
Then came Pope Donus the ij. After whom Bonifacius the vij. was Pope: who likewise seeing the Citizens of Rome to conspire agaynst him, was constrained to hide himselfe, And seeing no place there for hym to tary, tooke the treasure of S. Peters Churche,1 and so priuily stale to Constantinople. In whose stead the Romaines s•t vp P. Iohn the xv. Not long after: Boniface returning agayne from Constantinople, by hys money & treasure procured a garrisō or company to take his part: By whose meanes the foresayd Pope Iohn was taken,2 his eyes put out, and so throwne in prison, where he was as some say famished: some say he was slayne by Ferrucius. Neither did Boniface raigne many dayes after, but sodenly dyed: whose carkase after hys death was drawne by the feete through the streetes of Rome, after the most despitefull maner of the people shriking and exclayming against him.3 an. 976.