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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.
King Egelred, or Elred.
King Edward thus being murdered as is aforesaid, the crown fell next to Egelrede his younger brother,1 & son to king Edgar by the foresaid Queen Alfrith, as we have declared. This Egelred had a long reign given of God,2 which dured the term of 38. years, but very unfortunate, and full of great miseries. And he himself (by the histories) seemeth to be a Prince, not of the greatest courage to govern a common wealth. Our English stories writing of him, thus report of his reign: That in the beginning, it was ungracious, wretched in the middle, and hateful in the latter end. Of this Egelred it is read, when Dunstan the Archbishop should christen him,3 as he did hold him over the Font, something there happened, that pleased not Dunstan: whereupon he sware, per sanctā Mariam, iste ignavus homo erit. i. By the mother of Christ he will be a Prince untoward and cowardlike, Chron. de Crouland. I find in William of Malmesbury, Lib. 2. de Regi. That this Egelred being of the age of x. years, when he heard his brother Edward to be slain, made such sorrow & weeping for him, that his mother falling therewith in a rage, took wax candles (having nothing else at hand) wherewith she scourged him so sore (well near till he swooned) that after the same, he could never abide any wax candles to burn before him. After this, about the year of our Lord, 981.4 (the day of his coronation being appointed by the Queen, the mother, and the nobles) Dunstan the Archb. of Cant. (who first refused so to do) with Oswald Archb. of York,