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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.
An other Latin story I have (bearing no name) which saith that this coming in of Alfred & the Normans:1 was in the time of Harold Canutus son. And how Godwin (after he pretended great amity to them) suddenly in the night came upon them at Guildford: And after he had tithed the Normans: sent Alfred to Harold at London, who sent him to the Isle of Ely, and caused his eyes to be put out.
An other Latin story I haue (bearing no name) which saith that this comming in of Alphred & the Normandes:1 was in the time of Harold Canutus sōne. And how Godwyne (after he pretended great amitie to them) sodenly in the night came vpon them at Gilford: And after he had tithed the Normandes: sent Alfrede to Harold at London, who sent him to the Isle of Ely, and caused his eyes to be put out.
- 1Ex historia ignati autori•.
And thus much of Canutus:1 and of his sons, Harold and Hardecanutus. Besides these ij. sons Canutus had also a daughter named Gunilda: married to Henricus the Emperor. Of whom some write, that she being accused to the emperor of spousebrech,2 and having no champion or Knight that would fight for her (after the manner of that country) for trial of her cause: a certain little dwarf or boy, whom she brought with her out of England (stirred up of God) fought in her cause against a mighty big German of a monstrous greatness: which sel•e dwarf, cutting •y chance the sinews of his leg, after stroke him to the ground, and so cut of his head, and saved the life of the Queen, if it be true that Gulielmus and Fabianus reporteth.