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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
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But Harold refused all these offers, saying: it should be tried by dint of swords, & not by one sword. And so gathered his people, & joined battle with the Normans, in the place where afterward was builded the Abbey of Battle in Sussex.1 In the beginning of which fight the englishmen kept them in good array, like to vanquish the Normans. Wherefore Duke William caused his men to give back, as though they fled: whereby the englishmen followed fast and brake their array. Then the Normans fiercely giving a charge upon them, in conclusion obtained the victory, through the just providence of God. Where king Harold, who before had murdered Alfred the true heir of the Crown, with his company of Normans so cruelly: was now wounded of the Normans, in the left eye with an arrow, and thereof incontinent died: although Gerardus sayeth,2 he fled away to Chester, and lived after that a Monk in the monastery of S. James. Which is not like, but rather that he was there slain, after that he had reigned nine months, and was buried at Waltham (which proveth that he died not at Chester) and so was he the last that reigned in England of the blood of Saxons: the which continued (to reckon from Hengistus his first reign in Kent) by the space of 591. years. And if it be reckoned from the years of the Westsaxons, then it endured the space of 565. years.
But Harold refused all these offers, saying: it should be tried by dinte of swordes, & not by one sworde. And so gathered his people, & ioyned battaile with the Normands, in the place where afterwarde was builded the Abbey of Battaile in Sussex.1 In the beginning of which fight the englishmen kept them in good array, like to vanquishe the Normandes. Wherefore Duke William caused hys men to geue backe, as though they fled: wherby the englishmē followed fast and brake their array. Then the Normanes fiercely geuing a charge vpon them, in cōclusion obtained the victorie, through the iust prouidence of God. Where king Harolde, who before had murdered Alfrede the true heire of the Crowne, with his company of Normandes so cruelly: was now wounded of the Normandes, in the left eye with an arrow, and therof incontinent died: although Gerardus sayeth,2