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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.
The tragical history of Gregory the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand.
The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand.
The words of the latin history be these:1 Hactenus pontifices Rom. comitijs curiatis, calatis, a sacerdotibus, equitatu, plebe, Senatu. &c. In English: Hitherto the Bishops of Rome have been elected by voices, and suffrages, of all sorts and degrees, as well of the Priests and the Clergy, as of the nobility, people, and Senate, all convening and assembling together. And this election so I find to stand in force, if so be it were ratified and confirmed, by the consent of Roman Emperors: who had authority to call and to assemble all these, as well, as Bishops together, unto councils,2 as case required. Under the authority and jurisdiction of these Emperors, were contained both in Germany, France, Italy, and through the whole dominion of Rome, all Patriarchs, Bishops, masters of Churches and Monasteries, by the decree of Councils, according to the old custom of our ancestors, as is declared in a certain story, in the life of Carolus Magnus. The holy and ancient fathers (like as Christ our Lord with his disciples and Apostles both taught and did) honoured and esteemed their Emperors, as the supreme potestate next under God in earth, set up, ordained, elected and crowned of God, above all other mortal men, and so counted them, and called them their Lords.3 To them they yielded tribute, and paid their subsidies. Also prayed every day for their life. Such as rebelled against them, they took as rebels and resisters against God his ordinance, and christian piety. The name of the Emperor then was of great majesty, and received as given from God. Then these fathers of the Church never intermeddled,4