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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.
In the second holy day in the Easter week, when the clergy & the people were assembled at S. Peters Church to hear mass, after the Gospel, he went up into the pulpit as he was in his pontifical attire, and in the presence of divers bishops & Cardinals (a great company both of the Senate and the people of Rome, being gathered together) openly preached (among many other words of divination) that the king whose name was Henry, should die (without all peradventure) before the feast of S. Peter next ensuing: or else at least wise, that he should be so dejected from his kingdom, that he should not be able any more to gather together above the number of vj. knights.1 This he preached to the bishops and cardinals, and all that were present, crying out of the pulpit in these words: Never accept me for Pope any more, but pluck me from the altar, if this prophecy be not fulfilled by the day appointed. About the same time he went about by help of privy murderers to kill the Emperor, but God preserved him.2 And many there were even at that time, which thought Pope Hildebrand to be guilty, and to be the deviser of the treason, because that then he (before the deed put in execution) presumed of the death of the king, being by him falsely prophesied of before, which words of his, wounded many mens hearts. And it came to pass that Hildebrand by his words, was openly condemned in the congregation, which (as is said) gave judgement of himself to be no Pope, neither that he would be counted for Pope any longer, but thought to be both a belier and a traitor, unless that before the feast of S. Peter next coming,3 the Emperor should dye, or else should be deprived of all kingly honour: In so much he should not be able to make above 6. knights on his part. And thus by the appointment of God it came to pass that by his own mouth he was condemned for an heretic.
In the second holy day in the Easter weeke, when the clergy & the people were assembled at S. Peters Church to heare masse, after the Gospell, he went vp into the pulpit as he was in his pontificall attire, and in the presence of diuers bishops & Cardinals (a great company both of the Senate and the people of Rome, beyng gathered together) openly preached (among manye other wordes of diuination) that the kyng whose name was Henry, should die (without all peraduenture) before the feast of S. Peter next ensuyng: or els at least wise, that he should bee so deiected from his kingdome, that he should not be able any more to gather together aboue the number of vj. knights.