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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.
Hildebrand was earnestly in hand with the Emperor, that he should deprive those Bishops which came in by simony. The Emperor (thinking as a zealous Prince,1 that this commission had proceeded from the throne of God) without delay obeyed the same, and forthwith without any consideration, or judicial order, deprived certain Bishops, and thought that by this his obedience to Hildebrand be […] an acceptable sacrifice to God, not knowing the […]. But Hildebrand then again placed those, whom the Emperor for […] at his commandment had before deposed, and those whom by that means he made to bea•• a hateful heart to the ⟨p. 178⟩Emperor, he reconciled again unto himself in great familiarity, and by many and great oaths taken of them, for their fidelity towards him, he promoted above all the rest. And thus by these pranks, the Imperial seat of the king being shortly after impaired, & destitute almost of friends, he craftily purchasing the friendship and favour of the greatest princes, the better to bring his matters to pass: suddenly again, without any lawful accusation, without any canonical vocation, without all judicial order, excommunicated the Emperor (so obedient always unto him) & set the Princes of the Empire all against him. And notwithstanding (as the Apostle sayeth) that no man ought to circumvent his brother in his business, as much as in him lay, he rather mortified and killed him, then brotherly corrected him. Thus the Emperor being many ways circumvented: as, excommunicate besides the canonical order,2 and by the consent and counsel of Hildebrand, spoiled of the greatest part of his Imperial honour, and overcharged with great wars and slaughters of his own subjects, in vain desired he and sued for, to have the Canon read and heard, causing him by force and violence at Canusium, in the presence of Hildebrand, to accuse himself by his own confession.
Hildebrand was earnestly in hand with the Emperor, that he should depriue those Bishops which came in by simonie. The Emperour (thinking as a zelous Prince,1 that this commission had proceeded from the throne of God) without delay obeyed the same, and forthwith without any consideration, or iudiciall order, depriued certayne Bishops, and thought that by this his obedience to Hildebrand be an acceptable sacrifice to God, not knowyng the . But Hildebrand then agayne placed those, whom the Emperour for at his commaundement had before deposed, and those whom by that meanes he made to bea a hatefull heart to the