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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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Thus having sufficiently alleged the words and testimonies of Benno and Aventinus, concerning the acts and facts of this Pope. Now let us proceed (in the order as followeth in his story) to set forth the miserable vexation which the virtuous and godly Emperor sustained by that ungodly person.
Thus hauing sufficiently alledged the wordes and testimonies of Benno and Auentinus, concerning the actes and factes of this Pope. Now let vs proceed (in the order as followeth in his story) to set forth the miserable vexation which the vertuous and godly Emperour sustayned by that vngodly person.
About what time Hildebrand was made Pope, Henricus the 4. Emperor was encumbered and much, vexed with civill dissension in Germany, by reason of certain grievances of the Saxons against him & his father Henricus the 3. Whereupon, the matter growing to sedition, sides were taken, & great wars ensued, betwixt […] Duke of Saxony, & Henricus the Emperor. This […] time seemed to Hildebrand very opportune, to work his feats, whose study & drift was ever […] the beginning to advance the dominion of the Romish fear above all other bishops, and also to press down the authority of the temporal enters, under the […] men of the Church. And although he went about the same […] trains and acts set forth to […] he thought more effectually to accomplish his purposed intent, after that he was exalted thither where he would be. And therefore now bearing himself the bolder, by the authority of S. Peters throne,1 first he began to pursue the act set out by his predecessor as touching simony, cursing and excommunicating, whosoever they were, that received any spiritual living or promotion at lay mens hands, as all such as were the givers thereof. For this he called than Simony, that under that colour he might defeat the temporal potestates of their right, and so bring the whole clergy at length to the lure of Rome. And forasmuch as y• emperor was the head, thinking first to begin with him, he sendeth for him by letters and Legates to appear in the council of Lateran at Rome. But the Emperor busied in his wars against the Saxons, had no leisure to attend to councils. Notwithstanding Gregorius the Pope, proceedeth in his council, rendering there the cause and reason before the bishops, why he had excommunicate divers of the clergy, as Herman bishop of Bamberg, counsellor to the Emperor,