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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.
Next to Victor sate Urbanus the ii. by whom the acts of Hildebrand were confirmed, & also new decrees enacted against Henricus the Emperor. In this time were two Popes at Rome, Urbanus and Clemens iii. whom the Emperor set up.1 Under Pope Urbane came in the white Monks of Cistercian order, by one Stephen Harding a monk of Sherborne (an Englishman) by whom this order had his beginning in the wilderness of Cistery,2 within the province of Burgoyne, as witnesseth Cestrensis. Other write that this Harding was the ij. Abbot of that place, & that it was first founded by the means of one Robert Abbot of Molisine in Cistercium,3 a Forest in Burgundy, an. 1098. (persuaded perchance by Harding) and afterward in the year of our Lord, 1135. it was brought into England by a certain man called Espek, which builded an Abbey of the same order called Merinale. In this order the monks did live by the labour of their hands. They paid no tithes, nor offerings: they wear no fur nor lining: they wear red shoes, their cowls white, and coat black, all shorne save a little circle: they eat no flesh but only in their journey. Of this order was Bernardus, &c.
Next to Victor sate Urbanus the ii. by whom the acts of Hildebrand were confirmed, & also new decrees enacted against Henricus the Emperour. In this time were two Popes at Rome, Urbanus and Clemens iii. whome the Emperor set vp.1 Under Pope Urbane came in the white Monkes of Cistercian order, by one Stephen Harding a monke of Shireborne (an Englishman) by whom this order had his beginning in the wildernes of Cistery,2 within the prouince of Burgoyne, as witnesseth Cestrensis. Other write that this Harding was the ij. Abbot of that place, & that it was first founded by the meanes of one Robert Abbot of Molisine in Cistercium,3 a Forest in Burgundy, an. 1098. (perswaded perchance by Harding) and afterward in the yere of our Lord, 1135. it was brought into England by a certaine man called Espek, which builded an Abbey of the same order called Merinale. In this order ye monks did liue by the labour of their hands. They paid no tithes, nor offrings: they weare no furre nor lyning: they weare red shoes, their coules white, and coate blacke, all shorne saue a little circle: they eate no flesh but only in their iourney. Of this order was Bernardus, &c.