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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.
If he be a lay person, he shall be deprived of all his freedom within the land, and be no better then a foreigner.
If he be a lay person, he shalbe depriued of all his freedome within the land, and be no better then a foreiner.
And because it shall be known, the absolution of such as be secular to belong only to bishops, it was therefore enacted: that on every sunday, in every parish church of England the said excommunication should be published. &c.
And because it shalbe known, the absolution of such as be secular to belong onely to byshops, it was therefore enacted: that on euery sonday, in euery parish church of England the said excommunication should be published. &c.
But mark in this great matter what followed. For as Ranulphus Lestrensis witnesseth:1 this grievous general curse was soon called back again, by the suit of certain: which persuaded Anselm, that the publication or opening of that vice, gave kindlings to the same in the hearts of lewd persons: ministering occasion of more boldness to them to do the like. And so to stop the occasion of filthy Sodomitry, the publication thereof was taken away, but the forbidding and restreinement of Priests unlawful marriage (which chiefly was the cause thereof) remained still. And thus ever since, horrible Sodomitry remained in the clergy, both for lack of marriage more used, and for lack of publication, less punished.
But marke in this great matter what followed. For as Ranulphus Lestrensis witnesseth:1