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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.
1First, that they and their wives should never more meet in one house, neither yet have dwelling in their territories.
1First, that they and their wiues shoulde neuer more meete in one house, neither yet haue dwelling in their territories.
- 1Penalties and forfaits against priests that kept their wives.Penalties and forfaits agaynst priestes that kept their wiues.
Item, that the Priests, deacons, and subdeacons, should keep no women in their house, unless they were of their next kin.
Item, that the Priests, deacons, and subdeacons, shuld keepe no women in their house, vnlesse they were of their next kinne.
Item, for such as had dissevered themselves from the society of their wives: yet for some honest cause they had to common with them, they might: so it were without door, and with ij. or iij. lawful witnesses.
Item, for suche as had disseuered themselues from the societie of their wiues: yet for some honest cause they had to common with them, they might: so it were without doore, and with ij. or iij. lawfull witnesses.