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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.
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.
Item, if any of them should be accused by ij. or iij. witnesses,1 and could not purge himself again by six able men of his own order (if he be a Priest, or if he be a Deacon by iiij. or if he be a Subdeacon by ij.) then he should be judged a transgressor of the statutes, deprived of his benefice, & be made infamous, or be put to open reproach of all men.
Item, if any of them should be accused by ij. or iij. witnesses,1 and could not purge himselfe againe by sixe able mē of his owne order (if he be a Priest, or if he be a Deacon by iiij. or if he be a Subdeacon by ij.) then he should be iudged a transgressor of the statutes, depriued of his benefice, & be made infamous, or be put to open reproche of all men.
- 1In the latter days shall come false teachers forbidding marriage, and eating of meats, &c.In the latter dayes shall come false teachers forbidding mariage, and eating of meates, &c.