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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, of the great wantonness & lasciviousness in their servants and families, concerning their excessive wearing of apparel.
Item, of the great wantonnes & lasciuiousnes in their seruauts and families, concerning their excessiue wearing of apparell.
1Item, complaineth also of the outrageous and excessive gains, that Prelates and other under them take for their seal, especially of officials, scribes & such like, which give out the seal they care not how, nor wherefore, so they may gain money.
1Item, complaineth also of the outragious and excessiue gaynes, that Prelates and other vnder them take for their seale, especially of officials, scribes & such like, which geue out the seale they care not how, nor wherfore, so they may gayne money.
- 1Bishops seals abused to get money.Byshops seales abused to get mony.
He complaineth in like manner, that prelates be so slack and negligent in looking to the residents in their benefices.
He complaineth in like maner, that prelates be so slack and negligent in looking to the residēts in their benefices.