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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.
After this, as they were come in and late together, Hadrianus the Pope beginneth to declare unto him,1 how his ancestors before him (such as sought to the sea of Rome for the crown) were wont always to leave behind them some special token or monument of their benevolence, for the obtaining thereof, as Carolus Magnus in subduing the Lombards, Ottho the Berengarians, Lotharius the Normans, &c. Wherefore, he required some benefit to proceed likewise from him to the church of Rome, in restoring again the country of Apulia, to the Church of Rome. Which thing if he would do, he for his part again would do that which appertained to him to do: (meaning in giving him the crown) for at the time the popes had brought the Emperors, to fetch their crown at their hands.
After this, as they were come in and late together, Hadrianus the Pope beginneth to declare vnto him,1 how his auncestors before him (such as sought to the sea of Rome for the crowne) were woont alwayes to leaue behind them some speciall token or monument of their beneuolence, for the obtaining thereof, as Carolus Magnus in subduing the Lombards, Ottho the Berengarians, Lotharius the Normands, &c. Wherfore, he required some benefit to proceed likewise from him to the church of Rome, in restoring agayne the countrey of Apulia, to the Church of Rome. Which thing if he would do, he for his part againe would do that which appertained to him to do: (meaning in geuing him the crowne) for at ye tyme the popes had brought the Emperors, to fetch their crowne at their hands.
- 1The Popes old practice in setting Princes together by the ears.The Popes old practice in setting Princes together by the eares.
Frederick with his princes perceiving, that unless he would of his own proper costs & charges fetch in again Apulia out of duke Williams hands, he could not speed of the crown, was fain to promise to all that the Pope required, and so the next day after was crowned.