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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
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This being done, the Archb. of York with the foresaid bishops, resorted to the king with a grievous complaint: declaring how miserably their case stood, and what they had sustained, for fulfilling his commandment. The king hearing this,1 was highly moved as no marvel was. But what remedy. The time of the ruin of the Pope was not yet come? and what Prince then might withstand the injurious violence of that Romish potestate?
This being done, the Archb. of Yorke with the foresaid bishops, resorted to the king with a greuous cōplaint: declaring how miserably their case stood, and what they had sustayned, for fulfilling his commaundement. The kyng hearing this,1 was highly moued as no maruell was. But what remedy. The tyme of the ruine of the Pope was not yet come? and what Prince then might withstand the iniurious violence of that Romish potestate?
- 1The cause of the kings wrath against Becket.The cause of the kinges wrath against Becket.
In the mean season the French King for his part his clergy, and courtiers, stacked no occasion to incite, and solicit Alexander the Pope against the king of England to excommunicate him also: seeking thereby and thinking to have some vantage against the realm. Neither was the king ignorant of thes, which made him more ready to apply to some agreement of reconciliation. At length cometh down from the Pope two Legates (the Archb. of Rhotomage and the Bishop of Navarre) with direction and full commission either to drive the king to be reconciled, or to be interdicted by the popes censures out of the church. The king understanding himself to be in greater straits then he could avoid: at length (through the mediation of the French king, and of other Prelates and great Princes) was content to yield to peace and reconciliation with the Archbishop whom he received both to his favour, and also permitted and granted him free return to his Church again. Concerning his possessions and lands of the Church of Canterbury, although Becket made great labour therefore: yet the king (being then in Normandy) would not grant him, before he should repair to England, to see how he would there agree with his subjects.