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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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answering to him your fidelity, for your baronage and other things, & to amend those things wherein you have trespassed against him, whereupon, the archbishop denying to swear, and perceiving their intent,1 called in his company again, and in multiplying of words to and fro, at length they came to the bishops which were excommunicate for the coronation of the king, whom they commanded in the kings name, he should absolve and set free again. The archbishop answered, that he neither suspended nor excommunicated them, but the pope: wherefore, if that were the matter that grieved them, they should resort to the Pope, he had nothing to do with the matter. Then said Reginald, one of the four: although you in your own person did not excommunicate them, yet through your instigation it was done. To whom the Archbishop said again: and if the Pope (said he) tendering the injuries done to me and my Church, wrought this revenge for me: I confess it offendeth me nothing. Thus then (said they) it appeareth well by your own words, that it pleaseth you right well (in contempt and contumely of the kings majesty) to sequester his bishops from their ministry, who at the commandment of the king did service in the coronation of his son. And seeing ye have so presumed thus to stand against the exaltation of this our sovereign, our new K. it seemeth likely that you aspired to take his crown from him, & to be exalted king your self. I aspire not said he, to the crown & name of the K. But rather if I had 4. crowns (to give him more) I would set them all upon him: such good will I do hear him, that only (his father the king excepted) there is none, whose honour I more tender and love. And as concerning the sequestring of those Bishops this I give you to understand: that nothing was done in ⟨p. 224⟩that behalf, without the knowledge & assent of the king himself. To whom when I had made my complaint, at the feast of Mary Magdalen, of the wrong and injury done to me and my Church therein: he gave me his good leave to obtain at the Popes hand such remedy therein as I could, promising moreover his help to me in the same. What is this, quoth they, that thou sayest? Makest thou the king a traitor, and betrayer of the king his own son? that when he had commanded the bishops to crown his son, he would give thee leave afterward to suspend them for so doing?
answering to him your fidelitie, for your baronage and other things, & to amend those things wherein you haue trespassed agaynst him, whereupon, the archbishop denying to sweare, and perceauing their intēt,