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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.
All these former conditions, the king with his son did both agree unto: debasing himself in such sort of submission before the two Cardinals: by the occasion whereof, the Cardinal took no little glory, using this verse of the Psalme:1 Qui respicit terram, & facit eam tremere: qui tangit montes & fumigant. That is, which looketh upon the earth, and maketh it to tremble: which toucheth the hills, and they smoke &c. Moreover it is mentioned in histories of the said king:2 that a little after William king of Scots with his army had made a rode into the realm, he returning out of Normandy into England, came first to Canterbury: who by the way (so soon as he came to the sight of Beckets church, lighting of his horse and putting of his shoes went barefoot to his tomb: whose steppes were found bloody through the roughness of the stones. And not only it, but also received further penance by every monk of the cloister certain discipline of a rod. By which so great dejection of the K. (if it were true) thou mayest see the blind and lamentable superstition and ignorance of those days. If it were pretensed (as might so be in time of war, to get the hearts of the people) yet mayest thou learned Reader see,3 what slavery kings and Princes were brought into at that time, under the popes Clergy. The same year (as Hoveden writeth) which was 1174. the whole city of Canterbury, was almost all consumed with fire, and the said minster Church clean burnt.
All these former conditions, the king with his sonne did both agree vnto: debasing himselfe in such sorte of submission before the two Cardinals: by the occasion wherof, the Cardinall took no little glory, vsing thys verse of the Psalme:1 Qui respicit terram, & facit eam tremere: qui tangit montes & fumigant. That is, which looketh vpon the earth, and maketh it to tremble: which toucheth the hilles, and they smoke &c. Moreouer it is mētioned in histories of the sayd king:2 that a little after William king of Scots with hys army had made a rode into ye realme, he returning out of Normandy into England, came first to Caunterbury: who by the way (so soone as he came to the sight of Beckets church, lighting of his horse and putting of hys shoes went barefoote to his tombe: whose steppes were found bloudy through the roughnes of the stones. And not onely yt, but also receaued further penance by euery mōke of the cloyster certayn discipline of a rod. By whiche so great deiection of the K. (if it were true) yu mayest see the blind and lamentable superstition and ignorance of those daies. If it were pretensed (as might so be in tyme of warre, to get the hartes of the people) yet mayest thou learned Reader see,