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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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¶ The form and manner how and by what words the Pope is wont to give the p•lle unto the Archbyshop. 1AD honorem omnipotentis Dei, & beatae Mariae virginis & beatorum Petri & Pauli, & Domini nostri N. Papae, & sanctae Romana Ecclesiae see non N. Ede•• […] tradimus […] pon[…] diebus, qui […] concessis. That is in English. To the honour of almighty God, and of blessed Mary the virgin, and of […] •. Peter and Paul, and of our Lord Pope •. and of the holy Church of Rome, and also of the Church of • committed to your charge, we give to you the […] from the body of S. Peter, as a […] of the office […], which you may wear •in your own church, […] days, which be expressed in the privileges of the said church, granted by the sea Apostolic. ¶ Notes upon the same. ¶To the honour. &c. with what confidence durst the Pope ••uple the honour of almighty God, and the honour of Mary. of S. Peter, and of the Pope, and of the Romish Church altogether if he had not been a presumptuous Lucifer, equalling himself not only with faith Saints, but also even with him which is God alone, to be blessed for ever. Taken from the body. &c. If S. Peters body be not all consumed, let him show it if he can• if he can not show •t, how then is this pall t••en from the body of S. Peter •or if he mean it to be of S. Peters own wearing the […] S Peter had a godly wardrobe of palls, when ever Archbishop in all Christendom receiveth from the Pope […] pall. As a fullness of the office &c. Rather he might say, the fullness of his own purse, when as Archbishops paid so sweetly for it. In so much that […] the Archbishop of Mentz, as is above touched pag. 172. a little before in the council of Basil where the price was wont to be but a thousand florences, could not obtain it without 26. thousand florences.2 Upon certain days. &c. This difference there was between the Pope and other Archbishops. For the Pope might wear the pall at all times and in all places at his pleasure. Archbishops might not wear it, but upon certain days, and in their church only within their province. Moreover, this posse should not be asked but with great instance, and within three months with out which pall he is not to be named. Archbishop, But may be deposed, having it not after three months.