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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.
An. 1181. Richard Pech Bishop of Coventry, before his death renounced his bishopric,1 and became a Canon, in the Church of S. Thomas, by Stafford. Ex Chronico peruetusto, cui initium: In diebus sanctis. Regis. &c.
An. 1181. Richard Pech Byshopp of Couentry, before his death renounced his bishoprick,1 and became a Chanō, in the Church of S. Thomas, by Stafford. Ex Chronico peruetusto, cui initium: In diebus sanctis. Regis. &c.
- 1The Bishop of Coventry v••untarely renounceth his bishopric.The Bishop of Couētry v••untarely renounceth his byshoppricke.
About the latter time of this king Henry, one Hugo (whom men were wont to call S. Hugh of Lincoln) borne in Burgundy,1 and Prior of the Monks of Charterhouse, was preferred by the king to the Bishopric of Lincoln, who after his death is said to do great miracles, and therefore was counted a Saint. an. 1186. Flores Hist.
About the latter time of this king Henry, one Hugo (whō men were wont to call S. Hugh of Lincolne) borne in Burgundy,1 and Prior of the Monks of Charterhouse, was preferred by the king to the Bishopricke of Lincoln, who after his death is said to do great miracles, and therfore was counted a Saynt. an. 1186. Flores Hist.
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