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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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Furthermore, neither yet did the same decree (albeit it were true) long continue. For although Pope Stephen the fourth, and pope Paschalis the first, in Ludovicus time were impapaced thorough discord without election of the Emperor, yet they were fain by message to send their purgation to him of their election. And after that, in the time of Eugenius the ij. which succeeded next to Paschalis, Lotharius son of Ludovicus, 1and Emperor with his father, came to Rome, and there appointed laws & magistrates over the City. Whereby may appear the donation of Ludovike, in giving away the City of Rome to the Pope, to be feigned. And after Eugenius, pope Gregory the iiij. who following within a year after Eugenius, durst not take his election without the consent and confirmation of the said Emperor Ludovicus. And so in like manner his successors pope Sergius the ij: Pope Leo, the iiij. pope Nicolas the first, and so orderly in a long tract of time, from the foresaid Nicolas the first, to Pope Nicolas the ij. an. 1061. (which Nicolas in his Decree beginning,2 In nomine Domini Dist. 23. ordained also the same) so that in the election of the Bishops of Rome, commonly the consent of the Emperor and the people with the Clergy of Rome, was not lacking. After which Nicolas came Alexander the 2. and wicked Hildebrand, which Alexander being first elected without the Emperors will and consent, afterward repenting the same, openly in his preaching to the people declared that he would no longer sit in the Apostolic sea, unless he were by the emperor confirmed. Wherefore he was greatly rebuked, and cast into prison by Hildebrand, and so deposed. Then Hildebrand and his followers so ordered the matter of this election, that first the Emperor, then the lay people, after that the Clergy also began to be excluded. And so the election by little & little was reduced into the hands of a few Cardinals, contrary to all ancient order, where ever since it hath remained.
Furthermore, neither yet did the same decree (albeit it were true) long continue. For although Pope Stephen the fourth, and pope Paschalis the first, in Ludouicus time were impapaced thorough discord without election of the Emperour, yet they were fayne by message to send their purgation to him of their election. And after that, in the tyme of Eugenius the ij. which succceded next to Paschalis, Lotharius sonne of Ludouicus,