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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.
After this, the garrisons of Prague went unto Uarona, where as there was a great garrison of the Emperors, & took it by force, many being slain of either part. They also took the town of Broda in Germany, and slue the garrison, and afterward took Cuthna and many other cities by composition. Further, when as they led their army unto a town called Pons,1 which is inhabited by the Misnians, the Saxons meeting them by the way, because they durst not join battle, they returned back. After all this, the Emperor appointed the Princes electors a day,2 that at Bartholomewtide, they should with their army invade the West part of Bohemia, and he with an host of Hungarians would enter on the East part. There came unto his aid the Archbishop of Mentz, the county Palatine of Rhine, the Dukes of Saxon, the Marquess of Brandenburg, & many other Bishops out of Almain: all the rest sent their aides. They encamped before the town of Sozius, a strong & well fenced place, which they could by no means subdue. The country was spoiled & wasted round about, and the siege continued until the feast of S. Gall. Then it was broken up because the Emperor was not come at his day appointed, but he having gathered together a great army of the Hungarians, and West Moravians, about Christmas entered into Bohemia, and took certain towns by force, and Cuthna was yielded unto him.3 But when Zisca (although he was blind) came towards him)and set upon him, he being afeard, & many of his nobles slain, fled. But first he burned Cuthna, which the Taborites, by means of the silver mines, called the pouch of Antichrist.4 Zisca pursuing the Emperor a days journey, got great & rich spoil, and taking the town of Broda by force, set it on fire: the which afterward almost by the space of xiiij. years, remained disinhabited. The Emperor passed by a bridge over the river of Iglaria.5 And Piso a Florentine, which had brought xv. M. horsemen out of Hungary to these wars, passed over the Ice, the which by the multitude & number of his horsemen being broke, devoured & destroyed a great number. Zisca having obtained this victory,