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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.
And such as you shall find in the said your inquisition, either by their own confession, or by any other mean to be defamed, or otherwise infected with the spot of such heresy or error, you, through the sentence of excommunication, suspension, interdict, and privation of their dignities, personages, offices, or other benefices of the Church, and fees, which they hold of any church, monastery and other Ecclesiastical places, also of honours and secular dignities and degrees of sciences or other faculties, as also by other pains and censures of the Church, or by ways and means whatsoever else shall seem to you expedient, by taking and imprisoning of their bodies, and other corporal punishments wherewith heretics are punished, or are wont, and are commanded by canonical sanctions to be used: and if they be clerks, by degradation, do correct and punish, and cause them to be corrected and punished with all diligence. Furthermore, that you do rise up stoutly and courageously against such heretics,1 and the goods as well of them, as of the lay men, according to the canonical sanction made against heretics, and their followers, under the which we will and command them and their partakers to be subject. And also such persons, as shall be infamed of the heresies or errors aforesaid, or any of the premisses, shall be bound to purge themselves, at your arbitrement: but the other which either be witnesses, or by their own confessions, or other allegations or probations, shall be convicted of the foresaid heresies, or articles, or of any the premisses, they shall be compelled to revoke and abjure publicly and solemnly the said articles and errors, and to suffer condigne penance and punishment, yea even to perpetual imprisonment, (if need be) for the same. And to the intent that they shall not nourish any kind of heresies hereafter, either in word, deed, or gesture, or shall induce other, either in word or deed, privily or apertly, directly or indirectly to believe the same, they shall be forced to put in sufficient surety.
And such as you shal finde in the sayd your inquisition, either by their own confession, or by any other meane to be diffamed, or otherwise infected with the spot of suche heresie or errour, you, through the sentence of excommunication, suspension, interdict, and priuation of their dignities, personages, offices, or other benefices of the Church, and fees, which they hold of any church, monastery and other Ecclesiastical places, also of honours and secular dignities and degrees of sciences or other faculties, as also by other paynes and censures of the Church, or by wayes and meanes whatsoeuer els shall seeme to you expedient, by taking and imprisoning of their bodies, and other corporall punishmentes wherwith heretickes are punished, or are wont, and are commaunded by canonical sanctions to be vsed: and if they be clerkes, by degradation, doe correcte and punishe, and cause them to be corrected and punyshed with all dilligence. Furthermore, that you do rise vp stoutly and couragiously agaynst such heretickes,