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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
Book 6 › John Skilley of Flixton Miller.Book 6 › Iohn Skilley of Flixton Miller.
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.
John Skilley of Flixton Miller.
Iohn Skilley of Flixton Miller.
John Skilley of Flixton Miller being apprehended and brought before the bishop of Norwich ye 14 day of March 1428.1 for holding & maintaining the Articles above written, was thereupon convict and forced to abjure: and after his abjuration solemnly made (which here to avoid tediousness we omit) he had a most sharp sentence of penance pronounced against him, the effect whereof being briefly collected, was this: That forsomuch as the said Skilley was convict by his own confession, for holding and maintaining the Articles before written, and for receiving certain good and godly men into his house, as sir Will. White priest, and John Wadden, whom they called famous, notorious, and damnable heretics, and had now abjured the same, being first absolved from the sentence of excommunication which he had incurred by means of his opinions, he was enjoined for penance 7. years imprisonment in the monastery of Langley, in the diocese of Norwich. And forsomuch as in times past, he used upon the Fridays to eat flesh, he was enjoined to fast bread & water every Friday, by the space of that 7. years to come, and that by the space of 2. years next immediately after the 7. years expired, every wednesday in the beginning of Lent, & every Maundy thursday, he should appear before the bishop or his successor, or commissary for the time being, in the cathedral church of Norwich together with the other penitentiaries, to do open penance for his offences.
IOhn Skilley of Flixton Miller being apprehended and brought before the bishop of Norwich ye 14 day of March 1428.