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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.
Item the said Margery said to this deponent, that every faithful man or woman is not bound to fast in Lent, or other days appointed for fasting by the church, & that every man may lawfully eat flesh and all other meats upon the said days and times:1 and that it were better to eat the fragments left upon Thursday at night on the fasting days, than to go to the market to bring themselves in debt to buy fish: and that Pope Sylvester made the Lent.
Item the sayd Margery sayd to this deponent, that euery faythful man or woman is not bound to fast in Lent, or other dayes appoynted for fasting by the church, & that euery man may lawfully eat flesh and all other meates vpon the sayd dayes and times:1 and that it were better to eat the fragments left vpō Thursday at night on ye fasting dayes, thē to go to the market to bring themselues in debt to buy fish: and that Pope Siluester made the Lent.
- 1Against the popes fasting days.Against the popes fasting dayes.
Item, the said Margery said to this deponent, that W. White was falsely condemned for an heretic, & that he was a good and holy man, and that he willed her to follow him to the place of execution,1 Whereas she saw that when he would have opened his mouth to speak unto the people to instruct them, a devil one of bishop Caiaphas servants strake him on the lips, and stopped his mouth, that he could in no case declare the will of God.
Item, the sayd Margery sayd to this deponēt, that W. White was falsly condēned for an hereticke, & that he was a good and holy mā, and that he willed her to folow him to the place of execution,