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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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1In which Catalogue, first to pretermit Barthramus and Barengarius, which were before Pope Innocent 3. a learned multitude of sufficient witnesses here might be produced, whose names neither are obscure nor doctrine unknown: as Joachim Abbot of Calabria, Almericus a learned Bishop, who was judged an heretic for holding against Images, in the time of the said Innocentius. Besides the Martyrs of Alsatia, of whom we read an hundred to be burned by the said Innocentius in one day, as writeth Hermanus Mutius. Add likewise to these Waldenses or Albigenses, which to a great number segregated themselves from the Church of Rome. To this number also belonged Reymundus Earle of Toulouse, Marsilius, Pativius, 2Gulielmus de S. Amore, Simon Tornacensis Arnoldus de nova villa, Joannes Semeca, besides divers other preachers in Suevia standing against the Pope. Anno. 1240. Ex Cranz. Laurentius Anglicus a Master of Paris. anno. 1260. Petrus Joannis a Minorite, who was burned after his death. anno. 1290. Robertus Galas a Dominic Friar, anno. 1291. Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln which was called Malleus Romanorum. anno. 1250. Lord Peter de Cugnerijs. anno. 1329. To these we may add more our Gulielmus Ockam, Bongratius Bergomensis, Luitpoldus Andraeas Laudensis. Ulricus Hangenor Treasurer to the Emperour, Joannes de Ganduno. anno. 1330. mentioned in the Extravagantes, Andraeas de Castro, Buridianus, Euda, Duke of Burgundy, who counselled the french king, not to receive the new found constitutions, and extravagantes of the Pope into his realm, Dantes Alligerius, an Italian, who wrote against the Pope, Monks and Fryers, and against the donation of Constantine. anno. 1330. Taulerus a Germane preacher,3 Conradus Hagar imprisoned for preaching against the Mass an. 1339. The author of the book called, Poenitentiarius Asini, compiled about the year 1343. Michael Cesenas a grey Fryer, Petrus de Corbaria, with Joannes de Poliaco, mentioned in the Extravantes and condemned by the Pope, Joannes de Castilione. with Franciscus de Arcatara, who were burned about the year of our Lord. 1322.4 Joannas Rochtaylada, otherwise called Haybalus, with an ⟨image 20⟩other Friar martyred about the year. 1346. Franciscus Petrarcha,, who called Rome the whore of Babylon. &c. an. 1350.