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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.
Thus then saith the story, about the second year of Hadrian, Aurelianus the ruler took Alexander the Bishop, with Hermes, his wife children, and his whole household, to the number of a M, CC.L. and threw them in prison. And not long after the said Alexander with Eventius his Deacon, and Hermes and the rest were burned in a furnace, Theodulus an other Deacon of Alexander, seeing and rebuking the cruelty of the tyrant, suffered also the same Martyrdom.
Thus then sayth the story, about the second yeare of Hadrian, Aurelianus the ruler tooke Alexander the Byshop, with Hermes, hys wife children, and hys whole houshold, to the number of a M, CC.L. and threw them in prison. And not long after the sayd Alexander with Euentius his Deacon, and Hermes and the rest were burned in a fornace, Theodulus an other Deacon of Alexander, seeyng and rebuking the crueltie of the tyrant, suffered also the same Martyrdome.
Quirinus also the same time (as saith Antoninus) having first his tongue cut out,1 then his hands and feet, afterward was beheaded and cast to the dogs. Equilinus saith that he was beheaded and cast into Tiber in the reign of the Emperor Claudius, but that cannot be. Albeit Platina maketh relation but only of Alexander with his two Deacons aforesaid.2 Declaring moreover, that in the time of this Bishop, Sapphira of Antioch, and Sabina a Romaine suffered Martyrdom.
Quirinus also the same tyme (as sayth Antoninus) hauyng first his tongue cut out,1 then his hands and feete, afterward was beheaded and cast to the dogs. Equilinus saith that he was beheaded and cast into Tyber in the raigne of the Emperour Claudius, but that cannot be. Albeit Platina maketh relation but onely of Alexander with his two Deacons aforesayd.2