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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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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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❧Here followeth the second Volume AND THE VII. BOOK, BEGINNING WITH THE REIGN OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT.
❧Here folovveth the second Volume AND THE VII. BOOKE, BEGINNING WITH THE REIGNE OF KING HENRYE THE EIGHT.
1AS touching the civil state and administration of the Common wealth, and likewise of the state of the Church, under the reign of king Henry 7. how he entered first in possession of the crown: how the two houses of York and Lancaster were in him conjoined through marriage with Elizabeth the eldest daughter to King Edward 4. by the prudent counsel of John Morton then Bishop of Ely,2 after Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cardinal: how long the said King reigned, and what persecution was in his time for lack of search and knowledge of Gods word, both in the diocese of Lincoln under bishop Smith (who was erector of the house of Brazen nose in Oxford) as also in the diocese of Coventry, and other places moe: and further, what punishment and alteration God commonly sendeth upon cities and realms public for neglecting the safety of his flock, sufficiently in the former book hath been already specified: Wherein many things more amply might have ben added, incident in the reign of this Prince, which we have for brevity pretermitted. For he that studieth to comprehend in story all things, which the common course & use of life may offer to the writer, may sooner find matter to occupy himself, then to profit other. Otherwise I might have inferred mention of the seditions tumult of Perkin Warbeck, with his retinue, Anno 1494. also of Blackheath field by the Black smith, An. 1496.