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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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Where at last, as he was selling certain small wares in the fair, he was there known and apprehended. Whereof when information was given, he being examined, at the first confessed all, and more than they were willing to hear. In the time of this Inquisition, as they were examining him of certain points of Religion, and asked him whither he would stand to that he said or not: he gave this answer again, worthy to be registered in all mens hearts, saying: And I ask you again Lord Judges, dare you be so bold to deny that is so plain and manifest by the open words of the Scripture? So ⟨p. 902⟩little regard had he to save his own life, that he desired the Judges, both at Meaux, and at Paris for Gods sake, that they would rather take care of their own lives and souls, and to consider how much innocent blood they spilled daily in fighting against Christ Jesus, and his Gospel. At last, being brought to Paris, through the means of M. Peter Liset, a great persecutor, for that they of Meaux, thoulde take by him no encouragement, there he was detained, and suffered his martyrdom: where no kind of cruelty was sacking, which the innocent Martyrs of Christ Jesus were wont to be put unto. Ex Henr. Pantal. &. hist Gallic. The names of his persecutors in the story be not expressed. 1| Stephen Polliot. At Paris. An. 1546. | Stephen Polliot coming out of Normandy (where he was borne) unto Meaux, tarried not there long, but was compelled to fly, & went to a town called Fera: where he was apprehended, and brought to Paris, and there cast into a foul and dark prison. In which prison he was kept in bands and fetters a long space, where he saw almost no light. At length being called for before the Senate, and his sentence given to have his tongue cut out, and to be burned alive, his satchel of books hanging about his neck, O Lord (said he) is the world in blindness and darkness still? For he thought being in prison so long, that the world had ben altered from his old darkness, to better knowledge. At last, the worthy Martyr of Jesus Christ having his books about his neck, was put into the fire, where he with much patience, ended this transitory lyfe. Ex Henr. Pantal. The high Senate of Paris. | John English. An. 1547. | He was executed & burned at Sens in Burgundy,2 being condemned by the high Court of Paris, for confessing the true word of God.