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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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the egregious Bishop,1 & other courtiers, seeing the king in such a muse, said he was an obstinate & a stubborn person, obfirmed in his own opinion, and therefore was not to be marvelled at, but to be sent to the judges, & to be punished: and therefore lest he should trouble the ears of the said Henry the king, he was commanded again to the hands of the officer, that his cause might be informed, and so within few days after, he was condemned by the high Steward of the kings house, to be burned alive. And lest any deep consideration of that excellent fortitude of the poor man might further peradventure pears• the kings mind,2 the Cardinals and Bishops were ever in the kings ear, telling him that these Lutherans were nothing else, but such as carried vain smoke in their mouths, which being put to the fire, would soon vanish.3 Wherefore the king was appointed, himself to be present at his execution, which was sharp & cruel, before the Church of Mary the Virgin, where it pleased God to give such strength and courage to his servant, in suffering his martyrdom, that the beholding thereof, did more astonish the king, then all the other did before. Ex Joan. Crisp. Ex Henr. Pantall. Lib. 7. ⟨p. 904⟩| Claudius Thierry. At Orleans. An. 1549. | The same year, & for the same doctrine of the Gospel, one Claudius also was burned at the said Town of Orleans,4 being apprehended by the way, coming from Geneva to hys Countrey, Ex Joan. Crisp. | Leonard Galimard. At Paris- An· 1549. | This Leonard, for the confession likewise of Christ and his Gospel was taken and brought to Paris,5 and there by the sentence of the coū sail, was judged to be burnt the same time as Florent Uenote, above mentioned, did suffer at Paris. Ex Joā. Crisp. | Macaeus Moreou. At Troyes. An. 1549. | He was burned in Troyes in Champagne (a Town in France) remaining constant to the end in the Gospel,