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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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For the head of the Church he knew none, but only Christ. Being in prison he had great conflicts with the infirmity of his own flesh, but especially with the temptation of his parents, brethren and kinsfolks, and the sorrow of his mother: nevertheless the Lord so assisted him, that he endured to the end. At his burning he spake much to the people, & was heard with great attention. He suffered the 15. of July. an. 1553. Ex Cris. Legoux the Dean, Ilierensis. M. Simon Vigour, the Penitentiary of Eureux. | William Neel, an Austen Fryer. At Eureaux, in France. An. 1553. | Hen. Pantal. lib. 9. & Crisp. & Adrian, maketh mention also of one William Neel a Fryer Augustine, who suffered in much like sort the same year, & was burned at Eureux in France. The occasion of his trouble rose first,1 for the rebuking of the vicious demeanour of the Priests there, and of the Dean named Legoux, for the which the Dean caused him to be sent to Eureux to the prison of the Bishop. The story of this William Neel, with his answers to their Articles objected, is to be read more at large in the 9. book of Pantalion, and others. The Bailiff or steward of the City Dijon. | Simon Laloe. At Dijon. An. 1553. | Simon Laloe a spectacle maker, coming from Geneva in to France for certain business, was laid hand of by the Bailiff of Dijon. Three things were demanded of him. 1 Where he dwelt. 2. What was his faith. 3. What fellows he knew of his Religion. His▪ dwelling he said, was at Geneva. His Religion was such, as was then used at Geneva. As for his fellows, he said, he knew none, but only them of the same City of Geneva, where his dwelling was. When they could get of him no other answer but this, with all their racking and torments, they proceeded to his sentence, and pursued the execution of the same, which was the 21. of November. an. 1553. The executioner who was named James Sylvester, 2seeing the great faith and constancy of that heavenly Martyr, was so compuncted with repentance, & fell in such despair of himself, that they had much ⟨p. 909⟩ado with all the promises of the Gospel, to recover any comfort in him.3 At last through the mercy of christ, he was comforted, and converted, and so he with all his family, removed to the Church of Geneva. Ex Joan Crisp. | Nicholas Nail.