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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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day of September, commission was directed out by the king, and certain Presidents and counsellors appointed to oversee the expedition of the matter. Whereupon divers of the poor afflicted Gospellers were brought forth to their judgement and martyrdom, as anon (Christ willing) you shall hear. Henricus Pantal. lib. 11. partly touching this persecution of the Parisians, referreth the time thereof to the year of our Saviour .1557. which the French Chronicles do assign to the year .1558. and addeth moreover, that the Germans being the same time in a certain colloquy at worms, divers learned men resorted thither from Geneva, and other ⟨p. 919⟩quarters, desiring of the princes & protestants there, that they by their Ambassadors sent by the French king, would become suitors unto him for the innocent prisoners, which for the cause abovesayd, were detained in hands at Paris: by the means of whose intercession (saith he) and especially for that the french king was then in war (as GOD provided) with Philip king of Spain,1 a great part of the captives were rescued and delivered: albeit certain of the said number were executed before the coming of the German Ambassadors: the names and Martyrdom of whom here under do ensue. Ex Crisp. & Pantal. Lib. 11. Priests of the College of Plessis. Doctor Maillard. 2Sorbonist. | Nicholas Clinet. At Paris. An. 1558. | Of this godly company thus brought to judgement and to martyrdom,3 the first was Nicolas Clinet, of the age of 80. years, who first being a schoolmaster to youth at Sain•onge (where he was borne) was there pursued, & had his Image burned. From thence he came to Paris, where for his godly conversation he was made one of the Elders, or Governors of the Church. For his age he was suspected of the Judges to be a minister, & therefore was set to dispute against the chiefest of the Sorbonists, & namely Maillard, whom he did so confute both in the Scriptures, and also in their own Sorbonical Divinity (wherein he had been well exercised & expert) in the presence of the Lieutenant civil, that the said Lieutenant confessed, that he never heard a man better learned, and of more intelligence. Doctor Maillard,