A67926:1083
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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But his friends not pleased with his resolution, came to him, & so persuaded with him, not to give his life so good cheap, over to his enemies hands, that he was turned from that, & made his appeal. The appeal being entered, the Lieutenant, seeking to gratify the adversaries of the gospel, and especially the Cardinal of Lorraine, secretly,1 by yt backside of the town & out of the high way, conveyed the poor prisoner unto Paris. Who being brought unto Paris, by privy journeys (as is said) was put into prison, committed to the custody of two Presidents: to wit, Magistri, & S. Andre. By the means of whom, the sentence of the Lieutenant was confirmed, & also put in execution, the 15. day of November in they year abovesayd: on the which day, the said Arondeau was burned quick at the place called S. John in Grieve, at Paris. The constancy heroical which God gave him, & wherein he endured victorious unto death, was a mirror or glass of patience to M. Anne du Bourge Counsellor in the Parliament of Paris, & to divers other then prisoners, & was to them a preparation toward the like death, which shortly after they suffered. Not long after the happy end of this blessed ma• tyr, the forenamed Monroy, which was the principal accuser, & party against him, was stricken with a disease called *Apoplexia and thereupon suddenly dyed. By this and many other such like examples, the ⟨p. 928⟩mighty judgement of God most evidently may appear: who albeit commonly he doth use to begin his judgement with his own household in this world: yet neither doth his adversaries always escape them selves the terrible hand of his justice.3 Also the Lieutenant, which was his condemner, tarried not long after the priest, but he was arrested personally to appear before the kings counsel, through the procurement of a certain Gentleman of Poland, called Anthony de Leglise, agaynst whom the said Lieutenant had given false and wrong judgement before. By reason whereof the foresaid Gentleman so instantly did pursue him, before the Lords of the counsel, that all the extortions & pollings of the Lieutenant were there openly discovered, and so he condemned to pay to the gentleman a thousand French crowns of the sun,