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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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Heralds also of arms, giving their attendance to the same, and the Earle of Buendia bearing the naked sword, all the market place where the stages were, being environed with an infinite multitude of all sorts of the world there standing, and gassing out of windows, & houses to hear & see the sentences & judgements of this Inquisition: then after all, were brought forth (as a spectacle and triumph) the poor servants and witnesses of Jesus Christ, to the number (as is aforesaid) of thirty, clothed with their Sanbenito, 1as the Spaniards do call it, which is a manner of vesture, of yellow cloth coming both before them & behind them, spangled with read Crosses, & having burning Cierges in their hands: also before them was borne a Crucifix covered with black linen cloth, in token of mourning. Moreover, they which were to receive the sentence of death, had Mitres of paper upon their heads, which the Spaniards call Coracas. Thus they being produced, were placed in their order, one under an other, according as they were esteemed culpable: So the first of all, stood up Doctor Cacalla, an Austen Friar, a man notable & singular in knowledge of divinity, preacher sometime, to Charles the 5. Emperor, both in higher and lower Germany. These things thus disposed, then followed a Sermon, made by a Dominic Friar,2 which endured about an hour. After the Sermon finished, the Procurator general, with the Archbishop, went to the stage, where the Princes and Nobles stood, to minister a solemn oath unto them upon the Crucifix painted in the Mass book: the tenor of which oath was this. Your Majesties shall swear, that you will favour the holy Inquisition, & also give your consent unto the same: and not only that you shall,3 by no manner of way, hinder and impeach the same, but also you shall employ the uttermost of your help & endeavour hereafter, to see all them to be executed, which shall swerve from the Church of Rome, & adjoin themselves to the sect of the Lutheran heretics, without all respect of any person or persons, of what estate, degree, quality, or condition soever they be. ¶And thus much for the first Article of the oath. The second was this, as followeth. Item, your Majesties shall swear, that you shall constrain all your subjects, to submit themselves to the Church of Rome, and to have in reverence all the laws and commandments of the same: