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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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1| The fourth, was John de Bivero, brother to the same kindred, who was also judged an heretic, and condemned to perpetual prison, and to bear his Sanbenito all bys life long: which is an habiliment of dishonour. | 5. Dame Constance de Bivero, 2sister to the same aforesaid. | Dame Constance de Bivero was the fifth, Sister to the other before specified, Widow of Ferdinando Ortis, dwelling sometime, at Valladolid: who was also condemned with the like sentence with her brethren, to be burned. The Inquisitors of Spain. | 36. The coffin with the dead corps of Dame Leonore de Bivero, the mother of these aforesaid. | The sixth thunderbolt of condemnation, was thundered out against a poor coffin, with the dead corps of dame Leonore de Bivero, mother to these above named, being her self the sixth, & being already dead long before at Valladolid. Above her coffin was her picture laid, which was also condemned with her dead corps to be burned for an heretic: And yet I never heard of any opinion that this picture did hold, either with, or against the Church of Rome. This good Mother while she lived, was a worthy maintainer of christs gospel, with great integrity of life: and retained divers assemblies of the saints in her house, for the preaching of the word of god. In fine, her corps and Image also being brought before the Fiscal, was condemned likewise (as the Mother with her 7. children in the book of Maccabees) to be burned for a Lutheran heretic,4 and all her goods to be seized to the behoof of the Superior powers, and also her house utterly to be razed & cast down to the ground: & for memorial of the same, a marble stone was appointed there to be set up in the house, wherein the said cause of her burning should be engraved. | 7. Master Aflonse Perez Priest of Valence. | In the seventh place was condemned master Aflonse Perez priest of Valence:5 first to be degraded, & after to be burned as an heretic, & all his goods likewise confiscate and seized, to the behoof of the superiority. ☞When these 7. aforesaid had received their sentence, then the Bishop of Valence,6