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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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Who after his prayers most earnestly made unto the Lord, meekly & patiently gave himself to the stake, where with a cord drawn about his neck, he was secretly strangled of the hangman, in the City of Ferraria, three hours before day, to the intent the people should not see him, nor hear him speak: and after, about dinner time, his body in the same place was burned. At the burning whereof, such a fragrant and odoriferous sent came to all them there present,1 and so stroke their senses, that the sweetness thereof seemed to refresh them no less, then his words would have done, if they had heard him speak. The custom is of that city, that the bones and ashes which be left,2 should be carried out of the city but neither the magistrate, nor the Bishop, nor his great Vicar or Chancellor, nor any Divine else, would take any charge thereof, every man transferring that burden from themselves, to him which was the cause of his death. Whereby it may appear, what secret judgement and estimation, all they had of that good blessed man. At last the people took his burned bones, with the cinders, and carried them out of the street of the Citie. Ex Henri. Pantal, lib. 7. Ex Joan Crisp. pag. 363. The name of the persecutor in the story appeareth not. | Dominicus de Basana.3 At Placentia. Ann. 1550. | The same year that the foresaid Faninus suffered in Ferraria, Dominicus also suffered in the City of Placentia. This Dominicus was Citizen in Basana, and followed the wars of Charles the Emperor in Germany: where he received the first taste of Christs gospel. Wherein he increased more & more by conferring & reasoning with learned men, so that in short time he was able to instruct many, and so did, working and travelling in the Church till at length in the year 1550. he coming to the City of Naples, there preached the word, & from thence proceeding to Placencia, preached there likewise unto the people, of true confession, of Purgatory, & of Pardons. Furthermore, the next day entreated of true faith & of good works, how far they are necessary to salvation, promising moreover the next day to speak of Antichrist and to paint him out in his colours.4 When the hour came that he should begin his sermon, the magistrate of the city commanded him to come down from the chair in the market place, & delivered him to the officers.