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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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¶The Copy of Richard Fitziames Letter then Bishop of London, sent to Cardinal Woolsey.
¶The Copy of Richard Fitziames Letter then Bishop of London, sent to Cardinall Woolsey.
I Beseech your good Lordship to stand so good Lord unto my poor Chancellor now in Ward, and indicted by an untrue quest, for the death of Richard Hun,1 upon the only accusation of Charles Joseph, made by pain and duraunce, that by your intercession, it may please the kings grace to have the matter duly and sufficiently examined by indifferent persons of his discreet counsel, in the presence of the parties, ere there be any more done in the cause: and that upon the innocency of my said Chancellor, declared, it may further please the kings grace to award a Placard unto his Attorney to confess the said Indictment to be untrue, when the time shall require it: for assured am I, if my Chancellor be tried by any twelve men in London, they be so maliciously set, In favorem hereticae pravitatis, that they will cast and condemn any Clerk, though he were as innocent as Abel. Quare si potes beate pater adivva infirmitates nostras & tibi imperpetuum devincti erimus. Over this in most humble wise I beseech you, that I may have the kings gracious favour, whom I never offended willingly, and that by your good means I might speak with his grace and you, and I with all mine, shall pray for your prosperous estate long to continue. Your most humble Orator. R.L.
I Beseeche your good Lordshippe to stand so good Lord vnto my poore Chauncellour nowe in Warde, and indighted by an vntrue quest, for the death of Richard Hunne,