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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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1Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. Simon Mourton the bishops Summoner. The bishop of Coventry. Friar Stafford Warden. | 2Mistress Smith widow. Rob. Hatchets a shoemaker. Archer a shoemaker. Hawkins a shoemaker. Tho Bond a shoemaker. Wrigsham a Glover. Landsdale an Hosier. At Coventry. An. 1519. | THE principal cause of the apprehē sion of those persons, was for teaching their children and family, the Lords prayer, and ten Commandments in English: for which they were upon Ash Wednesday taken and put in prison, some in places under the ground, some in chambers and other places about, till Friday following. Then they were sent to a Monastery called Mackestocke Abbey, six miles from Coventry. During which time, their children were sent for to the Grey friars in Coventry, before the Warden of the said friars, called Friar Stafford: Who straitly examining them of their belief, and what heresy their fathers had taught them, charged them upon pain of suffering such death as their fathers should, in no wise to meddle any more with the Lords prayer,3 the Creed, and Commandments in English. Which done, upon Palm Sunday, the fathers of these children were brought back again to Coventry, and there, the week next before Easter, were condemned for relapse (because most of them had borne fagots in the same City before) to be burned. 4[figure] Only Mistress Smith was dismissed for that present, and sent away. And because it was in the evening being somewhat dark, as she should go home, the foresaid Simon Mourton the Summoner offered him self to go home with her. Now as he was leading her by the arm, and heard the rattling of a scroll within her sleeve: yea (saith he.) What have ye here? And so took it from her, & espied that it was the Lords prayer, the Articles of the faith,5 & the x. Commandments in English. Which when the wretched Summoner understood, ah sirrah (said he) come, as good now as an other time, & so brought her back again to the Bishop, where she was immediately condemned, and so burned with the vj. men before named, the fourth of April in a place thereby called the little park. An. 1519. | Robert Silkeb. At Coventry. An. 1521. | IN the same number of these Coventry men above rehearsed, was also Robert Silkeb,