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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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First, how he was found hanging, with his countenance fair, with his beard and head fair kemmed, his bonnet right set on his head, with his eyne and mouth fair closed, without any drivelling or spurging. His body being taken down,1 was found loose, (which by hanging could not be) his neck broken, and the skin thereof beneath the throat where the girdle went, fret and faced away, his girdle notwithstanding being of silk, and so double cast about the staple, that the space of the girdle between the staple and his neck, with the residue also which went about his neck, was not sufficient for his head to come out. His hands moreover wrung in the wrists, his face, lips, chin, doublet, and shirt collar unstained with any blood: when as notwithstanding in a manner somewhat beyond the place, where he did hang, a great quantity of blood was found. Also whereas the staple whereon he hanged, was so, that he could not climb thereto without some mean, there was a stool set up upon the bolster of a bed, so tickle, that with the least touch in the world, it was ready to fall. And how was it possible that Hun might hang himself upon that staple, the stool so standing? Besides the confession moreover of Charles Josephs own mouth to Julian Little, of Robert Johnson, John Spalding the Belringer, Peter Turner, and others. All which testimonies and declarations being so clear and undeniable, may suffice (I trust) any indifferent man to see where the truth of this case doth stand: unless master Moore being a gentleman of Utopia,2 peradventure after some strange guise of that country, useth to carry his eyes not in his head but in his affection, not seeing but where he liketh, nor believing but what him listeth.
First, how he was founde hanging, with his countenance fayre, with his bearde and head fayre kemmed, hys bonet right set on his head, with his eyne and mouth fayre closed, without any driueling or spurging. His body being taken downe,1 was found loose, (whiche by hanging coulde not be) his necke broken, and the skinne thereof beneath the throate where the gyrdle went, frette and faced away, his gyrdle notwithstanding being of silke, and so double cast about the staple, that the space of the gyrdle betweene the staple and his necke, with the residue also which went about his neck, was not sufficiēt for his head to come out. His handes moreouer wroung in the wristes, his face, lyppes, chinne, doublet, and shyrt coller vnstayned with any bloud: when as notwithstāding in a maner somewhat beyond the place, where he did hang, a great quantitye of bloud was found. Also whereas the staple wheron he hanged, was so, that he could not climbe thereto without some meane, there was a stoole set vp vpon the bolster of a bed, so tickle, that with the least touch in the world, it was ready to fal. And how was it possible that Hunne might hang himselfe vpon that staple, the stoole so standing? Besides the confession moreouer of Charles Iosephs owne mouth to Iulian Littell, of Robert Iohnson, Iohn Spalding the Belringer, Peter Turner, and others. All whiche testimonyes and declarations being so cleare and vndeniable, may suffice (I trust) any indifferent man to see where the truth of this case doth stand: vnlesse maister Moore being a gētleman of Utopia,