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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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which was more then a Bishops Chancellor to kill a Citizen: yet so he did.1 And where Cope pretendeth the causes of anger, and desperation whereby Hun did hang himself: how is it like, or who did ever hear,2 a man being in such extremity of desperation, to stand first trimming himself, and combing his head, before he go to hang himself? No less credit is also to be given to that which followeth in the same Cope, where he saith, that Richard Hun being in prison, was convict of heresy. By the which word convict, if he mean that Hun was proved an heretic, that is false, for that he being at Fulham examined upon certain Articles, both denied the Articles to be true, as they were objected, and also if they were true, yet he submitted himself to their favourable correction, and therefore not standing obstinately in the same, could not be proved an heretic. And if by this term convict, he mean that he was by sentence cast, so was Hun never cast by any sentence for an heretic, so long as he lived, but after his death, when he could nothing answer for himself.3 And because this untruth should not go without his fellow, see how he huddleth up one false narration in the neck of another: affirming moreover, that Hun was cast in prison,4 before he entered his suite of Premunire against the Priest. Which is utterly false and untrue, both disagreeing to other stories, and also refuted by the words of Sir Thomas Moore his own author, who reporteth that Hun (ensuing his Premunire against the Priest) being set upon a glory of victory, made his boasting among his friends, that he trusted to have the matter long spoken of, and to be called Hunnes case. Haec Morus. Whereby it appeareth,5 that Hun was not then in prison clapped up for heresy: but was abroad seeking counsel among the Lawyers, and boasting among his friends, as writeth More Lib. 3. Dial.
whiche was more then a Byshoppes Chauncellour to kyll a Citizen: yet so he did.1