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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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She also was caused to recant, and so escaped, without confiscation of her goods, because she was married. Master Norman Gurley, for that he said there was no such thing as Purgatory, and that the Pope was not a Bishop, but Antichrist,1 and had no jurisdiction in Scotland. Also David Straton, for that he said, there was no Purgatory, but the Passion of Christ, and the tribulations of this world, and because that, when M. Robert Lowson Vicar of Eglesgrig asked his tieth fish of him, he did caste them to him out of the boat, so that some of them fell into the Sea: therefore he accused him, as one that should have said, that no tithes should be payed. These two, because after great solicitation made by the king, they refused to abjure and recant, were therefore condemned by the Bishop of Rose as heretics, and were burned upon ⟨p. 983⟩the green side, between Leith and Edinburgh, to the intent that the inhabitants of Fife, seeing the fire, might be stricken with terror and fear, not to fall into the like. Ex eodem Scripto. ¶And thus much touching those Martyrs of Scotland, which suffered under James Beton, Archbishop of S. Andrews. After whom succeeded David Beton in the same Archbishopric, under whom divers other were also martyred as hereafter (God willing) in their order shall appear. John Longland Bishop of Lincoln. Rowland Vicar of great Wickam, the Bishops Chaplain. | Thomas Harding an aged father, dwelling at Chesham in Buckinghamshire. At Chessham in Buckingham. An. 1532. | Thom. Harding dwelling at Chesham, in the County of Buckingham, with Alice his wife, was first abjured by William Smith, Bishop of Lincoln, an. 1506. with divers other moe, which the same time for speaking against Idolatry and superstition, were taken and compelled, some to bear fagots, some were burned in the cheek with hot irons, some condemned to perpetual prison, some thrust into Monasteries, and spoiled clean of all their goods, some compelled to make pilgrimage to the great block, otherwise called, our Lady of Lincoln, some to Walsingham, some to Saint Romuld of Buckingham, some to the rood of Wendover, some to S. John Shorne, &c. of whom mention is made in the Table before, beginning pag 821. Of this Thomas Harding much rehearsal hath been made before,2 as in the pages 821.822.823.