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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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5. Item, for having two certain books in English, one bigger, and an other lesser, which she committed to one John Austed a Cooke, which books in the Register be not named.
5. Item, for hauing two certayne bookes in Englishe, one bigger, and an other lesser, whiche shee committed to one Iohn Austed a Cooke, which bookes in the Register be not named.
6 Item, that the said Joan Sampson at a Supper in the hearing of certain men,1 and of a certain widow named Joan White, spake openly in contempt of the Sacrament of the altar, saying that the Priests were Idolaters which did lift up the bread over their heads, making the people to worship it & making the people to believe that it was the Lords body, and that it was better to eat the altar cloth, if it might be eaten and digested as easily as the other.
6 Item, that the sayde Ioane Sampson at a Supper in the hearing of certayne men,1 and of a certayne widdow named Ioane White, spake openly in contempt of the Sacrament of the aultar, saying that the Priestes were Idolaters which did lift vp the breade ouer theyr heades, making the people to worship it & making the people to beleue that it was the Lords body, and that it was better to eat the aultar cloth, if it might be eaten and digested as easily as the other.
- 1Against the Sacraments of the altar.