A67926:1804
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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In the mean season the soldiers fell to spoil. Never was Rome so pilled, either of the Goths or Vandals, for the Soldiers were not content with the spoil of the Citizens,1 but they robbed the Churches, brake up the houses of close religious persons, and overthrew the Cloisters, and spoiled virgins, and ravished married women. Men were tormented if they had not to give every new asker or demander: some were strangled, some were punished by the privy members, to cause them to confess their treasure. This woodness continued a great while, & some man might think that when they had gotten so much, then they would cease & be quiet, but that was not so, for they played continually at dice, some v.C. some a M. Ducats at a cast: and he that came to play laden with plate, went again almost naked, and then fell to rifling again. Many of the Citizens which could not patiently suffer that vexation, drowned themselves in Tiber.2 The Soldiers daily that lay at the siege, made Jests of the Pope. Sometime they had one riding like the Pope with a whore behind him, sometime he blessed, and sometime he cursed, & sometime they would with one voice call him Antichrist: and they went about to undermine the Castle, and to have thrown it down on his head, but the water that environeth the Castle, disappointed their purpose.
In the meane season the souldiers fell to spoyle. Neuer was Rome so pilled, either of the Gothes or Uandales, for the Souldiers were not content with the spoyle of the Citizens,1 but they robbed ye Churches, brake vp the houses of close religious persons, and ouerthrew the Cloisters, and spoyled virgines, and rauished maried women. Men were tormented if they had not to geue euery new asker or demaunder: some were strangled, some were punished by the priuie members, to cause them to confesse their treasure. This woodnes continued a great while, & some man might thinke that whē they had gotten so much, then they would cease & be quiet, but that was not so, for they plaied continually at dyce, some v.C. some a M. Ducates at a cast: and he that came to play ladē with plate, went againe almost naked, and then fell to rifeling againe. Many of the Citizens which could not paciently suffer that vexation, drowned themselues in Tyber.