A67926:1844
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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Legate of York, and that they of the Emperors part, would refuse always of good order and reason, proceeding to any election without the consent of the residue that would protest, they may be sure that unto their sinister and indue way they should have no Prince or Potentate adherent,1 but only the Emperor and his brother, and that the other part should have the rest of all Christendom, that is to say, the kings highness, the French king, the king of Hungary, Poland, Scotland, and Denmark, with the Venetians, the Dukes of Ferrara, Milan, the Florentines, and the rest of all Italy, besides the merchants of the Almain or Hanse, and other leagues being in the dominion of the said king of Poland: and over that the king of Portugal, who is loth and sorry to see the Emperor come unto so great height as he aspireth unto. So that having these mighty and noble puissances to their assistance, and the corroboration of their act, it is facile to think the other could be of no validity, ne have or take any manner of place: which is no small ground whereupon the said Cardinals may be the better animate to the kings and the French kings said devotion, and therefore it is to be imprinted in their minds accordingly. Finally, if the kings said Orators endeavouring them selves to the conducing of the said election in the person of the said L. Legate of York, should at the last find out that there were none other difficulty, but only that the election in his person being totally desperate,2 the same were conducible to the Cardinal Campegius: then, rather than all should fail, if the other could by no means be brought to pass, the kings pleasure is, that being assured it may, the other lacking, be conduced to the same Cardinal Campegius, they take such way as in that case the protestation be suborn, and for the last refuge, if the other may not be, the election at the least to pass in the person of the said Cardinal Campegius: whereof there is no appearance, considering that the respects for the which the said lord Legate of York, should by the kings and the French kings means be brought hereunto, do for the greatest part fail and cease by the election of any other then himself, which is in this case to be remembered accordingly.
Legate of York, and that they of the Emperours part, wold refuse alwaies of good order and reason, proceeding to any election without the consent of the residue that would protest, they may be sure that vnto their sinister and indue way they should haue no Prince or Potentate adherente,