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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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Book 7 › ¶John Stilman. Martyr.Book 7 › ¶Iohn Stilman. Martyr.
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¶John Stilman. Martyr.
¶Iohn Stilman. Martyr.
IT would ask a long tractation & tedious, to recite in order the great multitude and number of good men & women,1 ⟨p. 815⟩beside these above rehearsed, which in those days recanted and abjured about the beginning of king Henrys reign and before:2 among whom yet notwithstanding, some there were whom the Lord reduced again, & made strong in the profession of his truth, and constant unto death: of which number, one was John Stilman by name, who about the xxiiij. day of Sept, in the year of our Lord. 1518. was apprehended and brought before Richard Fitziames then B. of Lond. at his manor of Fulham, and by him was there examined and charged, that notwithstanding his former recantation, oath, and abjuration made about xi. years then past, before Edmund Bishop of Salisbury, as well for speaking against the worshipping, praying, and offering unto Images, as also for denying the carnal and corporal presence in the sacrament of Christs memorial: yet sithens that time he had fallen into the same opinions again, and so into the danger of relapse, and further he had highly commended and praised John Wycliffe, affirming that he was a saint in heaven, and that his book called the Wicket,3 was good and holy. Soon after his examination he was sent from thence unto the Lollards tower at London, and the xxij. day of October then next ensuing, was brought openly into the consistory at Pauls, and was there judicially examined by Thom. Head the bishops vicar general, upon the contents of these articles following.
IT would aske a long tractation & tedious, to recite in order the greate multitude and number of good men & women,