A67926:1867
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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1And first to the bill of Mortuaries being drawn, and being also passed the common house, and sent up to the higher, the Spiritual Lords showed a fair face, saying, that assuredly Priests and Curates took more then they should, and therefore it were well done to take some reasonable order. Thus they spake, because it touched them but little.
1And first to ye bill of Mortuaries being drawen, and being also passed the commō house, and sent vp to the higher, the Spirituall Lords shewed a faire face, sayeng, that assuredly Priestes and Curates tooke more then they shoulde, and therefore it were well done to take some reasonable order. Thus they spake, because it touched them but little.
- 1The first bill for mortuaries.The first bill for mortuaryes.
1After this, within two days, was sent up the second bill, concerning probates of testaments, which bill, because it touched their profit somewhat near, both the Archbishop of Canterbury, and all other Bishops in general, began to frown and grunt, in so much as Doctor John Fisher Bishop of Rochester, standing up in the Parliament chamber, openly protested, that such bills were sent up from the common house, tending to no other thing, but to the destruction of the Church: which Church being down, the glory then of the whole kingdom (said he) must needs fall, desiring therefore the Lords, for Gods sake, to take example by the kingdom of Bohemia: For as it was then with the people there,2 so now what say the commons here, but down with the Church. And all this (said he) seemeth only to be for lack of faith. When these words were reported to the commons of the lower house, what the Bishop had said, in noting all their doings to be for lack of faith, they took the matter grievously, so to be esteemed of the Bishop for no better then heretics, understanding moreover, how that he by those slanderous words, went about to persuade the Lords temporal against them, and so to overthrow the two bills by them passed before, as ye have heard.