A67926:1888
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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The King which knew his doings and privy conveyance, all this year dissembled the matter, to see what he would do at length, till that he saw his proud hart so highly exalted, that he would be so triumphantly installed, without making the king privy, yea and in manner, in disdain of the King, thought it not meet nor convenient to suffer him any longer, to continue in his malicious & proud purposes and attempts: wherefore he directed his letters to the Earle of Northumberland, willing him with all diligence, to arrest the Cardinal, & to deliver him to the Earle of Shrewsbury, great Steward of the Kings household. When the Earle had seen the letters, he with a convenient number came to the Manor of Cawood the fourth day of Novemb. and when he was brought to the Cardinal in his chamber, he said to him, My Lord, I pray you take patience,1 for here I arrest you. Arrest me, said ye Cardinal? Yea, said the Earle, I have a commandment so to do. You have no such power, said the Cardinal, for I am both a Cardinal and a Legate De Latere, and a Peer of the College of Rome, & ought not to be arrested by any temporal power, for I am not subject to that power, wherefore if you arrest me, I will withstand it. Well, said the Earle, here is the Kings commission (which he showed him) and therefore I charge you to obey. The Cardinal somewhat remembered himself, and said, Well my Lord, I am content to obey, but although that I by negligence fell into the punishment of the Premunire, and lost by the law all my lands & goods, yet my person was in the Kings protection, and I was pardoned that offence, wherefore I marvel why I now should be arrested, & specially considering that I am a member of the Sea Apostolic, on whom no temporal man ought to lay violent hands. Well, I see the King lacketh good counsel. Well, said the Earle, when I was sworn Warden of the Marches, you your self told me, that I might with my staff arrest all men, under the degree of a King, & now I am more stronger, for I have a commission so to do, which you have seen. The Cardinal at length obeyed, and was kept in a privy chamber, and his goods seized, and his officers discharged, and his Physician called Doctor Augustine, was likewise arrested, and brought to the Tower by Sir Walter Welsh, one of the Kings chamber.
The King which knew his doings and priuie conueyance, all this yeare dissembled the matter, to see what hee would do at length, till that he saw his proud hart so highly exalted, that he would be so triumphātly installed, without making the king priuie, yea and in manner, in disdaine of the King, thought it not meete nor conuenient to suffer him any longer, to cōtinue in his malitious & proud purposes and attemptes: wherefore he directed his letters to the Earle of Northumberland, willing him with all diligence, to arrest the Cardinall, & to deliuer him to the Earle of Shrewsbury, great Steward of the Kings housholde. When the Earle had sene the letters, he with a conuenient number came to the Manor of Cawood the fourth daye of Nouemb. and whē he was brought to the Cardinal in his chāber, he said to him, My Lord, I pray you take patience,