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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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For these and such like matters was he a long time, imprisoned, and at last through frailty and fear of death, was contented to abjure & yield himself unto the judgement of the Romish Church, and thereupon was enjoined, not only to make his open recantation, but also from thenceforth to remain as prisoner within the monastery of Osney besides Oxford,1 and so to bear a fagot before the first cross at the next general Procession within the University. Howbeit not long after, the Bishop having need of the poor mans help in his household business, took him out of the said Monastery, and placed him with in his own house, until his business was ended, and then (his turn once served) he appointed D. Wilcockes his vicar general, that in his next judicial Session within the said Priory of Frideswide at Oxford,2 he should assign him to remain within the said Priory, and not to depart thence without licence of the Prior for the time being, upon pain o• relapse: and upon like pain he also enjoined him to wear the sign of a Fagot under his uppermost garment, until he were dispensed withal for the same. Al which notwithstanding, he (being belike both sorry for his offence in denying the trueth, and also weary of his servile and prisonlike bondage) bethought himself how he might best escape their cruel hands, and therefore after a while, seeing good opportunity offered him,3 he fled the diocese and jurisdiction of Lincoln: and seeking abroad in other coū tries for work (thereby to sustain his poor life) he most commonly abode, sometime in Essex, sometime in Suffolk: where also he associated and joined himself unto such godly professors of Christs Gospel, as he there could hear of. But within few years after (such is the cruel rage of Satan and his wicked members, which never suffer the godly long to continue untroubled) he was again accursed of relapse,4 by the inquest of the inquisition of London, and thereupon was apprehended & brought unto Rich. Fitziames then Bish. of Lond. & the 9. day of February. an. 1518. he was examined by D. Head the Bishops vicar general within his palace at Lond.