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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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Now for testimony and witness of this matter,1 to be produced, for so much as M. More allegeth none to prove that Bilney at his death did recant: I will assay what testimony I have on the contrary side, to avouch and prove that Bilney did not recant.
Now for testimonie and witnesse of this matter,1 to be produced, for somuch as M. More alledgeth none to proue that Bilney at hys death did recant: I will assay what testimony I haue on the contrary side, to auouch and proue that Bilney dyd not recant.
- 1Testimonies proving that M. Bilney did not recant at his death.Testimonies prouing that M. Bilney dyd not recant at his death.
And for so much as Bilney was a Cambridge man, and the first framer of that University in the knowledge of Christ, and was burned at Norwich,1 being not very far distant from Cambridge: there is no doubt, but among to many friends as he had in that University, some went thither to hear, and see him. Of whom one was Thomas Alen fellow then of Pembroke Hall,2 who returning the same time, from Bilneyes burning, declared to Doct. Turner, Dean of Welles, being yet alive (a man whose authority neither is to be neglected, nor credit to be distrusted) that the said Bilney took his death most patiently, and suffered most constantly, without any recantation, for the doctrine which he before had professed.
And for somuch as Bilney was a Cambrige man, and the first framer of that Uniuersitie in the knowledge of Christ, and was burned at Norwich,