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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 8 › ¶The story of M. Simon Fish.Book 8 › ¶The story of M. Symon Fish.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The king taking his signet of his finger, willed him to have him recommended to the Lord Chancellor,1 charging him not to be so hardy to work him any harm, M. Fish receiving the kings signet, went and declared his message to the Lord Chancellor, who took it as sufficient for his own discharge, but he asked him if he had any thing for the discharge of his wife: for she a little before had by chance displeased the Friars, for not suffering them to say their Gospels in Latin in her house, as they did in others unless they would say it in English. Whereupon the Lord Chancellor, though he had discharged the man, yet leaving not his grudge towards the wife,2 the next morning sent his man for her to appear before him: who, had it not been for her young daughter, which then lay sick of the plague, had been like to come to much trouble. Of the which plague her husband, the said M. Fish deceasing with in half a year,3 she afterward married to one M. James Baynham, Sir Alexander Baynham's son, a worshipful knight of Gloucestershire. The which foresaid M. James Baynham, not long after was burned, as incontinently after in the process of this story, shall appear.
The king taking his signet of his finger, wylled hym to haue him recommended to the Lord Chauncellor,1 charging him not to be so hardy to worke him any harme, M. Fish receiuing the kinges signet, went and declared hys message to the Lord Chauncellour, who tooke it as sufficient for his owne discharge, but he asked him if he had any thing for the discharge of his wife: for she a litle before had by chaunce displeased the Friers, for not suffering them to say theyr Gospels in Latine in her house, as they did in others vnlesse they would say it in English. Whereupon the Lord Chauncellor, though he had discharged the man, yet leauing not his grudge towardes the wife,2 the next morning sent his man for her to appeare before him: who, had it not bene for her young daughter, which then lay sicke of the plague, had bene like to come to much trouble. Of the which plague her husband, the sayd M. Fish deceasing wt in halfe a yeare,