A67926:2118
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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*Here if it please your grace to mark, you shall see a thing far out of joint. There are within your realm of England. 52000. Parish Churches. And this standing, that there be but x. households in every Parish, yet are there v.c. M. & xx. M. households. And of every of these households hath every of the five orders of Friars, a penny ⟨p. 1015⟩a quarter, for every order: that is, for all the five orders, five pence a quarter, for every house: that is, for all the five orders, 20. d. a year of every house. Summa, *v.C. and xx.M. quarters of Angels, that is, 260000. half Angels. Summa 130000. Angels. Summa totalis, 430333. pounds. 6. s. 8. d. sterling. Whereof not 400. years passed, they had not one penny.
*Here if it please your grace to marke, you shall see a thing far out of ioynt. There are wythin your realme of England. 52000. Parishe Churches. And this standing, that there be but x. housholdes in euery Parishe, yet are there v.c. M. & xx. M. househoulds. And of euery of these householdes hath euery of the fiue orders of Friers, a peny ⟨p. 1015⟩a quarter, for euery order: that is, for all the fiue orders, fiue pence a quarter, for euery house: that is, for all ye fiue orders, 20. d. a yeare of euery house. Summa, *v.C. and xx.M. quarters of Angelles, that is, 260000. halfe Angels. Summa 130000. Angelles. Summa totalis, 430333. poū des. 6. s. 8. d. sterling. Wherof not 400. yeares passed, they had not one peny.
- *Peradventure the common count of the p•••shes of England, among men, and in said […] the old time so went. And albeit the […] do not amount now to the same rate of […] yet nevertheless the number (no doubt) is great, and therefore the quartarage of the Friars cannot be little, but riseth to a great penny thro the Realm. Whereupon the scope of this […] reason soundeth to good purpose. For […] he hit not perfectly on the just sums, […] cannot be denied, but the Fryers had very […] and much more, then they deserved, […] neither can it be denied, but the more they […] the less redounded to the impotent needs gars in deed. And what reason is it, that […] beggars, which may work, & yet will […], should reap any piece of the crop, […] no burden of the harvest, but […] & serve to noise necessary in the […] wealth.