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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 › ¶Richard Bayfield Martyr.Book 8 › ¶Richarde Bayfield Martyr.
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.
This Rich. Bayfield sometime a Monk of Bury, was converted by D. Barnes, and ij. godly men of London, Brickmakers, M. Maxwell, and M. Stacy Wardens of their company. Who were grafted in the doctrine of Jesus Christ,1 and through their godly conversation of life, converted many men and women, both in London and in the country: and once a year of their own cost, went about to visit the brethren and sisterne scattered abroad. Doctor Barnes at that time much resorted to the Abbey of Berry, where Bayfield was to one D. Ruffam, who had been at Louvain together students.2 At that time it happened that this Bayfield the Monk, was Chamberlain of the house to provide lodging for the strangers, and to see them well entertained: who delighted much in Doctor Barnes talk, and in the other lay mens talk afore rehearsed, and at the last Doctor Barnes gave him a new Testament in Latin, and the other two gave him Tyndals Testament in English, with a book called the wicked Mammon, and the Obedience of a christen man:3 wherein he prospered so mightily in two years space, that he was cast into the prison of his house: there sore whipped, with a gag in his mouth and then stocked, and so continued in the same torment .iij. quarters of a year before D. Barnes could get him out, which he brought to pass, by the means of D. Ruffam aforesaid, & so he was committed to D. Barnes to go to Cambridge with him. By that time he had been there a good while, he tasted so well of good letters, that he never returned home again to his Abbey, but went to London to Maxwell and Stacy, and they kept him secretly a while, & so conveyed him beyond the Sea. D. Barnes being then in the Fleet for Gods word.4 This Bayfild mightily prospered in the knowledge of God, and was beneficial to M. Tyndall and M. Frith, for he brought substance with him, and was their own hand, and sold all their works and the Germans works both in France & in England, and at the last coming to London to M. Smiths house in Bucklers Bury, there was he bewrayed, & dogged from that house to his Bookbinder's in mark lane, and there taken and carried to Lollards Tower, & from thence to the Coalhouse, by reason that one person Patmore Parson of Much Haddam in Essex then lying in Lollards Tower, was in the doctrine and in the kingdom of Christ there confirmed by him.