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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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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 apprehension of one Edward. Frese, a Painter.
*The apprehension of one Edward. Frese, a Paynter.
Edward Freeze was borne in York, and was Prentice to a Painter in the same City, and by the reason of working for his master in Bearsy Abbey,1 or by some such occasion, was known unto the Abbot of the same house, for he was a boy of a pregnant wit, and the Abbot favoured him so much, that he bought his years of his master, and would have made him a Monk. And the lad not liking that kind of living, and not knowing how to get out, because he was a Novice, ran away after a long space and came to Colchester in Essex, and remaining there according to his former vocation, was married and lived like an honest man. After he had been there a good time, he was hired to paint certain clothes for the new Inn in Colchester, which is in the middle of the market place, & in the upper border of the clothes, he wrote certain sentences of the Scripture, and by that he was plainly known to be one of them which they call heretics.
EDward Freese was borne in Yorke, and was Prentise to a Paynter in the same Citty, and by the reason of working for his maister in Bearsy Abbay,1 or by some such occasion, was knowne vnto the Abbot of the same house, for he was a boy of a pregnaunt witte, and the Abbot fauored him so much, that he bought his yeares of his mayster, and would haue made him a Monke. And the ladde not liking that kinde of liuing, and not knowing how to gette out, because he was a Nouice, ran away after a long space and came to Colchester in Essex, and remayning there according to his former vocation, was maried and liued like an honest man. After he had bene there a good time, he was hyred to paynt certayne clothes for the new Inne in Colchester, which is in the middle of the market place, & in the vpper border of the clothes, he wrote certeine sentences of the Scripture, and by that he was plainely knowne to be one of them which they call heretickes.