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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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This done, the Official declared unto him the depositions of the witnesses which were come in against him, & objected unto him, that a little before Easter he had abjured all heresies, as well particularly as generally. Then the said vicar general, after he had taken deliberation & advise with the learned his assistants, did proceed to the reading of the definitive sentence against him, & also published the same in writing: whereby amongest other things besides his abjuration,1 he pronounced & condemned him as a relapsed heretic, damnably fallen into sundry heresies, & so to be left unto the secular power, that is to say, to one of the Sheriffs being there present. After the pronouncing of which sentence, M. Nicolas Wilson counselled & admonished the said James, that he would conform himself unto the church. To whom he answered, that he trusted that he is the very child of God, which the blind Asses (said he) do not perceive. And last of all, departing from his judgement, he spake these words:2 M. Wilson, nor you my Lord Chancellor, shall not prove by scripture, that there is any Purgatory. Then the sentence of condemnation was given against him, the which here to repeat word for word, is not necessary, for so much as the tenor thereof is all one with that which passed before in the story of Bayfield, aliâs Somersam. Here also should ensue the letter of the Bishop of Lon don, directed unto the Major and Sheriffs of the same city, for the receiving of him into their power, & that putting of him to death, the tenor whereof is also of like effect to that before written in the story of Bayfield. After this sentence given, James Bainham was delivered into the hands of Sir Richard Gresham Sheriff, then being present, who caused him by his Officers to be carried unto Newgate, & the said James Baynham was burned in Smithfield the last day of April, in the year aforesaid, at three a clock at afternoon.
This done, the Officiall declared vnto him the depositions of the witnesses which were come in agaynst him, & obiected vnto him, that a litle before Easter he had abiured all heresies, as well particularly as generally. Then the sayd vicar generall, after he had takē deliberation & aduise with the learned his assistantes, did proceed to the reading of the definitiue sentence agaynst him, & also published the same in writing: wherby amongest other thinges besides his abiuration,