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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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At that time Tho. Wolsey Cardinal of York prepared to build a College in Oxford,1 marvellous sumptuous which had the name & title of Frideswide, but now named Christs Church, not so much (as it is thought) for the love & zeal that he bare unto learning, as for an ambitious desire ⟨p. 1032⟩of glory & renown, & to leave a perpetual name unto the posterity. But that building, he being cut of by the stroke of death (for he was sent for unto the king, accused upon certain crimes, and in the way by immoderate purgations killed him self) least partly begun, partly half ended & unperfect, and nothing else save only the kitchen was fully finished. Whereupon Rodulphus Gualterus a learned man, being then in Oxford, & beholding the College, said these words in Latin.2 Egregium opus Cardinalis iste instituit collegium, et absoluit popinam. Howe large & ample those buildings should have ben, what sumptuous cost should have been bestowed upon the same, may easily be perceived by that that which is already builded, as the kitchen, the hall, and certain chambers, where as there is such curious graving and workmanship of stone cutters, that all things on every side did glitter for the excellency of the workmanship, for the finesse of yt matter, with the gilt antics, & embossings, in so much that if all the rest had been finished to that determinate end as it was begun, it might well have excelled not only all Colleges of students, but also palaces of Princes. This ambitious Cardinal gathered together into that College, what soever excellent thing there was in the whole realm, either vestments, vessels, or other ornaments, beside provision of all kind of precious things. Besides that, he also appointed unto that company all such men as were found to excel in any kind of learning & knowledge. Whose names to recite all in order, would be to long. The chief of them which were called from Cambridge were these.
At that time Tho. Wolsey Cardinall of Yorke prepared to build a Colledge in Oxford,1 maruelous sumptuous which had the name & title of Frideswide, but now named Christes Church, not so much (as it is thought) for ye loue & zeale that he bare vnto learning, as for an ambitious desire