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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 › ¶Andrew Hewet burned with Master Frith.Book 8 › ¶Andrewe Hewet burned with Maister Frith.
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¶Andrew Hewet burned with Master Frith.
¶Andrewe Hewet burned with Maister Frith.
Andrew Hewet borne in Feversham, in the county of Kent,1 a young man of the age of four and twenty years, was apprentice with one master Warren Taylor, in Wattling street. And as it happened that he went upon a holy day into Fleet street,2 toward Saint Dunstanes, he met with one William Holt, which was foreman with the kings Taylor at that present, called master Malt: and being suspected by the same Holt, (which was a dissembling wretch) to be one that favoured the Gospel, after a little talk had with him, he went into an honest house about Fleet Bridge, which was a bookseller's house. Then Holt thinking he had found good occasion to show forth some fruit of his wickedness,3 sent for certain officers, and searched the house, & finding the same Andrew, apprehended him, and carried him to the Bishops house, where he was cast into irons,4 and being there a good space by the means of a certain honest man, he had a File conveyed unto him, wherewith he filed of his irons, & when he spied his time, he got out of the gate. But being a man unskilful to hide him self, for lack of good acquaintance he went into Smithfield, and there met with one Withers, which was an hypocrite as Holt was, Which Withers understanding how he had escaped, and that he knew not whither to go, pretending a fair countenance unto him, willed him to go with him, promising that he should be provided for, and so kept him in the country where he had to do, from Lowe Sunday till Whitsuntide, and then brought him to London, to the house of one John Chapman in Hosier lane beside Smithfield, and there left him by the space of two days.