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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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Shortly after this Oration of the king, wherewith he stirred the harts of a number, then the two Legates, being requested of the king for discharge of his conscience,1 to judge and determine upon the cause, went to the Queen lying then in the place of Bridewell, and declared to her, how they were deputed judges indifferent between the king and her, to hear and determine, whether the marriage between them stood with Gods law nor not. When she understood the cause of their coming, being thereat some thing astonied at the first, after a little pausing with her self,2 thus she began, answering for her self.
Shortly after this Oration of the king, wherewith he stirred the harts of a number, then the two Legates, being requested of the king for discharge of his conscience,1 to iudge and determine vpon the cause, went to the Queene lying then in the place of Bridewell, and declared to her, how they were deputed iudges indifferent betwene ye king and her, to heare and determine, whether the mariage betwene them stoode with Gods law nor not. When she vnderstoode the cause of their comming, being thereat some thing astonied at ye first, after a litle pausing with her selfe,2 thus she began, answering for her selfe.
- 1The legates talk with the Queen.The legates talke with the Queene.
- 2Ex Edw. Hallo.
Alas my Lord (said she) is it now a question whether I be the kings lawful wife or no, when I have been married to him almost 20. years, and in the mean season never question was made before? Divers Prelates yet being alive, and Lords also,