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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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Mention was made a little before, of a parliament begun the 15. day of January, An. 1533. in the which Parliament the commons had put up a Supplication, complaining of the strait dealing of the Clergy in their proceeding Ex officio. 1This complaint, although at the first it seemed not greatly to be tendered of the king, yet in prorogation of the parliament, the time so wrought withal, that the King having more clear understanding of the abuses & enormities of the clergy, and in special of the corrupt authority of the Sea of Rome, provided certain acts against the same: First as concerning the laws, decrees, ordinances and constitutions made and stablished by the pretensed authority of the Bishops of Rome, to the advancement of their worldly glory: that who so did or spake any thing either against their usurped power, or against the said laws, decrees, or constitutions of theirs not approved nor grounded upon holy scripture or else being repugnant to the kings prerogative royal,2 should therefore stand in no danger nor be impeachable of heresy. And likewise touching such constitutions ordinances, & canons provincial or Synodal, which were made in this realm in the convocation of bishops, being either prejudicial to the kings prerogative, or not ratified before by the kings assent, or being otherwise onerous to the king and his subjects, or in any wise repugnant to the laws and statutes of this realm, they▪ 3were committed to the judgment of 32. persons chosen by the king, out of that higher & lower house, to be determined either to stand in strength, or to be abrogate at their discretions: and farther that all the Clergy of this realm submitting themselves to the king should and did promise in verbo Sacerdotij, never hereafter to presume to assemble in their convocations without the kings writ, nor to enact or execute such constitutions without his royal assent. &c. Ex Statut. Henr. 8.
Mention was made a litle before, of a parlamēt begon the 15. day of Ianuary, An. 1533. in the which Parlament the cōmons had put vp a Supplication, complaining of ye strait dealing of the Cleargie in their proceeding Ex officio. 1