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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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Divers other Charterhouse monks also o• London were then put in prison, to the number of nine or ten, and in the same prison dyed, for whom we will (the Lord willing) reserve an other place hereafter to entreat of more at large.
Diuers other Charterhouse monks also o• Londō were then put in prison, to the number of nine or tenne, and in the same prison dyed, for whom we will (the Lorde wyllyng) reserue an other place hereafter to intreate of more at large.
In the mean time,1 for so much as the foresaid Cope in his doughty Dialogues, speaking of these nine worthies, doth commend them so highly, and especially the three priors above recited, here by the way I would desire master Cope, simply and directly to answer me to a thing or two that I would put to him, and first, of this John Houghtō that angelical Prior of the Charterhouse, his old companion & acquaintance of whom thus he writeth […] qui cum Joannem illum Houghtonum cogito non tam homi•• […] quàm angelum in humana forma intueri mihi videor, 2cuius eminentes virtutes, divinas dotes, & heroicam animi magnitudinem, nemo unquam poterit satis pro dignitate explicare, &c. By these his own words it must needs be confessed, that the author of these Dialogues, who so ever he was, had well seen and considered the form and personable stature, proportion and shape of his excellent body, with such admiration of his personage, that (as he saith) as oft as he calleth the said John Hughton to mind, it seemeth to him, even as though he saw an angel in the shape and form of a man. Whose eminent virtues moreover, whose divine gifts, and heroical celsitude of mind, no man (saith he) may sufficiently express. &c. And how old was this M. Cope then I would know, when he saw and discerned all this? For as I understand,3