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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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Item, for that he hard William Tilseworth say, that Images of saints were but stocks and stones and dead things: and that he taught the same to his brother Richard, and concealed the words of William Tilsewoorthe. Item, for that he partly believed Thomas Mastall, teaching him that the true presence of Christ was not in the Sacrament: and likewise of Images and Pilgrimage. Item, for receiving the Communion at Easter without shrift. &c. Robert Bartlet was brought to examination, & caused by his oath to detect | Rich. Bartlet his brother. | The crime wherein Robert Bartlet appeached his brother Rich. was this, because he said, his brother Rich. had been much conversant with Thurstane Litlepage,1 & had learned of him the counsels and secrets of those men. Also, that he had learned of him, some of the Epistle of S. James thus beginning: James the servant of God, to the twelve kinds. &c. | Isabel Bartlet, his wife. | The cause wherein Robert Bartlet did detect his wife, was this,2 that when the Bishops servant was come for her husband, she uttered these words, saying: Alas, he was now an undone man, and she but a dead woman.3 Furthermore, the said R. being demanded of the Bishop, whether he knew Isabel his wife to be of the sect of heretics before he married her, said yea. Being asked again, if she had not ben of that sect, whether then he would have married her, he granted the same likewise. The foresaid Ro Bartlet was brought to examination, & caused by his oath to detect | Agnes Wellis, his sister. | Furthermore, the said R. Bart. detected his own sister, in that he had twice instructed her not to worship Images, and also had taught her in the Epistle of S. James. Elizabeth Dean, wife of Richard Dean, of Westwicam. Emma Tilseworth, wife of Will-Tilseworth. William Grinder, & his wife. John Scrivener. Alexandera▪ Mastal. w. Tilsworth Thurstane Litlepage. John Bartlet his brother. | The said Robert Bart. detected also these to be of the number of Known men: for that they resorted many times together, reading and conferring among themselves, & talking against worshipping of Images, & Pilgrimage: And if any came in amongst them, which was not of their side, then they would say no more, but keep all silence. &c. ⟨p. 822⟩