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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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The Procuror general the Emperors Attorney being there,1 left this testimony of him, that he was Homo doctus, pius, & bonus: that is, a learned, a good, and a godly man.
The Procuror generall the Emperours Attourney being there,1 left this testimonie of him, that he was Homo doctus, pius, & bonus: that is, a learned, a good, and a godly man.
- 1Commendation of M. Tyndale, […] were about him.Commendation of M. Tindall, 〈…〉 were about him.
The same morning in which he was had to the fire, he delivered a letter to the keeper of the castle, which the keeper himself brought to the house of the foresaid Pointz in Antwerp, shortly after: which letter, with his examinations & other his disputations, I would might have come to our hands: all which I understand did remain, & yet perhaps do, in the hands of the keepers daughter. For so it is of him reported that as he was in the Castle prisoner, there was much writing, and great disputation to and fro, between him and them of the University of Louvain (which was not past ix. or x. miles from the place where he was prisoner) in such sort, that they all had enough to do, and more then they could well weld, to answer the authorities and testimonies of the Scripture, whereupon he most pithily grounded his doctrine.
The same mornyng in which he was had to the fire, he deliuered a letter to the keeper of the castle, which ye keeper himselfe brought to the house of ye foresayd Pointz in Autwerpe, shortly after: which letter, with his examinatiōs & other his disputations, I would might haue come to our handes: all which I vnderstād did remaine, & yet perhaps doe, in the handes of the keepers daughter. For so it is of him reported that as he was in the Castle prisoner, there was much writyng, and great disputation to and fro, betwene him and them of the Uniuersitie of Louaine (which was not past ix. or x. myles from the place where he was prisoner) in such sorte, that they all had enough to do, and more then they could well weld, to aunswere the authorities and testimonies of the Scripture, whereupō he most pithely grounded his doctrine.