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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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Whereupon it happened the same year of our Lord 1509. after this dissension between the Dominic Friars,1 & the Franciscans, that certain of the Dominickes thinking by subtle sleight to work in the peoples heads,2 that which they durst not achieve with open preaching, devised a certain Image of the Virgin, so artificially wrought, that the Friars by privy gins made it to stir, & to make gestures, to lament, to complain, to weep, to groan, & to give answers to them that asked: insomuch that the people ⟨p. 798⟩therewith were brought in a marvellous persuasion, till at length the fraud being espied,3 the Friars were taken, condemned, and burned at Berne, the year above mentioned. 1509. Ex Peucer. Sebast. Munstero, Carrion, & alijs. In the Centuries of John Bale, I find their names to be Joannes Vetter, Franciscus Uliscus, Stephanus Bolizhorst, and Henricus Steinegger.
Whereupon it happened the same yeare of our Lorde 1509. after this dissention betwene the Dominike Friers,1 & the Franciscanes, that certaine of the Dominickes thinking by subtile sleight to worke in the peoples heades,2 that which they durst not atchieue with opē preaching, deuised a certaine Image of the Uirgine, so artificially wroughte, that the Friers by priuie gins made it to stirre, & to make gestures, to lament, to complaine, to weepe, to grone, & to geue answers to them that asked: in somuch that the people ⟨p. 798⟩therwith were brought in a maruelous perswasion, til at length the fraude being espied,3 the Friers were taken, condemned, and burned at Berne, the yere aboue mentioned. 1509. Ex Peucer. Sebast. Munstero, Carione, & alijs. In the Centuries of Iohn Bale, I finde their names to be Ioannes Vetter, Franciscus Vliscus, Stephanus Bolizhorst, and Henricus Steinegger.