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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 death of Robert Packington.
Among other acts and matters passed and done this present year,1 which is of the Lord 1538. here is not to be silenced the unworthy and lamentable death of Robert Packington, Mercer of London,2 wrought and caused by the enemies of Gods word, and of all good proceedings. The story is this: The said Robert Packington, being a man of substance, and dwelling in Cheapside, used every day at five of the clock, Winter and Summer, to go to prayer at a Church then called S. Thomas of Acres, but now named Mercers Chapel. And one morning amongst all other, being a great misty morning, such as hath seldom bin seen, even as he was crossing the street from his house to the Church, he was suddenly murdered ⟨p. 1131⟩with a gun, which of the neighbours was plainly heard: and by a great number of labourers standing at Supper lane end, he was both seen go forth of his house, and the clap of the gun was heard, but the deed doer was a great while unespied and unknown. Although many in the mean time were suspected, yet none could be found faulty therein. The murderer so covertly was conveyed, till at length by the confession of Doctor Incent Dean of Pauls in his death bed, it was known, and by him confessed, that he himself was the author thereof, by hiring an Italian for lx. crowns or thereabout,3 to do the feat. For the testimony whereof, and also of the repentant words of the said Incent, the names both of them which heard him confess it, and of them which heard the witnesses report it, remain yet in memory, to be produced, if need required.
AMong other actes and matters passed and done thys present yeare,1