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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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Book 8 › *The oath of the Commissioners.Book 8 › *The oth of the Commissioners.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
*The oath of the Commissioners.
*The oth of the Commissioners.
1YE shall swear, that ye to your cunning, wit and power, shall truly and indifferently execute the authority to you given by the kings Commission, made for correction of heretics & other offenders, mentioned in the same Commission without any favour, affection, corruption: dread or malice, to be borne to any person or persons, as God you help, and all Saints▪
1YE shall swere, that ye to your cunning, witte and power, shall truely and indifferently execute the authority to you geuen by the kinges Commission, made for correction of heretickes & other offenders, mentioned in the same Commission without any fauor, affection, corruption: dread or malice, to be borne to any person or persons, as God you helpe, and all Sayntes▪
- 1The oath given to the Commissioners, to enquire upon true Christians.The othe geuen to the Commissioners, to enquire vppon true Christians.
And thus much briefly collected out of the act and Originals,1 which more largely are to be seen in the statute an. 31 Reg. Henr. 8. concerning the six Articles, which otherwise for the bloody cruelty thereof are called the whip with six strings, set forth after the death of Queen Anne, and of good John Lambert, devised by the cruelty of the Bishops. but specially of the Bishop of Wint. and at length also subscribed by K. Henry. But herein, as in many other parts moe, the crafty policy of that Bishop appeared, who like a lurking Serpent, most slyly watching his time, if he had not taken the king coming out upon a sudden, there where it was (I spare here to report as I heard it) it was thought and affirmed by certain, which then were pertaining to the king, that Winchester had not obtained the matter so easily to be subscribed as he did.