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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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Albeit I deny not but before the time also of Anselmus, both Odo, and after him Dunstan Archb. of Canterbury, and Ethelwold B. of Winchester, and Oswald B. of Worcester in the days of King Edgar, anno. 963. as they were all Monks themselves, so were they great doers against the marriage of priests, placing in Monks in Churches and Colleges,1 and putting out the married Priests as ye may read before pag. 153. Yet notwithstanding neither was that in many Churches, and also the priests then married, were not constrained to leave their wives, nor their rooms, but only at their own choice. For so writeth Malmesbury in vita Dunstani: Itaque clerici multarum Ecclesiarum, 2data option, ut aut amictum mutarent, aut locis valedicerent, caesar, &c. That is: Therefore divers & sundry clerks of many Churches, being put to their choice, whether to change their weed, or to part from their places, went their ways, &c. So also Elfricus after them (of whom mention was made before) was somewhat busy in setting forward the single life of Priests,3 and Lanfrancus likewise. But yet this restraint of Priests lawful marriage was never publicly established for a law here in the Church of England, before the coming of Anselm in the days of William Rufus, & king Henry 1. writing in these words: Boldly I command by the authority which I have by my Archbishopric, 4not only within my Archbishopric, but also throughout England, that all Priests that keep women, shall be deprived of their Churches, and all ecclesiastical benefices, &c. As ye may read more at large before, page. 196. which was much about the same time when as Hildebrand also at Rome began to attempt the same matter, as before hath ben showed: & also besides him were other Popes mo, as Innocent the 3. Pope Nicholas the 2. and Calixtus the 2. by whom the act against Priests marriage was brought at length to his full perfection, and so hath continued ever since.
Albeit I deny not but before the time also of Anselmus, both Odo, and after him Dunstane Archb. of Canterbury, and Ethelwold B. of Winchester, and Oswold B. of Worcester in the dayes of King Edgar, anno. 963. as they were all Monkes themselues, so were they great doers against the marriage of priests, placing in Monkes in Churches and Colledges,