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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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Praesbyteri verò qui relictis uxoribus Deo & sac is ordinibus seruire elegerunt, quadraginta dies ab officio cellantes pro see vicarios habebunt, iniuncta eis poenitentia secundum quod Episcopis eorum visum fuerit.
Praesbyteri verò qui relictis vxoribꝰ Deo & sac is ordinibus seruire elegerunt, quadraginta dies ab officio cellantes pro se vicarios habebunt, iniuncta eis poenitentia secundum quod Episcopis eorum visum fuerit.
And yet this unreasonable statute of Anselm, so diligently defenced with sharp censures and penalties, had no great speed,1 neither in the life time of the said Anselm, nor long after his death, but that divers priests notwithstanding kept still their wives, or that after his death, they returned to their wives again, through the sufferance of the famous & learned king named then Henry Bewclark who something stayed the opportunity of this monkish prelate, and willed that priests should keep both their wives and their Churches, as they did before in Lanfranc's days.
And yet this vnreasonable statute of Anselme, so diligently defensed with sharpe censures and penalties, had no great speed,1 neither in the lyfe tyme of the said Anselm, nor long after his death, but that diuers priests notwithstanding kept still their wiues, or that after his death, they returned to their wiues agayne, through the sufferance of the famous & learned king named then Henry Bewclark who somthing stayed the oportunitie of this mōkish prelate, and willed that priests should kepe both their wyues and theyr Churches, as they did before in Lanfrankes dayes.
- 1The cruel law of Anselm took no great place.The cruell law of Anselme tooke no great place.