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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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Besides these vj. Articles in this foresaid Act concluded, there was also another constitution annexed withal, not without the advise (as may seem) of the Lord Cromwell, which was this:1 that Priests and Ministers of the Church, seeing now they would needs themselves be bound from all Matrimony, should therefore by law likewise be bound to such honesty and continency of life, that carnally they should use & accustom no manner of woman married or single, by way of adultery or fornication: the breach whereof, for the first time, was to forfeit goods, & to suffer imprisonment at the Kings pleasure: and for the second ⟨p. 1177⟩time, being duly convicted, it was made felony as the other were.
Besides these vj. Articles in this foresaide Acte concluded, there was also another constitution annexed withall, not without the aduise (as may seeme) of the Lord Cromwell, which was this:1 that Priestes and Ministers of the Church, seing now they would needes thēselues be bound from all Matrimony, should therefore by law likewise be bound to such honesty and continencie of life, that carnally they should vse & accustome no maner of woman maried or single, by way of aduoutrie or fornication: the breache whereof, for the first tyme, was to forfaite goodes, & to suffer imprisonment at the Kings pleasure: and for the second ⟨p. 1177⟩time, being duely conuicted, it was made felonie as the other were.
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In this constitution, if the Lord Cromwell and other good men of the Parliament might have had their will, there is no doubt, but the first crime of these concubinary Priests, as well as the second, had had the same penalty, as the other vj. Articles had and should have been punished with death. But Steven Gardiner with his fellow Bishops, who then ruled all the roast, so basted this extraordinary Article with their accustomed shifts, that if they were taken and duly convict for their not castè nor cautè, at first time it was but forfeit of goods. Also for the second conviction or attainder, they so provided that the next year following, that punishment and pain of death by Act of Parliament,