A67926:4146
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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These foresaid yeomen of the guard, when they came against the kings Barge, they durst not pass by towards Pauls wharf, least they should be espied, & therefore entreated the Secretary to go with them to the Bearbaiting, and they would find the means being of the guard to make room and to see all the pastime, the Secretary perceiving no other remedy, assented thereto. When the wherry came nigh the multitude of the boats,1 they with poleaxes got in the wherry so far, that being compassed with many other wherries and boats there was no refuge if the Bear should break loose and come upon them, as in very deed within one pater noster while, the Bear brake lose and came in to the boat where the yeomen of the guard were and the said Secretary. The guard forsook the wherry and went into an other barge, one or two of them leaping short, and so fell into the water. The Bear and the dogs so shaked the wherry wherein the Secretary was, that the boat being full of water, sunk to the ground, & being also as it chanced an ebbing tide, he there sate in the end of the wherry up to the middle in water. To whom came the Bear and all the dogs. The Bear seeking as it were aide and succour of him, came back with his hinder parts upon him and so rushing upon him, the book was loosed from his girdle and fell into the Thames out of his reach.
These foresayd yeomen of the gard, when they came agaynst the kinges Barge, they durst not passe by towards Paules wharfe, least they should be espyed, & therfore entreated the Secretary to goe with them to the Bearebayting, and they would finde the meanes being of the garde to make rowme and to see all the pastime, the Secretary perceiuing no other remedy, assēted therto. Whē the whirry came nye the multitude of the boats,1 they with pollaxes got in the whirry so farre, that being compassed with many other whirryes and boates there was no refuge if the Beare should breake loose and come vpon them, as in very deede within one pater noster while, the Beare brake lose and came in to the boate where the yeomen of the gard were and the sayd Secretary. The gard forsook the wherry and went into an other barge, one or two of them leaping short, and so fell into the water. The Beare and the dogs so shaked the whirry wherin the Secretary was, that the boate being ful of water, soncke to the ground, & being also as it chaūced an ebbing tide, he there sate in the end of ye whirry vp to ye middle in water. To whō came the Beare and all the dogges. The Beare seking as it were aide and succor of him, came backe with his hinder parts vpon him and so rushing vpō him, the booke was losed frō his girdle and fell into the Thames out of his reach.