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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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*The Lord Cromwell not forgetting his old friends and benefactors.
*The Lord Cromwell not forgetting his olde frendes and benefactours.
IT is commonly seen, that men advanced once from base degree, to ample dignities do rise also with fortune into such insolency and exaltation of mind,1 that not only they forget themselves what they were, & from whence they came but also cast out of remembrance all their old friends and former acquaintance, which have been to them before beneficial. From which sort of men, how far the courteous condition of this christen Earle did differ, by divers examples it may appear As by a certain poor woman keeping some time a victualling house about Hounslow, to whom the said Lord Cromwell remained in debt for certain old reckonings, to the sum of xl.s. It happened that the L. Cromwell with Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, riding through Cheapside toward the Court, in turning his eye over the way, and there espying this poor woman, brought now in need & misery, eftsoons caused her to be called unto him. Who being come, after certain questions asked of her if she were not such a woman, and dwelling in such a place. At last he demanded, if he were not behind for a certain payment of money between him and her. To whom she with reverent obeisance, confessed that he ought her money for a certain old reckoning which was yet unpaid, whereof she stood now in great necessity, but never durst call upon him nor could come at him for to require her right. Then the L. Cromwell sending the poor woman home to his hou•e▪ and one of his servants withal,