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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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Hereunto also pertaineth the example of friar Bartley,1 who wearing still his friars coal after the suppression of religious houses, Cromwell coming thorough Pauls churchyard, and espying him in Rheine's his shop, yea said he, will not that coal of yours be left of yet? And if I hear by one a clock that this apparel be not changed, thou shalt be hanged immediately for example to all other. And so putting his coal away, he never durst wear it after.
Hereunto also pertaineth the example of frier Bartley,1 who wearing still his friers coule after the suppression of religious houses, Cromwell commyng thorough Paules churchyard, and espieng him in Rheines his shop, yea said he, will not that coule of yours be left of yet? And if I heare by one a clocke that this apparel be not changed, thou shalt be hanged immediatly for example to al other. And so putting his coule away, he neuer durst weare it after.
- 1Friar Bartley caste•• away […].Frier Bartley caste•• away 〈…〉.
If the same Lord Cromwell which could not abide this serving man so disfigured in his hair, were now in these our days alive with the same authority, which then he had, and saw these new fangled fashions of attire, used here amongst us both of men and women, I suppose verily, that neither these monstrous ruffs, nor these prodigious hose, and prodigal or rather hyperbolical barbarous breeches (which seem rather like barrels then breeches) would have any place in England. In which unmeasurable excess of vesture, this I have to marvel: first how these serving men, which commonly have nothing else but their wages, and that so slender and bare, can maintain such slops, so huge and so sumptuous,