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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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¶Of the Bible in English printed in the large volume, and of Edmund Boner preferred to the Bishopric of London, by the means of the Lord Cromwell.
¶Of the Bible in English printed in the large volume, and of Edmund Boner preferred to the Bishoprike of London, by the meanes of the Lord Cromwell.
About the time and year, when Edmund Boner bishop of Hereford, & ambassador resident in France, began first to be nominate & preferred by the means of the lord Cromwell to the bishopric of London:1 which was, anno. 1540. it happened that the said Thomas Lord Cromwell and Earl of Essex, procured of the king of england his gracious letters to the French king to permit and licence a subject of his to imprint the Bible in English within the university of Paris because paper was there more meet and apt to be had for the doing thereof, then in the realm of England, & also that there were more store of good workmen for the ready dispatch of the same.2 And in like manner at the same time the said king wrote unto his ambassador, who then was Edmund Boner Bishop of Hereford lying in Paris, that he should aid and assist the doers thereof in all their reasonable suits. The which Bishop outwardly showed great friendship to the merchants that were the imprinters of the same, and moreover did divers and sundry times call and command the said persons, to be in manner daily at his table both dinner and supper,3 and so much rejoiced in the workmanship of the said Bible, that he himself would visit the imprinters house, where the same bibles were printed, & also would take part of such dinners as the Englishmen there had, and that to his cost, which, as it seemed he little weighed. And further the said Boner was so fervent that he caused the said Englishmen to put in print a new testament in english & latin,4