A67926:4248
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This done, I laid a side my books safe, folded up M. Garrets gown and hood, and laid them into my press among mine apparel, & so having put on my short gown, shut up my study and chamber doors, and went towards Friswides, to speak with that worthy martyr of God M. Clarke, and others, and to declare unto them what had happened that after noon. But of purpose I went by S. Mary church,1 to go first unto Corpus Christi Colledge, to speak with Diet and Udall, my faithful brethren and fellows in the Lord there. But by chance I met by the way with a brother of ours, one master Eden, fellow of Magdalene College, who, as soon as he saw me, came with a pitiful countenance unto me, saying that we were all undone, for M. Garret was returned again to Oxford, taken the last night in the privy search, and was in prison with the Commissary. I said it was not so. He said it was so. I told him it could not be so, for I was sure he was gone. He answered me and said, I know he was gone with your letters, but he came again yesterday in the even, & was taken in his bed at Radleis this night in the privy search: for (quod he) I heard our Proctor M. Cole say and declare the same this day in our college, to divers of the house. But I told him again, that I was well assured he was now gone, for I spake with him later than either the Proctor or Commissary did, and then I declared the whole matter unto him, how and when he came unto me, and how he went his way, willing him to declare the same unto other our brethren whom he should meet with all, and to give God hearty thanks for his wonderful deliverance, and to pray him also that he would grant him safely to pass away from all his enemies, and told him that I was going unto master Clarke of Friswides, to declare unto him this matter, for I knew, & thought verily that he and divers others there, were then in great sorrow for this matter. Then went I straight to Friswides, and Evensong was begun, and the Dean and the other Canons were there in their grey Amices: they were almost at Magnificat before I came thither,2 I stood at the quier door and heard master Taverner play, and others of the Chapel there sing, with and among whom I my self was wont to sing also, but now my singing and music was turned into sighing and musing.
This done, I laide a side my bookes safe, folded vp M. Garrets gowne and hoode, and laide them into my presse among mine apparel, & so hauing put on my short gowne, shut vp my study and chamber doores, and went towards Friswides, to speake with that worthy martyr of God M. Clarke, and others, and to declare vnto them what hadde happened that after noone. But of purpose I went by S. Mary church,