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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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Then spake he to the Sheriff and said, M. Sheriff I require you on Gods behalf,1 to have me commended unto the kings grace, & to show him that I require of his grace these five requests: First that where his grace hath received into his hands, all the goods and substance of the Abbeys. Then the Sheriff desired him to stop there.2 He answered, Master Sheriff I warrant you I will speak no harm, for I know it is well done that all such superstition be clean taken away, and the kings grace hath well done in taking it away. But his grace is made a whole king,3 and obeyed in his Realm as a king (which neither his father nor grandfather, neither his ancestors that reigned before him ever had) & that through the preaching of us and such other wretches as we are, which always have applied our whole studies, and given our selves for the setting forth of the same, and this is now our reward. Well it maketh no matter. Now he reigneth among you: I pray God long may he live and reign among you. Would to God it might please his grace to bestow the said goods or some of them, to the comfort of his poor subjects, which surely have great need of them.
Then spake he to the Shiriffe and sayd, M. Shiriffe I require you on Gods behalfe,1 to haue me cōmēded vnto the kynges grace, & to shewe him that I require of his grace these fiue requestes: First that where his grace hath receaued into his handes, all the goodes and substaunce of the Abbeyes. Then the Shiriffe desired him to stop there.2 He aunswered, Maister Shiriffe I warrant you I will speake no harme, for I know it is well done yt all such superstition be cleane taken away, and the kyngs grace hath well done in takyng it awaye. But his grace is made a whole kyng,3 and obeyed in his Realme as a kyng (which neither his father nor graūdfather, neither his aunceters that raigned before him euer had) & that through the preachyng of vs and such other wretches as we are, which alwayes haue applied our whole studies, and giuen our selues for the settyng forth of the same, and this is now our reward. Well it maketh no matter. Now he raigneth among you: I pray God long may he liue and raigne among you. Would to God it might please his grace to bestow the sayd goodes or some of them, to the comfort of his poore subiectes, which surely haue great neede of them.