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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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When D. London had ben in Windsor a while among his catholic brethren, & learned what Testwood was,1 & also of Symons, who showed him our Ladies nose (as he called it) what a sort of heretics were in the town and about the same, and how they increased daily by reason of a naughty priest, called Anth. Person, he was so maliciously bent against them, that he gave himself wholly to the devil to do mischief. And to bring his wicked purpose about, he conspired with the foresaid Symons (a meet clerk to serve such a curate) and other of like sore, how they might compass the matter, first to have all the Archheretics (as they termed them) in Windsor & thereabout, indicted of heresy,2 and so to proceed further. They had a good ground to work upon, (as they thought) which was the six articles, whereupon they began to build and practise thus. First they drew out certain notes of Antho. Persons sermons, which he had preached against the sacrament of the altar, & their popish ⟨p. 1214⟩Mass.3 That done, they put in sir Phillip Hobby with the good Lady his wife, sir Thomas Cardine, M. Edmund Harman, M. Tho. Weldon, with Snowball and his wife, as chief aiders, helpers, & maintainers of Anth. Person. Also they noted D. Haines Dean of Exeter and a Prebendary of Windsor, to be a common receiver of all suspected persons. They wrote also the names of all such as commonly haunted Anthony Persons sermons, & of all such as had the Testament, and favoured the Gospel, or did but smell thereof.
When D. London had ben in Windsore a while among his catholike brethren, & learned what Testwood was,1 & also of Symons, who shewed him our Ladies nose (as he called it) what a sort of heretikes were in the towne and about the same, and how they increased daily by reason of a naughty priest, called Anth. Person, he was so maliciously bent against thē, that he gaue himselfe wholy to the deuill to do mischief. And to bring his wicked purpose about, he conspired wt the foresaid Symōs (a meet clerk to serue such a curate) and other of like sore, how they might cōpasse the matter, first to haue all the Archheretikes (as they termed thē) in Windsore & thereabout, indicted of heresie,