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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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And admit that I had not foreseen and corrected this escape before, touching the matter of John Marbecke, but that the place still had remained in the book, as it was, that is, that the said John Marbecke, which as yet alive, had then died & suffered with the other 3. the same time at Windsor: yet what gentle or courteous reader, could have therein any just matter to triumph & insult against me, seeing the judicial acts, the records, & registers, yea & the bishops certificate, & also the write of execution remaining yet in Record, sent to the king, did lead me so to say and think? For what man writing histories, who can not be in all places to see all things, but following his records & registers, where in he seeth the said Marbecke to be judged and condemned ⟨p. 1223⟩with the rest, would otherwise write or think, but that also he was executed and burned in the same company?
And admitte that I had not foresene and corrected thys escape before, touching the matter of Iohn Marbecke, but that the place stil had remained in the boke, as it was, that is, that the sayd Iohn Marbecke, whyche as yet aliue, had then died & suffred wt the other 3. the same time at Wyndesore: yet what gētle or courteous reader, could haue therin any iust matter to triumph & insult against me, seing the iudiciall acts, the records, & registers, yea & the bishops certificate, & also the write of execution remaining yet in Recorde, sent to the king, did lead me so to say and thinke? For what man wryting histories, who can not be in all places to se al things, but folowing his records & registers, wher in he seeth the said Marbecke to be iudged and condemned ⟨p. 1223⟩with the rest, would otherwise write or thinke, but that also he was executed and burned in the same company?
But now I correct and reform the same again, and first of all other, I find the fault, and yet am I found fault withal. I correct my self, and yet am I corrected of other. I warn the Reader of the truth,