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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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Book 8 › Persecution in the town of Calais.Book 8 › Persecution in the towne of Calice.
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.
How sayest thou therefore? thou knowest my Lord of Canterburies grace here is a good gentle Lord, and would be loth thou shouldst be cast away. Tell me, canst thou be content to submit thy self unto him, and to stand unto such order, as he and we shall take in this matter? How sayest thou man? speak. The poor man therewith falling upon his knees, and shedding tears, answered, speaking to the Archbishop of Canterbury in this wise: My good lord, for Christs sake be good unto me, and I refer my self unto your graces order, do with me what you please.
How sayest thou therefore? thou knowest my Lorde of Canterburies grace here is a good gentle Lord, and would be lothe thou shouldst be cast away. Tell me, canst thou be cōtent to submit thy selfe vnto him, and to stand vnto such order, as he and we shall take in this matter? How sayest thou man? speake. The poore man therewith falling vpon his knees, and sheeding teares, aunswered, speaking to the Archbishop of Canterbury in this wise: My good lord, for Christes sake be good vnto me, and I referre my selfe vnto your graces order, do with me what you please.
The Bishop of Canterbury, considering what danger he was ready to fall in, & pitying the same (though the simplicity of the man was so great,1 that he perceived it not) said, nay Rafe Hare, stand up, & advise thy self, and commit not thy self to me, for I am but one man, and in Commission but as the other are, so that it lieth in me to do nothing. But if thou do commit thy self unto all, then thou committest thy self unto the law, and the law is ordained to do every man right. Go to Ralph Hare, said Winchester, submit thy self to my Lord and us: it is best for thee to do so. Whereupon he fell upon his knees again, and said: My Lords and masters all, I submit my self wholly unto you.2 And therewithal a book was holden him, and an oath given him to be obedient unto them, and to all Ecclesiastical laws: and straightway he was enjoined to abjure, and to bear a fagot three several days, & moreover, the poor man lost the living that he had at Calais.