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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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¶The story of William Smith.
¶The story of William Smyth.
Then after Butler, was Sir William Smith, Curate of our Lady Parish in Calais,1 called before them, and charged in a manner with the same heinous errors and pernicious opinions, that were objected against the said Rafe Hare, and thereto was added, that he had spoken and preached against our blessed Lady, against praying to Saints, against doing of good works, and many other like things: and therewithal, one Richard Long, a man of arms of Calais, proved against the said Sir Smith, and the foresaid Brook by an oath taken upon a book, that the said Smith and Brooke did eat flesh together in Lent in the said Brooks house. For a Millers boy, said he, came into Brooks kitchen, and saw half a Lamb lye a roasting at the fire. Where as the truth is, that the said Sir William Smith during all the Lent, came never once within the said Brooks house. And it is as true also, that the said Richard Long, upon a displeasure taken with his wife, went shortly after out of his own house, to the Ju• rie end of the haven at Calais, where desperately he drowned himself,2 not one boy, but many men, women, girls, and boys seeing him miserably taken up again stark dead: all which lamented his pitiful ruin. A terrible example unto all such as are ready to forswear themselves on a book upon malice, or whatsoever other cause it be: a thing in these days over rise every where, and almost no where regarded as it ought to be.
THen after Butler, was Sir William Smith, Curate of our Lady Parish in Calice,