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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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Whereupon the said Lord Cromwell wrote speedily his letters unto the Commissioners, declaring the kings majesties pleasure and commandment was, that the arrant traitor and heretic Brooke,1 with a dozen or twenty complices, should with their accusers be immediately sent over, that here in England they might receive their judgement, and there at Calais to the great terror of like offenders hereafter suffer according to their demerits.
Whereupon the said Lord Cromwell wrote speedely his letters vnto the Commissioners, declaring the kings maiesties pleasure and commaundement was, that the arrant traitour and hereticke Brooke,1 with a dosen or twentye complices, should with their accusers be immediately sent ouer, that heere in Englād they might receiue their iudgement, and there at Calice to the great terrour of like offenders hereafter suffer according to their demerites.
- 1The Lord Cromwels Letters to the Commissioners at Calais.The Lord Cromwels Letters to the Commissioners at Calice.
Now by the time that the said Commissioners had received these letters, they had made out precepts for 8. or 9. score honest men more to be cast in prison. But these letters so appalled them, that they staid, and afterward sent no moe to ward. But making then as diligent inquisition as was possible, to have found some worthy matter against those before named, whereby there might have been some colour, both of the Counsels grievous complaints, and of the Commissioners rigorous dealing, when no such thing could fall out, because they would be assured that they should not go unpunished, they first banished them the town and Marches of Calais with a Trumpet blown, under pain of death, for a hundred year and a day if that one day had been left out, all had been marred, and then sent them back to prison, staying them there upon hope that the L. Cromwell should come into captivity sooner then he did.