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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 death and Martyrdom of Damlyp.
The death and Martyrdome of Damlyp.
The day before his execution, came unto him one M. Mote,1 then person of our Lady Church of Calais, saying: your four quarters shall be hanged at four parts of the town. And where shall my head be, said Damlip? Upon the Lantern gate, said Mote. Then Damlip answered, Then shall I not need to provide for my burial. At his death, Sir Rafe Ellerker Knight, then knight Marshall there, would not suffer the innocent & godly man, to declare either his faith, or the cause he died for, but said to the executioner, dispatch the knave, have done. For sir Will. Mote appointed there to preach, declared to the people how he had been a sower of seditious doctrine, and albeit he was for the pardoned by the general pardon, yet he was condemned for being a traitor against the king. To the which when Adam Damlip would have replied & purged himself, the foresaid Sir Rafe Ellerker would not suffer him to speak a word, but commanded him to be had away. And so most meekly,2 patiently, and joyfully, the blessed and innocent Martyr took his death, sir Rafe Elerker saying, that he would not away before he saw the traitors hart out. But shortly after the said Sir Rafe Ellerker in a skirmish or road between the Frenchmen and us, at Boulogne was among other slain.3 Whose only death sufficed not his enemies, but after they had stripped him stark naked, they cut off his privy members, and cut the hart out of his body, and so left him a terrible example to all bloody and merciless men. For no cause was known, why they showed such indignation against the said sir Rafe Ellerker, more then against the rest, but that it is written: Faciens justitias Dominus & judicia omnibus iniuria pressis.
The daye before his execution, came vnto hym one M. Mote,