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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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Then fire was set to the wood, and with loud voice he called unto God, knocking on his breast, and holding up [figure] ⟨p. 1233⟩1his hands so long as remembrance would serve, and so ended his life, the people giving shouts, & praising God, with great admiration of his constancy, being so simple & unlettered.
Then fire was set to the wood, and with loud voyce he called vnto God, knocking on his brest, and holding vppe [figure] ⟨p. 1233⟩1his handes so long as remembraunce would serue, and so ended his life, the people geuing shoutes, & praysing God, with great admiration of his constancy, being so simple & vnlettered.
- 1The constant Martyrdom of Kerby.The constant Martyrdome of Kerby.
On the Gang Monday, an. 1546. about ten of the clock,1 Roger Clarke of Mendelsham was brought out of prison and went on foot to the gate, called Southgate in Bury, and by the way the Procession met with them, but he went on, and would not bow cap nor knee, but with most vehement words rebuked that idolatry and superstition,2 the Officers being much offended. And without the gate, where as was the place of execution, the stake being ready, and the wood lying-by, he came and kneeled down, and said Magnificat in the English tongue, making as it were a Paraphrase upon the same: Wherein he declared how that the blessed virgin Mary, who might as well rejoice in pureness, as any other, yet humbled her self to her Saviour.