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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 day & almost the hour appointed being come, the K. being disposed in the after noon to take the air (waited upon with two Gentlemen only of his bed chamber) went into the garden,1 whether the Queen also came, being sent for by the King himself, the three Ladies above named, alone waiting upon her. With whom the king at that time disposed himself▪ to be as pleasant as ever he was in all his life before: When suddenly in the middest of their mirth, the hour determined being come, in cometh the Lord chancellor into the garden with a 40. of the kings guard at his heels,2 with purpose in deed to have taken the Queen together with the 3. Ladies aforesaid, whom they had before purposed to apprehend alone, even then unto the tower. Whom then the king sternly beholding, breaking of his mirth with the Queen, stepping a little a side, called the Chancellor unto him. Who upon his knees spake certain words unto the king, but what they were (for that they were softly spoken, and the King a good pretty distance from the Queen) it is not well known,3 but it is most certain that the kings replying unto him, was knave, for his answer: yea arrant knave, beast, and fool, and with that the king commanded him presently to avaunt out of presence.4 Which words although they were uttered somewhat low, yet were they so vehemently whispered out by the king, that the Queen did easily with her Ladies aforesaid over hear them: which had been not a little to her comfort, i• she had known at that time the whole cause of his coming so perfectly, as after she knew it. Thus departed the L. Chancellor out of the kings presence as he came, with all his train, the whole mould of all his devise being utterly broken.
The day & almost the houre appoynted being come, the K. being disposed in the after noone to take the aire (waited vppon wyth two Gentlemen onely of hys bed chamber) went into the garden,1 whether the Queene also came, being sent for by the Kinge hymselfe, the three Ladies aboue named, alone waiting vppon her. Wyth whom the king at that time disposed himself to be as pleasant as euer he was in all his life before: When sodainly in the middest of theyr myrth, the houre determined being come, in commeth the Lord chauncellour into the garden with a 40. of the kings garde at his heeles,