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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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A note of the just punishment of God upon the cruel Cardinal Archbishop of S. Andrews, named Beaton.
A note of the iust punishment of God vpon the cruell Cardinall Archbishop of S. Andrewes, named Beaton.
IT was not long after the martyrdom of the blessed man of God M. George Wisehart aforesaid, who was put to ⟨p. 1272⟩death by David Beaton, the bloody Archbishop and Cardinal of Scotland,1 as is above specified, an. 1546. the first day of March, but the said David Beaton Archbishop of S. Andrews, by the just revenge of Gods mighty judgement, was slain within his own Castle of S. Andrews by the hands of one Lech & other Gentlemen, who by the Lord stirred up, brake in suddenly into his Castle upon him, and in his bed murdered him the same year, the last day of May, crying out: Alas, alas, slay me not, I am a Priest. And so like a butcher he lived,2 and like a butcher he dyed, & lay 7. months and more unburied, & at last like a carrion buried in a dunghill. an. 1546. Maij ult. Ex histor. impressa.
IT was not long after the martyrdom of the blessed man of God M. George Wisehart aforesayd, who was put to ⟨p. 1272⟩death by Dauid Beaton, the bloudy Archbishop and Cardinall of Scotland,1 as is aboue specified, an. 1546. the first day of March, but the sayd Dauid Beaton Archbyshop of S. Andrewes, by the iust reuenge of Gods mighty iudgement, was slaine within his owne Castle of S. Andrewes by ye hands of one Lech & other Gētlemē, who by the Lord stirred vp, brake in sodenly into his Castle vpon him, and in his bed murthered him the same yeare, the last daye of May, crying out: Alas, alas, sley me not, I am a Prieste. And so like a butcher he liued,