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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 effect of this Sentence is as much to mean in english: That Pope Clement the vij. with the consent of his other brethren the Cardinals assembled together in his Consistory,1 sitting there in the throne of (A) Justice, calling upon the name (B) of Christ, and having God only before his (C) eyes, doth pronounce, define, & declare in the cause & causes between his dear daughter Katherine Queen of England appealing to the sea Apostolic, & his beloved (D) son Henry the eight, king of England, concerning the validity & invalidity of the Matrimony heretofore contracted between them, and yet depending in the Consistory court of the said pope Clement: that the said Matrimony always hath (E) and still doth stand firm & Canonical, & that the issue proceeding, or which shall proceed of the same, standeth, and shall stand lawful and legitimate: and that the foresaid Henry king of England, is and shall be bound and obstrict to the Matrimonial society and cohabitation with the said Lady Katherine his lawful wi•e & Queen, to hold and maintain her with such love and princely honour, as becometh a loving husband, and his kingly honour to do. Also that the said Henry king of England, if he shall refuse so to perform and accomplish all and singular the premisses, in all effectual manner, is to be condemned and compelled hereunto by all remedies of (F)the law, & enforced, according as we do condemn, compel and enforce him so to do, providing that all molestations and refusals whatsoever, made by the said king Henry against the said Queen Katherine, upon the invalidity of the said Marriage, to have been and to be judged unlawful and unjust: and the said king from henceforth for ever to hold his peace, and not to be heard in any Court hereafter (G)to speak touching the invalidity of the said matrimony: like as we also do here will and charge him to hold his peace, and do put him to perpetual silence herein: Willing moreover & adjudging the said king henry to be condemned and presently here do condemn him in the expenses on the said Queen Katherines behalf here in our Court, exposed & employed in traversing the foresaid cause, the valuation of which expenses, we reserve to our selves to be limited and taxed, as we shall judge meet hereafter. We do so pronounce. I. At Rome in our Apostolical palace publicly in our Consistory. 23. Mart. M.D.XXXIIII. Blosius.