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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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And therefore forbidding here under pain of the greater curse and excommunication, loosing of their dignities, whether they be Ecclesiastical or temporal, and to be deprived and made uncapable of all regular orders & privileges, given and granted by the Sea Apostolic, of what condition so ever they be: also of loosing their liberties to hold general schools, to read and profess any science and faculty: of loosing also their tenures and feo•ements, and of inability for ever to recover the same again, or any other: moreover, under pain of secluding from christian burial, yea and of treason also, and incurring such pains and punishments expressed in the law, as are due for all heretics and fautors of the same: we charge and command all and singular Christen people, both men and women, as well of the laity, as of the Clergy, both secular & also regular, of what order so ever they be, and briefly all other persons, of what degree or condition so ever they be, or in what dignity so ever they are placed, either ecclesiastical or temporal: as first the cardinals of the holy church of Rome, Patriarchs, Primates Archbishops, Bishops, with the prelates and heads of the churches Patriarchal, Metropolitan,1 or other cathedral Collegiate, and other small and inferior churches: to all clerks and other persons ecclesiastical, as Abbots, Priors, or ministers general or particular, brethren or religious men, exempt and not exempt: also Universities of schools, and all other, as well secular priests, as regular, and religious persons of all orders, yea of the begging friars also. Item, kings, Electors of the Imperial crown, princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Barons, captains, conductors and servitors, and all Officers, Judges, Notaries, whether they be ecclesiastical or secular: commonalties, universities, dominions, cities, castles, lordships, and places, with the inhabitants of the same: and finally all other persons whatsoever, ecclesiastical or regular, dispersed in whatsoever places through the whole *universal world, or which shall be hereafter dispersed, but especially in high Almany, that they shall not presume publicly or privately under any manner of pretence or colour, colourably or expressly, or how else soever, to hold, maintain, defend,3 preach, or favour the foresaid errors or any of them, or any such perverse doctrine.