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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 tragical story of certain Friars in France in the City of Orleans. an. 1534.
¶A tragicall story of certayne Friers in Fraunce in the City of Orleance. an. 1534.
The Mayors wife of the City of Orleans provided in her will to be buried without any pomp or solemnity.1 For when any departeth there, in some places the Bellmen are hired to go about the City, and in places most frequented to assemble the people with the sound of the bell, & there to declare the names and the titles of those parties deceased, also where and when they shall be buried,2 exhorting the people to pray for them. And when the Coarse is carried forth, the most part of the begging friars go withal to the church, with many torches and tapers carried before them, and the more pomp & solemnity is used, the more is the concourse of people. But this woman (as I said) would have none of all this gear done for her. Wherefore her husband which loved her well, followed her mind herein, and gave unto these greedy cormorants the friars, which waiting for their pray (in whose Church she was buried besides her father and her grandfather) six crowns for a reward: whereas they gaped for a great deal more. And afterward when he cut down a wood and sold it, the friars craving to have part thereof freely and without money, he denied them, this took they wonderful grievously, and where as they loved him not before, they devised now a way to be revenged, saying that his wife was damned everlastingly.