A67926:6391
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 copy of the last Articles sent to the Bishop of Winchester. Where as I Steven Bishop of Winchester have been suspected as one that did not approve or allow the kings Majesties proceedings in alteration of certain rites in Religion,1 and was convented before the kings highness Counsel, and admonished thereof, and having certain things appointed for me to do and preach for my declaration, have not done therein as I ought to do, whereby I have deserved his majesties displeasure: I am right so•e therefore. And to the intent it may appear to the world how little I do repine at his highness doings, which be in religion most godly, and to the common wealth most profitable, I do affirm as followeth. 1 First, that the late king of most famous memory king Henry the eight, our late sovereign Lord, justly, and of good reason and ground hath taken away and caused to be suppressed and defaced,2 all monasteries and religious houses, and all conventicles and convents of Monks, Friars, Nuns, Canons, Bonhoms, & other persons called religious, and that the same being so dissolved, the persons therein bound and professed to obedience to a person, place, habit, and other superstitious rites and ceremonies, upon that dissolution and order appointed by the kings majesties authority as supreme head of the church, are clearly released and acquitted of those vows and professions, & at their full liberty as though those unwitty and superstitious vows had never been made.3 2 Item, that any person may lawfully marry without any dispensation from the B. of Rome or any other man, with any person whom it is not prohibited to contract matrimony by the law Levitical. 3 Item, that the vowing and going of pilgrimage to Images, or to the bones and relics of any Saints hath ben superstitiously used and cause of much wickedness and idolatry, and therefore justly abolished by the said late king of famous memory, and the Images and relics so abused, have ben of great and godly considerations defaced and destroyed. 4 Item, that the counterfeiting of S. Nicholas, S. Clement, S. Katherine,4 and S. Edmond by children heretofore brought into the church, was a mere mockery & foolishness, and therefore justly abolished and taken away.