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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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Suspending and hallowing of Churchyards gainful to the Pope, and chargeable to the people.
Suspending and halowing of Churchyardes gainfull to the Pope, and chargeable to the people.
Furthermore, if it happen that 2. or more do fight without any weapon in a Churchyard, only with their fists,1 or by the hear, that there be never so little blood shed, by & by the clergy have recourse to enterdiment, & do not suffer any more Christen burials there to be done, before that all the citizens with great pomp & expenses do cause it to be consecrated & hallowed again with no less charge, then when at the first, of a profane place, it was hallowed for burial: all which things do redound to the charges & costs of the laity. And though the churches or chapels be never so little ⟨p. 861⟩which are so hallowed: yet the suffragans do burden and oppress the simple poor households, be they never so bare or needy, with superfluous expenses, and require moreover gifts of the people, which is not for their ease to give.
FUrthermore, if it happē that 2. or more do fight without any weapon in a Churchyard, onely with their fists,1 or by the heare, that there be neuer so litle bloud shed, by & by ye clergy haue recourse to enterdiment, & doe not suffer any more Christen burials there to be done, before that all the citizens with great pomp & expenses do cause it to be consecrated & halowed againe with no lesse charge, then when at the first, of a prophane place, it was halowed for burial: all which things do redound to the charges & costes of the laity. And though the churches or chapels be neuer so litle