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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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If credit should be given to old narrations, these iij. pages *or valleys first suffered great servitude & thraldom under cruel rulers or governors: In so much that the governor of Siluania *required of one of the inhabitants, a yoke of his Oxen: which when the towns man denied to give him, the ruler sent his servant by force to take his Oxen from him. This when the servant was about to do, cometh the poor mans son, & cutteth of one of his fingers, & upon the same avoided. The governor hearing this, taketh the poor man, and putteth out his eyes.
If credite should be geuen to old narrations, these iij. pages *or valleyes first suffered great seruitude & thraldome vnder cruell rulers or gouernours: In so much that the gouernour of Siluania *required of one of the inhabitaūtes, a yoke of his Oxen: which when the townes man denyed to geue him, the ruler sent his seruaunt by force to take his Oxen frō him. This whē the seruaūt was about to do, cōmeth the poore mans sonne, & cutteth of one of his fingers, & vpō the same auoyded. The gouernour hearing this, taketh the poore man, and putteth out his eyes.
- *Note that the Pages in Suitzerland are for the most part situate in valleys.Note that the Pages in Suitzerland are for the most part situate in valleyes.
- *Extortion in rulers.
Another time in the said Syluania, as the good man of the house was absent abroad,1