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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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Book 7 › ¶The story of Richard Hun.Book 7 › ¶The story of Richard Hunne.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶The story of Richard Hun.
¶The story of Richard Hunne.
There was in the year of our Lord.1 1514. one Richard Hun merchant Taylor, dwelling within the City of London, & freeman of the same, who was esteemed during his life, & worthily reputed and taken, not only for a man of true dealing, and good substance, but also for a good Catholic man. This Richard Hun had a child at nurse in Middlesex in the Parish of S. Mary Matsilon, which dyed:2 by the occasion whereof one Thomas Drifield Clerk, being Parson of the said Parish, sued the said Richard Hun in the spiritual Court for a bearing sheet, which the said Thom. Drifield claimed unjustly to have of the said Hun for a mortuary for Steven Hun, son of the said Richard Hun: which Steven being at nurse in the said Parish, dyed being of the age of .v. weeks and not above. Hun answered him again, that forasmuch as the child had no propriety in the sheet, he therefore neither would pay it, nor the other ought to have it. Whereupon the Priest moved with a covetous desire, & loth to lose his pretended right, ascited him to appear in the spiritual Court, there to answer the matter. Whereupon the said Rich. Hun being troubled in the spiritual Court, was forced to seek counsel of the learned in the law of this land, & pursued a writ of Premunire against the said Thomas Drifield, and other his aiders, counsellors, proctors, and adherents, as by the process thereof is yet to be seen. Which when the rest of the Priestly order heard of, greatly disdaining that any lay man should so boldly enterprise such a matter against any of them, & fearing also, that if they should now suffer this Priest to be condemned at the suit of Hun, there would be thereby ever after, a liberty opened unto all others of the laity to do the like with the rest of the Clergy in such like cases: they straightways, both to stop this matter, and also to be revenged of him, for that he had already done, sought all means they possibly could, how to ⟨p. 806⟩