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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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When the husbandmen understood it, they would have returned back again, refusing to do such a detestable and horrible deed. The Presidents with most bitter threats, kept them in obedience,1 & to the intent they should be the more courageous, they gave them three barrels of Hamborow beer to drink.
When the husbandmē vnderstood it, they would haue returned backe agayne, refusing to do such a detestable and horrible deede. The Presidentes with most bitter threates, kept them in obedience,1 & to the intent they should be the more couragious, they gaue them three barrels of Hamborow beere to drinke.
- 1A drunken murder.A droncken murther.
About midnight they came in armour to Meldorphe. The Jacobins and Monks prepared torches for them, that Henry should not slip away suddenly in the dark. They had also with them a false betrayer, named Hennegus,1 by whose treason they had perfect knowledge of all things. With great violence they burst into the house of the Parish Priest, breaking & spoiling all things, as the manner of that drunken people is. If they found either gold or silver, they took it away. When they had spoiled all things, they violently fell upon the Parish Priest, & with great noise cried out, kill the thief, kill the thief.2 Some of them took him by the hear of the head and pulled him out into the dirt, forcing him to go with them as prisoner: other some cried out, saying that the Parish Priest was not to be meddled withal, for they had no commission to take him. After they had satisfied their lust upon the Parish Priest, with great rage and fury they ran upon Henry, and drawing him naked out of his bed,