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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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After he was bound to the ladder, he was set upright. Then one running unto him, set his halberd for the ladder to lean against (for those countrymen use no common hangman, but every man exerciseth the office without difference) but the ladder slipping away from the point of the halberd, caused that the halberd strake him through the body. Then they cast this good man with ladder and all upon the wood, which tumbling down, light upon the one side. Then John Holmeus ran unto him, & strake him with a mace upon the breast, till he was dead, and stirred no more. Afterward they roasted him upon the coals, for the wood as aftē as it was set on fire, would not burn out. And thus this godly preacher finished his martyrdom,1 which was, ann. 1524. Ex Epist. Mart. Luth.
After he was bound to the ladder, he was set vpright. Then one running vnto him, set his halbard for the ladder to leane against (for those countreymen vse no commō hangman, but euery mā exerciseth the office without difference) but the ladder slipping awaye from the point of the halbard, caused that the halbard strake him through the body. Then they cast this good man with ladder and all vpon the wood, which tumbling downe, light vpon the one side. Then Iohn Holmeus ranne vnto him, & strake him with a mace vpon the brest, till he was dead, and stirred no more. Afterward they rosted him vpon the coles, for the wood as aftē as it was set on fire, would not burne out. And thus this godly preacher finished his martyrdome,1 which was, ann. 1524. Ex Epist. Mart. Luth.
- 1Ex Epist. Mart. Lut.
About the same time, many other godly persons, & such as feared God, for the testimony of the Gospel, were thrown into the river of Rhene, and into other rivers, where their bodies afterward were found,1