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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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¶The lamentable martyrdom of John Clerk of Melden in France.
¶The lamentable martyrdome of Iohn Clerke of Melden in Fraunce.
Melden is a city in France x. miles distant from Paris, where John Clerk first was apprehended & taken,1 an. 1523. for setting up upon the Church door, a certain Bill against the Popes pardons lately sent thither from Rome, in which Bill he named the Pope to be Antichrist. For the which his punishment was this,2 that three several days he should be whipped, & afterward have a mark imprinted in his forehead, as a note of infamy. His mother being a christian woman, although her husband was an adversary, when she beheld her son thus pitiously scourged, and ignominiously deformed in the face,3 constantly & boldly did encourage her son, crying with a loud voice. Blessed be Christ, and welcome be his prints and marks.
MElden is a citie in Fraunce x. miles distant from Paris, where Iohn Clerke first was apprehēded & takē,1 ann. 1523. for setting vp vpon the Church dore, a certayne Bill against the Popes pardons lately sent thyther from Rome, in which Bill he named the Pope to be Antichrist. For the which his punishment was this,2 that three seueral days he should be whipped, & afterward haue a marke imprinted in his forehed, as a note of infamy. His mother being a christiā womā, although her husband was an aduersary, when she beheld her sonne thus pitiously scourged, and ignominiously deformed in the face,3