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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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John Castellane.
Iohn Castellane.
The year next ensuing,1 which was 1525. master John Castellane borne at Tourney, a Doctor of Divinity, ⟨p. 879⟩after that he was called unto the knowledge of God, and became a true preacher of his word, and had preached in France, in a place called Barleduc, also at Uittery in Partoise, at Chalon in Champaine, and in the town of Uike, which is the Chamber and Episcopal Seat of the Bishop of Metz in Loraine, after he had laid some foundation of the doctrine of the Gospel in the town of Metz, in returning from thence he was taken prisoner by the Cardinal of Lorraine's servants, by whom he was carried from Gorze to the Castle of Nommeny:2 whereupon the citizens of Metz took no little displeasure and grievance, who being grievously offended to have their preacher so to be apprehended and imprisoned, within short space after took certain of the Cardinals subjects, and kept them prisoners so long, until the Abbot of S. Antonies in Uiennois, called Theodore de Chaumont, vicar general, as well in causes spiritual, as temporal, through the jurisdiction both of the Cardinal, and Bishopric of Metz, Toulouse and Verdun, being furnished with a letter & commission from the See of Rome, came to the said town of Metz, and after divers declarations made to the Provost, and the other Justices and Counsellors of the City, he so wrought and brought to pass, that immediately the said subjects of the Cardinal were set at liberty. But John Castellane was kept still prisoner in the Castle of Nommeny,