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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 disgrading thus ended, the procurator fiscal of the Court and city of Metz,1 required of the Notary an instrument or copy of the disgrading. Then the ministers of the Bishop turned him out of his clerkly habit, and put upon him the apparel of a secular man. That done, for so much as he which is degraded,2 according to the institution of Pope Innocent the third, ought to be delivered unto the secular court, the Bishop that degraded him, proceeded no further, but said in this manner, we pronounce that the secular court shall receive thee into their charge, being thus degraded of all clerkly honour and privilege.
The disgrading thus ended, the procurator fiscall of the Court and citie of Metz,1 required of the Notary an instrument or copie of the disgrading. Then the ministers of the Bishop turned him out of his clerkely habite, and put vpon him the apparell of a seculer man. That done, for so much as he which is disgraded,2 according to the institution of Pope Innocent the third, ought to be deliuered vnto the seculer court, the Bishop that disgraded him, proceeded no further, but said in this manner, we pronounce that the seculer court shall receiue thee into their charge, being thus disgraded of all clerkly honour and priuilege.
- 1Singing in the Church.
- 2Pope Innocent author of disgracing.Pope In•ocent author of disgra••ng.