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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wendelmuta widow and Martyr.
IN Holland also the same year .1527. was Martyred and burned a good and virtuous widow,1 named Wendelmuta, a daughter of Nicholas of Munchendam, This widow receiving to her hart the brightness of Gods grace, by the appearing of the Gospel, was therefore apprehended and committed to custody in the Castle of Werden, & shortly after, from thence was brought to Hague the 15. day of November there to appear at the general sessions of that country: Where was present Hochstratus, Lord President of the said county, who also sat upon her the 17. day of the foresaid month. Divers Monks were appointed there to talk with her, to the end they might convince her, and win her to recant, but she constantly persisting in the truth, wherein she was planted, would not be removed. Many also of her kindred & other honest women were suffered to persuade with her. Among whom there was a certain noble matron, who loved and favoured dearly the said widow being in prison. This matron coming, and commoning with her in her talk said: My Wendelmuta, why doest thou not keep silence, & think secretly in thine hart,2 these things which thou believest, that thou mayest prolong here thy days and life? To whom she answered again: Ah (said she) you know not what ye say. It is written: With the hart we believe to righteousness, with tongue we confess, to salvation. &c. And thus she remaining firm & steadfast in her belief and confession, the 20. day of November was condemned by sentence given, as against an heretic, to be burned to ashes and her goods to be confiscate, she taking the sentence of her condemnation mildly and quietly.
IN Holland also the same yeare .1527. was Martyred and burned a good and vertuous widow,