A67926:964
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
¶A Preface to the Table following.
¶A Preface to the Table folowing.
IF thou well remember in reading this book of stories (loving reader) it was before mentioned & declared, pag. 842. how in the year of grace 1501. certain prodigious marks and prints of the Lords passion, as the crown, cross, nails, scourges, & spear were seen in Germany, upon the garments of men & women. Which miraculous ostent passing the ordinary course of natural causes, as it was sent of God, no doubt, to foreshow the great & terrible persecution, which afterward fell in the country of Germany and other regions besides, for the testimony of Christ: so if the number & names of all those good men & women, which suffered in the same persecution, with their acts & doings should be gathered & compiled together, it would ask a long time, & a large volume. Notwithstanding, partly to satisfy the history which we have in hand, partly also to avoid tedious prolixity, I thought briefly to contract the discourse thereof, drawing, as in a compendious Table, the names of ⟨p. 886⟩the persecutors, & of the Martyrs which suffered, and the causes wherefore, in as much shortness as I may, referring the full tractation of their lives & doings to those writers of their own country, where they are to be read more at large. And to keep an order in the same Table, as much as in such a confused heap of matters I may, according to the order and distinction of the countries, in which these blessed Saints of Christ did suffer: I have so divided the order of the Table in such sort, as first to begin with them that suffered in Germany, then in France, also in Spain, with other foreign countries moe,