A67926:969
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.
His fellow prisoners at his death song Te Deum. Commyng to the stake he gave his neck willingly to the band wherewith he was first strangled, and then burned, saying at his death: O death,1 where is thy victory? Sebastian Braitestein, Abbot. | Mathias Weibell, Schoolmaster. In Suevia. An. 1525. | For saying somewhat against the Abbots first Mass, and against carrying about the relics,2 through the procurement of the Abbot, he was hanged by Campidonium in Suevia. Certain noble men, after the con motion of the countrymen in Germany. | A certain godly Priest. An. 1525. | This Priest being commanded to come and give good counsel to 16. countrymen that should be beheaded,3 afterward was bid, him self to kneel down to have his head cut off, no cause nor con damnation further being laid against him, but only of mere hatred against the Gospell. Ex Joan. Gastia. The name of the Persecutor appeareth not in the story. | George Scherrer. At Rastat by Salzburg. An. 1528. | Ater that this George had instructed the people in knowledge of the Gospel in Rastat .x. miles distant from Salzburg,4 he was accused of his adversaries and put in prison, where he wrote a confession of his faith which Mathias Illiricus hath set out with his whole story.5 He was condemned to be burned a live: but means was made, that first his head should be cut of, and his body afterward be cast into the fire. Going toward his death he said, crying aloud: That you may know (said he) that I die a true Christian,6 I will give you a manifest sign, and so he did by the power of the Lord: For when his head was taken of from his shoulders, the body falling upon his belly, so continued the space while one might well eat an egg. After that, softly it turned it self upon the back, and crossed the right foot over the left, and the right hand over the left. At the sight whereof they which saw it were in a great marvel. The Magistrates which before had appointed to have burned the body after his beheading, seeing this miracle, would not burn it, but buried it with other Christian mens bodies, and many by the same example