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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 wife stronger than a woman did withstand their threats, and abide the uttermost, and being enclosed in an iron grate formed in shape of a pasty,1 was laid in the earth and buried quick, after the usual punishment of that country, for women. When the adversaries first told her, that her husband had relented, she believed them not: and therefore as she went to her death, passing by the Tower where he was, she called to him to take her leave, but he was gone before. Et Pant. lib. 4. The Magistrates of Dornic. or Tornay. | M. Peter Bruly Preacher. At Dornic. An. 1545. | M. Peter Bruly was preacher in the French Church at Strasburg.2 Who at the earnest request of faithful brethren came down to visit the lower countries about Artoys and Dornic in Flanders, where he most diligently preached the word of God unto the people in houses, the doors standing open. Whereupon, when the magistrates of Dornic had shut the gates of the town, and had made search for him three days, he was privily let down the wall in the night by a basket: and as he was let down to the ditch ready to take his way one of them which let him down leaning over the wall, to bid him fare well, caused (unawares) a stone to slip out of the wall, which falling upon him, brake his leg, by reason whereof he was heard of the watchmen complaining of his wound, and so was taken, giving thanks to God by whose providence he was there stayed, to serve the Lord in that place.3 So long as he remained in prison, he ceased not to supply the part of a diligent preacher, teaching and confirming all them that came to him in the word of grace. Being in prison he wrote his own confession and examination, & sent it to the brethren. He wrote also an other Epistle to them that were in persecution: an other also to all the faithful: also an other letter to his wife, the same day that he was burned. He remained in prison 4. months. His sentence was given by the Emperors Commissioners at Brussels, that he should be burned to ashes, and his ashes to be thrown into the river. Although the fryers and priests made the fire but small,4 to multiply his pain, yet he the more cheerfully and constantly took his martyrdom and suffered it. The letters of Duke Frederick, and of the Landgrave came to entreat for him, but he was burned a little before the letters came. Ex Lud. Rab. Lib. 6.