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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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Petrus de Maluenda the popes prolocutor at Ratisbone a Spaniard. The Emperors confessor, a black Fryer a Spaniard. Marquina. | Joannes Diazius, a Spaniard martyr, killed of his own brother at Neoberg in Germany. An. 1546. | 1Of this John Diazius the full process and history is set forth in Latin wherein the whole circumstance is debated at large, where of brief sum is this. John Diazius a Spaniard borne, first being at Paris 13. years, from thence removed to Geneva: then to Basil, & after to Strasburg: from whence he was sent Ambassador with Bucer and other, to the Council of Ratisbone: where he talking with Peter Meluenda his countryman, the Popes factor, so declared his Religion unto him that Maluenda wrote to the Fryer, which was the Emperors confessor touching the said John Diazius:2 at the opening and reading of which letters, one Marquina an other Spaniard was present. Upon this it followed,3 whether by this confessor, or by Marquina, that Alphonsus Diasius, brother to John Diazius: which was one of the Popes Lawyers in Rome, had knowledge given him, of his brother John. When the communication of Ratisbone was dissolved & broken up. John Diazius, from Ratisbone went to the City of Neoberg, within the Dominion of Otto Henry Palatine, about the expedition of Bucers book there to be printed. As John Diazius was there occupied, it was not long, but Alphonsus his brother was come from Rome to Ratisbone, where Maluenda was: bringing with him a pestilent cutthroat, a notorious ruffian or homicide belonging to the City of Rome, Maluenda & Alphonsus consulting together about the dispatch of their devilish purpose, first laboured to hunt out by the friends of Diazius where Diazius was, Whereof Alphon. & the homicide having knowledge by certain of his secret friends, pretending great matters of importance, came to Neoberg, where Diazius was printing of Bucers book: where after long debating of matters of religion between the two brethren.
Petrus de Maluenda the popes prolocutor at Ratisbone a Spanyard. The Emperours confessor, a blacke Fryer a Spanyard. Marquina. | Ioannes Diazius, a Spanyard martyr, killed of his own brother at Neoberg in Germany. An. 1546. | 1