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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 •riers came out with their old song, crying that he had a devil. To whom Nicholas spake the Verse of the Psalm: Depart from me all ye wicked, for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. And thus this holy Martyr patiently taking his death, commended up his spirit unto God in the middest of the fire. Ex Lud. Rab. Pantal. et alijs. | Marion Wife of Austen, above mentioned. At Bergis in Hennegow. An. 1549. | After the Martyrdom of this M. Nicolas, Marion the wife of Austen was called for.1 With whom they had much talk about the manner and state of Geneva, asking her how the Sacraments were administered there, and whether she had celebrated there the Lords Supper. To whom she answered that the Sacraments there were celebrated after the Lords institution, of the which she was no Celebrator but a Partaker. The sentence of her condemnation was this, that she should be interred quick. When she was let down to the grave,2 kneeling upon her ⟨p. 894⟩knees, she desired the Lord to help her, and before she should be thrown down, she desired her face might be covered with a napkin or some linen cloth, who being so covered, and the earth thrown upon her face and her body, the hangman stamped upon her with his feet, till her breath was past. Ibidem. The watchmen or soldiers of Bellimont. | Augustine the husband of Marion. At Bellimont in Hennegow. An. 1549. | Ye heard before how Austen escaped before at the taking of Nicholas and the 2. women. After this he gave himself to sell spices & other pedlary ware from place to place. Who at length coming to the Town of Bellimont in Hennegow, there was known & detected to the Magistrate. Whereof he having some intelligence before, left his ware & ran away. And seeing moreover the house beset about with harnessed men, where he was hosted, he began to be more afeard and hid himself in a bush: for he was very timorous, and a weak spirited man. But the hour being come, which the Lord hath appointed for him, it happened that certain standing upon the town wall which might well see him go into the thicket or bush, gave knowledge thereof to the soldiers,3 which followed him to the bush and took him. Being taken, he was had to Bergis, the head town of Hennegow, where being examined, valiantly standing to the defence of his doctrine, answered his adversaries with great boldness.