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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 2] 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 2] 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 copy of a letter sent by master Latimer, person of Westekington, in the county of Welts. to Sir Edward Baynton Knight. Salutem in Christo.
¶The copy of a letter sent by mayster Latimer, person of Westekington, in the countie of Weltes. to Syr Edward Baynton Knight. Salutem in Christo.
Right worshipful Sir, I recommend me unto your mastership, with hearty thanks for your so friendly, so ⟨p. 1746⟩charitable, and so mindful remembrance of me so poor a wretch. Whereas of late I received your letters by M. Bonnam, perceiving therein both who be grieved with me, wherefore, & what behoveth me to do, in case I must needs come up, which your goodness towards me with all other such like to recompense, where as I my self am not able, I shall not cease to pray my Lord God, which both is able and also doth in deed reward all them that favour the favourers of his truth for his sake, for the truth is a common thing, pertaining to every man, for the which every man shall answer an other day. And I desire favour neither of your mastership, neither of any man else, but in trueth, and for the trueth, I take God to witness which knoweth all. In very deed master Chancellor did show me that my Lord bishop of London had sent letters to him for me: and I made answer that he was mine Ordinary, and that both he might & should reform me as far as I needed reformation, as well and as soon as my Lord of London. And I would be very loth (now this deep winter) being so weak and so feeble (not only exercised with my disease in my head and side, but also with new, both the colic and the stone) to take such a journey: and though he might so do, yet he needed not, for he was not bound so to do: notwithstanding I said, if he to do my Lord of London pleasure to my great displeasure, would needs command me to go, I would obey his commandment: yea, though it should be never so great a grievance and painful to me: with the which answer he was content, saying he would certify my Lord of London thereof, trusting his Lordship to be content with the same: but as yet I hear nothing from him. M. Chancellor also said that my Lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me, for that I did contemn his authority, at my last being in London. Forsooth I preached in Abbe-church, not certain then (as I remember) whether in his Diocese or no, intending nothing less then to contemn his authority, and this I did not of mine own suing, or by mine own procuration, but at the request of honest merchant men (as they seemed to me) whose names I do not know, for they were not of mine acquaintance before: