A67927:1185
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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¶A letter sent to mistress Wilkinson of London widow, from master Hugh Latimer out of Bocardo in Oxford.
¶A letter sent to maystres Wilkinson of London widowe, from mayster Hugh Latimer out of Bocardo in Oxford.
IF the gift of a pot of a cold water, shall not be in oblivion with God, how can God forget your manifold & bountiful gifts, when he shall say to you: I was in prison and you visited me. God grant us all to do and suffer while we be here, as may be to his will and pleasure. Amen. Yours in Bocardo Hugh Latimer.
IF the gifte of a pot of a cold water, shall not bee in obliuion with God, how can God forget your manifolde & bountifull giftes, when he shall say to you: I was in pryson and you visited me. God graunt vs all to do and suffer while we be here, as may be to hys will and pleasure. Amen. Yours in Bocardo Hugh Latimer.
Touching the memorable acts and doings of this worthy man, among many other this is not to be neglected, what a bold enterprise he attempted, in sending to king Henry a present, the manner whereof is this. There was then, and yet remaineth still, an old custom received from the old Romans, that upon New Year's day being the first day of January, every Bishop with some handsome New Year's gift, should gratify the king:1 and so they did, some with gold, some with silver, some with a purse full of money, and some one thing, some an other: but master Latimer being bishop of Worcester then, among the rest presented a new Testament, for his New Year's gift: with a napkin having this posy about it: Fornicators & adulteros judicabit Dominus.