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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 order and manner of the examination of Doctor Ridley, and master Latimer, had the xxx. day of September. 1555.
The order and maner of the examination of Doctour Ridley, and mayster Latimer, had the xxx. day of September. 1555.
First, after the appearing of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, before the Popes Delegate, and the Queens Commissioners in S. Mary's Church at Oxford,1 about the xii. day of September, whereof more shall be said (by the Lords grace) when we come to the death of the said Archbishop: shortly after upon the 28. day of the said month of September, was sent down to Oxford an other Commission from Cardinal Poole Legate a latere, to John White, Bishop of Lincoln, to Doctor Brooks Bishop of Gloucester, and to Doctor Holiman, Bishop of Bristowe. The contents and virtue of which Commission was, that the said John of Lincoln, James of Gloucester, and John of Bristow, they or two of them,2 should have full power and authority, to ascite, examine, and judge master Hugh Latimer and M. Doctor Ridley, pretensed Bishops of Worcester, and London, for divers and sundry erroneous opinions, which the said Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley, did hold and maintain in open disputations had in Oxford, in the Months of May, June, and July, in the year of our Lord 1554. as long before in the time of perdition and sithen. The which opinions if the named persons would now recant, giving and yielding themselves to the determination of the universal and Catholic Church, planted by Peter in the blessed Sea of Rome, that then the deputed Judges, by the said authority of their Commission, should have power to receive the said penitent persons, and forthwith minister to them, the reconciliation of the holy Father the Pope, but if the said Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley would stoutly and stubbornly defend, and maintain these their erroneous and assertions, that then the said Lords by their Commission, should proceed in form of Judgement, according to the law of Heretics that is degrading them from their promotion, and dignity of bishops, priests, & all other Ecclesiastical orders, should pronounce them as Heretics, and therefore clean to cut them off from the Church, and so to yield them to receive punishments, due to all such heresy and schism.