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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 history and examinations of Robert Smith, constantly maintaining the trueth of Gods word, and suffering for the same in the month of August.
*The history and examinations of Robert Smith, constantly maynteining the trueth of Gods word, and suffering for the same in the moneth of August.
1Robert Smith was brought unto Newgate the fifth of November, in the first and second year of the king and queen, by Joh. Matthew, yeoman of the guard o• the queens side, by the commandment of the Council. This Smith first gave himself unto service in the house of sir Thomas Smith knight, being then Provost of Eton: from thence he was preferred to Windsor, having there in the college a clerkship of x. pound a year. Of stature he was tall & slender, active about many things, but chiefly delighting in the art of Painting,2 which many times, rather for his minds sake than for any living or lucre, he did practise & exercise. In religion he was fervent, after he had once tasted the trueth: wherein he was much confirmed by the preachings & readings of one M. Turner of Windsor & others: whereupon at the coming of Queen Mary he was deprived of his Clerkship by her visitors, & not long after he was apprehended, and brought to examination before Boner, as here followeth, written and testified with his own hand.
1RObert Smith was brought vnto Newgate the fifte of Nouember, in the first and second yere of the king and queene, by Ioh. Mathew, yeomā of the gard o• the quenes side, by the commaundemēt of the Counsell. This Smith first gaue himselfe vnto seruice in the house of sir Thomas Smith knight, being thē Prouost of Eton: from thence he was preferred to Windsore, hauing there in the colledge a clerkship of x. poūd a yere. Of stature he was tall & slēder, actiue about many things, but chiefly delighting in the art of Painting,