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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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Smith. That I have said, I have said, and what I have said, I do mean utterly.
Smith. That I haue sayde, I haue sayde, and what I haue sayd, I do meane vtterly.
Boner. Well my Lord Major, your Lordship hath heard somewhat, what a stout heretic this is, and that his Articles have deserved death: Yet nevertheless for so much as they report me to seek blood,1 and call me bloody Boner, where as God knoweth, I never sought any mans blood in all my life, I have stayed him from the Consistory this day, whither I might have brought him justly: and yet here before your Lordship, I desire him to turn, and I will with all speed dispatch him out of trouble: and this I profess before your Lordship and all this audience.
Boner. Well my Lorde Maior, your Lordship hath hearde somewhat, what a stout hereticke this is, and that his Articles haue deserued death: Yet neuertheles for so much as they report me to seeke bloud,1 and call me bloudy Boner, where as God knoweth, I neuer sought any mans bloud in all my life, I haue stayed him from the Consistory thys day, whither I might haue brought him iustly: and yet here before your Lordship, I desire him to turne, and I will with all speed dispatch him out of trouble: and this I professe before your Lordship and all this audience.
- 1B. Boner excuseth himself of bloodiness.B. Boner excuseth himselfe of blouddines.