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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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So entered they the house, and searched a parlour next the street where the woman lay which was his mothers tenant,1 and a young child that sucked on her breast, and not only in the bed turning it down past all honest humanity, but also under the bed behind the painted clothes, and in the chimney, and up into the chimney, and finding the bed hot, said: who lay here in the bed. The woman said, I and my child. And none else, quoth they? No, said the woman. When they could find nothing there for their purpose, from thence they went into an inner parlour, in the which stood the cupboard wherein she was, & searched the parlour which was but a little one.2 And one of the company laying his hand on the cupboard, said: this is a fair cupboard, she may be here for any thing that is done. That is true, saith another of them. Notwithstanding, they looked no further, but went from that into the chamber aloft, wherein the said Agnes had lien with her maid and children, with all other rooms and chambers.
So entred they the house, and searched a parlour next the streete where the woman lay which was his mothers tenant,1 and a yong child that sucked on her brest, and not onely in the bed turning it downe past all honest humanitie, but also vnder the bed behynd the painted clothes, and in the chimney, and vp into the chimney, and finding the bed hote, said: who lay here in the bed. The woman sayd, I and my childe. And none els, quoth they? No, said the womā. When they could find nothing there for their purpose, from thence they went into an inner parlour, in the which stood the cupbord wherin she was, & serched the parlor which was but a little one.2 And one of the companye laying his hand on the cupbord, said: this is a faire cupbord, she may be here for any thing that is done. That is true, saith another of them. Notwithstanding, they looked no further, but went from that into the chamber alofte, wherein the said Agnes had lyen with her mayd and children, with all other roumes and chambers.
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