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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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¶A tragical, lamentable, and pitiful History, full of most cruel and tyrannical Murder, done by the pretensed Catholics, upon three women and an Infant: to wit, the mother, her two daughters, and the child, in the Isle of Guernsey, for Christs true Religion, the year of our Lord. 1556. July. 18.
¶A tragicall, lamentable, and pitifull Hystory, full of most cruell and tyranicall Murther, done by the pretensed Catholiques, vpon three women and an Infant: to wit, the mother, her two daughters, and the childe, in the Isle of Garnesey, for Christes true Religion, the yeare of our Lord. 1556. Iuly. 18.
Among all and singular Histories touched in this Book before, as there be many pitiful, divers lamentable,1 some Horrible and Tragical: so is there none almost either in cruelty to be compared or so far of from all compassion and sense of humanity, as this merciless fact of the Papists, done in the Isle of Guernsey, upon three women and an infant, whose names be these as follow.
AMong all and singular Historyes touched in this Booke before, as there be many pitifull, diuers lamentable,1 some Horrible and Tragicall: so is there none almost either in cruelty to be compared or so farre of from all compassion and sense of humanity, as this merciles fact of the Papistes, done in the Isle of Garnsey, vpon three women and an infant, whose names be these as folow.
- 1The Martyrdom of three women with a young Infant, burned in the Isle of Guernsey. July. 18.The Martyrdome of three women with a young Infant, burned in the Isle of Garnesey. Iuly. 18.