A67927:4877
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Katherine Cawches. the Mother. Guillemine Gilbert. the daughter. Perotine Massey. the other daughter. An Infant. the son of Perotine.
Katherine Cawches. the Mother. Guillemine Gilbert. the daughter. Perotine Massey. the other daugther. An Infant. the sonne of Perotine.
But before I come to the purpose of this story, it shall be necessary, for the better explaining of the matter, to begin first with the circumstances, whereupon the first Original and occasion did rise of this tragical cruelty. The case was this.
But before I come to the purpose of this story, it shall be necessary, for the better explayning of the matter, to begin first with the circumstances, whereupon the first Originall and occasion did rise of this tragicall cruelty. The case was this.
The xxvij. day of May. an. 1556. in the Isle of Guernsey, which is a member of England, in a town there called S. Peters port, was a naughty woman named Vincent Gosset, who being evil disposed, went (the day aforesaid) to the house of one Nicholas le Conronney, dwelling in the town of the said S. Peters Port, about ten of the clock at night, and there taking the key of the house (lying under the door) entered into a Chamber toward the street,1 where she espying a Cup of Silver within a Cupboard, took it away, and so conveyed her self out of the house again. Who immediately after this fact done (whether by counsel or by what occasion else, I have not to say) brought the said Cup to one Perotine Massey, an honest woman, dwelling in the said town, desiring her to lend her vj.d. upon the same.