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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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*To the right honourable, and the Queens highness most gracious Commissioners, for the hearing and determining of matters of Religion and causes Ecclesiastical.
*To the right honorable, and the Queenes highnesse most gracious Commissioners, for the hearing and determining of matters of Religion and causes Ecclesiasticall.
Most lamentably and woefully complaining, showeth unto your gracious and honourable Lordships,1 your poor & hum ble Orator Matthew Cawches, of the Isle of Guernsey, that where Jaques Amy Clerk, Dean of the Isle aforesaid, assisted by the Curates there, against all order, law and reason, by colour of a sentence of heresy, pronounced against Katherine Cawches, the Sister of your honours said suppliant, and Perrotine and Guillemine, her two daughters, did cause the same Katherine, being a poor widow, and her said two daughters, most cruelly to be burned, although the said persons, ne any of them did hold, maintain, or defend any thing directly against the Ecclesiastical laws then in place, under the reign of the late Queen Mary, but in all things submitted themselves obediently to the laws then in force, and yet the cruelty of the said Dean and his accomplices in perpetrating such murder as aforesaid, raged so far, that whereas, whilst the said persons did consume with violent fire, the womb of the said Perrotine being burned, there did issue from her a goodly man child, which by the Officers was taken up & handled, and after in a most despiteful manner, thrown into the fire, and there also with the silly mother most cruelly burnt. In ten der consideration whereof, and for so much as this bloody murder was not in due order of any law, or in any manner according to justice, but of mere malicious hatred, as the true copy of the whole proceedings in this matter, by the said Dean and his accomplices, here ready to be showed to your honours, will make very plain and manifest: It may therefore please your good and gracious Lordships, of the zeal that you bear to justice, and for our Lord Jesus Christs sake, to have due consideration in justice of such horrible murder, so cruelly committed as aforesaid, according to the right demerit thereof. And that it may please your honourable Lordships to order & decree also, that all the goods of all the said parties by pretence aforesaid wrongfully taken as confiscate, may be delivered to your said poor beseecher, to whom of right they do belong. And your honours said Suppliant will daily pray to God for your long preservation, to his glory, and your everlasting health.