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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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Well then, thus much by this hitherto alleged & gram ted, we have gotten this woman here to be accused of murdering her child, which neither laid hand upon it, nor used weapon against it: neither used any other practise in drowning, hanging, breaking, burying, poisoning, or any other wilful means, whereby to destroy it. And how then? by what manner of way was this woman a murderer of her young babe? Forsooth: (saith M. H) when she was accused and condemned to be burned,1 she did not claim the benefit of her belly, whereby the life both of her self for the time might have been delayed, and the child preserved.
Well thē, thus much by this hetherto alledged & graū ted, we haue gottē this woman here to be accused of murdering her child, which neither laid hand vpon it, nor vsed weapō agaynst it: neither vsed any other practise in drowning, hanging, breaking, burying, poisoning, or any other wilfull meanes, whereby to destroy it. And how then? by what maner of way was this woman a murtherer of her young babe? Forsooth: (sayth M. H) when she was accused and condemned to be burned,1 she did not claime the benefite of her belly, whereby the life both of her selfe for the time might haue bene delayed, and the child preserued.
- 1How and by what reason M. Harding proveth Perrotine to be a murderer.How and by what reason M. Harding proueth Perrotine to be a murderer.
Whether she did or no, I have not perfectly to say: no more, I ween, hath M.H. Howbeit this is certain, and by witness known, that she uttered no less to her ghostly father in confession. And what if she had opened the same unto the Judges? They would (saith he) have spared her life for the time, and so the innocent had been preserved. And how is M.H. sure of this, more then was the life spared of the young Lady, & mistress sometime of M. H. who suffered,