A67927:5104
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 pitiful story concerning the unmerciful handling of W. Dangerfield, and Joan his wife being in childbed, taken out of her house, with her sucking infant of 14. days old, & laid in the common Jail amongest thieves and murderers.
¶A pitifull storye concerning the vnmercifull handling of W. Dangerfield, and Ioane hys wife beyng in childbed, taken out of her house, wyth her sucking infant of 14. daies old, & layd in the common Iayle amongest theeues and murderers.
1When I had written and finished the story of the Guernsey women, with the young infant there with them burned, and also had passed the burning of the poor blind woman Joan Wast at Darby, I well hoped I should have found no moe such stories of unmerciful cruelty showed upon silly women with their children and young infants: but now coming to the persecution of Gloucester shire about the parts of Bristow, I find an other story of such unmercifulness showed against a woman in childbed, as far from all charity and humanity, as hath ben any other story yet hitherto rehearsed, as by the sequel hereof may appear.
1WHen I had written and finished the story of ye Garnsey women, with the young infant there with them burned, and also had passed the burning of the poore blind woman Ioane Wast at Darby, I well hoped I shoulde haue found no moe such stories of vnmerciful cruelty shewed vppon seely women with theyr children and young infantes: but now cōming to the persecution of Glocester shyre about the partes of Bristow, I finde an other story of such vnmercifulnes shewed agaynst a woman in childbed, as farre from all charitie and humanitie, as hath ben anye other storye yet hetherto rehearsed, as by the sequele hereof may appeare.