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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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Master Bendlowes said unto me in my Lord of Oxenfordes Chamber at the kings head, after I had said Mass before the Lords, that on the morrow after Holy Rood day, when we shall meet at Chelmsford for the division of these lands, I think Master Archdeacon, you, and Master Smith shall be fain to ride with certain of the Jury to those portions and manors in your part of Essex, and in like case divide our selves, to tread and view the ground with the Quest, or else I think the Quest will not labour their matter, and so do you say unto Master Archdeacon.
Maister Bendlowes sayde vnto mee in my Lorde of Oxenfordes Chamber at the kinges head, after I had sayd Masse before the Lordes, that on the morow after Holy Roode day, when wee shall meete at Chelmesford for the deuision of these landes, I thinke Mayster Archdeacon, you, and Mayster Smith shalbe fayn to ride with certaine of the Iury to those porcions and manours in your part of Essex, and in like case deuide our selues, to tread and view the ground with the Quest, or els I thinke the Quest will not labour their matter, and so doe you saye vnto Mayster Archdeacon.
Alice the wife of William Walleys of Colchester, hath submitted herself,1 abjured her erroneous opinions, asked absolution, promised to do her solemn penance in her Parish Church at Saint Peters on Sunday next, and to continue a Catholic & a faithful woman, as long as GOD shall send her life. And for these covenants, her husband standeth bound in five pound. Which Alice is one of the nine women of this your Indenture: and that she is big with child. Wherefore she remaineth at home, and this done in the presence of the Bailiffs, Aldermen, & town clerk. And for that Master Browne was certified, there was no Curate at Lexdon, he inquired who was the Farmer. The answer was made, Sir Fraunces Jobson. Who is the Parson? They of the Questmen answered, Sir Roger Chostlow. When was he with you?2 Not this fourteen years. How is your Cure served? Now and then. Who is the Patron? My Lord of Arundell. And within short time after Sir Fraunces Jobson came with great courtesy unto my Lord Darcy's place. And of all Gentlemen about us, I saw no more come in Sir Robert Smith Priest, sometime Canon of Bridlington: now Curate of Appledote, in the wild of Kent, came to Colchester the 28. day of Aug. with his wife big with child, of late divorced, taken on suspicion, examined of the Lords, and M Browne told me that they have received letters from the council, for the attachment of certain persons, and especially of one Priest, whose name is Pullen (but his right name is Smith) doubting this Priest to be he the said Pullen, although neither he nor his wife would confess the same.