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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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B. Winchester. Stephen Gradwick, how standeth the matter with thee now? Art thou contented to revoke thy heresies, the which thou hast maintained and defended here within my Diocese, oftentimes before me and also upon Sunday last, ye stood up in the face of the whole Church maintaining your heresies, so that you have offended with in the liberty of my Diocese, and now I being your Ordinary you must answer to me directly, whether you will revoke them or not: the which I have here in writing, and if so be, that you will not revoke them, then I will excommunicate you: and therefore note well what you do, for now I read here the Articles against you. And so when he had ended, he bad me answer unto them.
B. Winchester. Stephen Gradwick, how standeth the matter with thee now? Art thou contented to reuoke thy heresies, the which thou hast mayntayned and defended here within my Dioces, oftentimes before me and also vppon Sonday last, ye stoode vp in the face of the whole Churche mayntayning your heresies, so that you haue offended wt in the libertie of my Dioces, and now I being your Ordinary you must aunswere to me directly, whether you will reuoke them or not: the which I haue here in writing, and if so be, that you wil not reuoke them, then I will excommunicate you: and therefore note well what you doe, for now I read here the Articles agaynst you. And so whē he had ended, he bad me answer vnto them.
Grat. My Lord, these articles which you have here objected against me, are not mine but of you own making. For I never had any of mine examinations written at any time, and therefore these be the objections that you lay against me as a snare to get my blood. Wherefore I desire your lawful favour, to allow my lawful appeal unto mine Ordinary,1 for I have nothing to do with you. And whereas you do burden me, that I have offended within your Diocese, it is nothing so, for I have not interprised neither to preach nor teach within your Diocese, but was apprehended by mine own Bishop & sent prisoner into your Diocese, by the consent of the Coū sell & mine own Ordinary, & therefore I so being in your Diocese, you have no cause to let my lawful appeal. And with that there came the Bishop of Rochester, & was received at the B. of Winchesters hands with much gladness, according to their determinate purpose,