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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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After I was delivered,1 the Papists said that I had consented to them, whereof they made themselves glad: the which was the least part of my thought (I praise God therefore) as they well perceived, and knew the contrary within a while. For I went from parish to parish, & talked with them, to the number of 13. or 14. and that of the chiefest in all the Country: and I angered them so,2 that they with the Commissioners complained on me to my Lord Chamberlain that was then to the Queen, Sir John Gage showing him that I baptised children, and married folks, with many such lies, to bring me into their hands again. Then the Commissioners sent out certain Citations to bring me to the Court.3 My L. Chamberlain had directed out 4. or 5. Warrants for me, that if I had come there, I should have been attached and sent to prison strait way. Which was not Gods will: for I had warning of their laying await for me, and came not there, but sent my deputy, & he brought me word that the Bailiffs waited for me there, but they mist of their pray for that time, whereupon they were displeased.
After I was deliuered,1 the Papists sayd that I hadde consented to them, whereof they made themselues glad: the which was the least part of my thought (I praise God therefore) as they well perceiued, and knew the contrarye within a while. For I went from parish to parish, & talked with them, to the number of 13. or 14. and that of the chiefest in all the Countrey: and I angred them so,2 yt they with the Commissioners complayned on me to my Lord Chamberlaine that was then to the Queene, Sir Iohn Gage shewyng him that I baptised children, and married folks, with many such lyes, to bryng me into their hands agayne. Then the Commissioners sent out certaine Citations to bring me to the Court.3 My L. Chamberlain had directed out 4. or 5. Warrantes for me, that if I had come there, I should haue bene attached and sent to prisō straite way. Which was not Gods will: for I had warnyng of their laying await for me, and came not there, but sent my deputie, & he brought me word that the Bailifs waited for me there, but they mist of their pray for that tyme, wherevpon they were displeased.