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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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For my father & he had as much of my goods in their hands,1 as I might have 56. pound for by the year clear, and thereunto prayed. It was a Lordship and a honour, and half a honour that I had delivered into their hands, to pay my debts, and the rest to remain to my wife and children. But they had reported that it would not pay my debts: which grieved me sore. For it was two hundred pounds better then the debts came to. Which caused me to speak to some of my friends, that they would speak to them to come to some reckoning with me, and to take all such money again of me, as they were charged with, and to deliver me such writings and writs, as they had of mine, again, or to whom I would appoint them.
For my father & he had as much of my goodes in theyr hands,1 as I might haue 56. pound for by the yeare cleare, and therunto praied. It was a Lordship and a honor, and halfe a honor that I had deliuered into their hands, to pay my debts, and the rest to remaine to my wife and childrē. But they had reported that it woulde not pay my debtes: which grieued me sore. For it was two hundred pounds better then the debts came to. Which caused me to speake to some of my frendes, that they would speake to them to come to some reckening with me, and to take all such money againe of me, as they were charged with, and to deliuer me such wrytings and wryts, as they had of mine, againe, or to whom I would appoynt them.
- 1Auri sacra fames quid non Mortalia cogis pectora? Virgil.
So it was agreed betwixt my Father and me, that I should have it again, and the day was appointed, that the reckoning should be made and sent to me that same day that I was taken, my brother supposing that I should have put him out of most of all his occupying, that he was in: for it was all mine in a manner that he occupied▪ as all the country can and do well know. Whereon (as it is reported) he told one Gradillar my next neighbour, and he told some of M. Gages men, or to M. Gage himself: and so he sent to his brother,