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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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Boner. Why, how art thou able to prove that confession is a pickpurse matter? Art thou not ashamed so to say?
Boner. Why, how art thou able to proue that confession is a pickepurse matter? Art thou not ashamed so to say?
Smith. I speak by experience. For I have both heard and seen the fruits of the same. For first it hath been, we see, a bewrayer of kings secretes,1 and the secretes of other mens consciences. Who being delivered, and glad to be discharged of their sins, have given to Priests great sums of money to absolve them, & sing Masses for their souls health. And for ensample, I began to bring in a pageant, that by report was played at saint Thomas of Acres, and where I was sometime a child waiting on a Gentleman of Norfolk,2 which being bound in conscience through the persuasion of the Priest, gave away a great sum of his goods, and forgave unto M. Gresham a great sum of money, and to an other as much. The priest had for his part a sum, and the house had an annuity to keep him, the which thing when his brother heard, he came down to London, & after declaration made to the Counsel, how by the subtlety of the Priest he had robbed his wife & children, recovered a great part again, to the value of two or three hundred pounds of Master Gresham and his other friend: but what he gave to the house, could not be recovered. This tale began I to tell. But when my Lord saw it savoured not to his purpose, he began to revile me, & said: By the Mass, if the Queens majesty were of his mind, I should not come to talk before any man, but should be, put into a sack, & •ogge tied unto the same, & so should be thrown into the water.
Smith. I speake by experience. For I haue both hearde and seene the fruites of the same. For firste it hath bene, we see, a bewrayer of kinges secretes,1