A67927:6188
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Winchester. Thou art within my Diocese, and thou hast offended within my Diocese: and therefore I will have to do with thee.
Winchester. Thou art within my Diocesse, and thou hast offended within my Dioces: and therefore I will haue to do with thee.
Wood. Have to do with me and you will:1 but I will have nothing to do with you. I tell you plainly: For though I be now in your Diocese, I have not offended in your diocese: if I have, show me wherein.
Wood. Haue to do with me and you will:1 but I wil haue nothing to do with you. I tell you plainly: For though I be now in your Dioces, I haue not offended in your dioces: if I haue, shew me wherein.
Winc. Mary here is thine own hand writing, the which thou affirmedst in my Diocese.
Winc. Mary here is thine owne hand writyng, the which thou affirmedst in my Dioces.
Wood. I do not deny, but it is mine own hand writing: but that proveth never the more that I have offended in your Diocese: for that doth but declare what talk there was betwixt the Commissioners and me, the which you have nothing to do withal.
Wood. I do not deny, but it is myne owne hand writing: but that prooueth neuer the more that I haue offended in your Diocesse: for that doth but declare what talke there was betwixt the Commissioners and me, the which you haue nothing to do withall.
Winchest. No? hold him a book, and thou shalt swear, whether thou holdest it now or not, & whether thou wrotest it not in my Diocese, as I think thou didst: Lay thy hand on the book.
Winchest. No? hold hym a booke, and thou shalt sweare, whether thou holdest it now or not, & whether thou wrotest it not in my Dioces, as I thinke thou didst: Lay thy hand on the booke.
Wood. I will not be sworn for you:1 for I am not of your Diocese, and therefore you have nothing to do with me. And as for the writing of that same, I never wrote word of it in your Diocese.
Wood. I wil not be sworne for you:1 for I am not of your Dioces, and therfore you haue nothyng to doe with mee. And as for the writing of that same, I neuer wrote worde of it in your Dioces.
Lang. No? did you not? my Lord let me see: I will find where you wrote it.
Lang. No? did you not? my Lord let me see: I wyll finde where you wrote it.
Wood. Then he took it & looked on it, and anon he found that I was sent for out of the Kings bench, to come before the Commissioners.
Wood. Then he tooke it & looked on it, and anone he found that I was sent for out of the Kings bench, to come before the Commissioners.
Lang. My Lord, here you may see it was in the Kings Bench, the which is in your Diocese.
Lang. My Lord, here you may see it was in the Kinges Bench, the which is in your Dioces.
Wood. Although I were fet out of the Kings Bench, that ⟨p. 2000⟩proveth not that I wrote it there, nor I did not, I promise you truly.
Wood. Although I were fet out of the Kings Bench, that ⟨p. 2000⟩prooueth not that I wrote it there, nor I did not, I promise you truly.
The fat Priest. Where wrote you it then?
Wood. Nay, I owe you not so much service to tell you: find it out as well as you can: For I perceive you go about to shed my blood.
Wood. Nay, I owe you not so much seruice to tell you: find it out as well as you can: For I perceiue you go about to shed my bloud.
Winchester. It is no great matter where it was written: it is here, and he denieth not but he wrote it. You shall hear more of it. Here the Commissioners asked you whether Judas did eat any more than bare bread, and you answered, that he eat more then bare bread. Whereupon they sent you away back to the Kings Bench again, and asked you not what more, for the which cause (as you have written here) you had a hell burning in your conscience.1 For you had thought they would have sent a discharge to the Kings Bench, and so let me go (said you) and Register my name in their books, that I had granted that Judas did eat the body of Christ, and so the Gospel should have been slandered by me. For the which cause I was in such case, I could scantly eat, drink, or sleep for that space, as all my prison fellows can testify. If all you (I say) that go to the Church of Satan, and there hear the detestable doctrine, that they spit, and spue out in their Churches, and Pulpits to the great dishonour of God, if all you (I say) that come there, had such a hell burning in your conscience for the time, as I had till I came before them again & had uttered my conscience, more plainly. I dare say you would come there no more. All this is your writing is it not? how say you?
Winchester. It is no great matter where it was written: it is here, and he denyeth not but he wrote it. You shall heare more of it. Here the Commissioners asked you whether Iudas did eate any more thē bare bread, and you answered, that he eate more then bare bread. Whereupon they sent you away backe to the Kynges Bench agayne, and asked you not what more, for ye whiche cause (as you haue written here) you had a hell burnyng in your conscience.1 For you had thought they would haue sent a discharge to the Kinges Benche, and so let me goe (sayd you) and Register my name in their bookes, that I had graunted that Iudas did eate the body of Christe, and so the Gospell should haue bene slaundered by me. For the which cause I was in such case, I could scantly eat, drink, or sleepe for that space, as all my prison fellowes can testifie. If al you (I say) that go to the Church of Sathan, and there heare the detestable doctrine, that they spit, and spue out in their Churches, and Pulpits to the great dishonor of God, if all you (I say) that come there, hadde such a hell burning in your conscience for the time, as I hadde till I came before thē agayne & had vttered my conscience, more playnely. I dare saye you woulde come there no more. All this is your writing is it not? how say you?
Woodman. I do not deny, but it was mine own deed.
Woodman. I do not deny, but it was mine owne deed.
Winch. And I pray you, where is there such spitting and spewing out of false doctrine as you speak of?
Winch. And I pray you, where is there such spitting and spuing out of false doctrine as you speake of?
Wood. In the synagogue of Satan, where God is dishonoured with false doctrine.
Wood. In the sinagogue of Sathan, where God is dishonoured with false doctrine.
