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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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¶Doctor Nicholas Ridley and M. Hugh Latimer, both Bishops, Preachers, and Martyrs of Christ, with their doings, conferences, and sufferings described.
¶Doctor Nicholas Ridley and M. Hugh Latimer, both Byshops, Preachers, and Martyrs of Christ, with theyr doinges, conferences, and sufferinges described.
The same year, month, and day in which the foresaid 2. Martyrs William Wolsey,1 & Tho. Pygot suffered at Ely, the which was an 1555 October 16. followed also at Oxford the slaughter of two other special & singular Captains, & principal pillars of Christs Church. Master Kidley Bishop of London, & Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop sometimes of Worcester: of whose famous doings & memorable learning, & incomparable ornaments & gifts of grace, joined with no less commendable sincerity of life, as all the Realm ca••e witness sufficiently: so it needeth not greatly that we should stand exactly at this time in setting forth a full description of the same, but only to comprehend briefly in a few words touching the order of their lives, so much as necessarily serveth to the due instruction of the reader, & maketh to the use of this present history, in declaring first their beginning & bringing up, then their studies and acts in the University, their preferments also by their studies to higher dignity, at last their trouble & travel in setting forth Religion, and in maintaining the same to the shedding of their blood. And first to begin with the life of Master Ridley, whose story here ensueth.
THe same yeare, moneth, and day in whiche the foresayd 2. Martyrs William Wolsey,