Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] 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.

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Title: Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] 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.
Author: Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
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¶ Orchanes the second Emperour after Ottomannus.

* 1.1ORchanes, the youngest of the sonnes of Ottomannus, after he had slayne his two brethren, tooke the regimēt of the turkes after his father. Who after he had drawne to him the hartes of the multitude, such as had theyr disposi∣tions set vpon the licētious life of warre, cōuerted his po∣wer, further to enlarge his fathers dominion: winning & subduing Mysia, Lydia, Lycaonia, Phrygia, and Caria: All whiche countryes, being within the compasse of Asia, vnto the sea side of Hellespontus, and the sea Euxinus, he added to the Turkishe Empyre. Also he wanne Prusia: which was the metropolitane City of Bithynia, which thē he made the chiefe seate of the Turkes Empyre. Besides these moreouer, he conquered Nicea, & got Nicomedia: all which were before Christian Cities & regions. And yet all this could not make the Christian Princes in Grecia, to cease theyr ciuill warres, & to ioyne & accord among them∣selues: Such debate and variaunce was thē betwene Cā∣tacuzenus, on the Greeks part, & Paleologus y^e Emperor of Constantinople. By reason whereof, y^e turkes ayd was sent for out of Asia, to helpe our Christians one to kil an o∣ther, and at length to get all those partes of Europe from them both. Who if they had according to theyr profession, so well ioyned in brotherly vnity,* 1.2 as they did in cruel hostili∣ty dissent, neither had Orchanes so preuayled in gettynge Prusia from the Grecians, neither had the turkes so soone presumed into Europe as afterward they did. Orchanes after these victories, when he had raigned 22. yeares was strokē, as some say, with a dart in the shoulder, at the siege of Prusia. The opiniō of others is, that he fighting against the Tartariās, where he lost a great part of his army, was there also slayne himselfe. an. 1349.

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* 1.1

Orchanes the second Empe∣rour of the Turkes, after Ottomannus. Mysia, Lydia, Lycaonia, Phri∣gia, Caria, Pru∣sia, Nicia, Nico∣media. Christen Cities subdued of the Turkes. Ciuil warre a∣mong the Gre∣cians.

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* 1.2

By the discorde of Christians, the Turkes en∣crease.

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