Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 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. 2, part 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.
Publication: [At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],; An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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¶Iames Treuisam buried in the fields.

VPon the 3. of Iuly, 1555. died one Iames Treuisam in the parish of s. Margaret in Lothbury,* 1.1 vpon a sonday, who being impotent & lame, kept his bed, for he could not rise out of it a long time. This Treuisam had a seruāt one I. Smal, which red on the Bible, & as he was in reading, Berd the Promooter came to the house, & would needs go vp the staires, where he found 4, persons besides him and his wife: to wit, the yong mā that red, & two men & a wo∣man. All which folkes, the said Berd the Promooter there being, apprehended, & caried to the Counter, where they remained about a fortnight, for all the frends they coulde make. Moreouer, the said Berd would haue had also Ia. the lame man himself to Newgate in a cart (& brought the cart to the dore) but for neighbors. Neuertheles the poore man was faine to put in two sureties for his forth cōming for he could not go out of his bed, being not only impotēt, but also very sick the same time. So within a few dais, the said Iames lying in extremes, the person of the church na∣med M. Farthing, came to him & had communicatiō with him,* 1.2 & agreed wel, & so departed. It hapned after y^e priest was come down into the street, there met him one Toller a Founder. Yea saith he, be ye agreed? I wil accuse you, for he denieth the sacrament of the altar. Upon that the person went to him againe, & then the priest & he could not agree. And so the parson went to the B. of London & tolde hym. The B. answered, that he should be burnt, and if he were dead, he should be buried in a ditch. And so when he dyed, the parson was against his wife as much as he could, nei∣ther would let her haue the coffine to put him in, nor any thing els, but was faine to beare him vpō a table to More field, & there was he buried. The same night the body was cast vp aboue the ground, & his sheet taken from hym, and he left naked. After this the owner of the field seyng hym, buried him agayne, & a fortnight after, the Sumner came to his graue, and summoned hym to appeare at Paules, before his Ordinary, to answer to such things as shold be layd against hym. But what more befel vpon him, I haue not certainly to say.

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* 1.1

The story of Iames Treui∣sam, buryed in the fieldes, and summoned after his death.

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* 1.2

M. Farthing person of Saint Margarets in Lothbery, accu∣ser of Iames.

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