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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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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Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
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An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67926.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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¶An other examination of Mayster Bland before Syr Iohn Baker.
BAker.
Bland, wherfore were ye cast into prison?
Bland.
I can not well tell. Your maystership cast me in.
Baker.
Ye, but wherfore were ye in before that time?
Bland.
For an vniust complaynt put vpon me.
Baker.
What was the complaynt?
Band.
I told him as truely and briefly as I could.
Baker.
Let me see thy booke: and I tooke him a Latine Te∣stament.
Baker.
Will ye go to the Church, and obey and followe the queenes procedings, and do as an honest man should do?
Bland.
I trust in God to do no otherwise but as an honest man should do.
Baker.
Will ye do as I sayd?
Bland.
Will it please your maystership to geue me leaue to aske you a question?* 1.1
Baker.
Yea.
Bland.
Syr, may a man doe any thing, that his conscience is not satisfied in to be good?
Baker.
Away, away, and threwe downe the Booke, and sayd: It is no Testament. And I sayd. Yes. And mayster Webbe tooke it vp, and sayde vnto me maruellous gently: mayster Bland, I knewe you when ye were not of this o∣pinion. I would to God ye would reforme your self: with better wordes then I will write. And I sayde: If ye haue
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known me of an other opinion, then I am of now, it was for lacke of knowledge.
Baker.
Yea, sayest thou so? by S. Mary, and thou hold thee there, I wil geue sixe fagots to burne thee withall, or thou shouldest be vnburned,* 1.2 Hence knaue, hence. And so were we repriued into our place agayne, within the Barre. And at night when iudgement of felons, and all was done, we were called,* 1.3 and the Iudge sayd to the Gaoler. Take thē with you, and deliuer them to the Ordinary, & if they wyll not be reformed, let them be deliuered to vs againe, & they shall haue iudgement & execution. And one of our compa∣ny sayd: My Lord, if we be killed at your hands for Chri∣stes sake, we shall liue with him for euer.