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.

*By the Lord Mayor.

ON the Queene our most gracious & most benigne so∣ueraigne Ladies behalfe,* 1.1 we most straightly charge & commaund you, that ye the said Aldermen, faile not perso∣nally to call before your owne person in such place within your sayde warde as to you shall seeme most conuenient & meete vpon Wednesday nexte comming, which shalbe the 7. daye of this present moneth, at 7. of the clocke in the morning of the same daye, all and euery the householders both poore and rich of your sayd warde, & then & there, o∣penly and plainely for your owne discharge and for the es∣chewing of the perils that to you might otherwise be iust∣ly imputed & layd, do not onely straitly admonish, charge, & commaund in the Queene our sayd soueraigne Ladyes name and behalfe, al and euery the sayd householders, that both in theyr own persons, and also their wiues, children, and seruantes being of the age of xij. yeares and vpwards and euery of them, do at al and euery time, and times from henceforth, and namely at the holy time of Easter now ap∣proching, honestly, quietly, obediently, and Catholickely, vse and behaue themselues like good and faithful christian people in all and euery thing and thinges touching & con∣cerning the true fayth, profession, and Religion of his Ca∣tholicke Church, both according to the lawes and precepts of almighty God, and also theyr bounden duetie of obedy∣ence towards our soueraigne Lady y^e Queene her lawes and Statutes, and her highnes most good example & gra∣cious proceeding according to the same, and according also to y^e right wholsome charitable & godly admonitiō, charge and exhortation late set forth and geuen by y^e right reuerēd father in God the bishop of London, our Diocesan and or∣dinary to all the Persons, Uicares, and Curates wythin this Dioces: but also that they and euery of them do truely without delaye aduertise you of the names & surnames of all and euery person and persons that they or any of them, can or may at any time hereafter know, perceiue, or vnder¦stand to transgresse or offend in anye poynt or Article con∣cerning the premisses, at their vttermost perilles▪ That ye immediately after such notice therof to you geuen do forth∣with aduertise vs thereof, fayle ye not thus to do with all circumspection and dilligence, as ye will aunswere to our sayd most dread soueraigne Lady the Queene, for the con∣trary at your like perill. Geuen at the Guildhall of the Ci∣tie of London, the v. day of March in the first of the raigne of our said saueraigne Lady the Queene. Blackwell.

And likewise do you geue to euery of the sayd houshol∣ders straightly in commaundemente, that they or theyr wiues depart not out of the said Citie vntill this holy time of Easter be past.

ABout the same yeare and time, when Doct. Boner set foorth this prescript or monitory, there came from the Quene another proclamation against straungers and for∣reiners within this realme. The purpose & intent of which proclamation, because it chiefly and most specially concer∣ned religion and doctrine, and the true professors thereof, I thought here to annexe the tenor and maner of the same.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A prescript of the Lord Mayor to the Alder∣men.