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.
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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.
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Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
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[At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],
An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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Martyrs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67927.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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5. Iohn Went Martyr.
IOhn Went borne in Langham in Essex, within the Dy∣oces of London,* 1.1 of the age of 27. & a Shereman by occu∣pation, first was examined (as partly is touched before) by Doctor Story vpon the sacrament of his popishe Aultar and because the poore man did not accord wt him through∣ly in the reall presence of the body and bloud of Chryst, the sayd Story did send hym vp to Boner Byshop of Lon∣don. Who likewise after diuers examinations vppon the articles aforesayde in the Consistory, attempted the lyke maner of perswasions with hym, as he did to the other to recant and returne. To whome in fewe wordes the sayde Went aunswered agayne, he woulde not, but that by the leaue of God, he would stand firme and constant in that he had sayd. And when the Bishop yet notwithstanding did still vrge and call vpon him with words and fayre gloses,* 1.2 to geue ouer himselfe to theyr opinion, he could haue no o∣ther answer of hym but this: No, I say as I haue sayd &c. Whereuupon being condemned by the Bishops sentence, he was committed vnto the Sheriffes (whom that shame∣les shaueling at y• time abused for hys seruile Butchers) and so brought to hys martyrdome, which he with no lesse constancie suffered to the ende with the rest of that blessed societie of Martyrs aboue named.