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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¶This was written in another Letter to the Queene.
I Learned by Doctour Martin,* 1.1 that at the day of your Maiesties Coronation, you tooke an othe of obedience to the Pope of Rome, and the same tyme you tooke an other othe to this realm, to mayntayne the lawes, liberties, and customes of the same. And if your Maiestie dyd make an othe to the Pope, I thinke it was accordyng to the other othes which he vseth to minister to Princes: which is to be obedient to hym, to defend his person, to maintayne his authoritie, honor, lawes, lands and priuiledges. And if it be so (which I know not but by report) then I beseeche your Maiesty to looke vpon your othe made to the crowne and
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Realme, and to expend and weigh the two othes together, to see howe they do agree, and then do as your graces conscience shall geue you: For I am surely perswaded, that willingly your Maiestie will not offend, nor do agaynst your conscience for no∣thyng.
But I feare me that there be contradictions in your othes, & that those which should haue informed your grace thoroughly, did not their dueties therein. And if your Maiesty ponder the two othes diligently, I thinke you shall perceiue you were deceiued: and then your highnesse may vse the matter as God shall put in your hart. Furthermore, I am kept here from company of lear∣ned men, from bookes, from counsaile, from pen and inke, sauing at this tyme to write vnto your Maiestie, which all were necessa∣ry for a man beyng in my case. Wherefore I beseech your Maie∣stie▪ that I may haue such of these as may stand with your Maie∣sties pleasure. And as for my appearāce at Rome, if your Maiestie wil geue me leaue, I will appeare there. And I trust that God shal put in my mouth to defend his truth there, as well as here. But I referre it wholy to your Maiesties pleasure.
Notes
* 1.1
A peece of an other letter to the Queene. Contradic∣tion in the Queenes othes, sworne both to the Realme, & to the Pope in one day.