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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Title: 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.
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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The story of Iohn Harpole, of the parish of S. Nicholas in Rochester, Ioane Beach wy∣dowe, of Tunbridge, Martyrs.

TOuching the examination of Ioane Beach widowe, and of Iohn Harpole within the dioces of Rochester,* 1.1 by Maurice B. of the sayde Diocesse, remembraunce was made before in the story of Nicholas Hal, pag. 1591. wher∣in was declared the foure articles Consistorial of the by∣shop, obiected and laide, as vnto the sayd Nicholas Hall and his company, so also to this Ioane Beach wydowe: whereof the first was this.

* 1.21 That shee was of the parish of Tunbridge, in y^e Dio∣ces of Rochester.

2 Item, that all persons which preache, teach beleeue, or say otherwise or contrary to that their mother holye Ca∣tholike church of Christ, are excommunicate persons and heretickes.

3 Item, that the sayde Ioane Beach hath, and yet dothe affirme, maintaine, and beleue contrary to the sayde mo∣ther holye Churche of Christe, videlicet, that in the blessed sacrament of the aultar, vnder forme of breade and wine, there is not the very body and bloude of our Sauiour in substance, but onely a token and memoriall thereof: and that the very body and bloude of Christ is in heauen, and not in the sacrament.

4 Item, that she hath bene, and yet is, amongst the pa∣rishioners of Tunbridge, openly noted, and vehemently suspected to be a sacramentarie, and hereticke.

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