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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An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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Martyrs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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¶The story of foure men condemned at Lewys the 6. day of Iune.
IN Iune next followyng, about the sixt day of the same moneth,* 1.1 4. Martyrs suffered together at Lewys, whose names were these.
Thomas Harland of Woodmancote, Carpenter.
Iohn Oswald of Woodmancote, Husbandman.
Thomas Auington of Ardingly, Turner.
...Thomas Read.
To Thomas Harland I finde in the bishop of Lon∣dons registers,* 1.2 to be obiected for not comming to church. Whereunto he answered, that after the Masse was resto∣red, he neuer had will to heare the same, because (sayd he) it was in Latine whiche hee dyd not vnderstande: and therefore as good (quoth hee) neuer a whit, as neuer the better.
Ioh. Oswalde denyed to aunswere any thyng, vntill hys accusers should bee brought face to face before hym: and neuerthelesse sayd, that fire and Fagottes coulde not make hym afraid: but as the good Preachers which were in Kyng Edwardes tyme haue suffered and gone before: so was he ready to suffer and come after, and woulde bee glad thereof.
These foure after long imprisonment in the Kynges Bench, were burned together at Lewys in Sussex, in one fire, the day of the moneth aforesayd.