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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The first examination of Elizabeth Young, before maister Hussie.
WHo examined her of many thinges: First where she was borne, and who was her father and mother.* 1.1
Elizabeth Young.
Syr, all this is but vaine talke, and ve∣ry superfluous. It is to fil my head with fantasies, that I shoulde not be able to aunswere vnto suche thinges as I came for. Ye haue not (I thinke) put me in prison to know who is my father and mother. But I pray you goe to the matter that I came hether for.
M. Hussie.
Wherfore wentest thou out of the realme?
Elizabeth.
To keepe my conscience cleane.
Hussie.
When wast thou at Masse?
Eliz.
Not this three yeares.
Hussie.
Then wast thou not there iij. yeares before that.
Eliz.
No Syr, nor yet iij. yeares more before that, for and if I were, I had euill lucke.
Hussie.
How old art thou?
Eliz.
Fourty and vpwardes.
Hussie.
Twentie of those yeares thou wentest to Masse.
Eliz.
Yea, and twentie more I may and yet come home as wise as I went thether first, for I vnderstand it not.
Hussie.
Why wilt not thou go to the Masse?
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Elizabeth.
Syr, my conscience will not suffer me: For I had rather that all the world should accuse me, then mine owne conscience.
Hussy.
* 1.2What and if a louse or a flea sticke vpon thy skinne, and bite thy flesh? thou must make a conscience in the ta∣king her off: is there not a conscience in it?
Elizabeth.
That is but an easie Argument to displace the Scriptures, and especially in such a part as my saluation dependeth vppon: for it is but an easie conscience yt a man can make.
Hussy.
But why wilte thou not sweare vpon the Euan∣gelist before a Iudge?