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 persecution of mother Seman.

ABout this tyme, or somewhat before, was one Ioane Seman, mother to the foresayd William Seman,* 1.1 be∣ing of the age of 66. yeares, persecuted of the sayde Syr Iohn Tyrrell also out of the towne of Mendlesham a∣foresayd, because she would not goe to masse, and receyue agaynst her conscience. Which good old woman being frō her house, was glad sometime to lye in bushes, groues, & fieldes, and sometyme in her neighhors house, when shee could. And her husband beyng at home, about the age of 80. yeares, fell sicke: and she hearing thereof, with speede returned home to her house agayn,* 1.2 not regarding her life but considering her duetie, and shewed her dilligence to her husband most faythfully, vntill God tooke him awaye by death. Then by Gods prouidence she fell sicke also, and departed this lyfe within her owne house shortly after. And when one M. Simondes the Commissarye heard of it, dwelling thereby in a towne called Thorndon, he com∣maunded straitely that she shuld be buryed in no Christi∣an buriall (as they call it) where through her frendes wer compelled to lay her in a pit vnder a motes side.* 1.3 Her hus∣band and she kept a good house, and had a good report a∣mongest theyr neighbours, willing alwayes to receiue straungers, and to comfort the poore and sicke, and lyued together in the holy estate of Matrimony very honestly a¦boue forty yeares, and shee departed thys life willingly & ioyfully, with a steadfast fayth and a good remembraunce of Gods promise in Christ Iesus.

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* 1.1

Iane Seaman also persecuted by Syr Iohn Tyrrell.

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* 1.2

The duety of a good wyfe.

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* 1.3

Simondes the Commissarye, would not let mother Seaman be buryed in the Churchyearde.

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