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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Martyrs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67927.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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*English men preserued at the taking of Calice.
THe worthy workes of the Lordes mercy toward hys people be manifolde and can not be comprehended, so that who is he liuing in the earth almost who hath not ex∣perienced the helping hand of the Lord, at some time or o∣ther vpon him? Amōgst many other, what a piece of gods tender prouidence was shewed of late vpon our English brethren and country men, what time Calice was takē by the Tyrant Guise, a cruell enemy both to Gods truth and to our English nation? And yet by the gracious prouision of the Lorde, few or none at all, of so many that fauoured Christ and his Gospell, in that terryble spoyle miscaried. In the number of whome there was a godly couple, one Iohn Thorpe and his wife, which feared the Lord, and lo∣ued his trueth, who being sicke the same time, and cast out into the wild fieldes, harbourles, desolate, and despayring of all hope of life, hauing theyr young infant moreouer ta∣ken from them in the sayd fieldes, and caried awaye of the souldiors: yet the Lord so wrought, that the poore woman being almost past recouery of life, was fet and caried, the space welnigh of a mile, by straungers whome they neuer knewe, into a village, where both shee was recouered for that night, & also the next day comming toward England, they chaunced into the same Inne at the next town, where they found theyr young child sitting by the fire side.