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.

¶Of the Emperour Sigismundus.

Amongest others, here is not to bee past ouer nor for∣gotten the notable examples of Gods iust scourge vp¦pon Sigismundus y^e Emperour, of whō mentiō is made before, in the condemnation of Iohn Husse, & Hierome of Prage, pag. 596. After the deathe and wrongfull condem∣nation of which blessed martyrs: nothing afterward went prosperously with the sayd Emperour, but all contrary: so that both he dyed without issue, & in his warres euer wēt to the worst. And not long after, Ladislaus his daughters sonne king of Hungary, fighting agaynst the Turk, was slayne in the fielde. So that in the tyme of one generation, al the posteritie & ofspring of this Emperor perished. Be∣sides this, Barbara his wife came to suche ruine, by her wicked leudnes, y^t she became a shame and slaunder to the name & state of all Queenes. Whereby all Christian prin∣ces and Emperours may sufficiently bee admonished, if they haue grace, what it is to defile themselues with the bloud of Christes blessed sayntes and Martyrs.