John Foxe's Book of Martyrs

1570

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923	K. Henry. 8.

¶ Here foloweth the second volume and the seuenth booke begynnyng with the reigne of kyng Henry the eight. three stars

King Henry the eight.

1509

AS touching the ci-uile state & administratiō of the commō welth, & likewise of þ^e state of þ^e church vnder the reigne of kyng Hēry vij. how he entred firste in possession of the crown: how the ij. houses of Yorke and Lancaster were in hym conioyned through mariage with Elisabeth the eldest daughter to K. Edwarde 4. by þ^e prudent counsail of Iohn Morton then B. of Ely, after Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cardinall: how long the

Notes summarely collected and repeted of things done in the tyme of K. Henry vii.

sayd kyng reigned, and what persecutiō was in his tyme for lacke of searche and knowledge of Gods worde, both in the dioces of Lincolne vnder Byshop Smyth (who was erector of the house of Brasen nose in Oxford) as also in the dioces of Couentry, and other places moe: and further what punishment and alteration commōly God sendeth vpon Cities and realmes publike for neglectyng the safetie of his flock, sufficiētly in the former booke hath bene alredy specified. Wherin many thyngs more amplely might haue ben added, incidēt in þ^e reign of this prince, which we haue for breuitie pretermitted. For he that studyeth to comprehend in story all thynges, whiche the cōmon course and vse of lyfe may offer to the writer, may sooner finde matter to occupie him selfe, then to profite other. Otherwise I might haue inferred mētion of the se-

1509

Notes summarely collected and repeted of things done in the tyme of K. Henry vii.

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