Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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The Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day.
A page of the first English-language edition, printed by John Day in 1563
Frontispiece to the 1563 edition of The Book of Martyrs
Engraved Title page from Fox's Book of Martyrs, pub by Thomas Kelly in 1814 (folio)
William Tyndale, just before being strangled and burned at the stake, cries out, "Lord, open the King of England's eyes", in woodcut from an early edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
John Foxe
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John Foxe was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Foxe's Book of Martyrs, telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferi
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
…Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day. It includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, with particular…
1587 portrait
Dual martyrdom by burning, 1558; from a 1641 edition of Foxe.
Foxe, engraving by Martin Droeshout