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Images from the John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "Thomas Benion burnt at Bristoll. Aug 27 1557." A bearded man, eyes closed and arms up-raised, stands fully clothed and chained to the stake while flames engulf him. A crowd of soldiers observes. A soldier to the right of the image sits on a horse and appears to be administering the martyrdom. ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "Two godly Martyrs burned at Bristoll Anno 1557." Two bearded men, Richard Sharpe and Thomas Hale, stand back-to-back, naked, hands clasped in prayer, and chained to the stake while flames surround them. A crowd of soldiers observes. Revised design of Luborsky and Ingram 11223/37, which appear... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The patient Martyrdome of a poore woman at Exeter, being one Prests wife." A woman, identified as Prest’s wife (“God be Mercifull [Merciful] to me a Sinner”) stands fully clothed and chained to the stake. She has her arms raised as if she is gesturing while speaking to the crowd that surrounds... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The burning of Richard Yeoman Minister at Norwich 1558 July 10." Richard Yeoman, arms extended toward the crowd that surrounds him, stands fully clothed, bearded and chained burning at the stake. A crowd of soldiers observes. In earlier versions this martyrdom is represented by Luborsky an... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The Martyrdome of Thomas Benbridge, Anno 1558 July 19." Thomas Benbridge, fully clothed with arms lifted upward, and chained, burning at the stake. He is bearded and has both hands lifted upward. He gazes down at the crowd of soldiers that surrounds him. One soldier at the bottom right of th... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "Foure burned at St. Edmunds Bury." Four men--John Cooke, Robert Myles alias Plummer, Alexander Lane, and James Ashley-- stand clothed in robes and chained to two stakes. They are surrounded by flames and each man has his arms extended toward the crowd that surrounds them. In earlier editions,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The right Picture and true counterfeit of Boner [Bonner], and his cruelty, in scourging of Gods Saints, in his Orchard at Fulham" The prisoner is on all fours on the ground in front of Bonner and has his head between the legs of a man who has one hand over his face and his hat in the other. Two... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The Martyrdom of Six men burned at Brainford An. 1558 Iuly [July] 14." Robert Milles, Stephen Cotton, Robert Dynes, Stephen Wight, John Slade, and William Pikes stand fully clothed and chained to two stakes as they burn in the flames that surround them. Two men have their hands clasped in praye... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "The burning of 3 Godly Martyrs at Norwich, (viz.) William Seaman, Tho[mas] Carman, and Tho[mas] Hudson, Anno 1558, May 6." The man in the center has his right hand drawn to his chest; the two other men are facing the right and left sides of the image and have their arms extended toward the crowd... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "A true description of the racking and cruell [cruel] handling of Cutbert [Cuthbert] Symson [Simson] in the Tower." The illustration depicts three separate scenes. Center: “Cutbert Simson upon ye [the] rack”; upper left:“The description how Cutbert Simson stood in an engine of Iron 3 houres [ho...