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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: William Sweeting and James Brewster stand back to back, bare-chested, with hands clasped and outstretched in prayer, and chained to the stake, while flames engulf their feet. They are surrounded by a crowd of civilians and soldiers. In earlier editions this martyrdom is illustrated by Luborsky ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: John Stillman, fully clothed and chained by the waist and neck to the stake, stands with hands clasped and outstretched toward the sky. Two men kneel in the front of the scene with their arms outstretched in supplication. Other men, who appear to be soldiers, stand in the background of the imag... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: The SECOND VOLUME OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY: CONTAINING THE Acts and Monuments of MARTYRS: WITH A General Discourse of the later Persecutions, horrible Troubles and Tumults, stirred up by ROMISH PRELATES in the CHURCH WITH Divers other Things incident to this Realm of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND. R... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: William White, a priest and Lollard heretic, is clothed and, with his arms outstretched to the left, stands chained to a stake which is surrounded by bundles of faggots. Four kneeling men have their arms reaching toward him, perhaps in supplication or in praise. Soldiers stand nearby with weapon... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: “The description of the cruell [cruel] Martyrdome [Martyrdom] of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham.” Oldcastle hangs chained from the gallows over an open fire in the Tower of London. He is partially naked and is surrounded by soldiers and civilians. One man holds a whip and others prod the fire.... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: William Sawtre, a priest, is fully-clothed and with arms outstretched and chained to a stake. Two men stoke the fire surrounding him. The crowd looking on includes a man on horseback, a man clothed in ecclesiastical garb, many soldiers, other men, and at least one woman. This image may be a rede... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe lists the names and death dates of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs for the months of November and December. JPEG file (1.17 MB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Four men and three women--John Fishcocke, Nicolas Whyte, Nicolas Pardue, Barbara Fynal widow, Wilson’s wife, and Alice Benden--are chained to three stakes and are engulfed by large flames. All seven martyrs are fully clothed. The three men are all chained to the stake at the far left of the image... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Oldcastle hangs chained from a gallows and suspended over a burning pyre. Workers tend the fire, and a supervisor leads his horse nearby. A large crowd of civilians, clerics, and monks observes; some of these figures express alarm, and others express mockery. This woodcut appears in the first thr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two guards roast a naked man, whom they have bound to a spit. One of the guards ladles vinegar and salt over the martyr. The bucket containing the vinegar-salt mixture rests at the guard's right knee. [Cartouche: "The rosting of Christians at a low fire, with vineger and salt poured upo[n] their ...