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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Seven Coventry martyrs burn at three stakes. Six of the seven gesture with their hands, sometimes in prayer. The two men at the far right and the woman at the left all stand in profile, and the four central figures stand back to back. The third martyr from the left, a woman, gazes upward. Even th... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Surrounded by faggots, eleven martyrs stand back to back against three stakes. Two women stand untied among them. Some martyrs gesture in prayer, and others extend their arms outward from their bodies. Workers prepare the pyre, and a soldier attempts to keep an active crowd, some of whom observe ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: An elderly woman, whom Foxe identifies as "Prest's wife," burns at the stake. She gazes upward and extends her hands outward in prayer. The martyrdom occurs near Exeter. This woodcut appears in the second (1570), third (1576), and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/103. JPEG file (... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two bearded men burn at the stake. Both men wear loincloth, gaze upward, and pray. This woodcut appears four times in the second edition (1570) to illustrate the burning of Henry Voes and John Esch, friars Augustine (sig. GGg6r, p. 1005); John Bland and Joh. Frankesh, ministers, with Nicholas She... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A chained woman burns at the stake. She faces toward the left of the image and clasps her hands in prayer. This woodcut appears twice in the second edition (1570) to illustrate the burning of Joane Boughton (sig. GG1v [left], p. 866) and Cicelie Ormes (at Norwich) (sig. SSSSs3r, p. 2219). Luborsk...