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Woodcuts from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
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Burning at the stake
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Standing back to back among faggots, Bradford ("Repent England") and Lease ("Iesus receiue us." ["Jesus receive us"]) await martyrdom. While workers prepare additional faggots, a crowd of soldiers and supervisors encircles the pyre. This woodcut appears in the first through fourth editions (1563,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Frith and Hewet stand among stacked faggots and await martyrdom. A large crowd observes the execution, which is about to occur in a town square. A friar addresses the crowd, some of whom gesture in alarm. Soldiers prepare the pyre, and a richly dressed man watches from horseback. This woodcut app... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Observed by a crowd of soldiers, John Denley suffers martyrdom. As Denley raises his arms upward and sings a Psalm, Dr. John Story (xylographically identified as "D. Stori"), an ecclesiastical commissioner under Queen Mary, orders a worker to hurl a faggot at the martyr. According to Foxe, Denley... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: As Collins burns at the stake in Smithfield, a guard holds Collins's dog by the tail and prepares to cast it in the fire. According to Foxe, Collins suffers martyrdom for having held his dog aloft, in mockery of the consecrated host, while he attended Mass. This crime also implicates the dog, who... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Surrounded by faggots, seven figures stand back to back and against three stakes. The central man is bound at the waist, and the man on his left extends his arm upward. As men on horseback direct the execution from either side, a worker prepares additional faggots and a crowd of soldiers observes... -
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: Five out of these six burning martyrs fold their hands in prayer or raise them outward. This woodcut appears five times in the third edition (1576) to illustrate the burning of William Coker, William Hopper, Henry Laurence, Rich. Colliar, Rich. Wright and Wil. Stere (at Canterbury) (sig. GGGG4r, ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Five out of these six burning martyrs fold their hands in prayer or raise them outward. This woodcut appears five times in the second edition (1570) to illustrate the burning of W. Coker, W. Hopper, Henr. Laurence, Rich. Colliar, R. Wright, and W. Stere (at Canterbury) (sig. LLLL1v, p. 1868); Chr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Flames engulf three unclothed women, who burn at the stake in this pathetic scene. An infant emerges from the womb of the central woman, and she spreads her arms in helplessness. A cleric directs the worker tending the fire, and a crowd of soldiers and other officials observes the execution. Thes... -
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 ...