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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe's publisher, John Day, appears in profile in this portrait device, along with a colophon. The cartouche surrounding him reads, "Liefe is deathe and death is liefe: Aetatis suae: XXXX." ["Life is death and death is life: in the 40th year of his life"]. Although Day includes this woodcut in la... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Flanked by John Day, Foxe, and, possibly, Sir William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I sits enthroned over the pope, who holds broken keys of his office. An initial "C" frames her in the style of a cornucopia. The dais on which the queen sits contains the xylographic identification, "Elisabetha Regina" [... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: RERVM IN ECCLESIA GEstarum, quæ postremis & periculosis his temporibus euenerunt, maximarumq[ue]; per Europam persecutionum, ac Sanctorum Dei Martyrum, cæterarumq[ue]; rerum si quæ insignioris exempli sint, digesti per Regna & nationes Commentarii. PARS PRIMA In qua primum de rebus per Angliam & ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Flames engulf Haukes ("O Lord, Receiue my spirite." ["O Lord, receive my spirit"]), who burns outside Coxehall in Essex. Haukes raises his arms above his head and gazes upward as he slumps against his chain. A man on horseback supervises the execution, and a crowd of soldiers and alarmed civilian... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Cardmaker ("I. Cardmaker." ["J. Cardmaker"]) stands barefoot before piles of faggots and addresses two richly dressed men on horseback. Chained to a stake among faggots, Warne ("Bevvare of idolatry" ["Beware of idolatry"]) addresses civilians and soldiers, who gesture in return. This woodcut appe... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Surrounded by freshly lit faggots, Flower ("Lord receiue my spirite." ["Lord receive my spirit."]) stands against a stake and raises his arms upward. Workers add new faggots to the pyre. Flower's right hand has been cut off and impaled on a spear, and his wrist bleeds at its stump. A man on horse... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Engulfed in flames, Farrar ("O lorde in thee I trust." ["O Lord, in thee I trust."]) slumps against a chain. His skin has almost completely burned away, leaving his skeleton clearly visible. This woodcut appears only in the first edition (1563). It is replaced by "Martyr burns at the stake (6)," ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Taylor ("Mercifull father for Jesus sake, receiue my soule." ["Merciful father for Jesus sake, receive my soul"]) stands among faggots and extends his arms outward. Observing spectators and soldiers anticipate Taylor's execution. Two supervisors direct the preparations from horseback. This woodcu... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: This full-page woodcut insert depicts the execution of Hugh Latimer, the former Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, the Edwardian Bishop of London. Richard Smith ("Smith.") preaches at a portable pulpit from I Corinthians 13:3 ("Si corp[us] meu[m] tradam igni caritate[m] aute[m] non habea[m... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius were continental Protestant theologians who migrated to England during the reign of Edward VI in order to escape Catholic persecution in Europe. Both died during the period of Edward's rule, at Cambridge, but religious authorities under Queen Mary exhumed their remain... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Soldiers prepare to light the fire that will consume Barnes, Garret, and Jerome, who stand among faggots. This execution transpires at Smithfield, a location outside London wall that witnessed heresy executions during the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary I. A richly dressed man supervises from horse... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Flesh melts away from the nearly consumed Hooper ("Lord Iesu receiue my soul" ["Lord Jesus receive my soul"]), who burns in flames. A worker tends the fire, and a richly dressed man supervises the execution from horseback. A semicircle of soldiers and civilians surrounds the scene. Among these ob... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Chained and consumed by flames, Rogers ("Lord receiue my spirite." ["Lord receive my spirit."]) points directly at a richly dressed man, who supervises the execution from horseback. Another man lights the fire, and a watching priest applauds. Protesters surround the execution scene and join a lar... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In anticipation of martyrdom, Saunders stands among faggots and raises his arms upward. An executioner nails Saunders's chain to the stake, and a richly dressed man supervises the execution from horseback. Protesting civilians and others join a group of soldiers in observing the execution. A sold... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: An executioner lowers Gardiner by chain from a gallows into a blaze. A crowd of soldiers and civilians observes, and a friar and a priest on horseback jeer. The stumps of Gardiner's bleeding wrists indicate that his hands have been cut off. According to Foxe, the execution occurs in Lisbon at the... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two soldiers each drag a man along the ground on his back. The men are bound with rope. The soldier in the foreground raises his rope above his head with his right hand and pulls the Christian by the wrists, while the Christian looks upward. A second soldier drags a second man by the ankles, whil... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In this overhead view of Smithfield, Askew and two companions stand chained to stakes and await martyrdom. Workers prepare faggots, and a very large crowd observes, some from windows and surrounding roofs. Nicholas Shaxton, the one-time Bishop of Salisbury who resigned his bishopric following the... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: While executioners prod him from either side, Lambert ("None but Christ, none but Christ") burns at the stake. A richly dressed man supervises the execution from horseback, and alarmed observers and others stand by. Lambert perishes following his conviction on charges that he denied the real pres... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: The cartouche surrounding these crowned Arms contains the motto of the Order of the Garter and English Arms, "Honi soit qui mal y pence" ["Shame to him who thinks evil of it"]. "Vivat Re[gina]." ["Long live the queen"] in flag above; "E.R." ["Elizabetha Regina" / "Elizabeth, queen"] flanking bes... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: As Burton sits backward on an ass, soldiers lead him through a town and a friar gestures at him. Burton wears garments that are decorated with devils. He burns at the stake in an upper insert, where soldiers supervise the execution and a crowd observes. Burton receives martyrdom at the hands of S... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two soldiers observe as Tyrrell burns Allin's right hand by means of a lit candle. Allin had been carrying water to her mother, who lies sick in bed. Within the house, a man (presumably Allin's father) kneels before her mother and folds his hands in prayer. In an upper insert, Allin and her paren... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Bishop Edmund Bonner (xylographically identified as "Bo[n]no" ["Bonner"]) scourges a partially naked prisoner, who drips blood. An assistant covers his eyes and clasps the prisoner's head between his legs. Two priests observe, and a second and third attendant enter, one of whom carries a flail. T... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: An unclothed man and woman burn back to back at a stake. This woodcut appears in the first (1563) and second (1570) editions to illustrate the burning of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at Norwich. It appears in the fourth edition (1583) to illustrate the burning of Alexander Gouch and Alice Dr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In anticipation of his execution, Philpot (identified xylographically as "Filpot") ("I will pay my vowes in thee, O Smithfield" ["I will pay my vows in thee, O Smithfield"]) kneels before a stake and faggots. A crowd of soldiers, priests, and civilians observes, some of whom clasp their hands in ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Seated at the left, John Philpot holds a book, which symbolizes a Bible, in his right hand. Thomas Whytell sits in the stocks and is chained to the wall at the neck. A third figure stands between Philpot and Whytell. A richly dressed priest or jailor stands, with a dog, at the right side of the i... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Latimer ("M. Latimer." ["Master Latimer"]) preaches from a large open-air pulpit, which has been erected in the Privy Garden at Whitehall Palace. Among his audience is King Edward VI ("K. Edward." ["King Edward"]), who listens, with three others, from indoors at a window at the left of the image.... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Soldiers forcibly march a group of old and young men and women who have been tied together. As they pass by on their journey to London for interrogation by Bishop Edmund Bonner, a figure looks down from the window of a dilapidated building. A cartouche above the prisoners displays the following v... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Against a panoramic backdrop of Windsor Castle ("The Descripsion of Windsor [Castle]" ["The Description of Windsor Castle"]), three figures burn at the stake. Workers light the pyre, and richly dressed spectators and soldiers observe, some on horseback and others on foot. At the top of the image,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In this printing device owned by Foxe's publisher, John Day, a richly dressed man speaks to another man and gestures downward with his right hand toward a skeleton. The skeleton lies on top of a casket, which is located outdoors before a city and harbor. The man speaks a subordinate clause ("Et s... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Leading a prison Bible study, Smith sits on a stool and places his right hand on an open Bible. A man behind Smith folds his hands in prayer, while Smith instructs four others who share the cell with him. Among his audience, one holds an open Bible and one carries a Bible in his left hand. A fift... -
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: A jailor ("Gaoler" ["Jailor"]) guards Bradford ("Bradford."), while Spanish friars question him in his cell. One friar ("Alphon.") questions Bradford directly, and a second friar ("confessor.") and a priest stand behind the first friar. Bradford carries a book, which symbolizes a Bible, in his ri... -
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: Friars forcibly remove Bilney from his pulpit outside Saint George's Church in Ipswich ("Friers pulling Bilney out of the pulpit." ["Friars pulling Bilney out of the pulpit"]; "Saint Georges churche in Ipswich." ["Saint George's church in Ipswich"]). The congregation of men, women, and children s... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Hunne hangs dead from a ceiling beam in Lollards' Tower, an episcopal prison at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, while his three alleged murderers exit. One murderer, who holds keys to the cell, blows out a candle on his way out. Foxe argues that Hunne was murdered before being hanged, but this th... -
Contributing Institution: Ohio State University Libraries and Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: This woodcut image depicts selected reforms of the English church that transpired during the reign of King Edward VI. Priests and tonsured friars carry censing bells, mass books, crucifixes, and other allegedly dangerous objects of Roman Catholic devotion from a church ("The Temple well purged") ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: After a series of protracted negotiations, Pope Clement VII denied King Henry VIII a legal divorce from his wife, Catharine of Aragon. These Arms appear at Foxe's printing of Pope Clement's bull of sentence against Henry. The papal tiara rests atop two crossed papal keys of office. A rope loosely... -
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: 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 ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Following his arrest, Thomas Cranmer ("L. Receiue my spirit" ["Lord receive my spirit"]) burns at the stake outside Oxford. Cranmer punishes his right hand in the fire because it had signed a statement that recanted his Protestant belief prior to his execution. A friar (identified xylographically... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: King Henry VIII sits enthroned, under a cloth of state, in a richly decorated council chamber and gestures to his right. Twenty-five councilors sit on draped benches, which form two semicircles around the king, and talk among themselves. Ornamental mermaids and a child's face adorn the lower port... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In this iconoclastic woodcut allegory of the English Reformation, King Henry VIII sits enthroned on a raised dais over Pope Clement VII ("P. Clem" [Pope Clement]), whose tiara lies discarded before him. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester ("B. Fisher" [Bishop Fisher]) bends over the pope, while Card... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Justice stands blindfolded on a pedestal in this iconoclastic Protestant allegory. She grasps a sword in her right hand and scales in her left, which symbolize her authority and her impartiality. On the left side of the image, Christ (designated by a nimbus) and his followers, all of whom are bar...