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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: While Doctor Henry Cole ("D. Cole.") preaches from a pulpit, a friar and two others pull Cranmer ("Cranmer.") down from a platform. A congregation and a group of clerics observe Cranmer's arrest. The event occurs at the University Church of St. Mary, in Oxford. This woodcut appears in the first t... -
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: This composite, full-page woodcut insert illustrates the poisoning of John, King of England. In the upper right, a Swinstead Abbey monk ("Ego absoluo te &c." ["I absolve you, etc."]) absolves another monk, in advance, of the guilt he will incur when he poisons the king. In the lower right, the mo... -
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: As Margery Polley burns, she gazes upward and crosses her arms at her chest. She is fully clothed. The martyrdom occurs at Tonbridge. This woodcut appears in the second (1570), third (1576), and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/73. JPEG file (4.06 MB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Nightingall, whom Foxe identifies as a Roman Catholic parson at Crondall in Kent, falls from his pulpit and into his congregation. The death supposedly occurs while the tonsured Nightingall had preached that the pope has authority to pardon sins. According to Foxe, his death demonstrates providen... -
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... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: This map of England displays rivers and the political division of the country among seven Saxon kingdoms plus Scotland, Wales, and Gaul. Dotted lines designate territorial boundaries. Xylographic type identifies each kingdom on the woodcut in Latin (L) and Anglo-Saxon (AS) script, and the woodcut... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A barebacked man carries a burning taper in his left hand, while Bishop Edmund Bonner ("Bon[n]er") flogs him from behind. A crowd observes. This woodcut appears twice in the fourth edition (1583) to illustrate the penance of John Florence (sig. LL6r [right], p. 659) and Tho. Pye and John Mendham ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: King John of England kneels and yields his crown to Pandulphus, the papal legate, who sits in a presence chamber on a slightly raised dais. Bishops and monks observe with approval, but others (presumably laity) do so with suspicion. A cityscape is visible beyond a colonnade. This woodcut is the e... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: The obverse of this medal presents the right side of Hus's face in profile ("Credo unam esse ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam. Io. Hus Anno A. Christo [condem]nato 1415" ["I believe there is one holy Catholic church. John Hus, convicted in the year of Christ 1415"]). The reverse depicts Jerome tied t... -
Creator: Wesley, Sarah, 1759-1828 Contributing Institution: Drew University Methodist Library Description: Manuscript Will. PDF File (912 KB)