Frontispiece portrait of John Foxe, engraved by John Sturt, contains the following text: frame above the portrait, "Aetat. 70 [at age 70];" immediately below, "John Walden Citizen of London. Tabula merito Votiva in perpetuam rei memoriam [John Walden, Citizen of London (gave) a votive monument in perpetual memory of the matter];" in the crest below the frame, "ALTIORA PETO [I seek higher things];" and the epigram at the bottom of the page, "Cujus in hac humili confusus imagine pendes, Et maciem hanc spectas pallidaq; [/abbrev. for: /pallidaque] ora senis: Edidit hunc Bostona parens: Oxonia nutrix Erudijt: Scripsit Martyres occubuit [The old man you are gazing at perplexed in this humble portrait And whose gaunt and pallid face you observe, Him mother Boston brought forth, wet nurse Oxford Educated. He wrote "Martyrs". He is dead.]." JPEG file (325 KB).
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