The Book of Martyrs (Foxe)

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The Book of Martyrs
by John Foxe

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe (first published by John Day in 1563, with many subsequent editions, also by Day), is an apocalyptically oriented English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, mainly in England, and other groups from former centuries who were deemed by Foxe and others of his contemporaries, such as John Bale, to be forerunners of the Protestant Reformation through whom the lineage of the true church could be traced. Though the work is commonly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the full title is Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church. The work was lavishly produced and illustrated with a large number of woodcuts.

— Excerpted from Foxe's Book of Martyrs on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.

This is not the complete original version of the book. This 1926 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs was abridged by William Byron Forbush, and is much shorter than Foxe's original version which contained over 1800 folio pages.

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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Frontispiece to 1761 Edition

Preface
Chapter I. History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions Under Nero
Chapter II. The Ten Primitive Persecutions
Chapter III. Persecutions in the 4th to 11th centuries
Chapter IV. Papal persecutions
Chapter V. An Account of the Cruel Handling and Burning of Nicholas Burton, an English Merchant, in Spain
Chapter VI. An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy
Chapter VII. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Wickliffe
Chapter VIII. An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia Under the Papacy
Chapter IX. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther
Chapter X. General Persecutions in Germany
Chapter XI. An Account of the Persecutions in the Netherlands
Chapter XII. The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God, William Tyndale
Chapter XIII. An Account of the Life of John Calvin
Chapter XIV. An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland, Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I
Chapter XV. An Account of the Persecutions in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII
Chapter XVI. Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
Chapter XVII. Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641
Chapter XVIII. The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers
Chapter XIX. An Account of the Life and Persecutions of John Bunyan
Chapter XX. An Account of the Life of John Wesley
Chapter XXI. Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820
Chapter XXII. The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions
Epilogue to the original edition

This work was published before January 1, 1923, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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