An edition of Actes and monuments (1563)

The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom

being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions.

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An edition of Actes and monuments (1563)

The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom

being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions.

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"Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times. To which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English." (Taken from the MARC record.)

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Martyrs, Christian martyrs, Chronology, Early works to 1800, Great Britain, Church history, Persecution, Reformation, Martyrologies, Biography, History, Studies, Controversial literature, Catholic Church, Foxe, john, 1516-1587, Portraits, Christian biography
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John Foxe (1516-1587)
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England, Great Britain, Scotland
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1066-1485, 16th century, Early church, ca. 30-600, Middle Ages, 600-1500, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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Foxe's Book of martyrs: select narratives
2009, Oxford University Press
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Foxes Book of Martyrs
February 1, 1999, Revell
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Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world: from the celebrated work
1985, Barbour
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Book of martyrs: or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs: from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution. To which is added, an account of the Inquisition ...
1851, E. Hunt
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Book of martyrs: or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths, of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution ...
1845, Edwin Hunt
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Cover of: The acts and monuments of John Foxe
The acts and monuments of John Foxe: with a life of the martyrologists, and vindication of the work by George Townsend.
1843, Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley
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Examinations and martyrdom of Dr. Rowland Taylor, A.D. 1555.
1840, Published for the Protestant Association by Hatchards, Rivingtons, Seeleys, ...
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The acts and monuments of John Foxe: a new and complete edition: with a preliminary dissertation, by the Rev. George Townsend ...
1837, Pub. by R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, sold by L. & G. Seeley
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Book of martyrs: A history of the lives, suffering, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs: from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution. To which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion...1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France...
1833, E. Hall
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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions.
1794, Printed and sold by William Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 208, Pearl-Street, near the fly-market.
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Issued in forty parts, beginning in 1794.

Signatures: v. 1, [A]þ́ B-5Uþ́ 5Wþ́ 5X-6Aþ́ 6B℗ø (6B2 verso blank); v. 2, A-4Pþ́.

Vol. 1: iv, [1], 6-939, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates (frontispiece folded); v. 2: 669, [3] p., [19] leaves of plates.

Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 175, 847 misnumbered 875, 829; v. 2, p. 85, 189 misnumbered 87, 186.

Printed in two columns.

Plates engraved by John Scoles, N. Pigalle, Benjamin Tanner, and Elkanah Tisdale.

Subscribers' list, v. 2, p. [670-672]

Evans 26991.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26991)

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Book of martyrs.

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