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The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day.
John Foxe (1516 [1] /1517 – 18 April 1587) [2] was an English clergyman, [3] theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments (otherwise known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I.
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Although the so-called "Marian Persecutions" began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism, [2]: 196 Foxe's Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which extended well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy. Tradesmen were also burned, as well as married men and women, sometimes in unison ...
The Canterbury Martyrs were 16th-century English Protestant martyrs. They were executed for heresy in Canterbury , Kent and were the last Protestants burnt during the reign of Mary I . Their story is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs .
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Martyrs' Monument, St Andrews, which commemorates Patrick Hamilton, Henry Forrest, George Wishart and Walter Milne Two people were executed under heresy laws during the reign of James I (1406–1437). Protestants were then executed ...
They, along with seven others, were burnt at the stake at Colchester on 2 August 1557; some of the Colchester Martyrs. The Colchester Martyrs were 16th-century English Protestant martyrs. They were executed for heresy in Colchester, Essex, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary I. Their story is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
The burning of William Hunter as depcited in an edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. William Hunter was a Marian martyr burnt to death in Brentwood, England at the age of 19 on 26 March 1555, [1] on Ingrave Road.