Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with an vniuersall history of the same, 1596

John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, better known as the Book of Martyrs, was not only a highly influential work of Protestant propaganda, but also the most ambitious English printing project of its time: this fifth edition includes more than two thousand pages of stories of Protestant martyrs going back to the days of Christ, and the stories are illustrated with more than a hundred woodcut images. In the reign of Elizabeth I, two books were required to be in installed in every cathedral church in the country: the Church of England’s authorized English bible translation, and the Book of Martyrs.

The above image depicts William Tyndale’s strangling and burning at the stake; in the image he cries out “Lord open the King of Englands eies.”