Title
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 troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland / now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, by the author Mr. John Fox ; wereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times ; to which is added the life of the author both in Latine and English.
Publisher
Printed for the Company of Stationers
Note
FORMAT:
3 volumes : illustrations, map, portrait.
CONTENT:
On spine: Fox's Martyrs.
Volumes 2-3 have title: The second [-third] volume of the ecclesiastical history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs ...
"The life of the author ..." ascribed to his son Samuel Fox.
"A continuation of the histories of forreign martyrs: from the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth, to these times ..." (volume 3, pages [865]-959) has special title-page with imprint: London, Printed by W.R. and S.R. for the Company of Stationers, 1684.
Call Number
BR1600 .F62 1684 v. 1
BR1600 .F62 1684 v. 2
BR1600 .F62 1684 v. 3
Rare Oversize
References
Wing F2036.
OCLC: (OCoLC)19912254
Citation
John Foxe, “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 troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland / now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, by the author Mr. John Fox ; wereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times ; to which is added the life of the author both in Latine and English.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed September 8, 2026, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/9750.
