The Ecclesiasticall historie : containing the Acts and monuments of martyrs, with a generall discourse of these later persecutions, horrible troubles and tumults, stirred up by Romish prelates in the Church: with divers other things incident, especially to this Realme of England and Scotland, as partly also to all other forraigne nations appertaining, from the time of Q. Maries entring upon the Crowne, to the reigne of our late gracious Soveraigne, Q. Elizabeth of blessed memorie
John Foxe's Protestant martyrology, printed in London in 1641 by the Company of Stationers and edited by Samuel Foxe, records persecutions of reformers in England and Scotland during the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth for a Protestant readership. Its woodcuts show crowded courtroom scenes with robed officials, kneeling supplicants, and a burning at the stake, offering a designer dense, carved line-work for historical or dramatic subjects.
