I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown
"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from
the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of
Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were
synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy Print: Book
"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Angela Brazil
'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding-places on Sunday evenings at Spitalfields to amuse the child with pictures, for both were illustrated - the "Book of Martyrs" with realistic engravings of the horrible tortures inflicted on the faithful Protestant. "Bel and the Dragon" in the Bible, too, was a favourite picture.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book
'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Lowe Print: Book
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'hard one of the men reade of the book of marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after the Lector I hard Helurn read of the Book of marters, and talked with Mr Rhodes, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I wrought and hard one read of the book of Marters'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
